In this episode, Britten is joined once again by Mariola Rosario for a conversation on channeled art, art history, mysticism, and the exciting timing of two major Paris exhibitions devoted to Hilma af Klint and Leonora Carrington. Topics They Cover: Mariola's early relationship with art, magical realism, the Caribbean, and the figure of the artist as someone who can conjure new realities. Britten's path through art history, grief, Paris, Symbolist art, atomic science, and the study of what cannot be seen with the naked eye. Hilma af Klint, the 2018 Guggenheim retrospective, and the "aperture" that seems to have opened around channeled artists and women whose work has long been omitted or minimized. The role of spirit guides, collaboration, and unseen forces in Hilma's work, including the way her paintings are now being described with more respect for the mystical context they came through. Leonora Carrington, surrealism, exile, the psychic world, and the women artists who were often placed at the margins of movements they helped shape. Mariola's upcoming Leo season class on self-portraiture, authorship, symbols, and the solar invitation to put the self onto the page. At the center of the conversation is the sense that we are in a moment of aperture: an opening that allows us to receive these artists so fully. Britten and Mariola speak to the hunger to know these women and their work, the importance of asking what has been omitted, and the creative partnerships that happen with both real humans and the invisible forces moving through the channel. Join Us In Paris: Britten LaRue and Mariola Rosario invite you to an in-person gathering in Paris. Moment of Aperture: On channeled art and gnosis with Leonora Carrington and Hilma af Klint. We're thrilled you are able to join us on Sunday, July 19, from 11:30-1 (please note the time change from what is named in the episode). The first part of our meetup will be a discussion. The second half will be more of a ritual. The exchange is 40 Euros. Learn More and Register Here: https://living-emergence.mn.co/plans/1989484?bundle_token=f043f54a241cebc33fcb16d5c5c59dee&utm_source=manual About Mariola Rosario: Mariola Rosario (she/her) is an artist, astrologer, writer, teacher, and independent researcher from Puerto Rico, currently based in Paris, France. She explores visual and material culture in relation to terrestrial and celestial practices and mythologies, tracing how images, objects, and language shape cultural memory, origins, and political imaginaries. She is currently launching Studio Solar, a creative research studio dedicated to seasonal astrological inquiry through art, symbols, and visual culture. Its first offering, Inventing the Self: Self-Portraiture & Solar Mythic Imagination with Leonor Fini & Leonora Carrington, begins on July 22 as a three-part course held during Leo season that draws on the work of Fini and Carrington as a starting point for conversations on 'the solar', self-portraiture, personal mythology, artistic practice, art making, and the creative imagination. Mariola writes on Substack at Las Flores del Mar, where she shares reflections on myth, art, monstrosity, astrology, politics, and the magic of language. Paid subscribers are also invited to join the Radical Book Club for Underworld Readers, a lively and generative collective devoted to reading critical texts together. On most days, she can be found wandering the streets of Paris, following images and stories wherever they lead.... convinced that walking is one of the oldest forms of research. Course page: https://mariolarosario.com/studio-solar-w-leonor-fini-leonora-carrington Substack: https://substack.com/@mariolarosario Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariola_rosario Website: https://mariolarosario.com/ Join Britten Inside of the Emergence Astrology Pathway This is not a traditional astrology course. It's an experience you give yourself if you long to repair, recover, renew, and remember your power. Held inside the gentle embrace of this magical language. Here Britten teaches what she's found and developed as an astrologer who helps people tune into the most authentic call within. Most of what she offers are techniques and insights that no human teacher taught her. Doors only once a year! You can learn more and register here. +++ E M E R G E N C E A S T R O L O G Y https://brittenlarue.com/ Instagram: @brittenlarue Order Living Astrology Join my newsletter here Check out my new podcast CRYSTAL BALLERS on Spotify, Podbean, and Apple. Tune in to my new monthly YouTube series: Scopes Unshamed. +++ Podcast art: Angela George. Podcast music: Jonathan Koe.
