Thursday, November 28, 2013
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Part 2-Photographs are the reason I am living....
"The Photographs.."
Nothing was framed.
Just one old family standard, the one of father holding me when I'm
eighteen months old, the one my mother always called, "Sid Holding Nancy
on the Lawn On Norwich."
Preserved in its original cheap brass filigree frame from
Owl Rexall, now permanently stuck to the old glass from a trillion searing
California suns, you could not even prop it up from behind. The rippled brown felt cardboard ceased to
care, buckled with boredom, dampened from defeat, an eight by ten relic that
had sat on my father’s metal desk in a trailer where he'd once worked. My mother must have been the one who took
this photograph for she appears in a photo with me that same day, stamped on
the back in red archival Kodak ink:
"Week of March 17th, 1952."
Towering taller than tall, hair pinned up in a long straight
skirt Lucy pumps, white blouse and dark Fifties lipstick she leans
forward. Smiles. It is a worm's eye view. My father must have crouched on the ground to
get this angle. I am propped up like a
garden gnome, a fairy statue a good two feet from her. The very distance between us is
soul-sickening and will serve me well in the work I will create from it one
day. Back then I was not ready for such
sacred callings and instead focused on the photograph with my father.
"Sid Holding Nancy On The Lawn On Norwich"
He looks like a movie star though he doesn't think so. I am perched in the crook of his arm as he
smiles to the camera holding one hand over the other. I appear to be studying his face. My feet are in socks and booties. I wear a pinafore. My right arm has shot up in a long-lost,
long-remembered Female Code. I am in
Lilith-mode; conjuring back the rods and rings of Absolute Female
Sovereignty.
My Handsome Daddy and Mister Pipe do not see me but I see
the snake between his two front teeth
where he likes to whistle. His initials make the same sound a snake makes, in
the same place he makes a whistle. The
Ricky Ricardo jacket he sports is my favorite color powder blue. My tender baby legs dangle in
ankle-booties. In profile my silken
curls frame like a caplet. Above us
points the apex of Norwich's roof. From
behind the shadow of the old palm frond both accentuates and draws the eye
toward the image it presents: my sacred
arm posture.
“Phoetics® & Seeing Through The Eye of the Heart”
For all those decades before I saw Pat, I saw this
photograph as a sad neglected thing, an image my father ignored, my grandmother
never mentioned, and mother did not put on the mantelpiece. Yet somehow something lingered, something
reverent. Twenty years might pass but
not without the deepest of study, journaling, until one day I would find myself
writing, "There is a photograph that is both my shame and
salvation." That would mark the
beginning of Phoetics, though I would not know it for another twenty
years.
Today I see all life and all childhood photographs through
The Eye of the Heart, The Phoetic Eye.
"Sid Holding Nancy on
Norwich," was all my mother could see. Yet here was not a 'family photo' but a sacred image, a ‘mythograph,’ an
image of my true spirit origin, character and calling...
“Portrait of a Great Bird Goddess.”
Thursday, October 31, 2013
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PHOETICS-TOUCHSTONE TO THE AUTHENTIC SELF
INTRODUCTION (Excerpt)
Photographs are the reason I am living..
.
When I was a mother of two young daughters in my fortieth
year, I yanked the brakes on my runaway life to a screeching halt. You could
smell the psychic rubber fuming all the way from Orange County to LA.
Everything I had been doing and the way I had been doing it
was coming to an end. It was as if the
sands of my female hourglass were running out.
I was forty. At a crossroads. No signposts.
No maps. No tracts. No wise women. I was desperate. And for the first time in my life, I went
against my mother’s dire warnings:
"Never trust a woman. In
fact, the only woman you can ever trust is your own mother."
I found my first female therapist. She was exactly my age
and I sensed right away that this woman was a master surgeon when it came to
bloodletting the toxins that had been in my psychic body for so long I never
knew there was such a thing as 'normal.'
I put myself into her good hands for the next two years. When I asked her why she thought I might have
been abused, she was careful with her words and replied, “Well, if you had a
list of fifteen red flags, I could check off every one of them.” I didn’t understand her, but I trusted
her. She never pushed, just asked me to
bring in my family photos, whatever I wanted.
"The Seeding of Phoetics..."
It was on one of those milder-than-mild early Southern
California mornings when my Lady Santa Ana's softly ushered me off in a Great
Mother sweep to Pat's modest two-story gray clapboard offices, sequestered
beneath ancient eucalyptus trees off some anonymous, intimate back-road in
Tustin. I got out of my black Jag,
dutifully dragged from the trunk a dirty dusty weatherworn box crammed with
photos from every era I had ever lived, psychically and physically and made my
way up the shaky elevator. Little could
I have guessed that day that this was the beginning of the rest of my life and
what I would come to know as My Calling.
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Nancy 1958 Nancy-Lilith Myth Merged Goddess Lilith 1950 AD
“The Mythstery of Nancy
Segal’s Phoetics®”
Saturday October
12 1:30-3:30 PM
Awakenings Center for
Conscious Living
25260 La Paz Road #D1
Laguna Hills CA
$20 prepaid/$25 cash-check at
door
© Bring your
childhood photos to see what
promise,
myth, & mystery they may hold!
Email: myphoetics@gmail.com
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Monday, May 27, 2013
Final Columbus Workshop of 2013
Nancy Segal's Phoetics® Presents....
"HEALING OUR UNMOTHERED DAUGHTERS TOGETHER"
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Please bring any photos of yourself and mother
up to age 10 preferred but not mandatory
And a ribbon to tie on my tambourine for remembrance!
SATURDAY JUNE 15TH 11 AM – 2 PM $30
Ki Empowerment Holistic Center
933 High St. Suite120B Worthington Ohio
Cash or Check at the door-24 Hr. Cancellation
For more info: Phoetics.co (or) myphoetics@gmail.com
Friday, April 12, 2013
Friday April 26 Phoenix Books 7 PM Sunday April 28 New Phoetics Workshop
Please join me, Nancy Segal
Guest Speaker
Guest Speaker
Friday, April 26th Friday Night Talk ~ Phoenix
Books 7-8 PM
Sunday, April 28th Phoetics Workshop~ Recurring Themes
in Our Girlhood Photographs
Hair & Hoods in Fairy Tales ~ “I
always wanted long hair…”
RED in
the Female Psyche ~ “My favorite girlhood
color was always RED.”
SISTERS are not carbon copies ~ “Why did Mom dress always us alike?”
Bring your girlhood
photographs
and create greater empathy
with children
whose lives you touch…
SUNDAY APRIL
28th 12
PM - 3 PM $30.00
Ki Empowerment Holistic Center
933 High St Suite 120 B Worthington
Ohio
Go to Phoetics.co (or) myphoetics@gmail.com 24 hour
cancellation
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Nancy Segal’s PHOETICS®…
‘The poetic
truth in every childhood photograph’
Presents.......
Little Red Riding Hood Nancy at Age Four
THEME: ‘Female Fairy
Tales ~ Hair & Hoods’
From Rapunzel and
Snow White to Goldilocks and The Blue
Fairy,
our deepest
female truths
about long and short hair, golden, raven, red
lay buried
beneath false fairy tales. Discover the truths of your unique beauty!
THEME: “My favorite girlhood dresses/shoes/hats/toys
are always RED!”
What are the many meanings of RED in
our sacred Female Psyche?
Discussion of The Red Shoes, Little Red Riding
Hood
and much more…
THEME: “Why did Mom dress us alike? We weren’t
even twins!”
Sisters are not
carbon copies-why is this practice so commonplace?
What does this say about our self-imaged sacred
photographs?
Bring YOUR GIRLHOOD-THEMED
PHOTOGRAPHS
Discover with wise women their
many messages & meanings!
SUNDAY APRIL 28th 12 PM - 3 PM $30.00
Ki
Empowerment Holistic Center 933 High St
Suite 120 B Worthington
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Nancy Segal’s The Eros of Phoetics® presents…..
Motherblood Eros:
“How Our Motherblood Photographs
Mother & Guide Us”
Did you know that…..?
The Photographs
of Your Maternal Ancestresses
project a Female
Code
that unlocks, mothers,
guides, informs,
sustains &supports
Your Life Story!
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What mysteries,
truths, sensibilities do the women of your bloodline
hold for you in
their Phoetic® images?
v
What do they want you to know today—about this creative
impulse
that compels you to
produce something higher, greater, finer?
v
What keys might they
carry to the myths called ‘family secrets’?
Please
join me, Nancy Segal for
this special sacred workshop series
Receive their
wisdom, blessings, sensibilities & truths.
New Writing Techniques & Attachment
Rhymes, Music & Dance!
Saturday, February 9, 2013 11 AM – 2 PM $50
Ki Empowerment Holistic
Center
933 High St. Suite120B
Worthington Ohio
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