Sacral Chakra Purple is Divine Print

Svasdhisthana means “favorite resort” which always brings visions of the Black Hills in South Dakota. I also think about the great times I’ve had with people I like as “resorts” in a relationship sense. I painted this flower after having a powerful experience at the All My Relations Sundance. The heat was oppressive and had dried out everything. As I danced outside the circle, meditating on the Sundance tree, the ground beneath my feet turned to water until I was dancing in a puddle. I saw this flower hanging in the air above the Sundance pole and the sky turned purple. I saw how we all are related and that includes the plants, rocks and animals—we’re all in this together and need everything around us to complete all our lessons. Even though this chakra’s lessons are about learning to live in a world of our own construction I found that construction to include others, hence the all my relations. This painting has an under story to it since I painted a red flower on a grey background before sanding that down and painting Purple is Divine. Orange is symbolic of how it feels to release lust, anger, greed, deceit, pride and envy. Purple is symbolic of divine change a transfiguration. It took over a year for the original painting to dry enough for me to over paint and then I painted the purple background waiting another year for that to dry before painting the flower over the course of another year keeping focused on making the flower appear to glisten as if wet.