Day 2 Year end event - with Bettina's paintings

Christmas 🎄Print Giveaway

 

'Dancing Fox' 10x10 Fine art print on paper

Christmas Giveaway Announcement! I have been creating my new 'Dreamers of the Earth' Series. In celebration of the joy of it, plus it's Christmas! 🎄 I’m giving away a 10x10 print on fine art paper of 'Dancing Fox' (value $73)   To enter: 👉https://www.bettinamadini.art/December-2024-giveaway I'll randomly select a winner !SOON! on December 23. Good luck!!!! ~Bettina  This series has been an unfolding journey, each animal leading me deeper into the forest. The fox emerged first—playful, mischievous, and full of life. Then came the deer, graceful and ethereal, with a quiet strength. And with every brushstroke, I discover more about them, more about myself, and more about the sacred dance between artist and nature.      Do you feel the magic in the brushstrokes? Can you hear the whispers of the trees and creatures?     *only in continental United States

A New Series of Paintings: 'Dreamers of the Earth'

 

'Dreamers of the Earth' Series

After a summer/autumn season of traveling with my art, I could finally relax into nature again, surrounded by beautiful creatures small and big, breathing each day with gratitude on this abundant earth. 

 

Animal faces started showing up in my inner space. "Paint me, please!", said fox. "Oh, don't let me disappear into the misty meadows without mention!' said white deer. 

 

To me, this is an unusual and equally magical journey. With a smile, I realize that, absolutely, I cannot define my art and lock it into any category. Abstract? Yes, at times. Realistic? Sure, why not? Everything in between? You name it. I find that places and spaces have a say in what 'comes through'. For instance, when I'm in Costa Rica, I find myself painting Goddess and deep earth imagery. My 2024 travel to the Golf coast brought abstract ocean paintings to life. 

I have painted dragons, unicorns and phoenix, I have painted abstract, I have painted angels and trees. Dreamscapes of fleeting beauty that bring light and joy. I dance a dance with the earth and her creatures, acknowledging them as they enter my space, crowned with deep respect. 

 

How to paint you, clans of the woods? What can I contribute to you and to the earth and to those who can receive? How to convey the playful trot of a red bushy-tailed fox? The ethereal beauty of that deer so white that it makes legends in the Northern tales of the forests? So close to unicorn and yet so different. How to convey the magic and grace of these clans?

With my shamanic teachers, I learned to be quiet. To ask quest-ions as the seeker. Be still. Lean into my knowing. Follow my body's guidance. Oh so sweet the swirling energies and the blankness as I approach the canvas. What colors? What's your energy, sacred furry dancer? What can I receive?

As autumn closes into first whiteness, I enter sacred space. Sacred tree-song space. Trees know the creatures of the forest. Frolic in their exhilarated hunt, their family strongholds, courtship, solidarity and fine line boundaries. Joy of the cycles. Waves of coming and going in the indefiniteness of living.

So, I lifted my paint soaked brushes and began. Surprised at the depth of my journey with Forest Devas, I layered the shades, shapes and hues. Have you ever looked into an animal's eye? A wild animal's eye? Space of being. Pure. Such freedom from judgment. Such presence. A direct invitation, so wide and open that the entire universe fits into their gaze. Strong.

As I breathe life into the unfolding, they breathe life into me. I'm moving with a very simple sense of celebration and honor. Crowning the clans of the forest lands with my gifts of flowers, pine cones, seeds and gold. The series is evolving. What will show up is beyond control.

Like the Forest.

Here is the challenge for you all: Don't forget these clans. Don't forget the forest. We still stand strong. And we need ALL of YOU to join us in our standing on the land. Be bold as a sparrow. Courageous as a wolf.

First, I painted 'Dancing Fox', followed by 'Noble Deer' and 'Majestic Wolf'. 'Sacred Buffalo' is the fourth painting. 

 

And I'm not done yet. So, my question to you is: What Forest Clan would you like to see me paint next? I'd like to hear from you. 

 

All the originals are size 12x12 inches, painted with acrylics on canvas. I added the first three paintings to the gallery, for you to take a look at different sizes and versions of prints (paper, canvas, metal, wood).

 

Here is where you find them: https://www.bettinamadini.art/dreamers-of-the-earth-series

 

 

 

#dreamersoftheearthseries #forestanimals #heartland #creaturesofthewild #animalface #foxpainting #whitedeer #albino #deepforest #Thanksgiving #animalsanctuary

A World of Peace

 

‘World of Peace’

The world I know is possible. 

 

How do we create it? By our choices. Each small choice, each big choice. It IS already. We don’t need to defend it. Because it IS. And that ‘isness’ is changing and becoming. 

 

The importance is whether we walk in possibility or impossibility. Self mastery is beyond the comfort zone. Why? Because comfort always comes from the necessity of making ourselves unaware. And when we make ourselves unaware, we create the slowness of how the world we know is possible can show up. 

 

Change creates discomfort, at times. But it’s temporary. 

 

I know a world of peace is possible. Before peace can show up, though, un-peace has to be transmuted. 

 

And, we can have our world of peace and be the invitation while the rest of the world is making their choices. It's helpful to recognize that a lot of people don’t choose peace (yet). And cannot receive it (yet).

We can have peace with that knowing.

 

The one that will gladly receive it right now is the earth. And all her creatures.

Are you willing to have it and be it?

My painting featured is:

'World of Peace'

30x31in

Acrylic on canvas

 

 

 

 

#worldofpeacepainting #abstractart #InspirationDaily #becoming #relaxationtime

The Water Song - Interpreted by Bettina Star Rose Madini

I came across 'The Water Song' by the Algonquin and created my interpretation of it. This song is my dedication of sacred music to the Great Lakes and all bodies of water on the Earth. I created the images of Lake Michigan and an entirely spring-fed lake in the Great Lakes region. A spring-fed lake. What does this mean? There is no river flowing into the lake, but water from the ground, at 6 locations in and around the lake is feeding into this body of water. It runs off into the Fox River, one of the few rivers on the earth flowing North.

Water is sacred. Water is knowing. Water is consciousness. We can be without food for some time, but not without water. Water is taken for granted. It is a gift. It is life-giving. 

 As you listen to The Water Song and watch the imagery, allow the sound, words, sparkles, glistening water crystals and vibrations enter your body and purify the waters in your body, as it also purifies the waters of the earth body, as it echoes and resonates into all there is and un-does the abuse and distortions of water element. 

Water has memory, water receives, water conducts. As you watch and listen to the video bless the waters and send it your gratitude. You are powerful. You can change anything. And if we all join hands and beings in this, we change the future for the earth and for all of us. And as you bless the waters they bless you. As you bless the earth, the earth blesses you. As you bless your body your body blesses you. 

Receive the light of the sun amplified by the waters. It is a dance. We purify distortions, disruptions, discordance and de-structuring. 

The conductive quality of water has been abused to transfer discordant energies into the waterlines, rivers, lakes and underground, deep-earth water systems of the planet. We are changing this now. 

Thank you very much for watching. Feel free to share. Our voices need to heard. Words carry energy. Human voice carries frequencies, tones and overtones. 

I have studied voice and native american healing song. I hope the video is a contribution to you. Know that you are not alone. Receive what is there for you to receive. 

Thank you to the Algonquin Nation for bringing forth the song. 

For a complete history and other information regarding The Water Song, visit www.singthewatersong.com, and click the video to watch the original as sung by the Algonquin. 

Sing the Water Song with us. 

For more information about my artwork, visit BettinaMadini.com and BettinaMadini.art. 

Walk in Beauty.

 

 

A Personal Experience - New Body Phenomena (that might be Widely Ignored)

'Touching the Infinite' Acrylic on canvas, 36x24

I usually handle personal things without mention, and usually, I conclude that it’s only my ‘stuff’. Then, so very often, I find out later that I was not the only one, that my body is one of the early indicators, like a flashlight pointing me in unfamiliar directions. At times, acting like a canary in the coal mine.

Plus, these are unusual times that we are living in.

So, with my most recent experience, I’m choosing to put it out there and write this article, in the hope that it might be contributing to others on the fringe of the known reality that might find themselves in a similar situation.

And maybe, it’s more wide-spread than I can even imagine.

As an artist exhibiting in art fairs, I’m used to being out there in changing and at times extreme weather conditions. Cold, hot, windy, muggy, rainy etc. I’m prepared with wearing layers, rain gear, wind jackets, rain coats, having lots of water, ice, minerals, electrolytes, lemon, sunscreen, sun hat etc.

And, I’m usually ok, and my body recuperates within a day after the event.

This time, it was totally different.
This time, it almost knocked me out.

This July was really hot, and I had a booth location with afternoon sun, plus we were on asphalt. It was brutal. 95 degrees (Fahrenheit). By the end of the day, I was exhausted, crappy and my nervous system on hyper-alert. Couldn’t sleep well.

Next morning, I woke up with headache, slight fever and upset stomach. So, we decided to drive to the art fair location early and take down everything. By 9am, we pulled out and drove home.

I was sick for 10 days. Here are the symptoms that I experienced:

• constant dizziness (could barely walk straight)
• slight fever on and off
• no appetite
• blurry vision
• sleeping almost 24/7
• body aches
• upset stomach
• complete exhaustion

I thought I had heat exhaustion, but was surprised that it took my body so long to overcome it.
While I was vegetating on the couch, I kept hearing ‘radiation’ over and over, it played like a mantra in my mind. I had no experience with radiation exposure. A friend told me to do the following:
1 quart of distilled water, 1 table spoon of sea salt, 1 table spoon of Epsom salt, shake the mixture and divide it into 4 portions. Drink it every 2 hours.

That turned me around.

Know that you will have an intense bowel movement. But this is important for your body to release all the cells that had died off from the radiation.

I was still weak. Another friend who had been with the military and knew, from personal experience, very well what I described confirmed to me that I had experienced radiation exposure.

Now, where would this come from? I had lots of time to wonder about this.

Consider this:

A huge art fair with 80,000-100,000 visitors, all on cell phones
450 exhibitors all with cell phones
5-G towers
Earth magnetics changing
Sun radiation changing
and everything else that is sent into the ether, all the EMFs, towers, security equipment, radar etc.

These are all invisible. Everyone can say this is not true and that I makes this up. I know that my body is not lying though. Oxygen is invisible, and we use it to live. Gasoline smell is invisible, and it is toxic. Terpenoid off-gassing is invisible, and it kills our lungs.

Now, for everyone who tries to fact-check me: this is my personal experience that I’m sharing. You might as well stop your fact-checking, right in the tracks. I own my experience, they are my own personal facts.

Here is the list of things that helped me greatly:

• Water-salt-mix as described above (after the quantity mentioned above, wait and see how your body takes it; too much salt will be tough on your kidneys)
• Bio-plasma (these are cell salts):  I took a lot of it, always listening to my body
• no sugars
• electrolytes
• lots of water (not too much, as it’s tough on your kidneys too)
• eat lightly
• Epsom salt bath
• water with lemon juice (and a little bit of honey, if you can do it)
• organic herbal teas for strengthening and liver/kidney/gallbladder support (peppermint, lemon balm, marshmallow root and nettle leaf) Get a wonderful tea from Red Sage Health at redsagehealth.com .
• Find a practitioner that will help your body balance the systems: Qest, acupuncture, homeopathy, naturopathic doctors, functional medicine, or any other practitioner who has a holistic approach and looks at your entire system, not just treating a symptom here and there (you get the gist).
• Ask your body tons of questions, such as ‘Body who can support us?’, ‘Which health practitioner do you want me to take you to?’, ‘Body, what do you require?’ and ‘Where is the information that we (meaning you and your body) require?’ You might be blown away about what your body can create. Our bodies are fantastic, wise and absolutely under-estimated.

Now, I make it very clear that I’m not a doctor, and you should for sure follow your physician’s advice, if you have a good physician. I’m simply sharing my experience and what worked for me and my body. We are a team. You and your body are a team. You have infinite possibilities and capabilities. Ask questions. What is this? Body, what do you know about this? Body, what will help you to get better?
 

I also found that my food choices totally changed during this time. Usually, I’m a salad queen. During these 10 days, I couldn’t touch a salad. I usually drink green tea, but during this time, just thinking of it was repulsing. I just did lemon water and herbal teas.

And, please, be patient with your body. The two of you can do this!

I thought for a moment that I would not make it. And, this might be part of the dynamic changes that we are currently going through while being IN a body. It is so easy to be impatient and cranky. And if you need to be cranky, well, do it with yourself, don’t let it out on others. Take your cranky-pants-time and let it out. Then, relax.

There is so much more going on right now than what meets the eye.

We are changing. Our bodies are changing. Our glands are changing, and so are our organs.
Our pineal gland is being reactivated. It’s in the center of our head. Could this be stimulated by radiation? Could this be a mix of events all coming together in one sacred moment in time/space and catapult us onto a different time line, with different physical settings?

If we leave the game board and we choose to step outside of the physics of the game board, could this change how we walk, could this make us dizzy, could this change our proprioception (how we place our body in space, how each part of our body relates to other parts and to the environment), could this make us feel sick, could this entice our body to do a sudden, major detox, absolutely unprepared? If you have ever done a detox and you have not taken the time to slowly prepare your body, you know how painful this can be.

When my body goes into what could be called a health crisis, I know that it is way more than that. I know it is growth time. I know by now that it is major change. It’s like standing in front of an open door into the galaxy. And you step through because you know you chose it even before incarnating this time around, it’s because you somehow know that this is what you need to do. Even if it seems crazy, you know you have to go. And you step through. And, for a moment........, you’re in free fall.

Like the caterpillar that, out of the blue, stops eating and builds the chrysalis around it, emerges into it, becomes soup, yes liquid stew, totally dissolves (how uncomfortable must this be?), and it knows it has to do this, somehow it knows that this is the path although it has no idea, no fricking idea, where this leads, and it decomposes entirely. It turns into a pretty bead and stays suspended, with intricate patterns of sacred beauty adorning its stillness. Then, one day, the chrysalis becomes transparent and starts showing the beauty inside of it, getting ready to emerge from the womb. With a sudden crack, the chrysalis breaks open, and another endeavor begins. The creature is wet and hanging upside down, and it is pumping and waiting and creating. What a vulnerable, exposed space! Any predator can snatch it. Yet, it patiently follows the rhythm of slowly, slowly opening its wings, pumping and unfolding. And so much can go wrong; don’t unfold the wings too fast, as they can tear, don’t wait too long as the moisture must not dry off so it can still unfold, and then, after hours, the beauty is ready to  take flight. It has totally changed shape, become a different being. Totally different anatomy.

This is the magic we are going through right now. And we all knew it before we came in.
And we still always have choice. We can say ‘No, this is too much. I come back another time!’ and leave. Or we hang in there and breathe through it, patiently with stamina and courage and curiosity. Aren’t you at times curious as to what’s possible here? What can we create? What miracle are we witnessing as everything, really everything, is changing?

Including our bodies.

Put your hands on your heart and listen to your heart beat. Your heart is so wise. It knows, It is the first part of your body that develops. There is this heart. So unknown. So mysterious. It beats. With the galaxy, with the stars, with the earth, with the mystery of the universe. It guides us with unspoken whispers.

No matter how much has been manipulated here, no matter how many lies have been perpetrated upon us and piled up into this gigantic game board, no matter how challenging the truth is and will be, we have our hearts. Our hearts know. Not our heads. Our hearts know. Listen to your heart.

And trust that you are here because you chose it. Now, this is a miracle.

We are creating a new reality. This requires us and our bodies and our proprioception to change, to upgrade, our wings to open and our trust to strengthen.

You can do this. You are not alone. Your body knows.

You will make it through this. Don’t get distracted. Be still. And listen. Cry, if you need to. It’s good and might be required. We are leaving the old world. Say good-bye and turn towards the new.

Much love and gratitude,
Bettina