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Copper tree of life on viking chain; rondelles and tear drops are the birthstone of husband, wife and 2 daughters.
I used to have the great pleasure of cutting these patterns and I was pleasantly surprised to see them on Google Earth. I have poured my soul out along these paths and amongst these spheres. To me they called back and answered my soul songs. These pictures give me the platform as a visionary belvedere, a pronounced observatory to let my eyes begin to take my spirit on journeys into the skies and under the earth into the places below that act as a divine echo to join the balanced harmony of above and below forever held internally.
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The bottom half of my tree tattoo is done! Taken during the second break. The bottom half wasn't all that bad - the worst is about to come as the leaves get outlined. My advice: if it's at all possible to avoid ever getting your ribs tattooed... don't do it!
Taken at the end of my first session (about 3 hours). The tree tattoo took close to 6 total to finish.
And he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God, and of the Lamb.
In the midst of the street thereof, and on both sides of the river, was the tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruits every month, and the leaves of the tree for the healing of the nations.
And there shall be no curse any more: but the throne of God, and of the Lamb, shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him.
And they shall see his face: and his name shall be on their foreheads.
And night shall be no more: and they shall not need the light of a lamp, nor the light of the sun; for the Lord God shall enlighten them, and they shall reign for ever and ever.
Apocalypse 22:1-5
Poi mi mostrò il fiume dell'acqua della vita, limpido come cristallo, che scaturiva dal trono di Dio e dell'Agnello.
In mezzo alla piazza della città e sulle due rive del fiume stava l'albero della vita. Esso dà dodici raccolti all'anno, porta il suo frutto ogni mese e le foglie dell'albero sono per la guarigione delle nazioni.
Non ci sarà più nulla di maledetto. Nella città vi sarà il trono di Dio e dell'Agnello; i suoi servi lo serviranno,
vedranno la sua faccia e porteranno il suo nome scritto sulla fronte.
Non ci sarà più notte; non avranno bisogno di luce di lampada, né di luce di sole, perché il Signore Dio li illuminerà e regneranno nei secoli dei secoli.
Apocalisse 22:1-5
This ceramic arbol de vida or tree of life belongs to the folk art collection at Casa Panchita, a delightful guest house in Oaxaca Mexico. I don't know where this was made but it reminds me a lot of the green tree of life from Atzompa that I bought in January (shown in a prior photo)
Tree of life tattoo drawn by me, with my son's name in the roots. Inked by Amanda Cancilla at Artistic Skin Designs in Indianapolis, IN. Blogged here.
Made it to 150 on Explore!
Just sneaked a photo in the fading evening light. Wild mushrooms amidst the mossy roots of a woodland tree.
Join the museum for a new holiday tradition. Visitors are encouraged to write their wishes for the new year on colorful pieces of paper that will be placed in glass vials on the Tree of Life, a new seasonal exhibit that is created by local artist Matt Kotlarczyk .The Tree of Life is on view now through Jan. 1.
New life for sculptor Matt Kotlarczyk’s dead tree at art museum
Over the summer, sculptor Matt Kotlarczyk would sit in his backyard in Norwood trying to work out a holiday display for the Cincinnati Art Museum, sometimes fretting about a tree dying in his front yard. That front yard crab apple was completely dead within a month.
And then came a moment when Kotlarczyk put the two together. “Here’s a new life for this tree,” he thought. “It just rolled on from there.”
“Tree of Life” fit perfectly the museum’s requirement of creating what it hopes will be a new, and interactive, holiday tradition in Cincinnati.
Kotlarczyk – most known for his fountain sculpture at the corner of Clifton and Ludlow avenues — and his son dug up the tree, kind of a backbreaking job. In the months since, he’s trimmed it to fit the museum space and has carefully taken it apart, engineering it so the branches would come on and off (just like an artificial Christmas tree).
The finished tree will be 16 feet tall by 12 feet at its widest. At least 800 glass vials will attach to the tree with fine wire. It’s in those vials where visitors’ wishes for the new year – written on colored vellum – will be placed. The colored paper in glass eventually will “light up” the tree, which will sit near the window down a long hall opposite the main museum entrance.
The world tree is a motif present in several religions and mythologies, particularly Indo-European religions, Siberian religions, and Native American religions. The world tree is represented as a colossal tree which supports the heavens, thereby connecting the heavens, the world, and, through its roots, the underworld. It may also be strongly connected to the motif of the tree of life.
Specific world trees include világfa in Hungarian mythology, Ağaç Ana in Turkic mythology, Modun in Mongolian mythology, Yggdrasil (or Irminsul) in Germanic (including Norse) mythology, the Oak in Slavic and Finnish mythology, and in Hindu mythology the Ashvattha (a Sacred Fig).
The Tree of Life, or Etz haChayim (עץ החיים) in Hebrew, is a classic descriptive term for the central mystical symbol used in the Kabbalah of esoteric Judaism, also known as the 10 Sephirot. The symbolic configuration of 10 spiritual principles describes the manner in which God creates existence ex nihilo, the nature of revealed divinity, the human soul, and the spiritual path of ascent by man. In this way, Kabbalists developed the symbol into a full model of reality, using the tree to depict a map of Creation.
The tree of life is a metaphor used to describe the relationships between organisms, both living and extinct. Its use dates back to at least the early 1800s. It was employed by Charles Darwin to express the concept of the branching divergence of varieties and then species in a process of common descent from ancestors. Ernst Haeckel coined the term phylogeny for the evolutionary relationships of species through time, and went further than Darwin in proposing phylogenic histories of life. The modern development of this idea is called the phylogenetic tree.
This picture came from a spur of the moment trip my husband and I took to the Grand Canyon last year. If you knew us, you'd know just how strange a thing that was for us to do. We are normally very scheduled people. Oddly, we both felt compelled just to go. No one was pressing us. We simply thought it would be an incredibly fun thing to do. We had three days to get everything in order, and off we were to go on our road trip for a week. I had never been to the Grand Canyon prior to this vacation and found it to be a pure delight. This stairway was absolutely gorgeous in the golden sunset light that fell so softly over the beautiful canyons. I just happened to look down while watching this particular sunset and saw an amazing thing: The stairway lit up in iridescent hues as the sun slowly sunk down into its colorful rock bed. Again, this picture doesn't do the actual sight justice. But it still fills me with wonder every time I look at it and remember...
The dreamy quality of the stairway reminds me of the story in the Bible regarding Jacob having a dream about a stairway that led up to where God was, which reminded me of a dream I had right before I shared those spectacular 40 days with the Lord the first time four years ago. During this vacation, I encountered the Lord again in yet another fabulous 40 days of bliss. If you ever get an opportunity to go to the Grand Canyon, I highly recommend it. The beauty is truly a tool used by the Lord to uplift a person's soul and spirit in order to usher him/her into perfect worship of Him in Spirit and Truth
When remembering this whole spur of the moment trip, I am reminded of the story of Jacob. Keep in mind that Scripture is both literal and allegorical. Allegorically, it tells of Jacob's encounter with the Lord like the one I wrote about in my previous page. This same story of encountering God in this wild way is told over and over again by all of the main figures in the Bible but with different stories and allegories in order to lead the rest of us into this same kind of relationship with Him.
Now I'll give you a clue as to what the stairway/ladder means and where it has been seen elsewhere in the Word but in different forms: Adam and Eve's Tree of Life, Aaron's Budding Staff, Solomon's Silver Cord, The Lamp Stand in the Holy Place, David's River of Delights, Nebuchadnezzar's tree that was chopped down but restored, Jesus' saying that He is the Vine and we are the branch, etc... There are many more... Any idea yet? Remember when Jesus was talking about being born again in the Gospel of John? Think of the picture of a newborn. What do you think of? Jeopardy music plays... *Smile* “’What’ is an umbilical cord!” If you've had this particular encounter with God, you will most likely know what it is that I'm talking about with regard to being hooked up umbilically to Jesus. This is the passage mentioned in the picture shown above:
Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran. When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. There above it stood the Lord, and he said: 'I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.'
When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.” He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.” (Genesis 28:10-17, 1984 NIV).
© 11-6-2007 Victoria Tribby
Floss on muslin; this is my "anger" piece. After a snooty old stitcher told me I couldn't join her local embroidery group because I "didn't do traditional embroidery", I was SO pissed, I went home, researched the MOST traditional icon (tree of life), designed an original piece, stitched it, and went back to her superior the next week -- who promptly gave me a lifetime membership! heh heh
The Web of Life // The Sphere of Life
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For the tree it's root system is it's life supply. Interesting, how in this photograph, the roots mimics the shape of a tree itself.
www.stvincent.edu | The Saint Vincent College community gathered to honor the 11 victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting with a solemn vigil of remembrance in the Mary, Mother of Wisdom Student Chapel on Thursday, Nov. 1.
Candles to be distributed to congregants Students, faculty and members of the Saint Vincent Archabbey took part in the service, with hymns, readings and reflections offered in memory of the victims who lost their lives on Oct. 27 while worshiping at the Squirrel Hill synagogue.