tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post3015962024425245794..comments2024-01-03T17:02:06.646+00:00Comments on ASTROTABLETALK: BUSH AND BLAIR REVISITED (part II)Barry Goddardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050835957098177925noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-3271992788096083652014-06-30T02:15:40.025+01:002014-06-30T02:15:40.025+01:00This is a correction: I found the actual painting ...This is a correction: I found the actual painting of Putin. The image in this post is a Photoshop job, joining one of Bush's paintings to a photograph of Putin. <br />I will add, however, that Bush's rather coarse brushstrokes and nearly childlike renderings of his human subjects, with details heavily emphasized, are right on the border between expressionism, which is driven by emotions, and outsider art, which is how children perceive and render the world and people around them. The very flat image of the Iraqi ghost child, rendered in black and white only like an old Polaroid print is a memory, if you will, that will fade with time.Saranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-3489559737185864852014-06-29T15:14:42.907+01:002014-06-29T15:14:42.907+01:00The painting of Putin is extremely revealing. On t...The painting of Putin is extremely revealing. On the painting's right side, it's a perfect rendering of Putin, the face he shows to the world. On the left side, it's the part that Putin hides from us, the 'dark side', the secretive part of his soul. <br /><br />The dead Iraqi child is an expression of inner guilt. He'll probably carry that with him for a while until he's dealt with it and put it where it belongs: as part of his past, which can't be changed but can be understood better by him.<br /><br />And Bush is self-taught, which makes this even better. There is no perfection in any of these pieces, just instinct and an inner knowing. These are more powerful than I had imagined.<br /><br />The simple fact that he is no longer driven by having to please others has taken the shackles off of him. I wish him well.Saranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-1204026420843404332014-06-28T18:11:38.706+01:002014-06-28T18:11:38.706+01:00I found this a very full and compassionate underst...I found this a very full and compassionate understanding of the workings of power and the collective. I didn't know that about Bush, or his paintings, but can see his own mirror in the painting of Putin; his painting of Blair gives nothing away - probably because he ( Blair) needed to disappear from himself or had to face the truth of the consequences of his decisions. His character is that of the bigamist or glamour of the acting profession - its amazing how elements of the psyche fail to recognise or speak to each other. <br /><br />Having a 12th house sun myself, I really began to understand the complexities of this placement from your analysis - and all the strategies and self and other deceptions that come with it.Bronwenhttp://www.incubatio.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30912075.post-18681780923040851292014-06-28T14:47:48.816+01:002014-06-28T14:47:48.816+01:00Thanks for sharing your powerful command of the wi...Thanks for sharing your powerful command of the wisdom and understanding of the tools of astrology. I too have "supported" Bush in his withdrawal into his heart-I bless him and have realized that we will in time understand what really went on during his presidency. I see his chart as representing his karmic duties to the collective. The 11th house N Node is powerful and somehow demanded his activity in the world as a leader. Through your analysis of his chart I not only bless him but also bless myself in my earlier willingness to see my former "enemy" as human and as entitled to my conscious recognition of his humanity as any leader is but I could not see that until he withdrew and started painting your astrological analysis of his chart explains why I could not see him until he retreated. When he does come out and engages his words are truthful and powerful. I see this as his spiritual realization of the spiritual demands of that N Node in the 11th. He may present the truth through paintings yes but I have heard amazing words from him that he lets go in a relaxed almost dreamy way.Singing Sparrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14321868849929983174noreply@blogger.com