“My cup floweth over”: a Balinese cornucopia

Finding this little oil painting bought from an unknown vendor on one of my regular visits to the village of Ubud in the hills of Bali during the early 1980s, I decided it needed resurrecting, a new life on my walls. Painted with oils on canvas, it has a wonderful mix of the naïve with the old European style still life of a classic vessel sitting on a pedestal stuffed to overflowing with an abundant collection of floral bounty and beauty. There is an abundance of butterflies too, which is likely an addition coming from the artist’s Balinese psyche, one that so appreciates the abundance in Nature. I had intended to get it hard framed, but instead turned into a small wall-hanging surrounded by a small fabric frame. It is definitely a ‘cornucopia’, and brings on so many happy memories from those times – of joy and excitement, and so much to wonder about in the natural abundance of this wonderful planet we live in, with all the other creatures, great and small, the natural technology of trees and ferns that support our environment, and rocks that reveal the ages of our magical planet. No miracles needed…Nature works for us when we listen to Her. This tiny painting, only 9x9 inches itself, seems the perfect visual with which to say “Happy Summer Solstice” to all! We are so privileged to celebrate and partake in the abundance of Earth’s bounty at this time! It is a time of transformation of Earth’s movement away from Mother Sun, with longest daylight hours starting the journey back towards the dark side. This year, 2020 is also the grand entrance to the Age of Aquarius with the alignment of Saturn and Jupiter at zero degrees in Aquarius…(permission to burst into song here!)

From the information that I’ve managed to read, this particular planetary conjunction hasn’t happened for 800 years, the last being just before (after?) Galileo had made his first telescope. From my position on the planet, in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney, I haven’t been able to see the closing into conjunct for the last week in the west – due to extremely wet weather and cloud cover! You might like to check the website of Mathilda Fanous, Astrologer, or do your own search.