This summer I have been taking long walks or riding my bike several times a week in search of peace through natural surroundings. My journey has been inside myself as much as it has been in the physical world. I am always open to the creative spark. When I see a vision in my minds eye of the next object I need to create I make sketches to hold the image then begin working.
This summer I has been visualizing a vessel or bowl shaped object. Looking through my collection of paper and used coffee filters I worked intuitively letting the materials speak to me. The image on the left is a detail of Blessing Bowls inspired by a chalice and paten or diskos.
The paten and the chalice are each made of three layers of recycled paper.
The number three is a symbolism of magic, intuition, fecundity, and advantage.
- Three invokes expression, versatility, and pure joy of creativity.
- Three is also a time identifier as it represents Past, Present and Future.
- Consecutive Threes in your life may symbolize the need to express yourself creatively, or consider your present directional path in relation to past events and future goals.
- Three may also represent promising new adventures, and assurance of cooperation from others whom you may require help.
Three typically symbolizes reward and success in most undertakings.
Looking down on this image from above I can see why.
As I was making the bowls and paten it was very important to me that the perimiter was burned around all edges with fire. Again, I was working intuitively so I followed my urges then researched the symbolism of fire.
- "Traditionally, fire represents the active and masculine Yang of Chinese symbolism.
- It is most closely related to the sun and the powers of change and purification.
- Contrasting to water, fire moves upward with rising energy; therefore, the alchemical symbol is an upward pointing triangle.
- Fire can also be represented by a sword. "
A bowl is a container of beneficence and the site of transformation.. Throughout history it’s various forms have manifested as the holy grail, the goblet and the chalice, the magic cauldron, Persephone’s Golden bowl of healing that can regenerate the dead and heal the sick, and Demeter’s Cista Mystica or magic basket and the Alchemists crucible.
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| Blessing Bowl made of recycled coffee filters |
What is the Blessing Bowl?
The Blessing Bowl is a vessel to share caring, love, thoughtfulness, compassion, joy, feelings, gratitude, and more. It can hold representative objects or written acknowledgment of the blessings in your life. The most meaningful gift you'll ever receive, the Blessings Bowl is a gift of gratitude, a way to connect with our spirituality, a customized gift that celebrates life's blessings. So often we forget to tell people in our life how much they mean, the Blessing Bowl gives you the opportunity to tell them how important they are.
The idea of wealth can mean a lot of different things. To many of us it means money, however, being in a state of wealth is not limited to just a financial state. To me health is true wealth. Feng Shui can be used to increase the wealth of our non-material assets as well. This includes helping to foster a calm, clear, relaxed state of mind, as well as a joy for life. The wealth of clarity and consciousness is real wealth.
Paper Bowls
Paper is the most widely used around the world of all the materials that people have employed down the ages. Crude papers were being made in China by c. 100 BCE. Its name derives from papyrus the material used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans.
These papier mache bowls are visually enticing as well as practical. They can be used as decorative objects or containers.
The bowls are made out of 100% recycled papers, used coffee filters or handmade papers and then coated with a water-based finish to make them sturdy and usable.
If you do not care to use the bowls for ritual purposes, they can be used as beautiful containers for any of the following; jewelry, office supplies, shells, stones, buttons, business cards, keys, dried flowers, pocket change, natural gemstones, guitar picks, slips of paper with inspiring quotes, fruit, marbles or potpourri.
Place what you want to achieve inside this bowl; to renew a friendship place a telephone number; to help get a job place the advertisement; to smooth difficulties with your children place something that belongs to them; to reaffirm a marriage place a piece of jewelry with a special meaning.
Of all the possible meanings that these bowls can have, it is what they mean to you that is the most important.
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