Imaginal Projects
Splendor Solis Academy
I have a great deal of unpublished material to form and present.... but first let me share with you two articles I wrote which make a beginning;
Marie Angelo, ‘This Thing of Brightness: the Feminine Power of Transcendent Imagination’ in, Tessa Adams and Andrea Duncan (eds) 2003, The Feminine Case: Jung, Aesthetics and Creative Process. London: Karnac.
I wrote this on the theme of Shakespeare’s Tempest, imagining a grown-up Miranda reclaiming her father’s drowned books and broken staff so that in her maturity she can make a new image of intelligent image-ing.
Marie Angelo, ‘Splendor Solis: Inviting the Image to Teach,’ in Harvest; International Journal for Jungian Studies, 2005, Vol 51 No 2. Sulphur stung me into writing this piece on the first of the 22 Splendor Solis illuminations when I read what seemed to me a most limited and distorted interpretation of a ‘great teacher.’ In it I begin to describe the movements of reflecting in and with one of these illuminative icon-like images, and suggest the presence of an initiatory seven-fold cycle.
Hermetika
Mike Edwards: ‘On the Philosophy of Astrology’
This is a paper Mike gave for the Astrological Lodge of London, not speaking ‘about’ the subject from a distance, but from within the subject as a beloved art, that, like the image, like the dream, already has ‘everything it needs.’
Denis Labouré: 'The Seven Bodies of Man in Hermetic Astrology' translated from the French by Mike Edwards. This lovely core expression of the hermetic cosmos by our good friend Denis - a prolific astrologer, writer, alchemist - appeared in The Traditional Astrologer in Spring 1994.
Marie Angelo ‘When the Gods were intelligent – and education was enchanting.’ This paper with its Egyptian locus and animated approach was first published by the journal Self & Society in 1997.
As we develop Imaginal Studies, Hermetika will become the space for papers and records of other ‘arts of Hermes,’ including explorations of the emblem tradition and other mantic practices.
Imaginal Cosmos
This picture shows the book of a conference on the Imaginal Cosmos, run by Angela Voss, with Jean Hinson Lall and Geoffrey Cornelius at the University of Kent in October 2004, and published by the university in 2007. The cover illustration is by artist Belinda Hunt, currently a student of Imaginal Studies at the University of Chichester.
Angela Voss ‘Methodology of the Imagination,’ 2009.
In this paper Angela outlines a valuable approach to symbolic interpretation.
Events & Courses
ADVANCE NOTICE: Imaginal Studies Conference June 19th -21st 2010 at the University of Chichester, West Sussex, UK, in combination with Summer School Workshop days (Professional development and/or MA credits available.)