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Post by tannis on May 25, 2008 21:23:11 GMT
And the sun pours down like honey On our lady of the harbour And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers There are heroes in the seaweed There are children in the morning They are leaning out for love And they will lean that way forever While Suzanne holds the mirror... ~ Suzanne by Leonard Cohen (1966)AERIAL: The Golden Dawn and The Golden CompassThe photography and artwork accompanying AERIAL very much suggest that magic and spiritual alchemy were at play in creating the Great Work, and that Kate obviously felt a need to cryptically inform us 'fans' that this was the case. Indeed, the AERIAL artwork - 'Design by Kate and Peacock' - shows Kate self-proclaiming AERIAL as her Magnum opus or The Great Work.
And maybe the AERIAL booklet actually represents a 'Thank You' card to the Great Architect of The Universe... The title AERIAL is A Perfect Circle, full of celestial, nebulous, and earthly connotations... Aerial Nephelai... Aerial Supremacy... Aerial Rising... Pyramids and Obelisks... Shining Ones... Waves, Stations and Signals... Aerial Wonder... "A magician doesn't like to expose his magic, black or white..." Occult studies are by definition a study of hidden mysteries. While the practitioner is often attempting to scry hidden wisdom, that knowledge is traditionally not freely shared (esp. amongst fans!), and is often reincoded in a symbol system known only to the practitioner and other members of a related community.Karswell Kate: "What kind of language is this?" Hidden on all Kate Bush album covers is her trade mark KT runic symbol. The clearest example of this is on the Lionheart album cover, where the mark appears on the crate, just above (or below) the beast *. On the AERIAL album cover, the KT logo appears on the water in the lower foreground. The stem of the T is broken, giving the appearance of a capital T over a capital K. (Some people see even more symbols hidden in the lower right-hand corner of the cover.)
A capital T: The Tau Cross Tau Cross - Symbol of the god Mathras of the Persians and the Aryans of India. To them, Mathras was an "angel of light" or the "heavenly light". It is used in modern Masonry under the symbol of the T square. In the modern occultism of Madeline Montalban (died 1982) Lucifer's identification as the Morning Star (Venus) equates him with Lumiel, whom she regarded as the Archangel of Light, and among Satanists he is seen as The "Torch of Baphomet" and Azazel. In this modern occult teaching, an obvious appropriation of Christian soteriology, it is stated that it is Lucifer's destiny to incarnate in human form at certain key times in world history as a saviour and redeemer for humanity. A symbol for this process is the Tudor Rose. The Tudor Rose can be red, representing Lucifer, or white representing Lilith. The Tau cross is also a symbol of Lumiel/Lucifer and his role as an avatar for the human race.Aerial Coverhomepage.eircom.net/~twoms/aerial_lrg.jpgCompare the Aerial Cover to the Aerial Wallpaper. On the Aerial Cover you will see A Perfect Circle around the Sun. The points of the Sun's rays have also been enhanced. The effect is to produce The Golden Compass.Aerial Wallpaperwww.katebush.com/wallpaper/kb_wallpaper001_1024.jpg"I must admit that's rather worrying because the 'knights templar' are a secret organisation going back a long, long time that still very much operate today & members have a hidden hand in politics & higher echelons of elite society, royalty, media manipulation etc. Another thing of concern: 'there's a hole in the sky & a big eyeball is calling me' (from 'kite'), the all seeing eye (kick inside album cover) is an 'illuminati' symbol that's also featured at the top of the pyramid on the U.S. dollar & it symbolises power over the masses, i.e. 'we are watching you & we control all that you do', in fact kate's records & covers are steeped in such symbolism & the more I become aware of it the more I am forced to ask just what is she involved in & what is she up to? The 'company's daughter' is tolerated & protected in a way that no other artist would be. She's invited to dine with the 'queen', Tony Blair, John Major & other political & music figures etc at Buckingham Palace earlier this year despite the fact that she's not been a very prolific artist & hadn't even released a record for 12 years! I sometimes just get an uneasy feeling when I ask myself why is this the case? Am I just being over analytical & a bit paranoid? Who knows? But if anyone else has any other theories or ideas on all of this I'd be happy to hear about them."www.atforumz.com/archive/index.php/t-280980.htmlSuper-rich elitist William Randolph Hearst ['Citizen Kane'], Catholic Knights of Malta high-up, told his national newspaper chain to "puff" Billy Graham and make him a household name! see more:katebush.proboards6.com/index.cgi?board=leaveitopen&action=display&thread=1998&page=2* The Lionheart Lion:Satan is called by many names in the Bible, each name revealing his basic character. He is called "Roaring Lion" in 1 Peter 5:8 (King James Version):"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour..."The Kick Inside Dragon:Satan is referred to as: "Dragon" (Isaiah 27:1; Revelation 20:2), "Great red dragon" (Revelation 12:3), "Old serpent" (Revelation 12:9; 20:2), "Son of the Morning" (Isaiah 14:12)... see more:The Kick Inside: EVE, SATAN & THE PLANK IN THE EYEkatebush.proboards6.com/?board=ki....ead=1679&page=1
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Post by tannis on May 29, 2008 21:54:03 GMT
The AERIAL album artwork features two paintings in tempora:"Lesson Time" by Frederic Cayley Robinson, 1921 "Fishermen and Boat" by Joseph Edward Southall, 1920Tempora is taken from the Latin, to mingle, to temper, to mitigate, season and soften, to mix in due proportion... Tempera is a type of artist's paint and associated art techniques that were known from the classical world. It has remained the required medium for Orthodox icons. It is paint made by binding pigment in an egg medium. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there were intermittent revivals of tempera technique in Western art, among the Pre-Raphaelites, Social Realists, and others.
Tempera paint dries rapidly, and is normally applied in thin, semi-opaque or transparent layers. When dry, it produces a smooth matte finish. Because it cannot be applied in thick layers as oil paints can, tempera paintings rarely have the deep color saturation that oil paintings can achieve. On the other hand, tempera colors do not change over time, whereas oil paints darken, yellow, and become transparent with age.Frederick Cayley Robinson British Symbolist Painter and Illustrator, 1862-1927Typically, his paintings are deliberately flat compositions in tempera or watercolour, often Symbolist in style, favourite subjects including water scenes, and girls in interiors. Apparently his oeuvre also includes some early realist paintings. As well as painting, Cayley Robinson worked as an illustrator, theatre designer and decorator, and produced murals for Middlesex Hospital from 1915-20.
Cayley Robinson was a deeply spiritual man and illustrated such works as 'The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi' (1915) and 'A Book of Quaker Saints' (1922), however his most popular and haunting illustrations were done for Maeterlink's 'The Blue Bird' (1911) for which work he had also designed the costumes and stage sets when it had been produced at the Haymarket Theatre two years previously.see more: Frederick Cayley Robinson prints & canvaseswww.bridgemanartondemand.com/artist/2678/Frederick_Cayley_RobinsonThe painting credited to "James Southall" in the centre spread of the AERIAL booklet is a cropped and mirror-reversed image of "Fishermen and Boat" by Joseph Edward Southall (1861-1944). The name AERIAL has been added to the side of the boat.The revival of tempera painting in Burne-Jones's circle was immediately taken up and perfected by the Birmingham Group led by Joseph Southall. This difficult technique, using the yolk of egg, was the most important panel painting technique of the medieval period and emerged in the late Pre-Raphaelite circles as an inevitable result of their love of quattrocento painting. Southall founded The Society of Painters in Tempera in November 1901 along with John Dixon Batten, William Holman Hunt and Walter Crane. see more: Paintings in Oil, Tempera, and Watercolor by Joseph Southall, 1861-1944www.victorianweb.org/painting/southall/paintings/index.htmlKarswell Kate: "What kind of language is this?"Ole Worm (May 13, 1588 – August 31, 1655) was a Danish physician and antiquary. He wrote a number of treatises on Rune stones and collected texts that were written in runic. In 1626 Worm published his Fasti Danici, or "Danish Chronology," containing the results of his researches into runic lore. Its expanded title is: "Fasti Danici Universam Tempora Computandi Rationem Exhibentes".
So maybe the use of the word Tempora in Ole Worm's Runic tome explains why Kate and Peacock chose to mingle two tempora paintings in the AERIAL artwork... "It's in the trees! It's coming!"
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Post by tannis on Jun 13, 2008 19:04:19 GMT
The dawn has come And the wine will run And the song must be sung..."I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh along with my balsam. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk. Eat, friends; Drink and imbibe deeply, O lovers." Song of Solomon 5:1
"(Here is) a Parable of the Garden which the righteous are promised: in it are rivers of water incorruptible; rivers of milk of which the taste never changes; rivers of wine, a joy to those who drink; and rivers of honey pure and clear..." The Quran, 47:15We're looking at the big sky Honey! You want my reply What was the question Mm, Yeah!'And thy Lord taught the bee to build its cells in hills, on trees and in (men's) habitations..... there issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colours, wherein is healing for mankind. Verily in this is a Sign for those who give thought'. The Quran, 16:68-69
'Honey is a remedy for every illness and the Qur'an is a remedy for all illness of the mind, therefore I recommend to you both remedies, the Qur'an and honey.' (Bukhari)The honey bee has been given an uncanny ability to produce, labor, and guide; and its product, labor, and guidance benefit other creatures around it. The honey bee reached its social climax many millions of years before man sought any level of society. Beginning with Aristotle about 300 B.C., the literature pertaining to honey bees is probably greater than that dealing with any other species except man himself.
The honey bee, Apis mellifera L., is a social organism unique in the insect world where so many kinds of insects destroy crops, bite, or are an irritating nuisance. In contrast to the insect pests, the honey bee is essential to the welfare of mankind. Not only does it provide us with honey - a delightful food with many delicate flavors and healing properties - but, more important, the honey bee insures the fertility of many economic plant species man depends upon for his direct and indirect food supply. Man could survive without honey for the table, but his diet would be pretty drab without the fruit and vegetables that require pollination for productivity and without the milk and meat from livestock that prosper so well on the legumes. These basic forage crops important in livestock production also must be pollinated by bees.
Honey collection by humans is an ancient activity. A Mesolithic rock painting shows two honey-hunters collecting honey and honeycomb from a wild nest. Honey was used by some ancient writers as a symbol for wisdom, the idea being that just as the bees (emblem of initiates) gather nectar or honey (knowledge) from the flowers (of life) and digest it into honey, so are the experiences of human life stored in the memory, and the knowledge so garnered is digested into wisdom.
In the Roman Empire, honey was possibly used instead of gold to pay taxes. In the accounts of the Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I, one hundred pots of honey were equivalent in value to an ass or an ox. Ancient Egyptian and Middle-Eastern peoples also used honey for embalming the dead.
Modhu Purnima (Bangla for 'honey full-moon') is a Buddhist festival that occurs on the day of the full moon in the month of Bhadro (August/September). The day commemorates an occasion on which the Buddha retreated to the wilderness to bring peace between two squabbling factions of disciples. According to legend, a monkey and an elephant fed him during this time, the elephant bringing fruit and the monkey bringing honey. The monkey was so excited when the Buddha accepted his gift that he began leaping from tree to tree and fell to his death. However, he immediately achieved nirvana as a reward for his generosity. Madhu Purnima is celebrated as a joyous day of unity and charity. Buddhists observe it by bringing gifts of honey to monasteries.
In the mystical Shi'ite brotherhood of Bektashi Dervishes, honey denotes haqq, transcendental reality, the goal of all spiritual pilgrimage where the individual melts into the godhead.
And the flowers are melting In the sun
see more: Honey, the alchemy of bees...katebush.proboards6.com/?board=leaveitopen&action=display&thread=1998&page=3
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Jun 13, 2008 23:51:31 GMT
^ Honey is such a powerful symbol, I think, and very well used on Aerial. I love the associations with alchemy and spiritual wisdom, and mystical communion with sacred power.
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Post by tannis on Jun 14, 2008 6:32:28 GMT
"YES, WONDERFUL THINGS!" ... A Sea Of Honey... A Sky Of Honey... The Soundwave of Blackbird Song... Is AERIAL a paean to the birds and the bees?The bee is the communicator and the courier of nourishment between mortal humans and the sun gods.
HONEY: It is Aristotle's nectar of the gods. It is our memory bringing us back in time to Winnie the Pooh's passion, liquid gold, great in cooking and the only human food produced by insects. The flavor of the honey is a result of the nectar of the flowers the bees collect. The flavors vary from fruity, woodsy, herbaceous, aromatic, mild, or spicy. The color also depends on the flower in which the bee collects the nectar.
HONEYBEE: The beehive runs like an well-organized manufacturing plant. The bees have to take the nectar from about two million flowers just to make one pound of honey. A bee will visit between 50 and 100 flowers in one trip alone, flying roughly 15 miles per hour. Each bee has four wings. Bees pollinate about one-third of the vegetables we eat. After all this work, the average bee only produces 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in its entire lifetime. When they want to communicate with their fellow bees, they go dancing. They have numerous different dance moves, each one communicates a different signal to the other bees: when the nectar is out, how far it is to the nectar, and where the pollen is.
HONEYMOON: In Eastern cultures as a means of celebrating their union, love and respect for one another, newlyweds would have a spoonful of honey poured into their coupled palms. The couple would then lick the honey off each other's hand. This ensured that the man would never raise a hand to his bride, and that she would forever speak loving words to him. Legend also says that Cupid dipped his arrows in honey prior to striking lovers and thus the bee became a symbol of Cupid.
The bee was an emblem of Potnia, the Minoan-Mycenaean "Mistress", also referred to as "The Pure Mother Bee". Her priestesses received the name of "Melissa" ("bee"). In addition, priestesses worshipping Artemis and Demeter were called "Bees". The Delphi Priestess is often referred to as a bee, and Pindar notes that she remained "the Delphic bee" long after Apollo had usurped the ancient oracle and shrine. The Homeric Hymn to Apollo acknowledges that Apollo's gift of prophecy first came to him from three bee-maidens, usually identified with the Thriae. The Thriae was a trinity of pre-Hellenic bee-goddesses in the Aegean.
Beekeeping was a Minoan craft, and the fermented honey-drink, mead, was an old Cretan intoxicant, older than wine. The proto-Greek invaders, by contrast, did not bring the art of beekeeping with them. Homer saw bees as wild, never tame, as when the Achaeans issued forth from their ship encampment "like buzzing swarms of bees that come out in relays from a hollow rock" (Iliad, book II). For two thousand years after Knossos fell the classical Greek tongue preserved "honey-intoxicated" as the phrase for "drunken." The Bee is also seen in a number of Aegean and Near Eastern names. The Jewish historian Josephus noted that the name of the poet and prophet Deborah meant "bee." Melissa is also similarly defined. The name "Merope" seems to mean "honey-faced" in Greek, thus "eloquent" in Classical times.
The Kalahari Desert's San people tell of a bee that carries a mantis across a river. The tired exhausted bee eventually leaves the mantis on a floating flower. The bee plants a seed in the mantis's body before it dies, and that seed grows and becomes the first human. The bowstring on Hindu love god Kamadeva's bow is made of honeybees.
In Egyptian mythology, bees grew from the tears of the sun god Ra, when they landed on the desert sand. The Egyptians kept bees for their honey and wax. They were kept in woven wicker hives that had been covered in clay. The main centre of bee keeping was Lower Egypt, where one of the symbols for that part of the country was the bee itself. Not only was the honey used for food and as offerings to the gods, but it was also used by the Egyptians to create makeup and medicine! (Honey has an antibacterial effect.) The wax was used for boat building, mummification and as a binding agent in some paints. The Egyptians didn't only keep domesticated bees - they also went out and hunted for the honey of wild bees. Small pottery flasks, which according to the hieratic inscriptions on the side originally contained honey, were found in the tomb of the boy-king, Tutankhamun.see more: The Animals of Ancient Egyptwww.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/egypt_animals.htmlThe Bee Goddesswww.thebeegoddess.com/
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Post by Al Truest on Jun 23, 2008 14:16:26 GMT
As promised I have assembled a few thoughts on another possible sub text for this album - Emergence. The concept of a confluence and a syllogy of ideal events and circumstances giving rise to life or even rebirth is fascinating to me. As with carbon having a kind of universal donor property (i.e. easily shared electrons) in the fuel for organic compounds; there seems to be a similar concept with how love and understanding can serve as the mitigating and evolutionary force for life and positive growth. I know this may sound obtuse and cryptic - but bear with me.
Have you ever witnessed a flock of birds in flight that zigged and zagged in perfect unison? What kind of language is this that allows such precise and intricate formation? The transmission, by my estimation, would have to be precognitive or at least a collective awareness. Is it coincidence that birds and their communications are a recurring theme in Aerial?
In Sea of Honey several have remarked about how simple and mundane the concepts of family and love are advanced. But as ordinary as Ms Bartolozzi may seem in the cleaning of the floors and the washing of the clothes; there is, I think, a much deeper comparison to the profound nature in the 'stuff of life' Life, it is theorized began as several ideal compounds and properties collecting and combining to create something new. The whirling cycle of a washing machine, I see, can be likened to the swirling pattern and action of the Universe. These clothes represent (to me) the stuff of life being agitated and purified (made clean) The phallic and feminine concepts of ejaculation (Little fish) and conception (swim between my legs) are all taking place in this 'load' She put "everything I could fit in it" Which leads me to think the emergence theory applies here. I would submit that "It (a man's shirt) looks so alive...Just like it's climbed right out" (of the primordial ooze??) further support my point.
From there we begin to discover how Kate is laying the groundwork for some profound observations and concepts about life and our connectivity. Ultimately she arrives at a place of peace and celebration by digging deeper and deeper. It is her message of transmission and reception that taps in to the beauty and renewal of life through some universal codes and concepts.
Edit: Deference and credit to any others whom have made singular coincidental points in their observations. I have taken them in a different direction I think nonetheless...
More later...
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Post by tannis on Jun 23, 2008 15:16:58 GMT
Washing machine Washing machine I watched them going ’round and ’round My blouse wrapping itself around your trousers Oh the waves are going out My skirt floating up around my waist As I wade out into the surf Oh and the waves are coming in Oh and the waves are going out Oh and you’re standing right behind me Little fish swim between my legs Oh and the waves are coming in Oh and the waves are going out Oh and the waves are coming in... Washing machine Washing machine Washing machine Yes, Mrs B. uses much love-making and sexual metaphor which does indeed suggest a subtext of Emergence giving rise to life or even rebirth. And I like your observation that the whirling cycle of a washing machine can be likened to the swirling pattern and action of the Universe. Cleaning chemicals and compounds, clothes being made clean and coming out of the wash, etc. There's a lot going on in the spin cycle which connects with the universal picture...A Map of the Milky Waywww.atlasoftheuniverse.com/milkyway.htmlAnd birds and their communications are indeed a recurring theme in Aerial, highlighting ideas about transmission, reception, connectivity, communication, and the renewal of life through universal codes. And a flock of birds in flight is such a wonderful 'foreign' language and universal code. Have you ever witnessed a flock of birds in flight that zigged and zagged in perfect unison? What kind of language is this that allows such precise and intricate formation? Starlings flocking before roostingwww.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKtj4E_iss
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Post by Al Truest on Jun 23, 2008 15:32:13 GMT
Washing machine Washing machine I watched them going ’round and ’round My blouse wrapping itself around your trousers Oh the waves are going out My skirt floating up around my waist As I wade out into the surf Oh and the waves are coming in Oh and the waves are going out Oh and you’re standing right behind me Little fish swim between my legs Oh and the waves are coming in Oh and the waves are going out Oh and the waves are coming in... Washing machine Washing machine Washing machine Yes, Mrs B. uses much love-making and sexual metaphor which does indeed suggest a subtext of Emergence giving rise to life or even rebirth. And I like your observation that the whirling cycle of a washing machine can be likened to the swirling pattern and action of the Universe. Cleaning chemicals and compounds, clothes being made clean and coming out of the wash, etc. There's a lot going on in the spin cycle which connects with the universal picture...A Map of the Milky Waywww.atlasoftheuniverse.com/milkyway.htmlAnd birds and their communications are indeed a recurring theme in Aerial, highlighting ideas about transmission, reception, connectivity, communication, and the renewal of life through universal codes. And a flock of birds in flight is such a wonderful 'foreign' language and universal code. Have you ever witnessed a flock of birds in flight that zigged and zagged in perfect unison? What kind of language is this that allows such precise and intricate formation? Starlings flocking before roostingwww.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKtj4E_iss Thanks Tannis - great visuals there. The birds almost resemble a living flagillating organism. Birds of a feather flock together. I really believe that patterns and anecdotes are just smaller examples of larger universal mechanisms at work.
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Post by tannis on Jun 23, 2008 19:50:50 GMT
AERIAL ART and HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDSSwarming Starlings in S. California (NBC News)www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHYcnq-vOk&feature=related"...thousands of birds have been producing Aerial Art... It's almost a musical scene, the way they fly in clusters..."Yes, Al, the starling spectacle is spectacular! And I like the connection NBC makes with Hitchcock... If MSFC is Psycho, is A Sky Of Honey The Birds? ... ;D And this brings to mind Jung's idea of synchronicity, "a meaningful coincidence of two or more events, where something other than the probability of chance is involved."
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Post by Al Truest on Jun 23, 2008 19:57:18 GMT
AERIAL ART and HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDSSwarming Starlings in S. California (NBC News)www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHYcnq-vOk&feature=relatedYes, Al, the starling spectacle is spectacular! And I like the connection NBC makes with Hitchcock... If MSFC is Psycho, is A Sky Of Honey The Birds? ... ;D And this brings to mind Jung's idea of synchronicity, "a meaningful coincidence of two or more events, where something other than the probability of chance is involved." Great tie ins. Even Occam's razor would support these probabilities and relationships to the' big picture'
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Jun 23, 2008 20:36:59 GMT
.I really believe that patterns and anecdotes are just smaller examples of larger universal mechanisms at work. So do I. These are really interesting ideas. And I promise I'll reply more thoroughly this evening.
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Jun 24, 2008 1:41:32 GMT
As promised I have assembled a few thoughts on another possible sub text for this album - Emergence. The concept of a confluence and a syllogy of ideal events and circumstances giving rise to life or even rebirth is fascinating to me. As with carbon having a kind of universal donor property (i.e. easily shared electrons) in the fuel for organic compounds; there seems to be a similar concept with how love and understanding can serve as the mitigating and evolutionary force for life and positive growth. I know this may sound obtuse and cryptic - but bear with me. Not too obtuse. This is a fascinating new interpretation. I can really see the presence of emergence, as a product of the confluence and union of the opposites in masculine and feminine metaphors, a sea of honey and a sky of honey. Also, the experience of having a child is at the heart of the album, I think. And Aerial is full of love and understanding. Yes... Aerial seems to me to seek the secret etymology of this natural and divine language or code. This kind of informing energy is undoubtedly something essential to the very being of those that recognize it, and something that transcends the individual consciousness. A wonderful analysis of Mrs. Bartolozzi. Which, if I were pressed to name one, might actually be my very favorite Kate song. There is just so much depth of meaning in it... the alchemy of the mundane turning to the transcendent is something that always struck me as very profound, and I can really see the presence of the concepts of creation as well. The spiraling cycle of the washing machine is analogous with the swirling patterns of growth and decay in the Universe. The clothes are like the primeval 'stuff of life' being shaped and purified by the tides of cosmic power. And the sexual metaphors fit in to this perfectly. I agree. There is so much joy and celebration in feeling the pulse of renewal and life and love and creation, and Aerial does this so beautifully. And the only way to read these uplifting and universal signals is to tune in to a 'universal code'... Looking forward to it.
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Post by tannis on Sept 14, 2008 20:27:26 GMT
AERIAL: Tender Is the Light..."All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald Inside the Aerial booklet is a photograph of KB swimming under water and holding her breath. Aerial Sea is a masculine ocean. 'King of the Mountain' reflects on the male price of fame for Elvis and 'Rosebud'. The women scream and weep, or serve tea and gossip. 'Pi' maintains science as the preserve of men, concerning itself with a "sweet and gentle and sensitive man"; and 'Bertie' is "everything", the sun shining, etc. On the face of it, Mrs B. is everywoman. But what does she do? She cleans, she scrubs up after others, she does the dirty laundry, she makes the floor sparkle, she daydreams; and the greatest thing in her life is her absent lover man, or her new washing machine ("Nothing else seemed to matter"). Indeed, Mrs B. seems to represent the femme attrapée - passive, intellectually frustrated, dull, sexually submissive.
"Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife" (Chris Gantry) from Wichita Lineman, Glen Campbell, 1968 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LonUQ5o-vLc
She picks up her apron in little girl-fashion as something comes into her mind Slowly starts dancing rememb'ring her girlhood And all of the boys she had waiting in line Oh, such are the dreams of the everyday housewife You see ev'rywhere any time of the day An everyday housewife who gave up the good life for me
These songs offer the women in the audience visual and narrative enjoyment, but they seem regressive and stereotyped, leaving the female spectator very few choices for role models with whom they can identify, short of dressing as a man and hearing voices. And, if Ann Oakley's housework is not enough to make a woman feel invisible, KaTe then finds a book which can do precisely that. So, does the self-proclaimed alchemy of Aerial transform the female experience into gold? Probably not. But KaTe once remarked, "I do write a lot of my songs for men, actually" and "I do try to aim a lot of the psychology, if you like, at men" (BBC Radio 1, 1979). Hence, the wonderful barbarian energy on The Dreaming."I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning." ~ Zelda FitzgeraldAerial Sky opens with the big star of the album: The Sun/Son. In 'Prologue' she is swept off her feet, and in 'An Architect's Dream' God the Father creates Adam and The Second Sex. And how agreeable Eve is! "He's so pleased" permits her to say "It’s just great"; and she can feel what he was feeling. Of course, these are great songs, but they are infused with unfulfilled longing and a good night kiss. Then there's the ecstasy of the light, rising and rising, climbing up the aerial. One can well imagine the number of feminist readers objecting to this emphasis on the Architect and his phallus! ...
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Post by tannis on Nov 19, 2008 17:18:14 GMT
AERIAL CLOUDSDisc Two is divided into nine discrete parts, but it’s really one long, pastoral dream, and again cynics will have fun with some of the singer’s lyrical conceits. Where, they might ask, is life all birdsong, honey, and flowers? Nowhere, perhaps, except in the green England of Bush’s imagination. Her true gift, however, lies not in lyric-writing but in the creation of atmosphere, and the gorgeous narcotic haze that permeates this journey from dawn to dusk and back to dawn again will soon persuade most listeners to recline on the grassy sward, watch the fleecy clouds drift by, and await the magic of night. It’s an exquisite trip. The Georgia Straight (Vancouver)gaffa.org/reaching/rev_aer_ca.htmlRecalling the hello-clouds wonder of The Big Sky from 1985's Hounds of Love or the frank paean to menstruation that is Strange Phenomena from her debut, The Kick Inside, Aerial finds Bush marvelling in the magic of the everyday: the wind animating a skirt hanging on a clothes line, the trace of footprints leading into the sea, the indecipherable codes of birdsong. The Guardian, "I'm not some weirdo recluse", October 28, 2005 gaffa.org/reaching/iv05_gua.htmlIMHO, there is a compositional similarity between the Clouds Joni Mitchell cover art and the Aerial Kate and Peacock Design. Watching the painter painting...
AERIAL gaffa.org/sensual/cov_aerial2.jpg And all the time, the light is changing...
CLOUDSjonimitchell.com/painter/view.cfm?id=11&recs=11There's a sun show every second...And in Pi Kate sings the first 78 digits correctly and then misses out 22 digits. And there are 78 Tarot cards. So the first sung 78 digits might represent the complete 78 Tarot Cards. And there are 22 Major Arcana Tarot cards. So the missing 22 digits might represent the 22 Major Arcana.She's gotten to mysterious devotions She's gotten to the zodiac and Zen She's gotten into tarot cards... ~ 'Roses Blue' by Joni Mitchell (from Clouds, 1969)
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Post by tannis on Jan 13, 2009 23:27:22 GMT
OK, it's not Wuthering Heights, but tonight's Full Moon inspired this... ;D COMMUNION
The moon as full as a communion tablet Noble, bright, titanium white Its silver light dancing on sea A holy chalice The Blessed Eucharist Tannis, you should write more poetry. The image of a full moon, and the symbolism of a communion wafer is lovely and thought provoking. Like thinking of the moon, consecrating the light of the sun... Thank you Rosa. I like the idea of the moon-as-priest(ess) consecrating the light of the sun at a midnight mass. The moon as the wafer and the light it casts as the chalice kinda suggest a pagan lunar communion. Similarly, the cover of Aerial kinda suggests a pagan solar communion. Indeed, the Sun/Son (of God) and its resurrecting/consecrating/magical light seem to be at the heart of Aerial and at the heart of Christian communion symbolism.Oh so romantic, swept me off my feet Like some kind of magic Like the light in Italy Lost its way across the sea.. Roma Roma mia.. "Rome my (dear) Rome my (beautiful) darling (treasure) my (jewel) sky full of sun and light you dance so well (so well) so slowly..."With that in mind, let's look at solar and lunar images directly associated with the Catholic Mass.
The Pope or priest holds what is called a Monstrance or Ostensorium. It is used to display a round wafer of bread, called the host, which is used in what is called the Mass, Lord's Supper, Communion or Eucharistic meal. Many monstrances use a crescent, which is officially called a "lunette" or "luna" (moon), to hold the round wafer host. [The sun disk in the crescent moon is a quite common symbol for pagan religions, to include Babylon, Syria, and India.] The Catholic believes this wafer of bread turns into the actual body of Christ when consecrated during the Mass. A Catholic cannot walk past this sun symbol without acknowledging it by kneeling and or making the sign of the cross with their hands.
The most appropriate form (for the monstrance) is that of the sun emitting its rays to all sides (Instructio Clement., 5). The Roman Catholic Church even admits the Monstrance to be a sunburst: "During the baroque period, it took on a rayed form of a sun-monstrance with a circular window surrounded by a silver or gold frame with rays."
Remember God's commandment forbidding bowing down to images? Deu 17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, Deu 17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; Deu 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: Deu 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die. Time for Teletubbies! ... "Uh-oh" ... How can the Catholic justify bowing down before a sun image in veneration? They will tell you that they are paying homage to the host, bread they believe has actually turned into the actual body and blood of Jesus after being consecrated by a priest. Since the wafer, they believe, has been transformed into God Himself, it is the round wafer god inside the sunburst monstrance that they bow down to in worship, not the sunburst monstrance. However, the round wafer of bread itself is also a sun symbol [Ra], which is sometimes made quite obvious in Catholic representations of the host in various forms of artwork.Look at the light, all the time it’s a changing Look at the light, climbing up the aerial Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it’s a changing, like now...Here is the reverse side of a medal commemorating the Catholic Eucharistic Congress held in Chicago in 1926 (On the front there is a bust of Pope Pius XI). Note that the round wafer host above the golden cup is portrayed as a radiant sunburst [and that the golden cup serves as an Aerial].The Catholic Church describes itself in its documents as engaged in the act of worshipping the Eucharist, which is also called adoration or veneration. Isn't it amazing how the Catholic Church justifies bowing down before images of the sun, as depicted by the monstrance and a round wafer, by claiming the bread has actually become God! God's commandment is cleverly made of no effect by the Traditions of men.see more: PAGAN SUN WORSHIP AND CATHOLICISM: THE MONSTRANCE and the WAFER GODwww.aloha.net/~mikesch/monstr.htm
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