“There is no religion higher than Truth.” – Helena Blavatsky
Introduction: The Weight of the Sky
Saturn devours its children, but the true order is different: the child must kill the parent, breaking the cycle and shattering time’s wall. When the parent kills the child, the world closes in on itself, and the future rots in the past. We are not meant to be devoured.
What if the child doubts? What if the parent does not die?
What if the child is not the executioner? Is there a difference between what should be and the reality of things?
The Exhibition: 200 Visionary Pieces at MUNAL
From May 2025 to February 2026, the National Museum of Art (MUNAL) in Mexico City will showcase 200 powerful, visionary artworks by Mexican artists or those who resided in or were naturalized as Mexicans. These pieces, displayed across multiple rooms, demonstrate psychological movement through visions rather than maps.
Artists and their Influences
Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, though not self-declared teosophists, were deeply influenced by Theosophy, Tarot, alchemy, Hermetism, Sufism, and Tibetan Buddhism. Their art reflects this influence, with Carrington exploring the feminine as a spiritual channel and Varo obsessively focusing on symbols, magical diagrams, and astral travel.
Art as a Conduit: Necromancy, Visions, and Mediums
Artists are conduits or mediums, accessing other planes through their work. Suffering is seen as a catalyst for spiritual growth. Sometimes, the lessons are so demanding that it’s easy to lose one’s mind.
The Absence of Divine Justice
When the heavens are invoked, they often disappear in harrowing narratives. Divine justice sometimes falls silent.
My Return from Saturn: A Confession
Under my second return of Saturn in my astrological chart, I plead for 100 more years! We live in times of small waves and big people. It has been impossible to understand everything.
Saturn’s Return: A Soul’s Journey
The second return of Saturn signifies returning to oneself after a long journey, diagnosing, consuming, and seeing oneself in the soul’s infinite dance—an eight in Sufi space, a cosmic dance.
Against the Systems: The Fire of Disobedience
This is my vision, and I will act accordingly—violently. I came to liberate you forcefully, sarcastically, to destroy cherished objects.
The Sufism of the Feminine
Femininity embodies intuition, memory, and imagination. However, masculine brutality has also played a significant role in our history and art. It’s impossible to separate the muses from the executioner who, despite his animalism, idealized them.
New Migrations: Displaced Bodies, Stateless Artists, and Wandering Ideas
Mexico, a nation cursed yet brimming with dreams, symbolism, melancholy, complexity, and disobedience.
The Language of the Spirit: Politics and Possession
Francisco I. Madero, Mexico’s first democratically elected president, sought political and spiritual guidance through séances with his deceased brother—a vision that justified both political rebellion and the Mexican Revolution.
Urano Speaks: Breakthrough as Salvation
Urano, the sky before time, represents primordial rupture. Its pulse propels the celestial vault forward.
Saturn’s Castration
Saturn, Urano’s son, devoured its children because it was prophesied that one would destroy him. Cronos, Urano and Gaea’s son, castrated Urano with an obsidian knife while attempting to unite with Gaea—an act of sacred treachery and cosmic liberation.
The Titanomachy
Zeus, leader of the young gods (Olympians), led a war against the Titans (Saturn and his brothers) for ten years. The heavens split, and Saturn was imprisoned in the Tartarus—a deep abyss of the underworld.
The Torn Veil
People in this present time have gazed into the abyss and retreated from these divine columns and traced paths. Some artists faced ferocious authoritarian persecution; others refined a vision of a free, imaginative, and intellectually exquisite Mexico.
Living Three Times
We need to live three times, like Saturn revealing instead of devouring.
Key Questions and Answers
- What is the significance of Saturn in this exhibition? Saturn represents the cyclical nature of time and transformation, symbolizing both destruction and revelation.
- Who are Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, and how did they influence the exhibition? Carrington and Varo were Mexican artists influenced by Theosophy, Tarot, alchemy, and other esoteric traditions. Their work reflects these influences, with Carrington exploring feminine spirituality and Varo focusing on symbols and astral travel.
- What is the concept of “new migrations” in this context? New migrations refer to displaced individuals, stateless artists, and wandering ideas that lack a divine or national allegiance.
- How does Urano’s story relate to the exhibition? Urano’s tale of primordial rupture and cosmic liberation parallels the exhibition’s themes of transformation, breakthrough, and revelation.
