“I am an instrument in the shape of a woman trying to translate pulsations into images for the relief of the body…” – Adrienne Rich

For hundreds of thousands of years the culture of women and women’s mysteries had been the dominant ideology of humanity. The rise of a lunar notation and the beginnings of an observed periodicity upon which all human knowledge is based is a feminine creation…The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light – William Irwin Thompson

The title quote for this post is from Planetarium by Adrienne Rich

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