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Goddess Athena (Minerva in Roman Mythology)

📍 Cherchell Museum | Algeria

Sisyphus

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus is a king cursed by Hades to push a bolder up a mountain, only to have it roll back down the hill the moment before it reaches the top. In life, Sisyphus is a metaphor about the dangers of hubris, and an examination of the futility of attempting to achieve the... read more

Raccoon as Symbol and Meme

The raccoon represents the creature that enters broken systems, garbage piles, ruins, bad apps, failed relationships, emotional debris, AI slop, spiritual exhaustion, and cultural trash, then comes out holding something useful, funny, sacred, or dangerous. It does not deny the trash. It does not... read more

Any witty woman?

This is almost certainly a long shot, but here goes. I'm looking for a woman who sees astrology as something more than a cosmic weather app or a machine for predicting when she'll get married. Someone who suspects that astrology, at its deepest, is a symbolic language of the psychea way of... read more

From my (new) book on C-PTSD... I love this paragraph!

"But, at the end of the day, I’m not human. I’m just you. Well, a fragment of you. An attempt of Miguel to give Miguel a hug. An impossibility. A complete shade, like the one that Orpheus – of the myth of yore – once tried to hug in the underworld. And yet, I will never go away." #poetry... read more