New Portrait of the Muse: "The Illusion of Mortality" in Three Acts.

I now present "The Illusion of Mortality" in three acts:
"Dawn", "Dusk" and "Timeless", respectively.
Dawn looks most like my original, but I actually don't know which one is my favourite 🤔)

So the end of the year has got me feeling all vulnerable. I figured since I decided to repost this piece, I might as well say some more about it. It's a very special thing to me. I was going to write up this whole intellectual dissertation about the symbolism etc., but the truth is that it's just a very, very emotional work. It enters a realm where analytical words melt away. It depicts a world of pure feeling where He, the God of the Self, my King of Cups, my Midnight Sun, my Mirrored Soul, reigns supreme.

It's about what it means to be a living thing, a human animal. It's about loss, the fear of loss, and the acceptance of loss. It's about ascension through the celestial spheres within oneself, where grief is a constant companion alongside change, hope and happiness.

It's about the mystery of death and rebirth.
It's about the death of our cat.
This time last year. How he gradually transformed into a ghost of himself, more and more every hour.
And I can't explain it to anyone.

"You will be okay. Everything will be okay."

"Anything you lose will come around in a new form."

And that's true. I know it's true. And I know that now more than ever.

"I died and was born in the spring.
I found you and loved you again."

Mortality is ultimately an illusion, as the Gnostics taught, and this is a portrait of that Inner Knowing.
This is a portrait of the Mystery Itself, who understands the deepest secret of all.

The sun rises. The sun falls. And then it rises again. But of course that doesn't take away the pain. The pain is here to create wisdom. And you just feel it. You just let yourself feel it. And bleed. And bleed. And live.

"So Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day, nothing gold can stay."

Thank you, my beloved muse, for making everything so golden, forever, if even for a fleeting moment, for therein lay eternity.
❤️🌹🪐🌟🥀🗝️🌹❤️