Moon Phase = sliver - heading toward
first quarter		Weather =60's and sunnyCurrent reading = The Artist's Way - Julia Cameron
Week 3!
Quote: "Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before."
- Mae West

November 23, 1998

One of the tasks in this week of The Artist's Way is to list five people you wish you had met that are dead and five people who are dead whom you'd like to hang out with for a while in eternity. Wow - there are so many...

I wish I had met Joan d'Arc before she 'heard the voices' and became the leader of the french army. I would love to see what kind of person she was then and the transformation that occurred. Was she a regular kid with regular kid interests? Was she spiritual to begin with? Was she a bit ethereal? Did she think she was going crazy when she began to hear the voices or did she automatically know who and what they were?

I wish I had met Robert E. Lee before the Civil War and particularly before he was asked to lead the Army of Virginia. It's said that he was truly a gentleman and it is well known that he did not want the war to begin - much less have the state of Virginia involved in it. I would love to know how he dealt with the reality that the war was going to happen and how he reconciled his own feelings to becoming the leader of what literally became the Army of the South.

I wish I had met King Louis XIV of France during the height of his reign - not only did he know how to party but evidently he was very decadent...and judging by all the mistresses he had, he had a thing for the ladies as well...

I wish I had met whoever it was that painted the cave paintings in Lascaux, France during the Ice Ages. What drove them to paint all those wonderful animals? Was it sympathic magick? Was the cave a temple to them? Were the paintings in dedication to the spirits of the animals? How did they discover that ocher and the other materials would be good paint?

I wish I had met Mae West - how much of the one screen Mae was the offescreen Mae? Was she as sassy? Was she as funloving?

Now - who would I like to spend time with in eternity? Hmmm - good question...

I would like to spend some time with Janis Joplin - I could definitely spend a while listening to her sing and just think of the stories she could tell...

I would like to spend some time with Salvador Dali - I wonder what eternity would look like with him around? Would it look like his paintings? That would be cool - everything having that dream like quality to it and quite mindbending...

I wish I could spend some time if eternity with No-Eyes - I would love the chance to learn what I could of the Medicine Ways from her. Mary Summer Rain's books about her time with No Eyes just barely scratch the surface of what that incredible lady knew.

I wish I could spend time with Susan Seddon Boulet - I would love to get to know her and what inspired her. I would love to know how she came to do those incredible paintings with the power animals in them...coyote woman; pygmy owl people, Eagle Woman...

I would love to spend time with Scott Cunningham - he was such an incredible force of the modern Wicca movement. Even though I am not wiccan, I would still love the chance to sit and talk with him - even if I may be subjected to that sharp wit of his!

The question asked at the end of the task is 'What traits do you find in these people that you can look for in your friends?'

Most of these people are very creative and a trait share by nearly all of them (except for perhaps Janis, Dali and Louis XIV) are that they are highly spiritual. Not religious in the usual sense but they seem to know their own spirits and have a connection to the larger Spirit. Quite a few of them certainly had highly developed senses of fun (even if they went a bit overboard at times) and all of them didn't follow the crowd, so to speak - they followed their own inner promptings. I'd say that those were pretty good traits to look for.



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