[hagakure-films]

Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles/ Yukio Mishima, spring snow

[lascitasdelashoras]

Jorge Luis Borges

[lascitasdelashoras]

Jorge Luis Borges, 1983

[scottheim]

William S. Burroughs photographed with six celebrities (David Bowie; Patti Smith; Dennis Hopper; Kurt Cobain; Jimmy Page; Mr. Peanut) and three inanimate objects (a handgun; a jack-o'-lantern he carved with a hatchet; and yours truly)

[shihlun]

Takeyoshi Tanuma

- Writer Kenzaburo Oe and his wife

February 5, 1961

[bfloramor]

Itamar Assumpção e Jards Macalé, em 1981.

📷: Lita Cerqueira

[zegalba]

Yoshitaka Amano: ベール (1993)

[gogolnose]

Sometimes I forget a lot of Yukio Mishima's (western and more reactionary) fans are (usually Western) right-wing posers who try to claim him while having read next to nothing from him after hearing he was a reactionary ultra-nationalist... -

while his normal fans, whether from Japan or elsewhere, who happen to like his writing, prose, characters, and the like, are lumped up with them when the former is the minority.

[angelswouldnthelpyou]

[crazyfox-archives]

An itinerant monk being guided through the underworld: A scene from the "Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine" (北野天神縁起絵巻) dating to the late 13th century

Set of five handscrolls with ink, color, and cut gold on paper from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

[dragonbones69]

[lovewillbreakyourheartforever]

PJ Harvey at Yeovil Art College, Somerset, 1991/1992. Photographed by Rebecca Goddard.

[yan-wo]

Plate from George Frederick Kunz & Charles Hugh Stevenson’s The Book of the Pearl, 1908.

[astrology-by-sita]

FRIDA KAHLO BIRTH CHART ANALYSIS

So this is her chart from astro dot com. She is leo rising with sun in the 12th house. It is conjunct exalted Jupiter in Cancer. Jupiter rules her 5h of art and creativity. She is very famous for painting her own self portrait(sun is the self/image for her cause she's Leo rising)

Her Jupiter is not only exalted but also in its own bound with the north node (point of increase). Her sun in Cancer is also conjunct Neptune so she was sensitive , empathetic, probably had a wide imagination which very much fits an artist

Unfortunately, 12h also rules hospitals and illnesses. She caught polio as a child. She had a terrible bus accident when she was 18, which caused her to stay bedridden and isolated for a long time, she was operated several times and was always in pain. She has Saturn in 8h and this placement can prolong illnesses and recovery takes too much time. She has Uranus and Mars in 6h of health aspecting her 12h sun and Jupiter, so a sudden accident (Uranus) which was violent (Mars) affected her health. Mars is maltreating her sun,opposing it from a dark house.

She has a beautiful placement, exalted moon in Taurus in 10h of reputation and public image. Taurus is a sign that loves beauty, and she showed the world (10h) beauty thru art and creativity and even in the way she dresses .

She has Venus in Gemini in 11h of friends, collective groups and communities. Venus is the relationship indicator. She met her partner Diego Rivera through her friends who were Communist activists and artists. If you have 11h Venus you're likely to get introduced to your future partner by friends. Unfortunately her Venus is with pluto. Her relationship with Diego Rivera was turbulent, they divorced then remarried. Kahlo considered that she had 2 accidents in her life : the 1st was the bus accident and the 2nd was marrying Diego Rivera.

Pluto basically intensifies everything it touches and causes power struggles. It touched her relationship (Venus). Rivera literally cheated on her with her own sister! Her Venus is in the bound of saturn , also the 12th part of Venus is with her Saturn in the 8th house.

Venus applies to square her natal saturn. Saturn is older people and Diego Rivera was much older than her. The spiritual, poetic, artistic and mystical star Fomalhaut roses while her Venus is on the nadir. If you have this star you literally have access to a world beyond the material realm, which inspire you to be creative and artistic. She was probably seeking to merge her ideal world with the real world using her art and political activism.

The star Murzims sets while her saturn is on the nadir. This is the star of the "announcer", the public speaker , symbolized by a dog who barks to announce something. Bc of this star, Kahlo had a voice,she had something to say with her art and activism and she was vocal when it comes to causes she believes in. The star Sualocin culminates while her Mercury is on the nadir. This is a childlike, playful and creative star. She expressed her ideas (Mercury) thru creative abilities.

The star Altair was rising while her sun was setting. Stars in paran with your sun are directly tied to your image and ego-self , even more so in her case cause she's ruled by the sun. If you have this star you will mot sit still and do nothing , you will want to do something for your community as a whole and even the world.

She was a prominent Communist activist in her country,openly bisexual,never fitted into the traditional gender roles of that era, an icon ahead of her time. She literally changed her date of birth from July 6th, 1907 to July 7th, 1910, which is the date of the Mexican revolution.

She joined the Mexican Communist party, & as a student,she was a member of a student group called "Cachuchas"who would basically mock everything conservative in performance and pranks.She participated in the founding of a committee to support the Republicans in Spanish civil war.

And along with her husband Diego Rivera she sent a petition to the authorities of Mexico to grant asylum to the exiled Russian Communist leon trotsky

Last but not least I needed to say that, I feel deep spiritual and artistic connection to Frida Kahlo, our placements are similar and our lives are similar too in the good and the bad ❤️‍🩹

[karlslieblingsknecht]

One of the most ironics things about Frida Kahlo is that since her passing she’s loved by people who she opposed

[popsocialism]

Frida Kahlo

1) 1941, displays her Communist sympathies with her therapeutic plaster chest cast;

2) 1953, art in a page of her diary with her communist references;

3) 1954, self-portrait with Stalin.

Hollywood tried to convert her into a trotskist with Salma Hayek’s character, but see what she wrote in 1953:

“Today like never before I am not alone. It has been 25 years that I have been a communist. I know the central origins. I know the ancient roots. I’ve read the history of my country and almost all the villages there. I know its conflicts of economics and class. I understand clearly the materialist dialectics of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao Zedong. I love them as the pillars of the new communist world. I realized the error of Trotsky since he arrived in Mexico. I was never a trotskyite. But in that time, 1940, I was only an ally of Diego (personally) (political mistake). But you have to take into account that I’ve been sick since I was six years old and really very little of my life I’ve enjoyed health and I was useless to the Party. Now in 1953 after 22 surgeries I feel better and I can from time to time help my Communist Party. Since I’m not a worker, I am an artisan - and allied unconditionally to the communist revolutionary movement.”

[weepingwidar]

Guy Rubicon (Belgian, 1979) - Red Rider (2024)