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Almonds for the Present Moment

from Abundance by Sophie Fetokaki

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  • ✿ This votive candle comes with one of twelve high-quality postcard prints of the album artwork. The postcards each have a unique digital download code for the album printed on the back. The candle is made of beeswax with sweet almond cream fragrance. It was created by making a silicone mould from a 3d scan and print of myself, in the pose in which I appear on the album cover. You can see a video of it burning along to "Almonds of the Present Moment" here: youtu.be/RUX8nNBT5IM

    ✿ Votive candles are used to aid prayer in many spiritual practices. I imagine them to clarify and illumine the intention of the one who prays, and to act as offerings to the forces that help bring about what is desired.

    ✿ This particular candle is modelled on the Greek Orthodox τάματα (tamata), votive offerings (often in candle form) that are dedicated to a saint, and act as a link between individual human desire and infinite, divine life force. I'm drawn to these objects because of the association for me with the healing power of art.

    ✿ This votive candle is the physical manifestation of Abundance.

    ✿ I light it to thank the life force for my continued creative transformation through music and song. I light it to illumine my path through future transformations, as long as I move and breathe. I light it to thank the life force for my return to the earth, once I move and breathe no more. I invite you to light it, to meditate on your own time and on all you wish to creatively transform in yourself.

    ✿ The Abundance votive candle was realised through the generous collaboration of Savvas Avraam at CYENS - Thinker Maker Space (3d scan and print) and Vasiliki Riala at ÷χρονικό (silicone mould and candle).     ... more
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lyrics

On a mountain high, one summer’s day,
I laid down my woes to die.
With a pair of my baby shoes
and a picture of me when I was small
I wept goodbye to all the pain and trying

And said, “I will love you, till we both die
and we’re buried in the cold, cold ground
and you become a part of me again

So long my woes,
Fare thee well.”

As the sun sank low and the moon rose high,
I gave these words away.
And to the sound of a familiar tune
I burned the pages that you gave to me,
put my hands to my chest and prayed,
for your release, and mine

And said, “I will hold you when you are scared
and I’ll listen to your small, small voice
And you’ll become a part of me again.

So long my woes,
Fare thee well.”

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from Abundance, released November 15, 2021

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