{"id":65377,"date":"2019-06-26T17:32:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T17:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=65377"},"modified":"2019-06-26T17:40:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T17:40:55","slug":"sun-moon-and-silhouettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=65377","title":{"rendered":"Sun, moon and silhouettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; beautiful photography, alchemical significance ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Twin images from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2019\/06\/photos-of-the-week-kangaroo-boxing-royal-ascot-moon-pool\/592204\">The Atlantic&#8217;s selection of photos for this week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><div id=\"attachment_65379\" style=\"width: 613px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65379\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/cristo-moon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"402\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/cristo-moon.jpg 603w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/cristo-moon-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-65379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TOPSHOT &#8211; 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)<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><div id=\"attachment_65378\" style=\"width: 613px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65378\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/windmill-sun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"403\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/windmill-sun.jpg 603w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/windmill-sun-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-65378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun sets behind a tattered windmill, Tuesday, June 18, 2019, near Tappen, N.D. (AP Photo\/Charlie Riedel)<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Why bother?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why bother to show you these two images out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2019\/06\/photos-of-the-week-kangaroo-boxing-royal-ascot-moon-pool\/592204\/\">a waterfall of fine images<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Because somewhere within us, deep, psychologically speaking, there&#8217;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:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sun-moon-marriage-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sun-moon-marriage-image.jpg 593w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sun-moon-marriage-image-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; don&#8217;t think &#8212; just enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; beautiful photography, alchemical significance ] . Twin images from The Atlantic&#8217;s selection of photos for this week: ** 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&#8217;s a desire for the consummation of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[866,526,627,1214,778,436,1296,298,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alchemy","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-moon","category-photography","category-psychology","category-sun","category-the-atlantic","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65377"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65400,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65377\/revisions\/65400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}