Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Highlights from Occult Humanities Conference 2025: My presentation “On the Threshold of a Cosmic Self: Re-Spiritualizing Art After the Postmodern.” 000
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 07/05/2025The Outer Planets May 3 - June 14 The Philosophical Research Society @prslosangeles.bsky.social 010
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025My exhibition, The Outer Planets opens this Saturday at the Philosophical Research Society. “Beginning with the discovery of Uranus in 1781… the revelations of the outer planets marked a time of unprecedented change in our understanding of the cosmos & our relationship to it.” 120
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Installing Jupiter conjunct Saturn @prslosangeles.bsky.social 031
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 17/04/2025A sublime through-line. “Which four people have had the biggest influence on your thinking?” 010
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 04/04/2025The Divine Harmony: The Friend of all that lives and breathes from Alan Leo’s Esoteric Astrology, 1913 010
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Our presentation on the esoteric manuscript of W.W. Harmon’s is now online. Proud of my contribution here, an investigation into the “Central Spiritual Sun” depicted in the manuscript and artworks by af Klint, Fröbe-Kapteyn, Bisttram, and others. youtu.be/rPp50ekWrLIyoutu.beFROM THE PRS ARCHIVE: W.W. Harmon’s Esoteric Manuscript – An Illustrated PresentationYouTube video by The Philosophical Research Society 110
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 28/03/2025TIL: The sculptor of the Statue of Liberty, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (a French Freemason), previously designed another monumental statue. It was intended for the mouth of the Suez Canal but never realized. / 110
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Wishing you light and love on this longest night. Brighter days ahead. 040
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Peladan’s L’Androgyne, 1891 Cover by Alexandre Séon 030
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Flower mandala for thanksgiving Pacific Palisades, CA 000
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 13/10/2024Study for Jupiter conjunct Saturn. I’m using the correspondence chart from the Esoteric Section Instruction No. I, 1890, for the form and colors. 110
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 19/09/2024Venus Opposition Chiron (for Diedrick), 2024 The minor planet Chiron was identified in 1977 at Palomar Observatory. It’s named for the wisest and most just centaur of Greek mythology. In astrology, Chiron symbolizes the “wounded healer”: our deepest wound and our efforts to heal that wound. 010
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 15/08/2024The notion of energetically charging quartz crystals is an example of sympathetic magic. The piezoelectric qualities of the quartz stands as an analog for crystal’s metaphysical capacity to accumulate spiritualized intention. 010
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 26/06/2024Study for an astrological focus, Venus Opposition Chiron. “Chiron's position in the chart illuminates where one has been wounded & also where there’s the opportunity for discovering healing from within and sharing these insights with others.” 010
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 23/06/2024Joseph Parker, Dawn of the Aquarian Age, 1967 010
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 16/06/2024Attended a proper, anthroposophical lecture, complete with blackboard. Rudolf Steiner Community Center, Pasadena. 130
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 11/05/2024Sketch for an astrological portrait, Venus opposition Chiron. 000
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 18/04/2024First photo of a star (Vega) other than the Sun. Daguerreotype, 1850. 021
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 13/04/2024Study for the translation from symbolic to abstract. 010
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 13/04/2024We do not know whether the Universe is finite or infinite. We may never know it. 000
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 08/04/2024Process for my 2017 eclipse painting. At that time, I was very focused on completing these pendulum paintings on astronomically significant dates. 000
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 08/04/2024Great American Eclipse… 2017 Seven years ago, I completed this painting during the previous eclipse on August 21st. 000
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 07/04/2024Messier 51 galaxy photographed at the Yerkes Observatory, June 3, 1902. One of the first photographic images of a distant galaxy. 010
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 07/04/2024Jean Delville, Seraphitus-Seraphita, 1932. Here Delville depicts the protagonist of Balzac’s novel Séraphita (1834), an androgynous being born to parents who’d mastered the doctrines of Swedenborg. 000
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 03/04/2024The remarkable stained glass windows from the Theosophical school of the Communauté Monada, Brussels, 1920s. 010
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 01/04/2024Learned today these windows are possibly the work of Judson Studios ca. 1970s, based on the 1930s artwork of Ethelwynne Quail. 010
Michael Carter @michael-carter.bsky.social · 01/04/2024Centerpiece of the stained glass windows of the Besant Lodge, Hollywood. 000
