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3x3 Meme Again
May. 17th, 2007 06:04 am1) Comment and ask to be tagged!
2) I will pick THREE of your interests and/or user pics I find odd or nifty!
3) You post, explaining in detail about the three I chose!
4) People comment on your post!
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professor_mom asked about these three interests and icons.
Colliding Galaxies: At some point in my early teens, I needed to figure out why a pure thought energy alien would have a teenage girl from earth kidnapped and subjected to a crash course in heroine development, including living lifetimes in different galaxies. The justification I came up with was that those galaxies would one day collide, and that as star-faring systems which had no previous exposure to each other came into contact there would need to be a Link, a person known, respected, and trusted in each society/federation/republic who could serve as translator and mediator. When I came up with this plot device, I didn't take it seriously, because everything I'd ever heard about the universe indicated that stellar bodies were all expanding out and away from each other. It utterly boggled me when, in my late twenties, I saw a photograph (probably from Hubble) of colliding galaxies. "Colliding galaxies" is a multiple symbol to me: about possibilities beyond expectations, about being unexpectedly, stunningly right, and about the awesomeness of the universe.
Doors Into Other Worlds "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio. . ."
Reading first the Oz books and then the Narnia books as a child gave me a strong sense of wonder and possibility about escaping from ordinary life into Something Else (see "colliding galaxies"). Whether by means of tornado or wardrobe (or shipwrecks or magic rings or magic pictures or enchanted merry-go-rounds), there were always unexpected doors to lead out of Here and into There. When I got older, I discovered the possibility of life on other planets, and -- many years after that -- spiritual paths that took other worlds seriously and taught methods to access them. It feeds my sense of wonder and hope to believe in and cherish other worlds, whether of our material universe, of fantasy or spirit.
Gypsies I started focusing on gypsies last year during a quest for new meaningful archetypes. I was feeling frustrated that the ones I had been using for personal context didn't seem to fit anymore. I haven't adopted Gypsies on a deep level, but there is something attractive about the idea of their freedom, their outside-the-box existence (compared to ordinary society), combined with the overtones of magic and sensuality. I don't pretend that my image has anything to do with actual living gypsy peoples; it's a romantic archetype, not historical.
Cate Blanchett as the title character in Elizabeth, enjoying her favorite dance, the Volta. I love this image because she's a queen and a sensual woman enjoying herself. She is graceful and powerful. I tend to use this when I'm enjoying my own power.
This is a small piece of a larger image. I frequently refer to the "Pentacles" aspects of life, and that symbolism usually works well, but there's something about the cube shape that speaks to me of order and stability. I use it for posts about creating more order, usually in my home.
Kenneth Branagh and Alicia Silverstone in Branagh's Love's Labors Lost. This is from a fantasy dance scene that expresses the mistaken identity games in the text. It's very sensual. I don't use this image often. When I do, it tends to be about mystery and sexuality, or my daimon, or fantasy play.
Thanks for asking!
2) I will pick THREE of your interests and/or user pics I find odd or nifty!
3) You post, explaining in detail about the three I chose!
4) People comment on your post!
professor_mom asked about these three interests and icons.Colliding Galaxies: At some point in my early teens, I needed to figure out why a pure thought energy alien would have a teenage girl from earth kidnapped and subjected to a crash course in heroine development, including living lifetimes in different galaxies. The justification I came up with was that those galaxies would one day collide, and that as star-faring systems which had no previous exposure to each other came into contact there would need to be a Link, a person known, respected, and trusted in each society/federation/republic who could serve as translator and mediator. When I came up with this plot device, I didn't take it seriously, because everything I'd ever heard about the universe indicated that stellar bodies were all expanding out and away from each other. It utterly boggled me when, in my late twenties, I saw a photograph (probably from Hubble) of colliding galaxies. "Colliding galaxies" is a multiple symbol to me: about possibilities beyond expectations, about being unexpectedly, stunningly right, and about the awesomeness of the universe.
Doors Into Other Worlds "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio. . ."
Reading first the Oz books and then the Narnia books as a child gave me a strong sense of wonder and possibility about escaping from ordinary life into Something Else (see "colliding galaxies"). Whether by means of tornado or wardrobe (or shipwrecks or magic rings or magic pictures or enchanted merry-go-rounds), there were always unexpected doors to lead out of Here and into There. When I got older, I discovered the possibility of life on other planets, and -- many years after that -- spiritual paths that took other worlds seriously and taught methods to access them. It feeds my sense of wonder and hope to believe in and cherish other worlds, whether of our material universe, of fantasy or spirit.
Gypsies I started focusing on gypsies last year during a quest for new meaningful archetypes. I was feeling frustrated that the ones I had been using for personal context didn't seem to fit anymore. I haven't adopted Gypsies on a deep level, but there is something attractive about the idea of their freedom, their outside-the-box existence (compared to ordinary society), combined with the overtones of magic and sensuality. I don't pretend that my image has anything to do with actual living gypsy peoples; it's a romantic archetype, not historical.
Cate Blanchett as the title character in Elizabeth, enjoying her favorite dance, the Volta. I love this image because she's a queen and a sensual woman enjoying herself. She is graceful and powerful. I tend to use this when I'm enjoying my own power.
This is a small piece of a larger image. I frequently refer to the "Pentacles" aspects of life, and that symbolism usually works well, but there's something about the cube shape that speaks to me of order and stability. I use it for posts about creating more order, usually in my home.
Kenneth Branagh and Alicia Silverstone in Branagh's Love's Labors Lost. This is from a fantasy dance scene that expresses the mistaken identity games in the text. It's very sensual. I don't use this image often. When I do, it tends to be about mystery and sexuality, or my daimon, or fantasy play.
Thanks for asking!
