As a way to safeguard, and simply because I found it again the other day, I am posting a drawing I did 12 years ago. I always thought of it as a 'past life' image and perhaps now think of it also as an archetypal soul experience. It is a 'self-portrait' of course, the feet are definitely mine.
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Joan said:
Your Soul Archetypal Image is very provocative. Do you read it as warning of some kind? Excellent drawing.
Thanks for the comment re drawing. I don't think it is a warning as such, I think the image is 'archetypal' in the sense that everyone experiences betrayal in some way as part of the process of individuation. It came to me during a meditation and after I drew it I found references to it in alchemical texts, with wolves devouring the corpse. Part of the process of transformation involves various forms of death, deconstruction and reconstruction I guess. I think that this may have happened to me in a past life and I know the context, but I also think that it is an archetypal image.
The drawing has been on my walls for a long time now. Sometimes I look at it and it doesn't mean much at all, just a picture and part of my house/home. But sometimes (and it comes and goes over the years) your drawing returns and takes on new meanings. Like grief or joy, the feeling and self knowledge that it emanates for me, evolves.
In other words, it's got legs, longevity.
PS. Just bouncing off the walls, right now!
That's good to hear ST. Another difficult image to live with though! I guess it depends on one's perspective and state of mind too.
That's am amazing drawing, Michelle. Stunning. And you brush it off as of it means very little. To me it's wonderful. Thank you.
As an after thought, or one that I have always thought ... the wolves in this image are not only the old Euro way of seeing wolves. For me they are dogs, my familiars, and their looks are not so carnivorous as friendly or caring. It's funny but I've never thought of those dogs as moving in on my carcass. Maybe it's because I am a dog woman. If I were in such trouble, I'd want such dog friends nearby.
Does that make sense?
Thanks Elisabeth.
I think that is how I also see the wolves ST. So yes, it does make sense.
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