UPCOMING THINGS:
Apply by May 3:
NEPTUNE: DREAM SESSIONS: 4-sessions, pay-what-you-want generative deep-dive into Neptune in your natal chart, transiting Neptune, dreams, your art.
May 10:
DREAMS AS ART: a 3-hour workshop co-taught with the psychoanalyst Vanessa Sinclair
MAY 25:
Psycho-Cosmos. We’ll be talking about SATURN, MOURNING, and MELANCHOLIA. A smattering of Saturnine imagery and words, including Kristeva’s Black Sun, Saturn and the artistic temperament, Freud’s Mourning and Melancholia, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, and the astro-alchemical meaning of SATURN.
“Nature exists whether academics like it or not.” — Camille Paglia
“Miss X had to turn back to her ‘motherland’ in order to find her earth again…” — C.G. Jung
I’m writing this in the afterglow of today’s Psycho-Cosmos, where we looked at 24 paintings by a patient of Jung’s named Kristine Mann. In the study, in which her paintings are reproduced, Jung calls her Miss X. She has many planets in earth signs, he says. The first painting in the series is above, which Miss X made after returning to Denmark, where her mother’s family was from. She had been feeling stuck, and upon returning, she felt the urge to paint, for the first time, her state…