Sacred Marriage

The shallow, bronze bowl opens in a balanced tapestry of positive and negative space - a mirror of the profound dualities of our essence.

A five-pedaled sacred flower blooms in the center as the Higher Essence giving birth to the marriage of opposites (masculine/feminine, light and dark, day and night, birth and rebirth, yin and yang). The essence of the five-pedaled sacred bloom is symbolic of that place when we realize it takes far greater energies to hold ourselves in bud, than it does to allow ourselves to bloom fully into all that we were intended to be. Its center, with meandering spiral, is the life journey.

Universal guiding elements of crescent moon, three stars and the soft rays of the sun flow through the trailing vines. The wisdom of owls’ ability to see through the dark and hummingbird energies of incessant loving and nurturing appear as sacred companions.

Four obvious butterflies (two different species) represent relationship – one with another as well as the duality within each alone. Long recognized as symbols of new life, the butterflies are grounded on earth while fed and transformed from above. Butterfly, through its transformation, brings duality into balance and becomes a new, larger form of profound movement and beauty.

Seven (a divine creative number) doves in flight are the messengers of peace and movement through the meandering process of transformation and unity. As such common creatures, they are often ignored, inviting one not to overlook the common for extraordinary messages and peace bearing gifts.

The meandering vines (the life journey and unending growth), weave without beginning or end, symbolizing the ultimate Divine blessing of the “Sacred Marriage” within us and with one another through eternity.

The edition size of 42 was chosen for the combination of the numbers four and two. Four represents wholeness and totality, the earth plane (the four seasons, four directions, quarters of the moon) while two symbolizes duality (male and female, yin and yang, life and death, sun and moon, day and night, positive and negative). Together they equal six – a number of perfect balance and harmony, and the union of polarities.

A mark resembling a long, cursive “Z” completes my signature on the bowl. This mark, found on all my work, is my personal symbol for the Wind or Spirit always moving within and around us. It is placed with my signature, as my way of acknowledging and remembering I never create alone.