"Penny is an amazing healer. She listens to you and inquires until she feels that she understands what you want and need .... Many years ago I placed my intention in becoming a compassionate human being, and the White Tara that Penny created brings it into my home, my psyche and heart." - Kathryn Payne, Vashon Island, WA

"PennyLea is a delight to work with ... accommodating, skillful, a true artist in every sense of the word." - Sister Patricia Mulvaney, St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Boise

A new series of prints will be available in the Sacred Images Gallery in late June of 2010! Please come back to see what’s new!

Currently I am working on illustrations for a translation of the Bhagavad Gita with Sanskrit scholar and author Amla Sanghvi. More information regarding the publishing of this book will appear in this section later in 2010.

New work in progress also includes the five Buddhist Taras, painted in egg tempra on wooden panels in icon-style, a series of yantra representing the nine planets, and a series of small yantra on calfskin vellum, this series will be housed between two plates of glass and set in a stand to allow for display/use or tabletop. My offering of yantra contribute in bringing personal balance based on your individual Vedic Astrologic makeup. For more information on Vedic Astrology, please visit the Northwest Institute of Vedic Sciences.

I recently finished working on a project for Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana. My contributions to the new Spes Unica academic building included an installation piece in the entry, a series of crosses designed for a cross placed outside the entry of each classroom, a large stained glass window and leaded glass door in the Reflection/Meditation room, and a series of icon-style panels to represent the Great Religions of the World. Photos of this project can be seen on the Sacred Images Collection page.

As a founding member and board member of a new, collaborative arts organization in Idaho’s Treasure Valley, I invite you to take a moment to visit the Treasure Valley Artist’s Alliance at www.treasurevalleyartistsalliance.org and join us for events! Please consider ways in which you can support the visual arts in your own area.

(Based on the Black Sect Tantric Ba-Gua)

This diagram can be over-laid over an entire property, a building, an individual room, a desk, a stove or a bed, etc. Always orient the entry into the house or room along the bottom of the chart. This means you will always enter a home or a room through one of the three possible door positions: Knowledge, Career or Benefactor positions. Orient each room in the house according to the door of the room, not the front of the house.

A Map of the Ba-Gua

 

 

Qualities Ascribed to the Ba-Gua

Wealth Fortunate blessings Number 4 Element - wood Colors - green, blue, purple	Fame & Reputation Rank and reputation Number 9 Element - fire Color - red	Partnership Relationships, love and commitment Number 2 Element - earth Colors - red, white, pink and yellow
Ancestors & Family Ancestors, past health Number 3 Element - wood Colors - green and blue	Spiritual Center Spirit and general health Number 5 Element - earth Colors - yellow, brown and earth tones	Children & Creativity Creativity and future Number 7 Element - metal Colors - whites and pastels
Knowledge Self-contemplation, education and cultivation Number 8 Element - earth Colors - black, blue and green	Career Journey, path and communications Number 1 Element - water Color  -  black	Benefactors & Travel Guardians, travel and assistance Number 6 Element - metal Colors - gray, white and black

 

Shapes That Correspond to the Elements

Metal	Circles and correlates to mental power
Water	Wave shapes and correlates to release and renewal
Earth	Horizontal rectangle which correlates to grounding and support
Fire	Triangle which correlates to expansion and transformation
Wood	Vertical Rectangle and correlates to personal growth

When you use the five elements to balance your environment, this balancing works inward and you feel it in your body. You might just notice that you are inclined to relax more in one room than another or that certain spaces invite you to stay longer than others.

Methods of Minor Additions

Bright or light objects	Mirrors, lighting, crystal prisms or gazing balls
Sound	Windchimes, bells, birds and nature
Life force	Aquariums, bonsai, plants, flowers, trees, pets, animals and birds
Weight or stillness	Heavy rocks and statues
Color	Five elements, colors
Movement	Windmills, mobiles, weather vanes, fountains, windsocks, flags, fans and clocks
Power	Firecrackers, arrowheads, coins and swords
Fragrance	Orange peel, incense, flowers
Others	Bamboo flutes, coins, beaded curtains, electrical objects, touch, tassels, fringe, personal symbols, pictures of family and friends, symbolic artwork, spiritual objects, holiday light strands, blind spot mirrors

Reinforce Cures With Body, Mind and Spirit

Body	Placement of object
Mind	Intention, visualization of outcome, invitation of Light
Speech	Prayers, mantras, sounds

When intentionally putting a cure in place, take time to focus on the cure and offer a prayer to your Source of Divinity to bless the action and bring harmony to all occupants.