🎶 Happy #WorldMusicDay!
Between c. 1700 and 1950, Western classical music evolved alongside profound political, social, and technological change, moving through four broad stylistic phases: Baroque, Classicism, Romanticism, and Modernism.
✍🏾 Infographic by Simeon Netchev.
The #SummerSolstice occurs at 9:24 am on 21 June, BST. In Latin ‘Solstitium’ means ‘sun-stopping’ as the sun reaches its highest point in the sky & appears to stand still, giving us #TheLongestDay of the year. #Stonehenge aligns with the summer solstice sunrise.
#FolkloreSunday
🚨: Quantum Physics shows that objective reality doesn't exist
Properties of a particle do not have a definitive state until they are measured. This challenges the classical idea of "objective reality"—the belief that the universe exists independently of observation.
“Discovering yourself provides you with all you are, were meant to be, and all you are living from and for. The whole of yourself is certainly an irrational entity, but this is just precisely yourself, which is meant to live as a unique and unrepeatable experience.”
— Carl Jung
“Synchronicity...means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz
[ Art • “Open to the Infinity of the Universe” by Jakub Szczepaniak ]
The beginning of wisdom occurs the day we recognize the obvious—that the only person present in every scene of our still-unfolding psychodramas is ourselves.
– James Hollis, Living Between Worlds
JC surrounds himself with 12 disciples.This is usually taken to be symbolic of the 12 tribes of Israel.This notion of 12 tribes, however, is itself a symbolic reference to the 12 signs of the zodiac in Babylonian astrology, which the Jews adopted whilst in Babylon-Jesus Mysteries
England 1381: The Peasant’s Revolt peaked today in history, June 13! 🔥 Enraged by a crushing poll tax, rebels targeted the powerful John of Gaunt and systematically destroyed his Savoy Palace. Not random looting, but a calculated strike against aristocratic privilege.
Thus began Priesthood. Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the Gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
- William Blake
Illumination from the 15th-century Tübinger Hausbuch, depicting the Seven Liberal Arts linked to the seven classical planets, reflecting the medieval belief that human knowledge was influenced by celestial forces. 🪐✨
🧙🏼 On this day in 1692: Salem Witch Trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries".
The Salem Witch Trials were a series of legal proceedings in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692-1693, resulting in the deaths of 20 innocent people accused of witchcraft and the vilification of over 200 others based, initially, on the reports of young girls who claimed to have been harmed by the spells of certain women they accused of witchcraft.
At the heart of the trials and later executions were religion and superstition in Colonial America. The Bible, in the Book of Exodus 22:18, states "Thou shalt not suffer a witch live," and this was adhered to as closely as any other biblical injunction and encouraged by the Salem Village minister of the time, the Reverend Samuel Parris (l. 1653-1720). Parris was the fourth minister called by the Salem Village congregation.
As early as 1695, criticism was leveled against the magistrates of Salem for the deaths and persecution of the innocent and this opinion only gained ground afterwards. Between 1700-1703, petitions were filed to have the convictions reversed and the accused exonerated, and in 1711, compensation was authorized for the families of those unjustly executed. Since that time, the Salem Witch Trials have been referenced simply as "witch trials" or "witch hunts" in connection with any unfounded, unfair, and baseless claim against a person or the ideals that person stands for, and the event has been given iconic status in the USA and elsewhere.
📝 Article by Joshua J. Mark.
#SalemWitchTrials #History #America #Massachusetts #OnThisDay #TodayInHistory #ColonialAmerica
In 793, Nordic raiders attacked and plundered the Lindisfarne monastery off the coast of Northumbria. This unprecedented assault on one of England's holiest sites shocked Christian Europe and marked the definitive beginning of the Viking Age. ⚔️🛡️
🌊 Happy World Oceans Day!
Oceanus (also Okeanos) was the eldest of the Titans and a son of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth) in Greek mythology. He was the god and personification of the freshwater river Oceanus, which was thought to encircle the earth and was said to be the source of all living gods and creatures.
Although Oceanus' name eventually faded into oblivion over time, unlike Poseidon's, whose worship was widely practised and his feats spoken about for many years, Oceanus was given the ultimate honour of having the largest body of saltwater that encircles the earth named after him – the ocean.
📷 Photos by Carole Raddato and Mark Cartwright.
#WorldOceansDay #Ocean #Oceanus #GreekMythology #Mythology