“Recently my sister recollected a past dream in which she had been given a blue shell to place inside her ear to enable her to hear the wisdom of the Divine in the midst of unknowing.

I was very moved by the her powerful dream imagery. So much so, that a shell emerged quite fluidly and unexpectedly while I was making this image.

I love the symbolism of the blue shell in the dream — an assurance that we have the capacity already within us to connect with our higher power for guiding assurance in times of despair, pain, grief and suffering. The recollection of this dream seems timely in the global uncertainty we’re all facing currently.”

— MICHELLE RODRIGUES, 2020

Wisdom is yellow.

Yellow is wisdom.

The colour yellow represents:

wisdom

mental force, curiosity, insight

Yellow is

intuition and sensitivity.

Magical Women are highly sensitive

Highly intuitive

Highly Curious

With a High Mental Force

Magical Women are wise.

People who have yellow in their auras are most likely the ones who can light up a room but not necessarily;

they are the thinkers;
the ones who never stop thinking.

(They are the quiet ones.)
And the ones who burst out trickles, splatters, sunshines of energy, thoughts, words, dribbles, ideas.

Wise are the ones who don’t sit back and observe.
(Those are mistaken for being wise – but no, those who sit back and observe are ego.)

Wise is different;

Wise are instead shushed, they are so often told to “calm down”.

Yellow is the colour male filmmakers use in horror films to depict women gone mad.
the yellow wallpaper.

Yellow is the colour of the centre of the flower, the flowering bloom; the opening bud,
the women overthinking
the women dreaming.

When someone begins to be in tune with their higher consciousness, in tune with their art materials, gathering together brightening up the corners of their spaces;
then this is when Magical Women encourages your highest self; burning bright yellow;

art is made, you are centred. You burn bright.

It will often be one of the strongest colours in your aura field; a sign of warmth; a warming attitude.

Like the energy of a bright sunny day, yellow brings clarity and awareness.

Some people never feel the reach of sunshine in them, thinking too much of greed, succumbing to a life sparse of starlight;

Wisdom has nothing to do with privilege,

Wisdom is not intelligence or who is highest up in life,

it goes beyond the human field,
into somewhere else, beyond, above, floating high, a brimming warmth, a love, a care, a smile, a knowing, from learning, from connecting, from realising

wisdom is realisation.

— MY WISDOM, MAGICAL WOMEN

Golden Field

Universe. Energy. Life. Golden Field.

Flow of Energy
Flow of Information

Field of Love

The only thing existing and traveling is Love
and all its relationships.

Form is a structure Love takes

in a moment of relationship.

Everything is Love.

Anything I cannot see as Love, I know I do not understand.

Words by Julia Harris

“It was a beautiful experience to see the collective wisdom that came through all of the work during that session… and connected us together even through we were working remotely and independently. ”

— MICHELLE RODRIGUES

I
The Wise Woman knows that wrinkles mark her age.
She is no stranger to the servitude of time.
She has lived and loved,
closed her eyes
and opened them
a long way from her prime.

But like the rings of a tree these lines record the years
And like the words she utters so quietly ,
They have many meanings.

They tell her story.
They tell of a life that has been lived, loved and heard.

But she knows that her Wisdom is not old, nor is it worn and weary.
Like trees reborn each year,
Her wisdom sees the world
over and over again
With new eyes freely.

II
It is not that those who grow old are wise
For those born foolish grow old foolish too.
They do not change with age. 
Wisdom is not acquired. 
It can be practised and improved on.
But the wise child is born and
Blossoms into a wise being.

In her awakened state she is wild and free.
A tenacious ball of energy.
Ready to pounce on her next discovery, create worlds within worlds, dance, run, laugh, hug, sing, scream out in pure relief from the sparks alive within her.
But for now, she is still.
But for now, she is dreaming.

The Watchers

This stage is one of the first large oil paintings I’ve done in a few years. It’s inspired by Kingley Vale – one of Europe’s most impressive yew forests with an area where the trees are 2,000 years old. This ancient grove is called The Watchers for obvious reasons. It is imbued with an atmosphere unlike anywhere else – a place where nature spirits abide. The way the trees have grown resembles a mangrove as the boughs and branches form random undefined networks. The boles of these giants have a girth of up to 32 feet. Typically the shades of colour in the trunks range from vivid reds to deep viridian greens. It’s a place where people come to give thanks to nature, creating small shrines in amongst the nooks and crannies using material gathered from the forest floor. So, as you can see there’s still a lot to capture before this painting is finished.

– Colin Hambrook