Taurus is the months of the influx of energies of Light and Life. You find it visualised in several of the Taurus paintings done between 2010 and 2019. You find the detailed descriptions of the Taurus paintings on the ludgerphilips.org website.

As per the Eastern Scriptures, Sanat Kumara is the Lord of our planet and he lives in Shamballa. Shamballa is a place in the etheric plane around the Gobi Desert. Each year in Aries, the Plan or the seed for the year is received by Sanat Kumara and his team from higher circles. It is like a tremendous impulse of consciousness, a stream of energy fertilising the planet. This impulse is stepped down in Shamballa, and at Taurus full moon, it is passed on to the ashram of Hierarchy in the ethers of the Himalayan range. At Gemini full moon it is further distributed to the disciples working on the physical plane. They form the link with humanity and endeavour to manifest the Plan during the remaining nine months of the year.

The picture illustrates the transmission of this grand impulse. At the top you see Sanat Kumara and his team of Dhyan Chohans – Siddhas or perfect beings. The semicircle is open towards the top, like a receptacle for the reception of the sublime energies depicted in electric blue. The other segments of circles indicate the spheres of Spiritual Hierarchy and of humanity.

Below there is the Himalayan range with Mount Everest, composed of several photos. In the central axis, you see a group, created with a photo of statues of a blessing Buddha. There are seven larger flames representing the seven major groups of Masters.

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The different zodiacal signs are clustered in groups – you can see here all my Taurus paintings.

With the growth of consciousness, we overcome our personality limitations. The soul breaks the boundaries and becomes limitless. As personalities we are different, as souls we are one. From individual consciousness we grow to group consciousness and to the consciousness of oneness, of BE-ness. BE-ness is beyond boundaries and beyond frames. Artists experiment with accessing to this reality in new ways.

The international art collective teamLab aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world. They want to “transcend the boundaries in our perception of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity of life.”

teamLab is a collaborative group of Japanese artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and architects. They call themselves “ultratechnologists”. Through collaborative practice they seek “to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, design and the natural world. Various specialists such as artists form teamLab.” (from their “biography“) See here impressions of their artwork.

In Tokyo, a permanent space is being erected, where their psychedelic exhibition “borderless” is installed. It is part of the digital art museum teamLab. teamLab has permanent expositions in various parts of the world creating futuristic environments of colours, sounds, and spaces.

Today is Aries new moon – as per the wisdom teachings it is the beginning of the new annual cycle. Ten years ago, I started with Aries the series of Spiritual Astrology paintings as a part of the Images of Synthesis series – though at that time, I did not yet know it would be a series.
Here you find the 11 Aries images have manifested since 2010, giving various aspects of the symbolism of the sign. You find the detailed descriptions of the Aries paintings on the ludgerphilips.org website.

We are in the time of spring equinox (autumn equinox in the Southern hemisphere) and it is the time of inner and outer equilibrium. On the planet, this balance fluctuates greatly at the moment. So, it is all the more important to keep it inwardly.

The following contribution was intended to be a part of a presentation at the “CVV Sharing” group life in Germany during this equinox. It had to be cancelled due to the present extraordinary situation.

“Transitions – Meditative morning walks over a field, between 7:30 and 8:30 am” contains 93 photos taken during these morning walks in the neighbourhood over 6 months.
It shows the beauty and the dynamic transitions in nature – and that partly drastic changes often come nearly unnoticed. We often do not remark where a change begins and when the new quality is emerging.

You can download it here as a powerpoint (length approx. 12 min., 100 MB). The use is only for private purposes.

My friend Sebastián Rey Aristimuño, Lipikas Films, Buenos Aires, has realised a video with a selection of the photos and a different view.

On his seeming journey from south to north, the Sun cuts the equator at spring equinox. It is the beginning of Aries and the Sun is directly overhead at the equator. The equator is an imaginary circle around the earth. South of the equator is the tropic of Capricorn and north of the equator is the tropic of Cancer; at both of these points the Sun seemingly changes direction. In Spiritual Astrology, cutting the circle is seen as the beginning of a new cycle.

The image visualises the Sun cutting the equator from an inner perspective. Inwardly, the equator corresponds to the navel centre. The picture shows Mother Earth sitting inside the globe and the Sun at her navel cuts the plane of the equator. Above and below are the two tropics. At her heart there is the shape of India and the Himalayas as her breast jewel. The North Pole is at the top of her head.

For the Mother Earth I used a statue of Quan Yin. The globe lies in a huge lotus, signifying the principle of unfoldment. The detail of the globe is created with the help of a picture from WorldWind.earth using NASA images. The reddish colour is from the overlay of a photo of a sunrise over India at a Christmas morning. The red Capricornian sunrays are seen as the blood of the Sun, the saviour.

In the upper left corner, you see Mars, the ruler of Aries, and in the right corner there is the constellation Aries.

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The different zodiacal signs are clustered in groups – you can see here all my Aries paintings.

Time moves cyclically. Every day is a time cycle, also every week and every year. As long as we remain in our old thought patterns and always do the same thing, we move in circles. As we evolve, we progress from circle to spiral – progressing spirally and ascending the path of evolution. When we learn to be useful to ourselves and to the environment, each turn of the spiral takes us to a higher plane of consciousness, until, freed from the limitations of matter, we finally move into higher circles. In the zodiac, the transition from Pisces to Aries offers the possibility of ascension; symbolically, it is called the resurrection from death.

The lower part of the picture shows the pair of fish swimming in different directions. The background of the painting is formed by the images of a spiral galaxy and a blue spiral, from the centre of which several spirals rise. Above there is the head of Phanes, a god of Greek mythology, whose name means “the appearing, the shining one”. He is regarded as the first-born of creation and as a light bearer. The figures of the zodiac surrounding him are based on a Phanes bas-relief (Wikimedia: Sailko).

Above on the right you can see the glyph of the fishes and above it the constellation of the zodiac sign.

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The different zodiacal signs are clustered in groups – you can see here all my Pisces paintings.

Pisces 2020 concludes the 10th annual cycle of the Spiritual Astrology Paintings. There have been 10 times 12 paintings related to the zodiac plus some extra-paintings – a part of the “Images of Synthesis” series.

To celebrate the occasion, I have done a photo book with the pictures of the last three cycles. I cannot make it generally available in print. But you can download the PDF here (text in English only). And the picture series continues.

Here you find ten images for the month of Aquarius which have manifested in ten years of Spiritual Astrology Paintings, giving various aspects of the symbolism of the sign. They form part of the Images of Synthesis series. You find the detailed descriptions of the Aquarius paintings on the ludgerphilips.org website.

Before something appears, it is potentially present. Aquarius stands for the manifestation out of a potential state. Aquarius is the point of transformation where the invisible becomes the visible and the visible becomes the invisible. The symbol of Aquarius shows waves in space; the vibrations pour forth from the pot of Aquarius as the waters of life. The constellation Aquarius is called the Heavenly Man. During the month Aquarius he showers down a stream of spiritual light from his water jar. The Masters of Wisdom called this cosmic man the Manu, the prototype of man. He guides mankind through the cycles of time. In the present Age of Aquarius, spiritual evolution is accelerated to an unimaginable degree. Rishi Agastya, called Master Jupiter in the Theosophical circles, is the ruler of Aquarius.

For the figure of the celestial man I reworked a statue of Agastya from Java (Wikimedia: Photo Dharma) and merged the face with a picture of Master Morya. In his hands he holds the glyph of Aquarius with waves swinging like lightning. The zodiacal arch with the figure of Aquarius was created from a photo of the astrological clock of the ‘Zytglogge Tower’ in Bern. In the upper left corner, you can see the contours of the Aquarius constellation. The star in the hub of the wheel indicates the point of origin of the creational cycle; the play of colours of two Gothic window rosettes with twelve spokes stands for the variety and rhythm of cosmic unfoldment.

When I looked at the picture for several days, I realized that the figure with the Aquarius glyph looks like a magician. Aquarius is also the month of magic – to manifest something out of the apparent nothing. In Sanskrit, the month of Aquarius is called Magha, which means magic. The wheel of creation with its many colours is Maya in essence, an illusion that hides the truth of existence.

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The different zodiacal signs are clustered in groups – you can see here all my Aquarius paintings.