Paola Pinna

We never see reality as it is. We see the world as we can sustain it. If reality came to us as it is, without mediations, it would probably be unbearable. In many spiritual traditions, the mind is associated with the moon: just as the moon reflects the sun’s light and makes it visible and harmless to us, the mind receives external stimuli and filters them according to individual nature. The mind acts like a photographic negative: it retains reality, but mirrored, charged with personal meaning...

In Vedic tradition, astrology ( Jyotiṣa ) means “light”: a tool for prediction, but more so a path of knowledge that reveals the rhythms of the cosmos and the human being. The planets ( graha ) are archetypes shaping both psyche and reality, while Rahu and Ketu, the lunar nodes, are mathematical points. Rahu, the head of the invisible lunar axis, is depicted as a serpent without a body. His counterpart, Ketu, is the headless body, a torso and feet without a mind. Together they form the two...

Creation does not arise from a void. It arises from a necessity, or rather from a desire. Every creative act is driven by a tension, by something that is not yet and that asks to take form. The same energy that sustains life, the one that in psychoanalysis is called libido, can be directed toward the realization of a work. When we use libidinal energy and channel it toward a creative act, we set a process in motion. Freud called this process sublimation, namely the redirection of a primary...