HaPpy Place

I share this cause this moment makes me haPpy.. So happy that I gLow..  

So here we are, the witching hour,
The quickest tongue to divide and devour
Divide and devour
If I could end the quest for fire,
For truth, for love, and my desire,

My desire ... 

Athena GoddeSs of Wisdom

I found it .. Unintentionally too .. But I finally found what I've been seeing for some time already but unable to find it in it's fully entirety & this is the closest I have gotten to putting a picture to what it is that I've been seeing ... Fantastic. ... And this marvelous Winged Heart has many meanings & representations.. & of course I would find this all to be extremely fascinating.  

The fact that I've been seeing this, along with many other fascinating things I can't help but marvel at all the profoundness my life keeps presenting to me. Although I desperately wish I knew what every single thing meant, I am at the same time enjoying each and every step of this process & whatever it all means. 

Is it my mind that is revealing or is it my soul.. I think I know the answer here ... I am wonderfully blessed and immensely grateful & that is an affirmation I declare whole fudgin heartedly. 

Winged heart .. Isn't it a beauty ... 

Now look deeper.. What more can you see ... 

What if I told you there is more than meets the eye .. And if you used your other eye ... 

It might seem all a little too much .. But doesn't everything seem that way in the beginning ??!!? 

Let the music transform you .. 

Dance to your soul beats ...

Back to the heart of the Matter ...

This heart I keep seeing .. 

"The heart has long been a symbol for the soul, the seat of emotions, our inner selves.  It can mean sincerity, truthfulness, charity and mercy. It has also come to represent Love, both romantic and platonic.

Wings represent speed, freedom, elevation, aspiration, divinity and transcendence. They are also associated with mystical and magical beings – fairies, angels, dragons, Pegasus.  To the alchemists, wings connoted achievement of a higher state of being.  There is also the mythical theme of “earning one’s wings”, an achievement gained through heroic efforts or bravery, valor and service.

Combining these two powerful symbols, the winged heart represents the freedom to love, to feel, to courageously rise above the mundane and reach full potential. It is a sign of joyful optimism and a representation of the free spirit. 

It is the symbol of the Sufi religious movement, an Islamic sect dedicated to seeking truth and facilitating understanding among people.  They believe that the heart is the link between the body and the soul, hovering between the realms of matter and spirit.  The winged heart indicates the heart’s desire to rise toward heaven, borrowing the ancient Egyptian’s association between wings and spiritual transformation and transcendence." 

http://cristinamcallister.blogspot.com/2011/01/symbol-spotlight-winged-heart.html?m=1

Look at the heart again ... Are you also able to see possibly what appears to be an owl or the form of an owl?  I also see a Phoenix !!!

Owls represent many wonderful things as well as the Phoenix. (Spiritually speaking of course )) 

The owl stemming back to Ancient Greek times, being closely associated to The Goddess Athena. 

Owls / Athena .. Both associated with wisdom. 

Lovely breakdown given of this heart of wisdom & it's full meaning at :

http://cristinamcallister.blogspot.ca/2011/01/art-spotlight-heart-of-wisdom.html?m=1

An interesting brief encounter of the Phoenix and all it has represented over history can be found here ...

www.whats-your-sign.com/symbolic-meaning-of-the-phoenix.html

Finding this heart that I've been blessed to see  and being able to explore it to its depths is quite the adventure...

Gypsy LoVe .. PhotoArtTherapY

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.  William Shakespeare 

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt. Madonna 

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche 

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. Paulo Coelho 

Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all

Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;
All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more.
Then if for my love, thou my love receivest,
I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest;
But yet be blamed, if thou thy self deceivest
By wilful taste of what thy self refusest.
I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
Although thou steal thee all my poverty;
And yet love knows it is a greater grief
To bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury.
Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,
Kill me with spites; yet we must not be foes. 

William Shakespeare

How do I LoVe Thee? ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 How Do I Love Thee?
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight 

For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's 

Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; 
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. 

I love with a passion put to use 

In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. 

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose 

With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath, 

Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Mad girl's love SonG ~ Sylvia Plath

Mad Girl's Love Song
by Sylvia Plath 

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.

(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,

And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed 

And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. 

(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade: 
Exit seraphim and Satan's men: 

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name. 

(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead 

At least when spring comes they roar back again. 

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. 

(I think I made you up inside my head.)