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Solstice Cards
My next oracle project is a set of 16 Sticks and Stones cards. The Sticks will depict twigs, wands, and staves along the Oldest River, and represent moon phases as well as the eight “fire festivals” of the solar year. Four of these drawings are completed. The Stones will show various types of naturally round white moon-like chalcedony…
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Skystone Mineral Pigment
This is a new mineral pigment for my collection – a tiny piece of greenish-blue copper ore from a local abandoned mine. It contains malachite, chrysocolla, and probably a bit of turquoise. I already have several examples of all these pigments in my collection, but this piece was particularly bright and clean, so the paint…
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Desert Ferns Webpages
Today I uploaded my webpages on Arizona’s xerophytic ferns. There is an introductory page and a field guide. It’s not finished, but comments and suggestions are welcome. http://www.mineralarts.com/ferns/desertferns.html I won’t be able to photograph more ferns until the winter rains bring them back to life, so the project will be on the shelf until after…
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More on Oracles: Quartz Crystals
I’ve chosen the 28 lichen samples for the Graphis oracle, developed a sequence of glyphs, and am now working on the ink drawings. Meanwhile, here is a simple oracle that I developed a couple of years ago using double-terminated reverse-sceptred quartz crystals. I have a large collection of these, and chose my favorites for the oracle. They are similar to the famous Herkimer…
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Halloween
This is the beginning of winter, when the creeks turn black and the ground – not just the air – begins to grow cold. I’ve done elaborate rituals in some years, crossing a creek to journey into the Underworld. Other years I’ve turned my desk into an altar to friends, teachers, and ancestors who have…
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Stonecrop Flower
The header photo for my blog shows the leaf rosette of Graptopetalum bartramii (Bartram’s Stonecrop), a rare succulent from the oak woodlands of southeastern Arizona’s “sky island” mountain ranges. The plants are blooming now, with half-inch flowers scattered along a stalk that grows about a foot tall. More photos of this and related plants can be found on…
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