Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera theater music and dance are thriving all over the world but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind no elements it can bend and withstand anything.