Secret Moon Art

My botanical drawing of these mystical little Indian pipes shows them rising in ghostly cluster from a shadowed forest floor. Indian pipes are sometimes mistaken for fungi but they are a true flowering plant. Yet their leaves lack chlorophyll and present as scales along the stems. Therefore they are unable to manufacture food, so their tangly masses of rootlets live quite intimately with subterranean fungi. Both then take their sustenance from decaying organic matter and from living tree roots. Blooming in summer, Indian pipes' single nodding cup-shaped flowers do resemble small clay pipes atop their waxy stems. And who can say that fairies don't play tunes upon these lovely creations of nature-- or puff a puff or two? Indian pipes by jude cowell (c) 2008 Use only by express permission of artist.

Fairy Glen is a drawing about to be donated to my local Mental Health Benefit Art Auction...like? Fairy Glen by jude cowell 2008; Use only with artist's express permission. Thanks.

Beyond synchronicity? Two years ago when I rendered this drawing to illustrate the Sabian Symbol for the 12th degree of Cancer, "A Chinese Woman Nursing a Baby with a Message" I was unaware that in August 2012, Venus will be "stationary in the hand of Orion" ( Signs in the Sky, Adrian Gilbert) in mid-degrees of Gemini. This relates to the cataclysm of 2012 predicted in the Mayan Calendar and in ancient Egyptian texts--and Venus is the prime planetary actor in the drama. (And in Astrology, Venus may be considered a significator of a woman, as well as of values, relationships, aesthetics, beauty and the Arts, and money.) Most people have heard by now that the three pyramids at Giza line up with the stars in the Belt of Orion (though some may dispute it.) My religious friends have told me for 30 years or so that Christ's Second Coming will be from the direction of the Belt of Orion. And a certain prophet has predicted a Shaking of worldwide proportions--which soun...

Here's a small illustration of the wild flower Self-Heal . Click image to enlarge if it seems too dark for your computer screen... drawing compliments of your artist this evening, jude cowell (c)2008+.