13 Lamat
Yellow Cosmic
Star
Klotho*- spin your
golden Thread
Upon the silver Star
At the Center of my
Forehead –
Open wide my virgin
Vein
With New Moon’s
Sickle – Scythe
Call forth my Poetry
to arise
Like Pegasus** from
Medusa***
Wingèd – beautiful and
wise.
*Klotho: The first of three Fates
or Moirae in Greek myth; she spins the thread of life.
**Pegasus: A white, winged steed
who sprang from the body of Medusa; patron of the Muses, goddesses of art and
poetry.
*** Medusa: A queen of ancient
Lydia whom the goddess Athena transformed into a serpent-haired Gorgon.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Mother and Child by Alice Patrick
Alice Patrick (born 1948) is an African-American muralist, painter and sculptress. Her murals are recognized by the City of Los Angeles as the first painted within the city by an African-American woman.
Biography
Patrick was born and raised in Los Angeles where she studied first at the Art Center College of Design and later at the Otis Art Institute. She is also a former elementary school art teacher.
Work
Patrick was part of the Citywide Mural Project in Los Angeles. She painted in South Los Angeles, however, her mural of historic women in Black History, completed in the mid-1970's, was destroyed soon after its completion. One of her later murals, "Women Do Get Weary (but They Don't Give Up" (1991) was sponsored by the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). The mural shows images of Mary McCleod Bethune, Dorothy Height, Oprah Winfrey, Josephine Baker and others. Patrick painted herself into the mural as well. The mural is approximately nine feet by sixteen feet and is painted in acrylic on stucco. In 2013, the mural underwent restoration by SPARC in order to fix the peeling paint and faded colors.
In the 1990's Patrick was selling limited edition prints of activists involved in the civil rights movement. Cooper's Originals, a gallery in Los Angeles, helped promote her work, marketing her reproductions. Later, she opened her own gallery called Aliceland, which she ran for ten years.*
LAMAT
Kin 208: Yellow Cosmic Star
I endure in order to beautify
Transcending art
I seal the store of elegance
With the cosmic tone of presence
I am guided by the power of free will.
The period of early dawn is the best time to meditate and program one's day. The mind is most clear at this time, making it the perfect opportunity to receive the highest cosmic energies.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2018-2019.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Visshudha Chakra (Alpha Plasma)
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