What appears as creation or destruction is only a transformation from one form to another in accordance with physical laws. An eloquent introduction provides an overview of the central themes and expert commentaries introduce each section. In 2017 he took part in the Truck Art Project, working on the sides of a trailer truck that traveled through Spain to reach the ARCO fair in Madrid. I practice psychological and karmic astrology using birth data and transits to offer insight in to one's psyche and look for patterns of behaviour that may be deeply rooted in childhood and beyond. The ups and downs in my life are just the high and low notes of the song that I was born to dance to.

Whenever we encounter wonderful performances such as Cosmic Dance Recital, we need to acknowledge the daily dedication of the dancers behind the scenes.It was thought by Pythagoras that these celestial spheres created music as they moved, each to their own harmonic. The Hindu deity, Shiva, in one of his best-known forms, is the Nataraja, the Cosmic Dancer, and maybe a familiar image to some when he performs his dynamic cosmic dance.

In The Cosmic Dance , renowned image alchemist Stephen Ellcock presents a panglobal collection of remarkable, arresting, and surprising images drawn from the entire history of art to explore the ancient belief that the cosmos is reflected in all living things. My student placement at Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland this autumn has given me the opportunity to professionally engage with a range of world dance styles – from Highland Dancing and ceilidh to Chinese Tujia folk dance and even Italian Pizzica and Tammurriata.Detailed captions accompanying select images provide bitesize information on key concepts―from the golden ratio to the Tree of Life and the body politic― while thought-provoking quotations and poems interspersed throughout the artworks prompt a closer, more personal engagement with the images. This stunning treasury of artworks provides the perfect guide to a deeper contemplation of the world around us, allowing readers, in the words of William Blake, to ‘see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour’. This is a familiar and ancient maxim that recognises the mundane art of living and our connection to the world around us under a spectacular starry sky. When I look up at the sky and see the stars against a dark sky and imagine that my body is not solid as it appears, but, is full of “twinkling” atoms, buzzing around dancing in the vast empty space inside and outside of me, I am Nataraja the dancer.

The Cosmic Dance Christmas Recital featured Carnatic vocalist Ankna Arockiam alongside 19 dancers who treated us to 18 passionate and solemn solos, duets, trios and group dances. As high school students aged 12–14 years, they started learning Bharatanatyam at the age of 10, nurturing their passion for traditional dance and felt delighted to be able to perform as part of this showcase. Sharing 15 years of teaching and performing experience, they have both been striving to promote and grow innovative and high-quality South Asian traditional dance through their collaborative and independent work in Scotland and beyond. Through observation and study of the stars and planets they developed the basis of an astrological system by associating meaningful events and characteristics with their movements across the sky.You can read more about his book, Shiva's Dance: A Scientist Dances with the Sages, at https://shivasdance. It’s through astrology that we have our early understanding of the solar system and its connection to us.