HIEROS GAMOS: DESCENT OF THE GODDESS

CONSCIOUSNESS IN TIME & SPACE


EVOKING MERCURY-NEPTUNE


INFNITY


ENTERING INFINITY


PASSAGE BETWEEN WORLDS


THE DARK WOMAN ARRIVES


THE HIEROS GAMOS


DESCENT OF THE GODDESS


GROUNDING THE ENERGY


FACE FORWARD


WINGS UNFURLING


FLIGHT

HIEROS GAMOS: FOURTH CHAKRA - PERFECTING MATTER

Venus in the In Between


Sacred Geometry


Purification


Evocation


Rounding the Sun


Drawing down Luna


Eclipsed on the Edge


The Sacred Marriage Altar: Sunstone and Moonstone

HIEROS GAMOS WRITING THE DREAM

Wolfgang Pauli's dream: January 23, 1938



In the dream I drew an oscillation process beneath the window – actually two oscillations, one beneath the other.


MIRRORING TIME

By turning to the right from the curves, I try to see the time on the clock.



But the clock is too high, so that doesn’t work.



Then the dream continues.



The ‘dark unknown woman’ appears.



She is crying because she wants to write a book but cannot find a publisher for it.



In this book there is apparently a great deal of material on time symbolism – e.g., how a period of time is constituted when certain symbols appear in it.



And at the end of one page of the book, there are the following words, read aloud by the ‘voice.’ ‘The definite hours have to be paid for with the definite life, the indefinite hours have to be paid for with the indefinite life.’”




Oscillation in the Window

HIEROS GAMOS: THIRD CHAKRA- EMPOWERMENT

2:30 EST, January 23, 1997
Performance/Installation
January 23, 2008

Curator’s Statement

By

Lisa Paul Streitfeld


The father of modern physics, Wolfgang Pauli, believed the hexagram, known as the Seal of Solomon, to be the configuration for the icon of the 21st century arising from under the collapsed quantum wave.

On January 23, 1997 a six-pointed hexagram appeared in the sky under a rare Jupiter/Uranus/Neptune alignment in Aquarius. Astrologers and metaphysicians declared this configuration as the gateway to the Age of Aquarius (gaiamind.com). Predating the Jewish religion, the hexagram, known as the Seal of Solomon, symbolizes the alchemical conuinctio, or sacred marriage of opposites, the Hieros Gamos.

I recognized this configuration in my January 23, 1997 solar return. Three weeks later, I attended a historic San Francisco Cycles and Symbols conference that brought astrologers and scientists together for the first time and met the scholar Richard Tarnas, who declared the Hieros Gamos as the icon of the 21st century. On Valentine’s Day, I initiated my first public performance piece as an impromptu public confrontation with James Hillman, the father of archetypal psychology, to demand why he referred to Venus as the Greek goddess, Aphrodite. In doing so, I revived the archetype of the Sumerian goddess, Inanna, the self-declared Queen of Heaven and Earth and ancient icon of the Hieros Gamos.

After this breakthrough, I began an intense cross-disciplinary investigation into the Hieros Gamos which resulted in the writing of two books on the subject. As I became driven to investigate the new millennial forms of the Hieros Gamos, my career path transformed from journalist into professional art critic. This journey culminated in a new art theory.

On the January 23 anniversary of the Hieros Gamos I launched a series of exhibitions with “actions reciproques” to access the power of the emerging archetype.


HIEROS GAMOS RETURN 2005

January 23, 2005
THE TRAJECTORY OF THE SPOKEN WORD

I hosted a dinner at the Lab Gallery with a dinner/poetry performance of three outstanding New York poets: Valery Oisteanu, Max Blagg and Edwin Torres. Legendary avant-garde critic/artist Richard Kostelanetz was in attendance. Through spontaneous performance, the three poets narrated the trajectory of 20th century Spoken Word to create a new language for the Hieros Gamos presented to the public at a Roger Smith literary salon that I hosted on February 17.


January 23, 2006
ICONS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

On January 20, I premiered ICONS OF THE 21st CENTURY, an exhibition of 23 artists investigating the iconography of the Hieros Gamos. The show opened with the interactive window performance of Laurel Jay Carpenter’s RED WOMAN depicting Eros as fundamental to the emerging archetype.

On January 23, gallery director, Matt Selmer and I hosted a dinner for artists, curators, dealers and critics. As a performance piece, I wrote Pauli’s dream of January 23, 1938 in the window with his symbols: a rectangle and circle located above a double wave (the glyph of Aquarius). At the conclusion of my curator’s talk, I read the contents of the dream (from Atom & Archetype).

In the dream I drew an oscillation process beneath the window – actually two oscillations, one beneath the other. By turning to the right from the curves, I try to see the time on the clock. But the clock is too high, so that doesn’t work. Then the dream continues. The ‘dark unknown woman’ appears. She is crying because she wants to write a book but cannot find a publisher for it. In this book there is apparently a great deal of material on time symbolism – e.g., how a period of time is constituted when certain symbols appear in it. And at the end of one page of the book, there are the following words, read aloud by the ‘voice.’ ‘The definite hours have to be paid for with the definite life, the indefinite hours have to be paid for with the indefinite life.’”



January 23, 2007
THE ALCHEMY OF LOVE: FIRE

My search for an innovative literary form enabling me to write and publish instantaneously comes to a conclusion. I launched the five-chapter reality blogel (blog-novel) installation/performance, THE ALCHEMY OF LOVE, with the first stage of a year-long alchemical transformation: FIRE.

The alchemical experiment was initiated with a ritual ceremony performed under the Moon/Venus conjunction in Aquarius at 12:18 PM, January 20. A priestess consecrated the gallery as a sacred space to give birth to the Aquarian Age icon.

January 23 was the second day of the installation/performance. As the starting point for the journey, my blogel entry FLAME: PAGE SIX presented the emerging icon of the Hieros Gamos in the context of the celebrity obsessed media dominated culture.

THE ALCHEMY OF LOVE: FIRE is followed by: WATER (SOLUTIO), MAY 7 - 11; EARTH (COAGULATIO), JUNE 18 – 22; AIR (SUBLIMATIO), SEPT 24-28.


HIEROS GAMOS SOLAR RETURN 2008
January 23, 2008

THE ALCHEMY OF LOVE: HIEROS GAMOS

Action Reciproque
Video Mural: Tatyana Stepanova & Michael Manning
Action Painters: Lisa Paul Streitfeld & Tatyana Stepanova
Musician: Lutz Rath
Wearable Art: Selma Karaca

Eleven years after the initiation of the cosmology by the hexagram among planets in the sky, there is a full moon on the historic date. A performance timed for sunset is intended to honor the cosmology by making it visible and thereby propel the Hieros Gamos into the collective consciousness,

I collaborate with Tatyana Stepanova in an action painting integrating words and image into a symbolic language to violoncello music by Lutz Rath to celebrate the initiation of the Aquarian cycle of Eclipses.

The performance begins at sunset, 5:30 PM, EST when I paint the Mayan World Tree symbolizing the Gallactic Center (the Mayan symbol of ending/beginning of time) and the text of Pauli’s dream on the wall opposing the gallery entrance. Stepanova will bring in the Sun and Moon converging with the Earth into an eclipse and the luminaries will interact with the central sculpture, the mirrored Psyche, and the projections of interweaving Stepanova’s allegorical painting with that of Michael Manning.


January 24, 2008 1:30 PM

INFINITY

For my final performance of the year long series, I will evoke the Aquarian Age goddess by creating the s Hieros Gamos in time and space. Sitting in the window in a man's night shirt, she will concoct a magical potion mixing Gold (Sol), Silver (Luna) and Copper (Venus) in Jupiter Oil, adding Solomon's Seal and Pomegranite Seeds. I will enter the eclipse where she will anoint herself and the icon of the Goddess and her child. Then, I will evoke Mercurius as guide for the alchemical transformation before invoking the Hieros Gamos by creating a Seal of Solomon around the winged Psyche.

This multimedia installation/performance will be disseminated over the Internet through the blogel (www.thealchemyoflove.blogspot.com) and the curatorial website (www.alchemyalive.com) as well as rogersmithnews.com and a YOUTUBE video.

HIEROS GAMOS: WATER -- SECOND CHAKRA

Sunrise on the dawn of the Full Moon in Aquarius/Leo


The Water Bearer has

HIEROS GAMOS: ECLIPSE -- FIRST CHAKRA

The Aquarian Solar Eclipse will be full
Sun, Moon, Earth lined up
Blocking the Solar light
Humanity descends into darkness

Will the First Chakra instinct
Ignite our passion
So we may protect all
Life on the planet?

Psyche is unfurling her wings
Ready to fly!

Your Capricorn sister writes about death
Your writing on Tatyana, she said
Reminds her of the Siberian tiger
Whose murder sent her to bed

Tatyana is from Siberia!
An Aquarian fierce in her passion for art
A tigress exiled from Russia
Traveled the world
With a Black Belt

Today we ground ourselves
Tomorrow we release our passion
Second Chakra is Water
The Aquarian brings the Waterfall

Every day an instruction on the
Chalkboard
About the Chakras
This is your new role
Teaching Chakra alignment
For the 21st century

In the Hieros Gamos
Every Chakra
a marriage
Of masculine and feminine
Spinning the Wheels of Life
We become whole

You see a film
About Death
And walk into the opening of an
Exhibition
About Death
We have to die
So we can be reborn

The writer must die
So the Symbolist may live
The Symbolists led the way
To the Russian avant-garde

And so the Russian brings the Waterfall
With the son of Gala, the ballerina
World famous in her exile
Leap into the Sacred Marriage

The Waterfall is the symbol
Of the Aquarian Water Bearer
Pouring forth knowledge
Of the underground spring
To Humanity

And so, the writer dies
To be reborn as symbolist
Taking image to its source
Magic!

Every day in this installation
There will be a new imago
On the Chalkboard
To enliven the body with
The Alchemy of Love
Spinning each Wheel
In the evolution of Psyche
into the Hieros Gamos

Today is a void
Root Chakra
Which only Psyche can fill
With her violet wings
Unfurling

Happy Aquarian Full Moon!

HIEROS GAMOS: PROLOGUE

THE HIEROS GAMOS ACTION PAINTING PERFORMANCE
PAINTERS: MICHAEL MANNING & TATYANA STEPANOVA
SOUND: LUTZ RATH ON VIOLONCELLO
JANUARY 23, 2008
5:30 PM EST


You like to tie loose ends up
Into neat little packages
Some might call it art

You were told about your karma
It being your last lifetime, and all
You have a lot of karma to complete
Said White Buffalo Woman

Every day
Every breath
Feels like your last gasp
The end of a cycle

You have arrived
At that unnamed state
Imaged by your father
In his modestly titled book
“God Speaks”

“The author in bliss”
Reads the caption
And so, this is the legacy
Of having a father as
Kundalini pioneer
A breaking of paternal attachment
Replaced by an image of bliss

You are living out a myth
Said the astrologer, Demetra George
On the cliff above
The Oregon coast

You were only beginning then
With your Persephone tale
Contained in boxes
You gave her a copy
In exchange for her book
On the dark goddesses

Arising at last
From the underground
You bring the mythical
Journey to a close

Your manuscripts replaced by
Anodea Judith’s “Wheels of Life”
The end of a trail beginning
At the 1989 Book Expo
When you discovered the book
Acknowledging your father
As a pioneer of kundalini research

Over 100,000 sold
Proclaims the cover of the revised edition
So you live the legacy
Inscribed in an image
Pouring your father’s knowledge
Of the mysterious serpent power
By utilizing the power of images
To instruct on the chakras

Fire, Water, Earth and Air
The passage through the Chakras
Over the course of a year
The Sun entering Aquarius
Your karmic passage completed

With the sacred geometry on in your solar return
The infinity sign manifested by
Tatyana’s “Waterfall” over
Selma Karaca’s kundalini couture
Named what else but …”Waterfall!”

Psyche passing through the Saturn grid
To the other side
The place of the dream

And so, you meet
The Dreamers of a new order
Prepared now for the new cycle
Aquarian eclipses
Triggering Neptune
The planet of dreams
In Aquarius

The Harmonic Convergence in 1987
Ushered in the last Aquarian eclipse cycle
You were running around L.A.
Seeking enlightenment
When you began your inner journey
With a series of colonics

You
With your nails yellow and brittle
Had to look at the evidence
The pioneer of a new order
Lies within

And so you embarked
On the healing
Two decades ago
That now bears fruit
With the Coniunctio
Under the Full Moon on Jan 23
At the Lab Gallery

Lutz Rath on violoncello
Lending his beatific spirit
To an allegorical painting
Weaving the symbolism
Of the Hieros Gamos
Linking the Aquarian eclipses
To 2012
And Quetzalcoatl

Tatyana Stepanova
Of the Russian avant-garde
And Michael Manning
American action painter
Black Belts
Filtering the sunset
Of January 23
The eleventh anniversary
Of the Seal of Solomon
Uniting Heaven and Earth

And now you seek out
The Icon Maker
And ask him to be in your movie
Not a dream transformed into a novel
This time
But a real movie
“The Passion”
Inspired by the uproar over
“My Sweet Lord”

It has been the passion
Guiding your journey
To make your dreams real
To awake in your bed
Confounded
Not knowing if you are awake
Or dreaming
And what is more
Not caring
Either way
It is bliss

This unity fills you with joy
Standing in Union Square
In the Communion Square Café
Where dreams will be exchanged
In the ascent of the full Solar eclipse

You wrote your tale
Of Quetzalcoatl
And deposited it at the door
A floor below
Where it was rejected
As too spiritual

It comes back to you
Hopping off the bus to be the first
On the Pyramid of the Sun
At sunrise
Descending to the crone
With her basket of crystals
“For your Passion,” she says
As you choose the aquamarine

Thus armed
You ascend the Temple of Quetzalcoatl
Alternating faces
The plumed serpent
With his evil dog twin

Surrendering to the spirit
Your attack in the desert
Leading to the human incarnation
The artist who humanized Christ
Surrendered under his temple sky
To receive your Magdalene spirit
Infused into his body by crystal
On plush red velvet
The Sacred Marriage instilled
For a New Age

Nearly eight years later
The mythos is complete
You meet the spirit carrier
Electric Jesus
At the Jupiter/Pluto meditation
A week later, you are at
Caravan of Dreams
Sitting across from Daniel Pinchbeck
Author of “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”
You tell them of the eclipses
The convergence between the personal and the collective
And so, you begin the manifestation
WAKE UP & DREAM

But first
You give 2012 to Michael Manning
The allegorical painter of our times
Scorpio Sun at the fated 29 degree
Drawn naturally to serpents
And prepared to bring the sacred marriage
From past to future
Through his narrative on Gilgamesh

And you usher in the Aquarian spirit
At this hour
Centering the moment
Commencing at 5:30 PM
January 23, 2008
When Wolfgang Pauli’s dream
Becomes a reality

On the long wall
The epic journey of the serpent
The short wall
The dream chalked on a blackboard
Converging 2012 with the Hieros Gamos
Pauli’s vision of definite and indefinite time
Related in a dream by your Capricorn sister
In which she reads the timing
“To make sure everyone is on the same page.”

The conclusion of The Alchemy of Love
Told in images
The Hieros Gamos arising
Out of Eros
Tatyana’s passion for collaboration
Under a full moon in her sign of Aquarius
Opposites merging into a new path
The “in between” place
Writes the scholar of images

The middle path between Heaven & Earth
Envisioned as the World Tree
By the Mayans
Envisioned as the Body
By the Cabala
The human heart at the center
Earth & Sky united
The cycle of the opposites
Is completed

When will I be a success?
You asked the yogi
Palm thrust under his focused gaze
"When you get into your body."
You pressed him further
A book? A film? A TV show?
You are the Star, he said
The form doesn't matter.

“Follow your bliss,” said Joseph Campbell
As you came of age
And so you did
Your journey brought you
From the sky surrounding the Hollywood sign
To the roots of your German/Jewish heritage

The grounding of Luna and Sol
Meeting in a Solar Eclipse
Conjunct your ruler, Uranus
In Mutual Reception

The Mysterium Conjunctious
From which you can at last
BE A STAR
To convince America and the world
WAKE UP AND START DREAMING!