Goddess of CREATION: A DAP with Abundantia of Italy
Upon the last northern evening ebb of Rome’s Fiori delle Alpi honied dew and her fragrant-bursting blooms of Pittasporum, Mulberry, and Jasmine…
sliding off the volcanic mountains
and tucking in to sleep …
Buongiorno arrives!
Good Morning to a Sister-Sistine-Chapel-Dap …a digital authentification protocol (DAP) of the Universe and sun’s energy to every dewy dreamer.
Why Italy. Why Abundantia. Why Now.
Pick head up. Look at the Sun. It sees You.
In honor of Rome’s Goddess of CREATIVITY, Abundance, and Prosperity, our gal whose very name, Abundantia, gets her voted Miss Sunshine, let’s DAP with HER. Feel her warm, loud sing-song ciao! to every awakening, pulsing cell of citrus-fruit flowers, espresso machina steam, and morning sunbeam!
Ciao to her and YOUR vastness! I’m sharing the behind-the-scenes story of my illustration and story of Abundantia, she of the Mediterranean’s beloved Italy, one of the total 12 goddesses in my adult coloring/comic book, Immortal Beloved: The World’s First Goddess Perfume + Coloring Book.
ahem. You ask why Italy? Ha!
Ciao! to every roaming, spiraling, bright smiling, curvy, Botticelli-bod, Mama Madonna goddess rolling over to wake up, huge smiles and stretches from last night’s romp with her lover! Ciao! to goddess Signora Abundantia here, all comfy centrale, cuddling baby amidst La Strada traffic zooming and That’s Amore! lovers meeting bods beneath sparkling fountains!
“Shake it awake,” says Italy, “Shake until gorgeous!”
Almost all goddesses everywhere in myth and legends are aligned with the energy of CREATION, being Mamas or archetypes for everything fertile under the golden sun. (like my best-ever favorite Prada ad above!) If we look at the globe of Mother Earth herself this goddess’s belly is the Mediterranean (Middle Earth) area, an arching fertile crescent, aligned with the center of our own bodies. In the ever-churning flow of nutrients and sensory impressions which rule our experience, creation cycles our inner processing landscape of feelings and emotions of gut intuition, and like a sun, WE CREATE. Our center is symbolic of our guts, will power, strength, courage and visceral expression. Creation is a central core aspect to our health and vitality!
This energy is located in the third chakra, highest earth chakra of the body which is known as our
“solar plexus”
of nerves, called Manipura in Sanskrit. Translating, man or mani means “gem, mind or thinking mechanism” and pura or puri means “city,” translated literally as the “city of jewels,” or as science is lately affirming, our gut is the “second” brain of our body. I go further and call this area the third “Star Gate” of your body, home, and our Earth’s sacred body in space.
OK wow, right? A Pure Power and Prosperity Sync Up!
here’s the background story…
Once upon a time, pondering what really is the being of our sun, besides being a ball of fire and the whole of Creation here on Earth, I wondered why it wasn’t a woman who actually got the dap from God?
I drew this:
which became this:
Of course, Abundantia’s receiving the DAP, from a male/God projectile to fill her famous horn of plenty, the cornucopia, is the must-have handbag of fertile goddesses globally. The multiple legends, depending upon the myth-teller, say Zeus/Hercules (strength) broke off a horn from the head of either the moping River God (sad flow) or a nourishing Goat Goddess (Mama’s breast of ever-flowing milk) who was suckling him as a baby. A horn (or a finger) of course is a spiraling projectile that amplifies, cornu in Italian, + copiosus root of the word copious, for plenty. The water nymphs (light hearted emotions) stole it then from Hercules and gave it to the goddess Abundantia to see what she would do with it.
Hmmm.
Strength over moping …
becomes Emotion moving …
and then becomes a gift to Wealth.
That. There. Is. My. Golden. Goddess. Girl’s CREATION!
Every goddess in our book has a fingerprint, for the ancient global tradition of women marking safe places on the Earth, above is Abundantia’s. Part cornucopia, part two spiraling opposites, and if that isn’t enough for ya, this happy little basket of all things twist-a-corner/corny/horn/horny is my inspiration for the chic Prada shoe heel in my illustration, below!
Many more Italy-deliziosos in the story and illustration. As I myself colored all the pink roads that lead to Rome and the goddess called Abundantia of Italy, I wanted to share some of my influences and inspirations in creating this goddess illustration from Sophia Loren’s 1970’s movies to…
Gucci, Pucci, Fellini to the sun/star angels of Fiorucci and to the Sistine Chapel power dap. Mantras, elixirs, essential oils, scents, flavors, myths, and other fun deep dives as always. Discovering is the fun I had CREATING and all my wishes for you to discover the same! Here’s the text my immortal beloveds, with images that inspired the illustration.
PS. If you simply cannot wait one more minute to CREATE, you can get your own Immortal Beloved book here: amzn.to/2ByEIAV
Enjoy!
STAR GATE 3 | CREATE | ABUNDANTIA of ITALY
“A woman born for love. A man born to love her.
A timeless moment in a world gone mad.”
I Girasole, Italian film poster, 1970
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love.” “Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
Sophia Loren, Actress
“I think I deserve something beautiful.”
“I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Author, Eat, Pray, Love
HER STORY IN THE ETERNAL MOMENT OF NOW.
Upon the last northern evening ebb of Rome’s Fiori delle Alpi honied dew and her fragrant-bursting blooms of Pittasporum and Jasmine, sliding off the volcanic mountains and tucking in to sleep … Buongiorno arrives! Loud ciao! to every awakening, pulsing cell of citrus-fruit flowers, espresso machina steam, and morning sunbeam!
Ciao! to every roaming, spiraling, bright smiling, curvy, Botticelli-bod, Mama Madonna goddess rolling over to wake up, huge smiles and stretches from last night’s romp with her lover! Ciao! to goddess Signora Abundantia here, all comfy centrale, cuddling baby amidst La Strada traffic zooming and That’s Amore! lovers meeting bods beneath sparkling fountains! “Shake it awake,” says Italy, “Shake until gorgeous!”
La dolce vita was invented in Rome, where all roads lead. Too much is never too much for a gal like Abundantia at the crossroads of global culture. She gifts life and abundance through her creative touch, from a just-picked burst of Blood Orange zest to her ancient cities fully bursting with art and triumph. She inspires as the wind gives life to a square of Como silk fabric, unfurling it like a scarf, a map, lifting it up full of new ideas, from the depths of the Italian Riviera’s Mediterranean sea, all the way up to the highest Dolomites of the Italian Alps!
Her very essence is considered a Roman virtue. Conjuring Abundance, Good, and Plenty she is the ideal of more than enough food, wealth, and prosperity for all segments of society. She was gifted her signature symbolic cornucopia in an ancient myth, where it was first a horn popped off the brow of the River God by Hercules. The horn was taken up by the Naiaids aka Water Nymph Girls who transformed the horn into a spiral Bon Copia (Good ‘n Plenty) basket that was then gifted to Abundantia, as the poet Ovid epically rhyme-rapped. Hmmm. God guys are always giving their ribs, horns, and other similar phallic thingies to the Goddess girls … no wonder Italy is an abundant cornucopia of sexy, sensual!
HER ANCIENT FUTURE SIREN SONG FOR YOU. Feeling Basta!? Enough! Too full, empty or undone at all your edges, and all you wish for is to be is back centered in your energia? Ward off your own evil eye, open your cornicello (cornucopia) and “Create!” sings the song of Abundantia through our third chakra. Bright yellow-orange center of the body, home of our solar plexus gang of nerves, this is also our intuitive gut, where we digest the world and put our spin on it in our own soulful way. When CREATE, Star Gate 3 opens, there’s always more and more. Italy is “Manifest Centrale,” amply feeding her kids, her brilliant actors, architects, artists, designers, chefs, musicians, fashionistas, business moguls, painters, and lovers.
As Italy’s aria, Abundantia is said to enter our casa during the night, lighting up and outlining the borders of our dreams, inviting prosperity. Well-heeled future visions always breeze through the mind of Italy’s creators in concert with the past, the gifts of the land, and Abundantia’s sunshine-beaming, gold coin horn of plenty. She is well fed and well pleased. In all our Voluptuous Nostalgia, we are Abundantia, too. We are the girl whose scarf unfurls behind her “on the back of a Vespa, swerving through the ancient, teeming streets of Rome with her Italian lover, flashing his brilliant smile around every curve.
Together treasuring secret love trysts at Piazza Navona, gelato licks at the Trevi Fountain, and orchestra tix for Teatro dell’ Opera dressed in Fortuny velvets.” Attenzione! Find abbondanza jewels in the illustration from Fellini, Gucci, and Fiorucci;
Princess Audrey in Roman Holiday to Mama Sophia in Her Own Story;
a Sistine Chapel finger dap and to di Chirico’s metaphysical vistas.
In The 9-Star Passport, the energy to create is at the center of a building’s space, just as it is in our body’s architecture and the Earth’s core. The chakra is called solar, and in traditional feng shui the gate is called Health, echoing the idea that our digestive system is the center of all health. That health is a golden center of light radiating and synched to our feelings and openness to creation itself is magnifico! Alchimia, sì?
HEAR HER, SENSE HER, HEAL YOU. Ciao, Bella Star Gate 3, radiating gold sun, buzzing yellow and black bees on sunflowers, the I Girasole of my eye! Ciao, bella organic, homemade ravioli, hills of Lemon and Olive trees for healing oils! Ciao to dancing the Tarantella in the village square, ancient scents of Ambergris, and heady notes of Mughetto and Gardenia pulsing at every Prada step and then zipping from villa to villa via a Riva speedboat on Lake Como! Ciao Bella Futura to the visionaries at 10 Corso Como and architect Stefano Boeri’s “vertical forest” building. Bellas! Ragazzo! Desire the whole Eat, Pray, Love sync? Check the center of your casa, add some oro (gold) and pronto! Bada bada boom, change the room, change your self!
HER MANTRA TO TRY ON FOR SIZE + FIT. Mmmmm! Create me, Make Me! I am that Diva, Abundantia, fertile and abundant by nature; sweet, and a brilliant sun goddess! I am centered in my body’s pleasure and creativity. Stamp me a laughing, sparkling fountain made for granting wishes, Fortuna Centrale!
~fin~
Extra notes! I’m adding this in as a look back to an old college illustration, loving Italy back then, having lived there one summer. Notice I’ve got this beauty leaning on a spiraling column of history!
I’ve also always adored the folky, corniness of souvenir travel scarves, which of course, were a major inspiration to the illustration of Abundantia!
I was once told by a medium that I worked closely with Michelangelo. That always felt very right to me and like many others in the world, it seemed as if the stone was breathing and alive when as a wee person I looked up at the statue of David.
Including my photo from way long ago to arc to my latest favorite depiction of an Abundantia by painter Suzannah Martin. It’s got the gold spiraling horn-of-plenty in a modern sense, these girls are such knowing-floating-water nymphs and their nude bodies should not be seen any different than that of David above!
If you agree, my work in healing our ideas of “goddess” has found its home!
Ciao! Bella!
Thank you for coming with me behind-the-scenes. I hope my art and words have inspired your CREATIVITY and of course, your CONNECT to the ever shining and healing energy of our golden sun.
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Note: Immortal Beloved was inspired by a same-named perfume by House of Cherry Bomb and I am grateful for their collaboration!
Note: Credits for images given happily.
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