Iridescent Lotus profile picture

Iridescent Lotus

Punk-rock babooshka

About Me

Performer, musician, singer, dancer, writer, massage therapist, esthetician, grad student on hiatus, henna artist, editor...the list goes on. Basically, a Renaissance woman, but with stripey knee socks and a nose ring. Rebellious bon vivant.

My Interests

Music, goth music, electronic music, composition, writing, dancing, bellydance, performance art, mysticism, witchcraft, tarot, mythology, art therapy, Jungian psychology, cooking, drawing, reading, metaphysics, psychology, yoga, Pilates, healing, theater, death, dreams, drumming, trance, trancework, transpersonal psychology, Wilhelm Reich, mystery, herbalism, massage, Ayurveda, Kali Maa.

I'd like to meet:

Artists, soulful types, true witches, archetypal storytellers, fantastic chefs, wily creators, music makers, booty shakers, dancers, wordsmiths, deep folk, navel gazers, humble mystics, etc.

Music:

Ashengrace, Kate Bush, Autumn, Kraftwerk, Clan of Xymox, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, David Bowie, Dead Can Dance, Danielle Dax, Cocteau Twins, Miranda Sex Garden, Sheila Chandra, Azam Ali, Ofra Haza, Natascha Atlas, Wench, Delirium, Grotus, Muslimgauze, The Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, Philip Glass, The Smiths, Kitka, Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, Tori Amos, Stellamara, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Ride, Chapterhouse, American Analog Set, Bitter Grace, the Smiths, the Chameleons UK, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Lush.

Movies:

"Chocolat," "W.R. and the Organism," "Personal Velocity," "Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind"

Television:

yucky, but I do enjoy the occasional cooking show

Books:

I read waaaay too much nonfiction; it's ridiculous. I just finished "Arousing the Goddess" by Tim Ward, which was nearly fictive, as it was autobiographical, but juicy like good fiction. A young man's sexual and spiritual awakening in the Buddhist ruins of India with sardonic wit and heartwrenching human frailty and honesty. I'm currently on "The Law of Love," by Laura Esquivel. Mostly I'm geeking out on some kind of esoteric book, or on something involving natural health.

Heroes:

Helena Blavatsky, Mata Hari, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Kali, Gloria Steinem.