Monday, March 2, 2009

Venus Retrograde, March 2009


















Ocean Dreaming © 2008
28 x 17, pastel on cotton rag paper


I had a dream that I was on the bow of a big wooden sailboat
with my brother and one of his friends. I look up in the sky
and the stars keep dancing about, arranging themselves into
new patterns and constellations. Although the dream takes
place at night, I painted it as bright sky blue.
The ocean and the sky are as one.

Venus goes retrograde the least of all other planets. Its cycle of
retrogrades form a pentagon in the astrological chart of the sky
as seen from Earth. It happens to go retrograde in the sign of
Aries since 1927, and as I have Venus in Aries, it seems to be
important to the expression of my creativity.

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