Sun, moon and silhouettes
[ by Charles Cameron — beautiful photography, alchemical significance ]
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Twin images from The Atlantic’s selection of photos for this week:
TOPSHOT – The Cristo Rey monument is silhouetted against the full moon in Cali, Colombia, early on June 17, 2019. (Photo by Luis ROBAYO / AFP) (Photo credit should read LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images)
The sun sets behind a tattered windmill, Tuesday, June 18, 2019, near Tappen, N.D. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Why bother?
Why bother to show you these two images out of a waterfall of fine images?
Because somewhere within us, deep, psychologically speaking, there’s a desire for the consummation of a marriage between what the Chinese term the creative and receptive principles, here represented in an alchemical image by king and queen, silver and gold, sun and moon:
— don’t think — just enjoy!
July 10th, 2019 at 11:29 pm
how do you do? said the moon
to the sun. for longer than i know
i have shared your light. a last word? — as if we will ever be strangers! Oh, earth,
we are makers of wonder!