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If you don't create your own reality you are condemned to live in someone else's All original content copyright Roger Williamson  

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22
Jul 2018

Sun Enters Leo Tarot Strength

Leo Tarot Card Strength Sun enters Leo, tarot card Strength symbolism, Sun in Leo. Is strength accepting the fruit, or refusing the fruit? As an example of a bicameral archetype for this card, Achilles is opportune because of his reactionary, fixed, automatic responses to phenomena.  We should note, however, that his character expresses wrath and anger but not hate. When presented with a phenomenon outside of himself, Achilles responds to voices from within himself. He is, to all intents and purposes, a puppet animated and manipulated by the strings of hallucinating voices of ancestors and Gods. These automatic responses are […]

Sun in Leo tarot card Strength. Roger Williamson Art.
16
Jun 2018

Mystery is Energy

Sphinx, Mystery is Energy Sphinx, Mystery is Energy, a life journey. Oil on canvas, 48 inches by 72 inches, 2010. Buy Original Painting from Saatchi Art She expresses that Mystery is Energy, and when she loses her mystery, she dies. Also represents the mystery of our life journey. In the background is written the riddle of the Sphinx, in jumbled Greek letters, and in the foreground are the dead bodies of her previous lovers. The aesthetic comes to her passively in contemplation, and she meets him as dynamic energy issuing from this contemplation. She confronts us to make us think, […]

Sphinx, oil on canvas, 72 inches by 48 inches by Minneapolis visual artist Roger Williamson
22
May 2018

Orpheus Eurydice

Orpheus Eurydice: Don’t Look Back Orpheus Eurydice, Oil on canvas, 36 inches by 72 inches, 2011 Buy original painting from Saatchi Gallery The most famous story in which Orpheus figures is that of his wife Eurydice and her attempted return from the underworld. While walking in tall grass at her wedding, Eurydice was set upon by a satyr.  In her efforts to escape the satyr, Eurydice fell into a nest of vipers and suffered a fatal bite on her heel. Her body was discovered by Orpheus who, overcome with grief, played such sad and mournful songs that all the nymphs […]

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21
May 2018

Sun Enters Gemini, Tarot Card Lovers

Sun Enters Gemini, Tarot Card Lovers The Sun in Gemini, tarot card Lovers, represents the duality of our brain at the point of becoming conscious. The union of the Maiden and the Serpent illustrates the duality of the human brain. The figure descending from the sky represents the rise of human consciousness and self-awareness. Inspiration for my depiction of the Lovers card came from Paolo Uccello’s  painting of Saint George and the Dragon. The Influence of Paolo Uccello’s Painting Upon the Lovers On a first glance at Paolo Uccello’s painting, it seems the male hero rescues the maiden from the clutches of a […]

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20
Apr 2018

Taurus Sun Hierophant

Taurus Sun Hierophant Taurus Sun Tarot Hierophant represents a quality within us that registers an awareness of phenomenon. It is not the elucidation of the phenomenon but the bringing to our attention that there is something of which we are not cognizant. Admitting we are in the dark about a subject is our door to learning about it. Overcoming fear to enter the dark is our next step on the path to cognition of the paradox. See Tarot Hermit and Tarot Devil In the foreground of the card the scroll of life unfolds and as it does so the Duat, symbolic of […]

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10
Apr 2018

The Origin of Human Consciousness

Origin of Human Consciousness Dramatised in Ancient Myth and Visual Art The origin of human consciousness dramatised in ancient myth and visual art I was prompted to create this post after reading The Origin of Consciousness in the Break Down of the Bicameral Mind by  Julian Jaynes and recognizing similarities to my theory of Dream Linguistics. Jaynes argues that the breakdown of the Bicameral Mind and the appearance of human consciousness can in a large part be attributed to writing. Because he could now read an individual no longer heard the words of gods or kings The once direct communication […]

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Mar 2018

Spirit

A Spirit Spirit is a  painting by by Minneapolis visual artist Roger Williamson This modern symbolic painting is an, oil on canvas, 12 inches by 12 inches, 2010, $645 Purchase original painting from Saatchi Art MIA Foot in the Door 2010 featured A Spirit in their exhibition. I also featured it in my short movie Invitation to the Quest Spirits manifest into our realm through multiple vehicles, images seen in clouds, undergrowth, incense smoke and the artists canvas. There is an example of this phenomena in Lore of Prosperine by Maurice Hewlett chapter A Boy in the Wood. The following […]

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22
Jan 2018

Tarot Card Star, Sun Enters Aquarius

Tarot Card Star Sun Enters Aquarius Tarot card Star, corresponding to Aquarius. The female figure at the centre of the card is symbolically illustrating the subconscious influence behind the Key, Tarot Star Meaning and Explanation Tarot Star depicts a vague celestial body in the night sky. The top of the card is mirrored below by a seed, a seed that is being planted by the female figure, a magical act: or, discovering a seed in our shadow, an act of divination. As the sky is seeded above, so the world is seeded below.  As above, so below. The Star is […]

Tarot card Star. An explanation of the major arcana cards symbolism and interpretation
3
Jan 2018

Avivo Exhibt To Really See

At The University of Minnesota Bio Medical Library I  am pleased to have two of my works included as part of the Avivo To Really See exhibit. Exhibiting artists: Jennifer N. Campbell Teresa Audet Jess Ward Kate Clark Roger Williamson Gary R. Melquist Douglas Blue Holly Rapoport Sam Larom KaTa John Casey Heather Spielman Anne South Christi Furnas Andrew Braunberger Kandace Krause Michaela Rachor Cecile Bellamy Peter F. Hinze Tobias Ashley Adams Shining Starr Julia C. Spencer Photovoice participants Avivo is proud to announce that the traveling exhibition To Really See: Exploring the Medication-Taking Experience has opened with the University of Minnesota […]

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