Happy Warrior, George Frederick Watts

Giuseppe Picone | Teatro San Carlo

Carlo De Martino - Teatro San Carlo

Danza de la Muerte

La Danza de la muerte o Danza macabra es un género artístico tardo-medieval cuyo tema era la universalidad de la muerte. Se trata de un diálogo en verso y por tanto representable, en que una personificación alegórica de la Muerte, como un esqueleto humano, llama a personas de distinta posición social o en diferentes etapas en la vida para bailar alrededor de una tumba. Típicamente estas figuras eran el Papa, el Obispo, el Emperador, el Sacristán, el Labrador, etc. La muerte les recuerda que los goces mundanos tienen su fin y que todos han de morir. Se cree que las danzas macabras eran de hecho bailadas representadas teatralmente en el siglo XIV.

48 Hours - Richard Schlesinger interviewed Cunanan’s first victim Jeff Trail on CBS’s 48 Hours back in 1993 about gays in the military. 

Los signos como fragmentos de la sombra del viento.

Aries: En el momento en el que te paras a pensar si quieres a alguien, ya has dejado de quererle para siempre.

Tauro: Nunca te fíes de nadie, especialmente de la gente a la que admiras. Ésos son los que te pegarán las peores puñaladas. 

Géminis: Los recuerdos son peores que las balas.

Cáncer: Las personas estamos dispuestas a creer cualquier cosa antes que la verdad.

Leo: Recuerde: corazón caliente, mente fría. El código del seductor.

Virgo: Las palabras con que se envenena el corazón se quedan enquistadas en la memoria, y tarde o temprano queman el alma.

Libra: El tiempo me ha enseñado a no perder las esperanzas, pero a no confiar demasiado en ellas, son crueles y vanidosas, sin conciencia.

Escorpio: No te fíes del que se fía de todos.

Sagitario: La gente se complica la vida, como si no fuera suficientemente complicada.

Capricornio: Sólo se quiere de verdad una vez en la vida, aunque uno no se dé cuenta.

Acuario: El destino suele estar a la vuelta de la esquina. Pero lo que no hace es visitas a domicilio. Hay que ir a por él.

Piscis: Y conserva tus sueños. Nunca sabes cuándo te van a hacer falta.  

Carlos Ruíz Zafón.

-Stephen.

✨Dream Symbols✨🌌

A’s:⭐⭐⭐

Abundance - desire for independence

Accident - something unplanned

Actor//Actress - desire for recognition

Adultery - guilt

Airplane (Transportation)

Altar - self sacrifice

Anchor - stability. Sometimes a desire for a permanent home

Anniffil - the feminine aspect of the individual. Guide to the inner world. Receptive, prospective, and nurturing.

Animal - defends on your feelings for the particular animal. A helpful animal normally represents the instinctive self.

Animus - the masculine aspect of the individual. Uncompromising conviction. Force.

Apple - desire

Arrow - pleasure, festivity

Auction - promise of abundance

Automobile (Transportation)

B’s: ⭐⭐⭐

Baby: Crying - frustrated plans, Laughing - plans fulfilled, Sleeping - waiting period, patience

Balloon - frustration

Basement - a place of refuge or retreat

Battle - inner conflict

Bells - fulfillment of plans, joy

Bicycle (Transportation) - hard work will bring plans to fruition

Birds - usually transcendence from one being to another

Birth - transition to new phase or new aspect of self

Bridge - overcoming difficulties, a change

Broom - the ability to sweep or clean up

Bull - animal nature, stubborness

Burial - end of a phase, time to take a new direction

C’s:⭐⭐⭐

Candle - constancy

Cane//Crutch - the need for support

Capital (City//Town) - the center

Castle - ambition

Cave - a place of retreat or refuge, a need for time to think and meditate

Circle - totality, perfection, infinity

Cities - gatherings of consciousness

Climbing - the self mastery process, rising consciousness

Clock - the passage of time, the need to take action

Clothes - attitude, personality

Coffin (Burial)

Cradle - potential for advancement

Crossing a River - a fundamental change of attitude

Crying - emotion, usually a sad event

Crystal - union of matter and spirit

Curtains - concealment, adornment

Colors🌈🌈🌈

Red - strength, health, vigor, sexual love, danger, charity

Orange - encouragement, adaptation, stimulation, attraction, plenty kindness

Yellow - persuasion, charm, confidence, jealousy, joy, comfort

Green - finance, fertility, luck, energy, charity, growth

Blue - tranquility, understanding, patience, health, truth, devotion, sincerity

Indigo - changeability, impulsiveness, depression, ambition, dignity

Violet - tension, power, sadness, piety, sentimentality

D’s:⭐⭐⭐

Darkness - the spirit world, the subconscious, turning inward

Death - the end of something, opportunity for new beginnings

Dog - loyalty, laziness, anger

E’s:⭐⭐⭐

Eating - need for new interests, stimulation

Evening - descending into the subconscious world

Eye - perception, self-examination

F’s:⭐⭐⭐

Falling - failing to live to expectations

Fish - transcendence from one state of being to another

Fire - anger, purification, abundance of energy

Flowers - contentment, pleasure

Flying (Transportation)

G’s:⭐⭐⭐

Girl - immature feminine aspect

Glass - perception, being able to see (sometimes in the future)

Graduation - initiation, completing a phase

H’s:⭐⭐⭐

Hair - thought, grey or silver hair indicates wise thought

Hammer - power to drive forward

Helpful Animal - the instinctive self

Highway - the path, the way ahead

Horse: White Horse - symbol of life, prosperity; Black Horse - change of fortunes; Wild Horse - uncontrolled instinctive urges; Winged Horse - transcendence from one state of being to another

House: The symbol of personality and conscious interest from the spiritual view. The particular room represents particular interest >> Bathroom - cleansing, elimination of the undesired; Basement - place of refuge, retreat, concealment; Bedroom - place of rest and recovery; Dining Room - place of sustenance, refortification; Kitchen - a place to prepare the sustenancen; Living Room - place of socializing

I’s: ⭐⭐⭐

Ice - coldness of character, frigidity, rigidity

Illness - boredom, delay

Individual Self - the “real” you, the inner you, the all-wise, all-powerful spiritual self

J’s:⭐⭐⭐

Jail - confinement, frustration, inability to act

Journey (Transportation)

Judge //Jury - your conscience

K’s:⭐⭐⭐

Key - the answer to a problem

Kiss - satisfaction, completion

L’s:⭐⭐⭐

Ladder - ability to climb (note the length of the ladder)

Left (as in side of direction) - the subconscious side, sometimes the wrong side of direction, the logical side, the scientific side

Light - hope

Lines: Broken lines - represents the feminine aspect; Solid lines - the masculine aspect

Lizard - transcendence

Lock - frustration, security

M’s:⭐⭐⭐

Man//Male - animus, the masculine aspect, the age indicates the maturity or lack of it in the individual

Mask - falsehood, deception, concealment

Mirror - need to reconsider

Mother - heaven, comfort

N’s:⭐⭐⭐

Nakedness - real, true, without false attitudes, exposed, natural

Night - greatest strength of the super-consciousness

Noon - the greatest clarity of consciousness

Numbers 💯💯💯

Even Number - signify balance and harmony

Odd Number - signify imbalance and discord

The beginning, the source, the ego

Duality, the male and female, positive and negative

Father, mother, and child; past, present, and future

The material universe, consciousness, reality, and law, physical power, initiative, religion and spiritual evolution

It represents materialism, expansion, change, understanding, and change

The number of cooperation and balance. It represents interaction between the material and the spiritual, mental and physical. It signifies psychism, peace

Completion, old age, endurance, evolution and wisdom. The seven stages of spiritual transformation

The number of dissolution and separation. The law of cyclic evolution and invention

Rebirth and reformation. Intuition, travel, karma

0. The circle, infinity, the universe

O’s:⭐⭐⭐

Ocean - opportunity, spirituality

Owl - wisdom, need for further evaluation

P’s:⭐⭐⭐

Pearl - joy; Broken string of pearls - misunderstanding

Pirate - suspicion

Pyramid - thirst for knowledge, seeking

R’s:⭐⭐⭐

Railroad - a set path to follow

Rainbow - great happiness, opportunity

Reading - learning, gaining in knowledge, perceiving

Riding (Transportation)

Right - the consciousness, correctness, the artistic side

Ring - completion, loyalty

River - spirituality, a boundary

Rocket (Transportation)

Rocks - the unchanging self

Rodents - transcendence or a less-than-nice person, distrust, betrayal

Roller Skates (Transportation)

Roses (Flowers)

Ruins - failure of plans

S’s:⭐⭐⭐

Sacrifice - overcoming pride

School - a need to learn

Scissors - distrust

Sea (Ocean)

Self-image - the inner or spiritual self

Shadow - the subconscious, insubstantiality

Ship (Transportation)

Skeleton - the basics, the root of a problem

Snake - spiritual wisdom, transcendence into a state of wisdom

Snake-bites - infusion of wisdom

Soldiers - force, power, regeneration

Spade - cutting, tough work lies ahead

Sunrise - clearing of consciousness, awakening

Sunset - need to protect assets

Swan - beauty, comfort, satisfaction

Sword - conflict

T’s:⭐⭐⭐

Table - support, a platform for presentation

Telescope - need to get closer to a subject

Thief - loss or fear of loss, insecurity

Thunder - anger

Touching - healing. On rare occasions it may mean a curse. Can be comfort, security. The manner of touch and your feeling about it is important

Trains (Transportation)

Transcendence - achieving full realization of the individual self

Transformation (Transcendence)

Transportation - spiritual advancement. The more efficient the mode, the more effective and rapid is the advancement

Tree - the life principle, psychic growth and development, progress

Tunnel - hiding, being afraid

Turning - changing or developing. Turning in a circle represents lack of progress

Twins - ego and alter ego

U’s & V’s:⭐⭐⭐

Umbrella - shelter

Veil - insecurity

Volcano - emotions

W’s:⭐⭐⭐

Wall - frustration, inability

Water - spirituality, emotion

Wedding - culmination of plans, happiness, success

Witch - supernatural ability, wisdom

Wreath - self pity

Existen cuatro teorías que intentan explicar la existencia de Kindlifresser (el come-niños), el cual se cree fue construído en 1546:

La primera (y más desafortunada teoría) es que Kindlifresser fue construído como una forma de advertir a la comunidad judía de Bern. El sombrero que carga la estatua se asemeja al sombrero judío Judenhut, el cual los judíos estaban forzados a usar para la época.

La segunda explica que el “ogro” de la estatua es una representación de el titán griego Cronos, el cual es conocido en mitología por haberse comido a todos sus hijos para evitar que le quitasen el trono.

La tercera teoría sugiere que la estatua se hizo en honor al hermano mayor del Duque Berchtold, fundador de la ciudad de Bern. Aparentemente los celos que le causó ser opacado por su hermano lo volvieron loco a tal punto que—según cuenta la leyenda—“se comió a todos los niños de la ciudad”.

La cuarta y más verosímil explica que Kindlifresser representa un personaje de fábula. Las madres en Bern le decían a sus hijos que, de no portarse bien y/o hacer silencio, el come-niños iría por ellos. El significado cobró importancia durante la guerra de los 30 años cuando la hambruna causó, entre otras cosas, que las personas se volvieran caníbales como resultado de la falta de comida y ganado.

Illustration to Dante’s Divine Comedy, Hell, William Blake

Isn't He beautiful?

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