
Famiglia: It’s All About Family
“It’s all about famiglia.” ~ Anthony Raffa Jr. This post is dedicated to my family and families everywhere. Anthony Raffa Sr. emigrated from Sicily to
“It’s all about famiglia.” ~ Anthony Raffa Jr. This post is dedicated to my family and families everywhere. Anthony Raffa Sr. emigrated from Sicily to
“There comes a time in your life when the life you have been living is over and you have no clue who you are becoming.”~
It’s Tuesday, the day on which I’ve published a new blog post almost every week for the last 12 years. Something in me has changed
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Jeanie,
Another insightful and provocative post. Thank you. I would love to read how you might tease out your choice of the portrait of Anne and Gloucester for this one.
Yours,
Sally
Hi Sally,
Thank you. Why did I choose this portrait? Not for the historical reference but for the psychological one. I liked the fact that the Mother/Queen has a strong and positive presence. Her husband, the Old King Ego is dead, so now her son, William (new will?) will be the New King Ego, an advancement over the more rigid and conventional old one. Whether or not this happened historically was not my point; it was the son as a symbol of a positive new potential for greater consciousness which has a more harmonious relationship with the feminine that spoke to me!!
There’s also a religious/spiritual message here: just as Jesus (the son) is closer to human awareness than the distant God King (the father), so the newly reborn ego has greater awareness/consciousness than the old one.
Thanks for asking! Your questions and comments are always equally insightful and provocative!
Love,
Jeanie
Ah Jeanie,
Right On! or I really should say Write On!
Although I don’t believe that historically Anne’s rule did much to break patriarchal/hierarchal cultural patterns in Europe at the time, your symbolic interpretation speaks volumes. I truly enjoy the way your mind and heart work. Thanks again for sharing.
Sally
And thanks for your participation. And I truly enjoy our communications!
Jeanie