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Kristi Beisecker is a graphic designer, photographer, printmaker and alternative scientist whose interested in making images through two contrasting elements. She is also a blogger in lifestyle, travel, wellness and health, art and design, beauty and fashion.
Blog, College

Well I’m done.

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I finished my last and final semester of college. I can’t believe I’m saying that really.
I’ve been through so much to get to the point I am where I am, I’m surprised at how well things have turned out.

I’m tempted to wait on applying for jobs because this past semester was a hard one on many levels. I’m really ready to just kick back and enjoy the summer months on cape cod not having to worry about school at all and just let my mind relax for once.

I do have a few options though that I’d like to pursue:

– I’ve been eyeing the Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) degree from the MIT Media Arts and Sciences lab.

– Heading off to Taos, New Mexico and get a degree in Earthship Biotecture and getting involved with that community. Completely building sustainable housing from recyclable materials.

– Or going into the blossoming field of semiotics: Semiotics is the general study of sign processes, or semiosis. Semiosis makes the world meaningful. The University of Tartu in Estonia is the one of the world’s centers for Semiotics.

I’ve also been contemplating on how to continue my research. I’m a bit of at a stand-still with it. I guess I just need to plow forward and see where it will take me. Maybe see if there are universities out there that study the esoteric, or something. We’ll see what happens yet… I’m kind stumbling in the dark with it though.. I know where I’m going but I don’t know what I’m looking for… Truth, sure… but as the quote on my website says, truth is contextual and changeable and dependent on point of view.  It depends on everything, where the successes come from and how I will get there. Also the main goal… well, I’ll will reveal that sometime down the line especially when I start working on it.

I suppose for now I’m going to focus on trying to get hired somewhere and start building my studio. Definitely need a place to call mine 🙂

We’ll see. but … time to enjoy my last week here at Moravian and in Bethlehem, Pa and enjoy the festivities.

Design, Esoteric Design

Place in Space

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 I was reading one of my favorite alchemical resources and found this transcription. I have fallen in love with it. Very in line with what I’m interested in. 🙂
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Place in Space
Transcribed by Adam McLean from MS. Sloane 3797, folios 3-5.

Place in Space
the residence of Motion,
or the Secret Mystery of Nature’s progress,
being an Elucidation of the Blessed Trinity.
Father – Son – and Holy Ghost.
Space – Place – and Motion.

 
Space, Place, Father & Son
are inseparable fixed & immoveable.

Motion ye Holy Ghost
Is that which brings all things to the Blessed determination
of the Dei, as in the Gloria Patri, Filii & Spiriti Sancti, etc.

Space is the Circle of Created World
Space is the Place wherein this Engine’s rolled
As Place a Center circled in by Space
So Space ye Circle is of place’s place
Place is a Center yet Exchange of Place
The Lineal motion is to Space’s Space
Place in it Self is ever fixed and still
Which doth ye Vacant Space of Spaces fill
Space can not Move because it all Contains
Yet Space is Motion, place where Power reigns
Nor Space nor Place do ever Stir nor Move
Yet place in Space is restless Motions Grove
Great is the Magic of this motion’s race
Motion in Space doth pass from place to place
Thus Motion caught in all including Space
Standing in centers moved to Circle’s place
Motion is that which runs the world about
Yet it a place is never found without
Place it is Still from Motion never free
Move and not move how can it ever be.
This riddle placed in Space of mental motion
Is plane to sense without erratic notion
Motion’s confined to various centriq place
Never to pass ye boundless bounds of Space
Thus each beginning doth its end contain
And End once made it must begin again
For what was done by one Creating Word
Must by this Three in one be understood
If any ask how this could ever be done
Tell them the word is Father, Ghost and Son
Before that time was made Creatural
God in himself was the great all in all
But to extend the virtue of his power
Of nothing all things made for his one bower
Thus was the great abyssive might
Formed into Creature, whence produced was Light
This light to Nature joined both firmly stood
As primo genitors and to beings food
The product of this all including one
In Triple Creature most divinely shown
Prangeth it self by measure of formation
To be the being’s being of Creation
Thus were the heavens and the Earth begot
Both out of darkness unto Light was brought
From whence was made twixt one and t’other
Father, & Mother, Sister, & Brother
Four in number as the Elements are
Conjointly work to procreate their par
Fire is the Father, and the Mother is air
Brother and Sister, Earth and Water, are
These in their number weight and Measure
Make of this world the hidden treasure
Joined them thro light let them unite together
That they may live in love and be for Ever
So is the Quatrant four in one
The Matter Form and Essence of our Stone.

Blog, Mystical Life, Tarot

Suit of Pentacles – the Design Process

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To me, the suit of pentacles represents the design industry to the fullest. You have….
the ace of pentacles
which is the sprout of a new idea for the design, got the job

two of pentacles
is a critique via the professor (or client) about your ideas on paper, the design is young, a balance of thought is exchanged that will materialize (on paper) into the design

three of pentacles
represents the transition from ideas on paper to the computer.

Four of pentacles
represents a solid foundation of the design – not necessarily finished but a good start, its secure, you’ve got all the basics covered, go for it.

Five of Pentacles
represents advice given to you but you may not be necessarily open to it, I see creativity a divine force and in the five a pentacles there is usually two figures avoiding a church – so perhaps this may also mean avoidance of creativity? Not using it? Lack of Inspiration?

Six of pentacles
represents moving on, finally getting ideas worked out an materialized on the computer you may have a comp (prototype) done. You have the ideas down, a good foundation, you took the advice finally, saw the “light” got inspiration.

Seven of pentacles
you are stepping back, admiring your work, you may have one final individual critique from the professor

the eight of pentacles
is getting the details, emerging yourself in the work figuring out the details, the presentation, being OCD about the design, praying you won’t mess it up… that one more hurdle before you move on to…. THERE IS a design (pentagram) on the pentacles and we see a craftman working dilgently on it.

the nine of pentacles
where you can finally say “AHA! I am done!” this may indicate a project being done early where you may feel “bored” and “Laxed” about it and you can finally sigh with relief. I see a waiting period with this card.

The ten of pentacles
is a transition from the journey of the numeric suit to the court cards. You may be taking the design to the final critique or to the client.

Page of Pentacles
Represents you in the final critique. You are the designer who emerged from the numeric suit. This page is all about concentration of communication, he reminds me of the ace of pentacles, but instead of sprouting a new idea, he may take advice from the client. He is the page which the knight “picks” on. In medieval times, I believe pages are the figures that help knights prepare for battle. You’ve been through a tough journey already but you emerged a designer with a project ready to be handed to the client …

Knight of Pentacles
After the final critique you are back at working, head first into the design making the changes the client wanted – they may even have set a date. You are now battling and fighting the changes, it is a slow process. I see this night being slower getting all the details straightened out and fought rushing against the time frame.

Queen of Pentacles
Win! You completed the design. You handed it in. You presented yourself well, you may have gotten your cheque already – or you may have gotten samples of the product. But since queens are usually seen as a secondary in the royal hierarchy the queen may represent you, since in the design industry its all about what the client wants (king of pentacles).

King of Pentacles
The client got what he wanted, He has your design, He may have reproduced it in 3d form (posters, packaging, etc).

Blog, Research, Sound

Mitt Romney Invasion

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I have been watching the Republican campaign closely. I’m not one for politics. I try to stay out of them as much as possible, unless it relates to something I care about… (I guess most people are like that??). Anyway, last summer I was busy doing an esoteric study of sound. There’s a small esoteric community called the EVP / Reverse Speech community. I believe I have written about the reverse speech research in the past. They believe that the manifest world is a mirror, a reflection of the world above, or the astral world. In my post, “The Concept of Images” I talk about the esoteric meaning of an image and perception. The EVP/RS community believes that the world above is the Universal Mind (Wilcock calls this the Source Field). The Universal mind has two parts, just like the human mind … these two parts are called the Mother and the Father; the Father is obviously God and the Mother is the Goddess (if you will). In mysticism, it is taught that the manifest world is created by a group of egregore thinking entities who have imprisoned humanity into this matrix of light, sound and form. They imprisoned us because we contain all the knowledge within ourselves and they want to take this power from us… and so they appear to us as a God because they are in control of this reality; but in reality, we are shut off from the Universal Mind which in essence is the “Real” God (if you will). So in essence, when you RS you are revealing voices (or spirits) from the astral world (or universal mind). Man was made in the image of God (or astral form).

Reading up on the library of knowledge that the EVP/RS community has collected from doing RS it became aware to me that RS can, if done correctly, be a form of divination. If you have created a deep connection to the people on the other side, you will begin to get clearer answers. But as always, there are beings and such on the other side that will manipulate your words so the message will not get across. In my experience, I have done RS where the entire sentence of what I recorded was manipulated and changed to something completely different from what I originally said!

Last summer, knowing that the election was coming up, I wanted to see if I could get any information about the election. I had read rumors within the esoteric community of some staged events that could lead up to a World War III (of sorts). I decided to try to see if these rumors were true, and if it could have any affect on the election. I recorded my thoughts and when I was going back through the audio I had said the word, “Invasion” and in the reversal it actually became, “Mitt Romney”. I’m thinking, a Mitt Romney invasion? Why? Then I though that perhaps Mitt Romney would have a huge impact on the election… somehow.

Then when Mitt Romney swept through the nation winning the Republican vote for a lot of major republican states, I again thought back to that RS. And, I was, personally amazed how that message got through. Yes, indeed, a Mitt Romney invasion of sorts did happen.

For what its worth, here’s the recording:
http://www.kglyphics.com/files/invasionmit.wav

As a note, the first word is the word recorded and the second half is the reversal.

Blog, College, Tarot

Daily Draw: 04

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Today: Knight of Swords
Tomorrow: King of Swords

Today, as expected, was mostly about communicating. Whether it was through email, or via the communications presentation, it was a day definitely ruled by the Knight of Swords. Although, I see him more of a knight who thinks outside of the box, whereas the king might be a bit more conventional.

Tomorrow, is the King of Swords. I plan on finishing my photography project as the critique is tomorrow.