What Makes a Butcher's Son an Artist?

TODAY'S QUESTION:
Are you ready for Venus Retrograde -
Hint: Do you know where the goodies are - your Cutie and your Coin?

Once he stepped, back, he liked the view.

Dale Chihuly, Virgo, Virgo, is such an inspiration.

My son Chet first introduced me to his work when he was a student at U Dub in Seattle.


















You may know David Chihuly as the artist who created the glass ceiling at Belagio.

Just look at the ups and downs of his life.


From wikipedia:

• Father was a butcher, mother was a homemaker, his brother was training to be a pilot. So how did he ever become a world-reknowned artist. Let's look at his chart!
• Supported after high school by mother after his brother died in a flight-training accident and his father died of a heart attack
• BA in Interior Design
• MS in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Fulbright Scholarship to study glass in Venice
• Master of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design.
• Founded the Pilchuck Glass School.
• In 76 in England, lost his left eye in a car accident
• In 79 dislocated his shoulder in a bodysurfing accident. No longer able to hold the glass blowing pipe
• Hired others to do it, saying, "Once I stepped back, I liked the view."
• Said it allowed him more perspectives, and also to anticipate problems quicker
• He describes his role as "more choreographer than dancer, more supervisor than participant, more director than actor."

You'll see his work in museums and botanical gardens all over the world, as well as in stores and in people's homes! Some dynamite chandeliers too! He also has 2 retail stores - one at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, the other at the MGM Grand Casino in Macau.




So what do we learn from his chart? Stay tuned!

CURRENT MOON

moon info

Biggest Full Moon of Year Pulls Tides in Italy

Tonight is the biggest full moon of the year ... .. and DO NOT EVER UNDERESTIMATE A FULL MOON

On the left High Tide, on the right Low Tide. (At the Bay of Fundy where I was this fall)

ITALY HIT BY TORRENTIAL RAIN; ROME DECLARES EMERGENCY reads the bloomberg headline.

The reporters are Alessandra Migliaccio and Flavia Krause-Jackson

Remember the moon pulls the tides. They report, "Almost a quarter of Venice is under water amid the highest tides in 22 years. The Tiber has flooded over its banks. Water is everywhere."

More from the article, and we send our prayers:

The city of Rome declared a state of emergency today ...

Record snowfall on Sicily’s Mount Etna, Europe’s highest active volcano, has left eight Boy Scouts stranded on the mountain.

Italy’s civil protection agency predicts another 36 hours of hail, heavy rain and snowfall after two weeks of storms pushed the country’s bridges, roads and transport systems to their limit.

The banks of the Tiber today spilled onto the city’s streets, threatening to submerge its island, and flooding created a lake around the 2,000-year-old Coliseum.

Many of Venice's small islands are submerged.

In Naples, civil protection phone banks were overwhelmed with hundreds of calls from alarmed citizens worried about the rain.

The moon pulls our emotions like the tides, and it's no coincidence that women go into labor at a Full Moon. It's also the origin of our words lunacy, looney, and lunatic.

So take it easy, and take it easy for the next couple of days aftermath. If not you, the person next to you on the highway, or cubicle or even bedroom! We have the Pluto transit, Uranus/Saturn, Christmas, and an economic crisis.

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