symbolism
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Fairfarren
“Fairfarren.” Some words seem to be born already expressing how much we miss someone. The expression became known in the film Alice in Wonderland (2010), directed by Tim Burton. It does not appear in Lewis Carroll’s original books, but the word were enough to synthesize something that, curiously, exists in many stories: the wish that…
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Music, systems, and frequencies
I am driven by music. That is a fact. I was analyzing my Spotify metrics and noticed that, for several consecutive months, my monthly average has been around 11,700 minutes of listening to music. That represents approximately 195 hours per month.Considering that a 31-day month has 744 hours, this means I spend about 26% of…
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Hermes: the archetype of the messenger
Throughout history, different peoples have imagined a figure capable of doing what few can: crossing boundaries. Hermes, Mercury, Thoth, Turms, Nabu, Exu, different names and different cosmologies, yet all attribute great importance to characters who mediate paths, transport messages, translate languages, and bring distinct worlds closer together. This is not to say they are the…
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16 and No Man’s Sky
During my undergraduate studies, I had the honor of working alongside Professor Marco Antônio de Almeida, a researcher in the fields of mediation and cultural action. In fact, I served with him as a member of the University’s Extension and Culture Committee for a certain period. It was through this dynamic that I learned to…
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The sunflower of three worlds
The sunflower appears in very different places. In Van Gogh’s painting. In the Queen of Wands of the Rider-Waite Tarot. In the legend of Cabocla Jurema. Three stories that were born in different times, cultures, and contexts, but that seem stitched together by the same thread. I begin with the tarot. The Queen of Wands…
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The conflict between academic identity and personal identity
During my undergraduate studies, my professor Dr. Silvia used to start some classes with music. It wasn’t to analyze the melody or figure out who the artist was it was to pay attention to the lyrics, and afterwards, we would talk about what that text evoked in each of us. At that moment I didn’t…
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The scribe of the moon
Have you ever noticed that some people feel there is a connection when they look at the moon? This perception has accompanied humanity for thousands of years. In different cultures, the proximity between the average length of a lunation (about 29.5 days) and the menstrual cycle, which varies naturally from woman to woman and from…
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Speaking of serpents…
Previously, I wove some reflections on the cyclical nature of becoming and on one of the images that fascinates me most when I think about processes of transformation the spiral and the Ouroboros, the serpent that bites its own tail. Today I want to continue this conversation along a different path, introducing another serpent from…
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Is becoming cyclical?
It depends. When we speak of becoming, we are speaking of transformation, but transformation does not mean a straight path. Many processes in life return continuously, though never in the same way, and that is precisely why I also understand becoming as a cyclical movement, yet without ever closing the circle, more like an ascending…