Monday, January 27, 2020

Orion battles Taurus over the Fiery Eridanus River - detail


A detail of an illustration I did for an article by Laramie Hirsch, which you can read here and also see the whole picture.

It's about some recent astronomical phenomena and what it might portend. There's a tendency to dismiss any thought of meaning in the stars as superstition, but medieval astronomers believed that God sends us providential messages through creation, including the sky. What is superstition is to believe the stars control our fates. The article also has some beautiful meditation on the wound to Christ's shoulder caused by carrying the Cross.

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