Sheba Remy Kharbanda

Creatrix | Visionary | Alchemist

Metaphysics Practice

13 Moons Project

Director

Installation - Five Rivers: A Portrait of Partition

Oral History - Vilayati Tarti/Foreign Land Project

Video

third quarter.jpg

Words

waxing gibbous.jpg

Love Is

Meditations on Power XXXXVI
💜
I have love and beauty on the brain...
“What’s new?” my people ask. It’s this Pisces Moon I tell you. And having Maxwell on repeat as I amble through this magical place...I’ve been thinking too of my family of lovers and seekers of beauty. It has taken aging and hard schooling to appreciate fully why these have been such important anchors for them. I think of my grandmother and aunt hand embroidering beautiful details into pieces that rarely saw the light of day, much of it lost now. Or the men in my lineage, from both grandfathers to my old man to my beloved brother and cousins who look as if they just fell out of a page of GQ and that there’s nothing to it. And my darling mother who breathes beauty and love into everything she touches.
💜
We have a human need to seek out beauty. What that looks like is unique to each person, as it should be. I’m not sure I’ll ever have the patience to create a beautiful table setting...I know though that I appreciate the beauty of friends, of taking things slowly and of truth - mine own, mostly.

Meditations on Power XXXXV
💎
Moon phase: Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 90%
Constellation: Pisces
Rulership: Neptune - in Pisces / Jupiter in Sadge
💎
Places - like all things in this vibrational universe - have energy. I shared with two people I met today that I had not been a particularly big fan of Venice, until Cristina invited me to work work with her. It’s as if somebody had to open that door which now feels as if it’s been flung wide open. Thank heavens for friends in high places (I’m thinking of dear Anne) for making it possible for me to come back and just generally being a good soul in this time of enormous transition.
💎
I am typically not a fan of churches but Venice is working her magic on this too. The night before last I walked all the way from Anne’s to the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute. It was after 10pm so all was shuttered. I went yesterday and arrived just as mass was beginning. On the way back, I passed this beautiful chapel. It was locked but kneeling inside was a nun dressed in white. There was no way to photograph the space without also catching my reflection. Somehow that seemed quite apt.

There is no match for being loved, for loving and experiencing love in an embodied sense. It too is a gift to have community with whom I can talk about love in all its varied and glorious expressions.
💙
I have to date completed twenty audio interviews for my Love Is project (deets on my website) and while some participants have been more vocal than others, I have remain floored, in awe, feeling the intensity of love after each interview.
💙
Love is the highest blessing. As one of my contributors asserted: it’s the strongest force.
💙
One Love 🙏🏾

©2018 Sheba Remy Kharbanda