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water houses (4,8, and 12 houses) called “trinity of the soul” and “psychic trinity”--all the water houses deal with the past, with conditioned responses, , with the deepest yearnings of the soul. the cycle of the water houses shows the process of gaining consciousness through assimilating the essence of the past and letting go of the residue that has outlived its usefulness. The emotional waste and exhausted emotional behavior patterns must be purged before the soul can express itself clearly. All of these house, therefore, correlate with the need to attain emotional peace and freedom from the past and anyone with a major emphasis on these houses in the natal chart has a need to bring to the surface he hauntings and fears generated by past experiences and to let these feelings be illuminated in full consciousness.

In nearly every civilization with historical records, we find stories of people who went off by themselves to live in the wilderness. But not all hermits were the same: some were outcasts, some were holy, and others were extremely fashionable. All their stories are extraordinary.

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http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/7/solakov.php

Nedko Solakov:

““Romantic Landscapes with Missing Parts” were executed in the murky winter of 2001-2002 up north in Stockholm in a nice studio at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.That was a very hard, horrible time for me, the conceptual artist who pretends that being classically educated in mural painting 20 years ago gives him some kind of advantage. Most of the time during these three months I was really pissed off by my inability to achieve in paint what I wanted (not to mention the bitter feeling that I was not quite sure what I actually did want). In such moments I had an enormous desire to close my eyes and have all the canvases, oil paints, brushes, easels, and palettes disappear so that I could again start dealing with ideas (mainly)—a relatively easy (at least for me) way of working. But I kept doing the paintings, day by day, night after night, fiercely trying to accomplish them in an acceptable way for an audience like you.“Why am I doing this?!” I had been asking myself this constantly, when one day I realized that perhaps the reason for me to keep going was that I had the little hope that all the parts missing from these romantic landscapes—

the moon itself;

the mountain’s reflection on the tranquil surface of the lake;

the light in general;the sailor’s boat;

all the profound thoughts in the philosopher’s head;

the flock of anxious birds;

the exhausted pilgrim’s tracks over the deep snow;

Europa;

the castle on the top of the mountain;

the rainbow’s violet band;

the purse of the wanderer (not the obviously unfinished painting);

the artist’s concentration (a substantial part of the horizon goes unexpectedly down)—

would have a better and more interesting life when left outside the paintings.”