“Cat’s Eyes” –|– Anthony Satori
“Just imagine becoming the way you used to be… before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.”
– Don Miguel Ruiz
“Blue Peacock” –|– Anthony Satori
“She told me a bit of madness is key, to give us new colors to see. Who knows where it will lead us? And that’s why they need us. So here’s to the rebels, the ripples from pebbles, the painters and poets and plays. And here’s to the fools who dream, as crazy as they may seem. And here’s to the hearts that break.”
– Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
“Foggy Road” –|– Anthony Satori
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
“Blue and White” –|– Anthony Satori
“O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? “
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Jupiter and Saturn in Conjunction” –|– Anthony Satori
“The ninety and nine are with dreams content.
But the hope of the world made new
Is the hundredth person who is grimly bent
On making dreams come true.”
— Ted Olson
I took this photograph just a few weeks ago, on December 21, 2020. At first blush, it may not be evident why this image might be of particular note. The two lights in the sky, however, are the planets Jupiter and Saturn, and they are in “conjunction” — which means that on this particular night these two celestial bodies were visibly closer together in our sky than they have been in nearly 800 years. The last time they appeared this close (0.1 degree apart) was 1226 AD. Merely to be alive to witness the recurrence of such a phenomenon is quite amazing. To top it off, however, this incredibly rare event occurred on Winter Solstice (for the Northern Hemisphere), which feels doubly auspicious.
Winter Solstice is the longest, darkest, and often coldest night of the year. In this moment, we are the farthest from the Sun than at any other time. It also means, however, that a shift is occurring. Things are now beginning to turn around, and to move back toward the renewal of life, toward the expansion of light and warmth, and toward the rejuvenation that comes with springtime.
Keep faith, everyone. The planets have aligned.
(See below for a more close-up photograph of the conjunction!)
“Jupiter and Saturn in Conjunction (with moons visible)” | 2020-12-21 18:40 (PST) | Anthony Satori
“Hearth” | Anthony Satori
“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And they listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows.
And the people began to think differently. And the people healed… And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again… they made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live.”
— Kitty O’Meara
“Windswept Wave” | Anthony Satori
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”
— Lord Byron
“Eternal” | Anthony Satori
“I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Silver Rabbit and Blue Dog” | Anthony Satori
“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”
— e. e. cummings
Seek beauty, and the universe will show you beauty. Seek goodness, and the universe will surround you with goodness. Strive for knowledge and wisdom, and the universe will reveal its mysteries to you. Strive to be a source of kindness and joy, and the universe will enfold you in wonder.
“Mountain Ridge” | Anthony Satori
“Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love… true love never dies. You remember that. It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.”
— Tim McCanlies (Secondhand Lions)
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