Can't help but notice today is the last full day in Cancer. Cancer's ruler is Moon (Mother), the Queen. It would make sense this would be the day she ascends to heaven. Tomorrow the Father comes in, Leo's ruler the Sun, the King. Anyone for a game of Chess?
Vatican because Vedic, can. : ) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> , "Robin Carlsen" > <maskedzebra@> wrote: > > > > Celebrated every year on August 15, the Feast of the Assumption of > > the Blessed Virgin Mary commemorates the death of Mary and her bodily > > assumption into Heaven, before her body could begin to decay--a > > foretaste of our own bodily resurrection at the end of time. Because > > it signifies the Blessed Virgin's passing into eternal life, it is > > the most important of all Marian feasts and a Holy Day of Obligation. > > > [famous paintings assumption of the virgin] > > Paintings of the Assumption are often among the more extravagant > religious artworks, with hordes of angels trailing billowing draperies > as they hoist Mary aloft, and crowds of onlookers below gaping > rapturously at the sky or peering astonished into the empty tomb. > > I love this one by the French painter Nicolas Poussin. It's one of his > earliest, around 1635, very different in style from his later more > classical works. > > The scene is quite peaceful, as if the miraculous event had just taken > place quietly one afternoon. No multitudes of excited witnesses, no > heavenly host, only Mary and a little flock of attending cherubs. > There's a wonderful sense of airiness surrounding her as she's lifted > gently up through the clouds. > > Mary is lovely but not glamorous; there's even a suggestion of > matronliness about her figure. Her expression is radiant but calm as she > gazes expectantly toward heaven. And the cherubs look like real babies, > innocent and playful and even a bit awkward as they cluster around her. > > Detail of Mary: > > http://www.restoredtraditions.com/images/products/detail/Poussin_detail_\ > of_the_Assumption_of_the_Virgin.jpg > <http://www.restoredtraditions.com/images/products/detail/Poussin_detail\ > _of_the_Assumption_of_the_Virgin.jpg> > > http://tinyurl.com/9n5hjp7 <http://tinyurl.com/9n5hjp7> >
