On The Visionary Artist Path

From "Whispering Oracle"  

by Kisma Reidling

He is the perfect Divine Masculine role model. Fair. Balanced. Truthful. Protective. Playful. Loving, Dignified. Ferocious.

Cut from the wood of the earth, chiseled to perfection, the once known symbol for the "king of the jungle" has become one of the most universal symbols for the masculine. His roar is the most regal and magnificent call of all the great cats, that are the stalkers and ambush artists of nature. They dispatch their prey with a single spring and bite to the neck, or if it is large bring it down under the mighty force of their rippling muscles. Their prestige is not of swiftness but strength, and lithe elegance, lusty sensuality, sumptuous pelage.

Conveying protective grace and noble authority, lions have inspired everything from warrior societies and shamanic magic to some of our oldest, most commanding images of majestic divinity. 

Of all the great cats, it is lions who travel in prides and are the most social. Though the male lion is depicted in my card as the representative of the Divine Masculine, we can not forget that the great Egyptian Goddess, Sekhmet is a lioness-headed image, known to be the watchful, sometimes raging "eye" of the sun-god Ra; her breath the hot desert winds, her body emanating a fiery glow. 

In alchemy the Green Lion, devouring the sun, evokes how stealthy mercurial energies of the instinctual psyched= can overwhelm even the scorching heat of the intellect, subjecting the mind to violent terrors of darkness and descent.

Leo the Lion is the astrological icon of the month of August, the month of heat in the northern hemisphere. Thus, the god of the heavens, the Sun, is reflected in the image of a Lion and filtered into the element of fire which enkindles nature in solar heat, stellar billiance.

In the spiritual tradition I have walked for four decades, the Sun is both masculine and feminine. She waxes, reaches Pi at Summer Solstice, when He shows is prowess with great light and wanes giving ferocious heat to our planet.

May your inner solar fire, your passions and instincts be balanced.

I'm dedicating my creative practice to touch and change in 2022.  As I go on this journey of transformation, I'll share a "Before" photo of what the old painting, the transformation process and then of course an "After" photo of the Changed Painting.  

Below in the next section are short videos sharing the transformation of each canvas. Enjoy.