Spica

Cosmic Portrait

Stefanie Wenner


Spica is not one, Spica is two Stars. Spica is the name of the grain in the hand of the maiden, in the constellation of Virgo, the virgin. This is our image of her today: She floats above us, lying between Leo and Libra on the flat disc of the Zodiac. Spica, as the wheat in the hand of the maiden, has a lot to tell us about the grain, which was not cultivated by humans but rather the other way around. Crop culture required more people to work in the fields to tend to the plants than was needed before. While hunting and gathering kept people on the move, the cultivation of the grain created the need to stay, the need to work harder, to grow more grain. This was not at all considered to be a good thing by the humans of the time. People were fighting against the grain, holding up against civilization. They cultivated being on the move; they did not want to become citizens. Spica talks about this. They talk as the two-faced star of the wisdom of the moon, the wisdom of life, nurtured and grown in bodies we now refer to as female.

Spica

Cosmic Portrait

Stefanie Wenner

Tempera and gold foil on canvas

100 x 75 cm

2025