There Is No Small Beauty
Take Care of the little things.
Even the Big Things
Are little things to the Universe
Within.
Use what you have, and you’ll never have a house of cards where you are concerned about the wind.
~ Jordan Hoggard
Trees with strong roots laugh with storms. ~ Malay Proverb
Where does the Architecture live when the budget only allows a simple wall feature and Entry floor gesture with a new floor finish to accomplish the task of remodeling? I say, Don’t Waste Trouble, and your low budget doesn’t mean we’ll do a small thing. We’ll take care of a small thing. Your Entry. Put your money where the mouth of your store. Get your clients in on the right step in their 1st step into the store. Literally, step them in on the right foot. Does it have to look like a small thing? I’d say it better not, otherwise I didn’t do my job.
… with focus and vision, and a daily discipline of the ritual, do the work, and the results will come.
“Practice until the mind forgets and the body remembers.” ~ Bruce Lee
That’s a way to connect with the personal and Collective Unconscious. Not by getting out of your way, by owning and taking responsibility and becoming the way, You in your Natural way. We are Nature. We’ve never not been regardless of how separated, What’s Your Nature? How can you pour some of that beauty in your Get ‘Er Done Fuel Tank and head into your week with a temples-flexed Yes kind of smile?
~ Still, Glass Top Lake. Have a Grand Week Your Way ~
Pause at asterisks’ surface to not ripple the stillness.
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Warning:
A Promotion teaming with life is below. Stop here if you only came for the above. Inundation is not the intent. Have a grand week!
What you receive: Downloadable ImaginAction (103 pages, 78 full color Ablution Pools), ImaginAction 2.0 (98 Pages, 78 Full color AbPos), Learn Turbo Tarot Reading, The Treasure of the Stones Reading Method, Prescient Remembrance poetry collection, The Constructing the Center Day & Night Series Watercolor Monograph showcasing 66 pieces.
Note: you get to download 3 copies. 1 for you, and 2 to share. Share with friends for a fun Zoom get-together. Share around the Zoom Tree if you can’t get together in person for the Holidays. Heck, buy an extra and have 3 of each in your Pay It Forward Clip locked and loaded to spread cheer and music for the eyes and heart with color. How will you share your extra 2 or whole extra set?
The Holiday fun begins! You can load up your cart at the Shop with eProducts, complete your order, and then have fun shopping for just the right color thumb drive. Drag and drop the eAstro Art Chart(s) and other eProducts onto it, and smile as you slip it into Holiday stockings. Your thumb drive is the wrapping, and then color and life in the Art Chart And other cool PDF gifts opens right up on your/their device of choice.
Or, No thumb drive required. Try this! You as Santa set up draft emails with your eGifts attached, sit around the tree, and point and shoot to each person, Ok, who’s next? Send it to them by email right on the spot from the same room or on ZOOM. All can watch and share in the joy as each person’s eyes light up as colorful feasts of music for the eyes are served up.
Which Holiday eProducts do your friends and family receive this year?
Offerings from Schiffer Publications available at Amazon, Taschen Books offering is sold at Taschen ~ not available as downloads. Direct links to them are in the Shop And below. Enjoy!
A link to Taschen Books to purchase Jessica Hundley’s Library of Esoterica published this Summer, 2020. I Am proud to have a legacy level honor with The Library of Esoterica. 2 of my Mystereum card images were included! ~ XVII The Star and the 6 of Wands.
LIbrary of Esoterica by Jessica Hundley. Taschen Books, 2020
cosmic grooves, eternal hope, inspiration
victory, glory, overcoming obstacles so new energies cascade in
The exchange of the energetic steps in the 6 of Wands
Last but not least, there’s the old standby of Tips and Donations, though this switches that up in a fun way. How’s that? With COFFEE. Please accept my thanks in advance when you tip your server and buy me a coffee. Thank you! Will you drop a coffee in my stocking?
Thanks for being here. I’d love to help you get set up for the Holidays. Please visit my Shop For great eGift stocking stuffers And gifts.
The Holiday fun begins! You can load up your cart at the Shop with eProducts, complete your order, and then have fun shopping for just the right color thumb drive. Drag and drop the eAstro Art Chart(s) and other eProducts onto it, and smile as you slip it into Holiday stockings. Your thumb drive is the wrapping, and then color and life in the Art Chart And other cool PDF gifts opens right up on your/their device of choice.
Or, No thumb drive required. Try this! You as Santa set up draft emails with your eGifts attached, sit around the tree, and point and shoot to each person, Ok, who’s next? Send it to them by email right on the spot from the same room or on ZOOM. All can watch and share in the joy as each person’s eyes light up as colorful feasts of music for the eyes are served up.
Which Holiday eProducts do your friends and family receive this year?
My Newest Offering
Astro Art Charts
I now offer an Astro Art Chart service where I meditate with your Chart and/or the person‘s Astro Art Chart you commission and Art your Chart to make a visual reading. A gift that may very well keep on giving. Your Chart becomes an Astrology Reading with no words, a visual story told to you by you from your Chart full of messages for you to explore and discover and unpack.
Music for your eyes.
Karen Sealey
Here Are Some Examples:
Base Chart SKetch
FInished Astro Art Chart
Astro Art Chart
Astro Art Focus Chart. Mercury~Neptune conjunction in 10th House Scorpio
What You Will Receive
A one of a kind, original, high res PDF image By email of the Chart or Charts you commission Then, More fun begins. Have fun shopping for just the right color thumb drive, drag and drop the Astro Art Chart(s) onto it, and smile as you slip it in the stocking. Your thumb drive is the wrapping, and then color and life in the Chart opens right up on your/their device of choice. Or, Santa Set up draft emails, then sit around the tree and point and shoot to each person, Ok, who’s next? and send it to them by email right on the spot from the same room so all can share in the joy as eyes light up and colorful music for the eyes begins to play into their world. Gift Certificates also available. Email me at Jordan@jordanhoggard.com to set up your custom amount.
Maybe you want an Astro Art Chart and Astro Art Focus Chart Focus Art together for deeper exploration and discovery?
What’s an Astro Focus Art Chart?
An Astro Focus Art Chart is when you indicate a particular part of your Chart you would like to focus in on. For example: I wanted to open up and unpack more of the messages in my 10th House Scorpio Mercury~Neptune conjunction. And, it turned into quite the Site Plan (top view) of what I saw as a Temple Complex like the Akropolis. Here are 2 of my Astro Focus Art Charts to visually give you a further description. The 1st is the Focus Chart for my 10th House Scorpio Mercurius~Neptune conjunction, and the second is a current Age Harmonic Focus Chart:
Astro Art Focus Chart for my 10th House Scorpio Mercury~Neptune conjunction. Orb = less than 4 degrees
Astro Art Focus Chart for a current Age Harmonic I wanted to explore
When you place your order for Art Your Chart, include:
your name or the gift recipient’s name
birthday
birth time. I’ll use Noon if you do not have a specific birth time
birth place
If your browser does not show the text block to fill in the above, not to worry. I’ll email you when I receive your order and you can provide the info then.
I am committed to complete the first 40 Art Your Chart orders by December 14th in time for the Holidays for orders placed by November 20th.
Santa’s Astro Art Workshop is Open!
Part of my process is to sit with your Chart and steep in it to full immersion as I feel it fill my art tools to flow back out on the page to create an intensely personal gift With Art Your Chart. They each take care and attention and time. Please plan ahead and place your order early. Due to the time it takes, I will only be able to commit to complete the first 40 Astro Art Chart orders by December 14th for orders received by November 20th. I have already begun to lock myself in Santa’s Workshop each day for the pre-advertised orders to complete these super full and robust and fun creations.
Astro Art Charts are also a solid way to periodically check in and explore your Chart in a fresh way.
There are also my eBooks below available to purchase and download in easy to use pdf download format. You get to download 3 copies of each eBook PDF download item you purchase. One copy for yourself, and two to give as gifts for special times or simply when the serendipity of an encounter moves you? Have 6 people to gift? Simply buy 2. eStocking stuffers? Yes! That feels fun. Make your loved one’s phone light up as their stocking this year.
3 copies with each purchase For the eBook downloads also sets up friends to work with and play together on Zoom and Teams and the like. All prices in USD. Click the direct links to the shop to check them out. The 3 downloads does not apply to Art Your Chart or Focus Charts as those orders will be sent to you by email once complete. On the eBooks please give approx 8 hours before you receive the download link as I have to manually approve each transaction. I check periodically during the day between readings and events.
Load Up Those Thumb Drives and Around-The-Tree-Emails This Holiday Season with These eStocking Stuffers
Prescient Remembrance Cover
eMercster
Prescient Remembrance Introduction
ImaginAction 103-page PDF with 78 full color visual ablution pools. $12 investment. Holiday Special includes ImaginAction 2.0 ~ The Unplugged Sessions. You get both for $10.00.
ImaginAction 2.0 ~ The Unplugged Divination Sessions. 98-page PDF with 78 full color visual ablution pools. ($10.95 valu. INCLUDED for the Holidays through 2020 with ImaginAction purchase above.
The Treasure of the Stones Reading Method. PDF $6.00. Holiday special BOGO. You’ll also receive Learn Turbo Tarot Reading for FREE ($6 value) with your Treasure of the Stones purchase. Buy One Get One FREE
A link to Taschen Books to purchase Jessica Hundley’s Library of Esoterica published this Summer, 2020. I Am proud to have a legacy level honor with The Library of Esoterica. 2 of my Mystereum card images were included! ~ XVII The Star and the 6 of Wands.
LIbrary of Esoterica by Jessica Hundley. Taschen Books, 2020
cosmic grooves, eternal hope, inspiration
victory, glory, overcoming obstacles so new energies cascade in
The exchange of the energetic steps in the 6 of Wands
Also, I’m Pleased to Announce 2 New Offerings In Advance of the Holidays
Last but not least, there’s the old standby of Tips and Donations, though this switches that up in a fun way. How’s that? With COFFEE. Please accept my thanks in advance when you tip your server and buy me a coffee. Thank you! Will you drop a coffee in my stocking?
Thanks for being here. I’d love to help you get set up for the Holidays. Please visit my Shop For great eGift stocking stuffers And gifts.
Kintsukuroi of Self
Jordan’s Shop Supports This Blog. Check out the great eStocking Stuffers to add that special flourish of visual music for the eyes and the soul to complement your gifting.
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I really don’t know that Night Vision and Inner Vision are very different from one another… other than To connect with darkness and Shadow within VERSUS To connect with Darkness in the shadows outside. When I practice one, the other is correspondingly enhanced without fail sans dout. I’d say it’s like Non-Local Mind, except for the fact that I live in the perpetual present, and Inner Vision and Night Vision confluence to mix together right in all my senses… so their commonplace connection in my experience makes the distance local at the level of 0’ – 0” away… the same distance away as the perpetual present.
I Love
I love this Image. Reminds me of my Embrace your inner storms. Marry them for life, and Thich Nhat Hanh’s, “When we take good care of our suffering, we can help others take good care of theirs,” and, “Hello, my pain. I know you are there, and I will take care of you. You don’t need to be afraid.”
I run a daily personal ritual called Becoming Besties with My Beasties. It’s a wonderful daily practice. Some people call it Shadow Work. I call it Shadow Mastery. Not for a big, ego head. Mastery leads to further discovery, and trees with strong roots laugh with storms, and I have learned to feel those storms in The reverent fullness of Empathic Silence as they rage. Sometimes, when they subside, they have a message. Sometimes, they ebb and flow back inside. They’ll come again. Differently next time, though they themselves will be the same. I will remember and welcome them… again and again until they spend their Chthonic Michelangelo Marble to reveal their Dark David to be fully in their power. That’s usually also when the message comes. When they’ve re-become what they were before whatever trauma, Have their message, and integrate to re-home in my body to dose me with more of myself… unless the content is an Archetype… In which case there are messages to unpack, though I do not expect integration, Moore the grace of welcoming the presence… and the beauty of confusion they can cause.
Her Divine Light
Her divine light united with the Moon — itself not having its own light as it has light from an unseen source reflected — and the postures of her Beastie Shadowy Entourage… She is defintely the mouthpiece, and they are following her, maybe having learned to patiently wait their turn. They feel enamored with her in this image. Go figure. She is their liberator. As she listens silently to each one fully and without interruption, I gather their storm will begin to subside, wherein she can softly lean in with, “What is your message?” And, upon their response, they integrate to live in her, dosing herself with more of herself, and brightening the light of Self with continual integrations… Very much a Kintsukuroi of Self process In action, with action. No smoking hope in this image. She is full-on engaged…. is my take on the image.
Feeling Into The Image Further
Feeling into this image further, this particular image started to feel so familiar. Not collective unconscious familiar. Not that its instant resonance was no short-timer and grew on me and with me. It simply felt familiar. When I woke up this morning, the message was clear. “Dood, your thesis. remember that thing 1/2 a Chiron Cycle back almost 30 years ago?” So, I went plowing through an old box Of things I wrote that never made it into any of my work, discards I saved rather than trashing, that I found almost instantly… Call it the Box for Inner Compost. So, Light illuminating Shadow As you said? I say most likely yes… AND at one and the same time to go with that Both~And style… :
In 1991-92 I 1st saw this image and wrote:
I feel this is not light illuminating the Shadow, but Shadow coming to be integrated to amplify the light. I feel the deep and infinite well of the Chthonic, unconscious contents, Shadow and Shadow citizens, is the source of the light…and as well that matter is spent light. At the deepest regions of the unconscious where the pressures get increasingly intense like with heavy water at the bottom of the ocean… the pressure is so great that nothing other than Inner Diamonds are made that then are ejected to the surface to make more room for pressure. Like a singularity compressed so densely it releases energy. ~~ (C) 1991-92 J. Jordan Hoggard during My Architectural Thesis entitled The Temple In Man: Pluribus. Out of Many, One.
Cool to me that I didn’t discover Carl Jung until the week before the end of my thesis, a good year past when the above was written, and OH BOY had I discovered an historical friend when I did. My writings and thinking and creativity and design were wonderfully congruent in that, “If you could sit down with one of your historical friends, who would the 1st be?” Discovering Carl Jung when I was 23, and I FINALLY had someone I would respond to that question with who I previously could only “talk to” in corresponding back and forth in the margins of his books.
For the Longest Time
I’ve for the longest time said, “Don’t waste Trouble.” Recently, I came across a Jodorowski passage where his Chariot speaks, “I made a diamond out of my misfortune.” And, my so dense at the depths of the unconscious where Inner DIamonds are made that are ejected to the surface statement… Time for me to get me waaaayyyyy some Mo Jodorowski’s nourishment as another historical friend. I love finding people from before I was even born, and suddenly I have another to resonate with in my work, and see historical friends and colleagues where our work is in parallel.
And, Yes
And, yes, I am comparing myself to Jung and Jodorowski, Anais Nin and Dorothy Parker even. Big head ego? Nah. If I relate to someone as much as I do them, it actually sets me apart more myself by counterpoint and distinction of identity, and they make me a better person by bringing me to continually work the plodding pace long-term to continually bring clarity to my voice.. That’s what happens with historical friends. I am not on my knees petitioning them or lying prostrate looking for approval. We’re just picking from the menu and Justice carding back and forth on the scale of coffee versus Carmenere as our banter lays down a thick mat of rich sol-luna-soil to garden As we interact. What a wonderful time to be had when you have great friends… alive and dead. Lol, the dead ones might talk back even more, as what do they have to lose.
This One Image
This one image, The Coming of the Faeries, is one my favorite, in my Top 4. It expresses the whole of the Individuation process at its base, completely and in totality. As soon as I find something missing from it, I’ll let you know. If you see something, certainly let me know… though, I gather most things, regardless, will hit and then turn to build right back into it. We’ll see.
I really don’t know that Night Vision and Inner Vision are very different from one another… other than To connect with darkness and Shadow within VERSUS To connect with Darkness in the shadows outside. When I practice one, the other is correspondingly enhanced without fail sans dout. I’d say it’s like Non-Local Mind, except for the fact that I live in the perpetual present, and Inner Vision and Night Vision confluence to mix together right in all my senses… so their commonplace connection in my experience makes the distance local at the level of 0’ – 0” away… the same distance away as the perpetual present.
Adversity doesn’t build character. It reveals it. ~ James Lane Allen (most likely ripped from Aristotle, though I haven’t located the conceptual reference. No matter. Nothing new, yet everything must be original. ~ T.S. Eliot)
Suffering isn’t always required for that if you’re allergic to boredom and challenge yourself. Sometimes, what does not kill us, doesn’t kill us because it loves us very much. And, when you powerfully witness to engage in the Empathic Silence of listening, you may forget your thoughts… the gift in hearing and experiencing another full-boat, full-bore straight out of the box of who they are. I feel one of the biggest tragedies in life is not settling in to nestle in the experience to evaporate the mirage of what or who you think someone is. One of the biggest beauties? Having a clear mind and heart so that every word and feeling between them from another ripples on the glass top lake of your infinite, inner well.
And Yes, adversity may be just like weather coming in, that has arrived. On the mountain. Above treeline. In late October of 1999. On a 14er. 14,263 feet above sea level, and Nature’ll kill ya in a single mis-step no matter your experience level. Being aware of experience, though, means we’re still alive, and that we’ve just had an another experience. And, that we can potentially be made stronger if we don’t react, and instead respond wise in time in the moment, and own it with NO mistakes, just OFLs, Opportunities For Learning… own it, and… can the reasons as they are unreasonable there. You. Are. Already. There. DO you live or die? Do you live or die trying. Do you live by dying trying to be reborn the next morning with your back propped up on the back wheel of an ambulance.
In total depth of darkness, first you’ll see a spark, then a crack, and from this crack will flow your unborn soul. ~ Altered States
Death is the mother of memory, nourishes the future in dreams.
looking up and out through the top of the obelisk from the inside, complete cycles, expansive, infinite, fractal-facets of all scales in one and one in all
balance, befitting, honest is-what-it-isness, Justice knows no loyalty
Yes, they water the garden to nourish value, to nurture what’s important. To build value. Though, do you continually Amend Your Inner Soil?
From your experiences, what geode gems of messages have you mined and cracked open by not wasting trouble to keep?
What was/is your takeaway message gift from them?…
That you OWN? That You Keep?
May I suggest that Your Presence Is Architecture, Presence As Architecture. Keep it. Upkeep it. Nourish its powerful limits and boundaries. Fly as high as your roots go deep. Swim as deep And infinitely as your dreams expand within. Can you resonate with…. . “Go YOU!”
Is guilt simply shame you allowed To digest? Cool. So what? That’s what ablution’s for, to get you back to you. And, shame? Can you slip that shit by side-stepping to literally slip it with wit and humor… with such things when you feel uncomfortable with something like, “:), your words not mine.” And, leave it that, not integrating another trauma to be resolved?
I don’t know about you, though that docket’s full already, and there’s no cutting in line.
If you stop to address every barking dog….(Kinda thing) ~ Winston Churchill
What did I Keep That Day?
What I heard as I came to, came back to consciousness at 5:45a after getting myself off Mt Democrat and Leg leg blown Creature From The Black Lagoon dragging it and myself back to camp at the base at just after 3am. … Hearing my name, I collapsed.
What Did I Hear?
His heart rate has been locked at 51 bpm for the last 2 hours since he’s been here. I don’t know how he did that, though I gather it was to evaporate anxiety to get ‘er done. 51 bpm and 120 over 70 under full life-threatening stress. Oh, here he comes. ‘Hey Brown Eyes. Where Ya Been?’
~ Paramedic whose name would never stick. Thank you Paramedic-Person For keeping me alive by just staying there in front of me as I began to try to make my way back. Your presence gave me a beacon.
When you think there is only darkness, close your two eyes to open the 3rd. When you think there is only darkness, look again. Maybe it’s you that are the light With no need of a mirror. That’s something you can share. It’s a gift to the world.
I give you a place of your own to clearly float fully supported in your mind activating your crown chakra. Chrysalis, fully afloat in supportive clarity.
Looking up from inside the obelisk, complete cycles, expansive, infinite
Yoniverse, fresh, nurturing, carrying to full term to bring to life, Great Mother
Shadow Mastery (c) 2020 Jordan Hoggard
What Did I Say to the Paramedic?
I heard that. Yes, you are right. I breathed my Heart into Cruise Control. No anxiety or worry. I was sure I was going to die 2,000 vertical feet down the scree field. So, what did I do?I turned around, looked up that infinite sand hill… ‘Yup. I’m going to die. But, (pointing up the incline) I’m going to die going THAT way.‘ Will you epi-pen me or Shake me or something? Now, I can’t get it out of that gear. I love her response. No, I won’t. I’ll give you this cold burger they got for you just in case, and sit here in silence with you as you keep making your way back as slowly as you need. You already shocked your system. Eat. No need to stir the water. You did that up there. It’ll clear. Your heart will thaw into reg. Why do you keep throwing off the blankets? You did that in your sleep, too. I don’t understand. It’s 19 degrees, and you’re in shorts and a T-shirt. I think I cracked a smile which cracked open my lips again to warmly drip blood down my chin On the burger. Yum. My Own Life Sauce. Cold? I don’t feel cold right now. The blankets are too hot. As she blotted my bleeding, she smiled. That tells me again you’re not back yet. Well, YOU are back, just that YOU yourself are not here yet. We sat for an hour. The Silence may have been the best conversation I’ve ever had, right along with the best burger ever.
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