Gessica Sakamotoさんのイラストまとめ

"The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right,
White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet
With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here."

Sylvia Plath, 'The Moon and the Yew Tree'
#FaustianFriday

"The lady in the moon woke at the hour before every evening to watch the sun set and the moon rise above a dirty lake. The phoenix thought she had come to see him and his fiery plumes, but it was the moon she loved, the moon she woke for." Jennifer S. Cheng
#FairyTaleTuesday

Selene, the "Shining One," was considered the personification & goddess of the moon. As the moon governs change & fate, passing through different phases, so does Selene as part of the Triple Moon Goddess, along with Artemis (waxing moon) & Hecate (dark moon). #FairyTaleTuesday

The shameful secrets carried by a woman are like a black blanket that cuts her off from her unconscious & healing. In the tale 'Golden Hair' a woman is killed & buried but her hair (her life force) keeps growing revealing her murder (the secret) & restoring her. #FaustianFriday

The island is a 'split-off portion of consciousness' in the sea of unconsciousness inhabited by divine forces; a place of transition in one's journey where the true self can be found. On Calypso's island, Odysseus has to decide between an immortal & mortal life. #FolkloreThursday

The Witch is the mistress of disguise, the caster of spells, living in liminal spaces. In tales, as a bringer of change, she draws us closer to our true nature by breaking the conventional & stirring life into stasis. “She scares the life into us.” #FairyTaleTuesday

The phoenix is a solar bird, a symbol of rebirth as the sun sets and rises again at dawn.

"Know that the psyche has its own
Fame, [...] that
Soul can flame like feathers of a bird.
Grow into your own plumage, brightly,
So that any tree is a marvelous city."

#FairyTaleTuesday

Poppy seeds are associated with sleep & dreams due to their soporific properties, but also w/ death. However, in fairy tales, the task of separating poppy seeds from the dirt carries the teaching that death is essential as a transformative process toward rebirth. #FaustianFriday

In the Russian tale of Vasilisa, she receives an almost impossible task by Baba Yaga. Her doll advices her to go to sleep b/c ‘the morning is wiser than the evening' & when she wakes up the task is done. Sleep can put us in touch w/ our deep intuitive resources.#FairyTaleTuesday

'The night never wants to end, to give itself over
to light. So it traps itself in things: obsidian, crows.
Even on summer solstice, the day of light’s great
triumph, we break open the watermelon and spit out
black seeds, bits of night glistening on the grass.' #FairytaleTuesday