Giovanni Lanfranco (1582 – 1647, Italian)

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Joseph And Potiphar’s Wife

Young Man Naked On The Bed With A Cat

St. Peter Healing St.Agatha In Prison

St. Peter Healing St. Agatha (detail)

Cleopatra’s Death

Mary Magdalene Raised By Angels

Venus Playing The Harp

Sleeping Venus With Two Putti In A Landscape

Ruggero Rescuing Angelica

Rinaldo’s Farewell To Armida

Rinaldo’s Farewell To Armida (detail)

Norandino And Lucina Discovered By The Ogre

The Rape of Europa

Venus With Putti

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Opening Our Hearts Through Armenian Dance by Laura Shannon

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Laura Shannon's avatarFeminism and Religion

The candle represents the light of love, compassion and connection kindled in our hearts as we dance.

In these challenging times, one of the hardest things to do is to keep our hearts open. Grief and despair tend to shut them down. And even among close friends, colleagues, family members, and people with whom we share worship, when we clash over differing political opinions, trust can swiftly erode. These kinds of losses and sorrows can make us just want to close the doors to our hearts.
Yet hardened hearts and minds are not going to help us overcome conflicts and affirm connections. Only if we can open our hearts to one another, holding the fullness of our (and others’) feelings in a compassionate way, can we weather the storms which threaten to divide us further. And only if we are united can we find our way together through those storms.

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Anthony Regnier (1835 – 1909, French)

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L’Almée

L’orientale au tambourin

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SuperMoon – Super Goddesses!

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Nifty Buckles Folklore's avatarVal is a writer of enchanted tales, folklore and magic. Once chased by Vampire Pumpkins!

Exciting times are heading our way this week!

The Old Farmer’s Almanac, reports there will be…..A Supermoon, Blood moon, Blue moon and an eclipse on Wednesday, January 31st, 2018. I don’t know about you but this sounds like an ominous sign or maybe the moon goddesses all over the world have something very important to tell us? Here is the link to a great article by astronomer, Bob Berman on this amazing phenomenon, A Supermoon, Blue Moon, and Lunar Eclipse on January 31 Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse

Well, since this is a special Supermoon appearing this week, I thought it would be a niftytime to write about some of these amazing moon goddesses.

One of the most famous and well known, ancient Asia minor goddess is Hekate or Hecate.

Hekate

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Hekate is a potent three-headed goddess of the moon. She is also known as a light bearer.

Hekate

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Land Art by Andy Goldsworthy

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