First time I actually sold any of my Art
Yesterday I launched a Printify page with original art work drawn for the Solar Cross Calendar project. Which is a 13 month symmetrical calendar based on Equinoxes and Solstices. I made a promotional 33% off for two weeks. One week before Spring Equinox and one week after. It basically pays for production and shipping and leaves just a bit of profit. It’s a small step but it’s something after 3 years of working on this. https://solarcrosscalendar.printify.me/ When I posted about it on IG and FB and here on this group. I then felt a very weird and intense feeling, it was a mix of pessimism, anxiety, fear, even dread. With this undertone of “why the fuck Im I even wasting my time on this”. But at the same time it felt electric ⚡️ and that I opened a door to the unknown, like a timeline shift that I have no idea what it will mean. This idea has been in my mind for 3 years and have been very reluctant to make it public, because proposing a new calendar seems totally unrealistic and megalomaniac. But the idea wouldn’t leave me alone, I would forget about it and then have a dream and would wake up and draw or do the math and discover hidden aspects. Even in some meditations some information would pop up out of nowhere and I would check it and it would make sense. Sometimes it was even annoying me, Im not kidding. So I have no idea what this actually means, I have no expectations for anyone to actually use this framework. I have been using it for my own personal reasons and I like the rhythm that it gives to my life. It feels more natural to synch everything with equinoxes, solstices, moon cycles and eclipses. But one thing that is becoming more and more important for me is not the calendar itself, it’s just a finger pointing to the moon, it’s not about the finger it’s about the moon. We are running our lives and society as a whole on a calendar that was made by the Roman empire to run a system of control and domination, and the same system was exported all around the world through colonialism. So if we like it or not, subconsciously we are running our lives as the continuation of an archaic empire of domination. We need a New Story that we tell ourselves as a species and what we are doing on this planet we call home. If this calendar helps frame this New Story or just opens the discussion, so be it. But the story is important not the calendar.