I was just recalling in another thread that I used to enjoy sketching with charcoal.
Awesome. I haven't got the knack of it yet. I got a kit, and it has a ton of stuff I don't know how to use, such as carbon and smudge sticks. I suppose I could google it and find out. Guess I'm lazy!
Drawing was always very frustrating for me however because I have a tendency to be highly perfectionistic in such pursuits, going into highly elaborate detail (within detail within detail)...
Hmm. Interesting. The author of this book I'm reading recommends that we let the self-critical internal monologue go. I guess this is an issue for a lot of people. I haven't noticed it with myself but I really don't have any expectations when I start drawing. Because if it's ****---no one's going to see it.
I turns into a paper airplane.
Also, what I do is start out big and general. Then slowly getting smaller, leaving the detail for the end. This usually helps, but maybe you already do that.
I find it somewhat emotionally exhausting, as it appears to be a largely egoic exercise for me personally - that is, my ego gets so caught up in it that I can't simply let go and enjoy. If I could manage to do that, I think my creations would be more proficient (and more importantly, I'd have enjoyed the process).
Yeah. I bet it would! Maybe try putting on some relaxing music or something . . .
I'm eurotrash in cultural origin also.
Ha ha. Yup. Seems the case for we from the colonized continents. But that means we've got the best genes. Look at all those mutts out there who make the best pets ever. They tend to have low vet bills and are generally really bright. That's what I tell myself anyway!
That's awesome - you should show us more. I want to see!
Ha! We shall see . . . . I better do something good! And I wouldn't mind seeing what you drew. Hey, maybe we should start an art sharing thread on here for people to post stuff they've been working on: songs, paintings, drawings, photography, writings, etc. Might be fun and healthy. What do you think?
Why is your chart not reflective of creativity in this manner? To start with the bare basics, geminis are known for being skilled with their hands (incidentally my gemini sun/stellium mother was an occupational hand therapist). Your sun's ruler is in taurus in the 7th conjunct jupiter - a romantic/creative "venusian" placement to say the least, with that merc sextile a lovely cancer moon that is then quintile jupiter... Gives me the impression your artistic creations would be suffused with feeling and much meaning.
Mars in leo - again creative - and trine a neptune which trines the MC? - hello?
Ha ha ha. Thanks! :rubs sleep from eyes: I must have been asleep when I looked at my chart. And I forgot that my Venus and Mars are in mutual reception. I always look for a Venusian connection with Mercury or a Neptune with Mercury. That's the key to making good art, I think. I don't know how strong that is, and as Moog would say, that goes out the window with sidereal. Anyway, thanks for making my chart look a smidge better.
I concede that it is frequently my chosen paradigm through which to perceive life which sounds weighty as **** but actually isn't, as I do it in a playful sense. I don't take too much overly seriously at all, that goes for most things... I enjoy astrology, as I do parapsychology and mysticism in general. I have my right little toe in lots of things that I should really be forcing myself to go a bit deeper with...
Yeah! Me too. I try not to take too many things seriously, which can be a bit of a challenge at times. I think astrology does have an effect on our lives, in many ways. It's just that the understanding that we have of it seems to be a bit off. I blame the loss of many great literary works from the Persian empire, during the destruction of the great libraries at the time. I think those were the best records of what the Egyptians had developed. We can thank the Egyptians for their work on the astral and astrology. The ancient Eastern cultures contributed to the spiritual. And the Greeks were primarily focused on the physical, which happens to be the governing paradigm of our cultures (and the worlds, too). Anyway, I'm babbling.
But I'll see what I can come up with here with my new charcoal kit. And don't forgot to put of some of yours!
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