Hilma af Klint is a major influence in design and life philosophy! Leonora Carrington of course, there is a new book about her. Gertrude Bell, amazing on a horse and Astarte..what is in a name? Astarte Gardens is next to the old one-room Star School and a field called "Starlight Meadow". I wanted the word star in our name and as an earth worshipper Astarte seemed appropriate. Astarte is the Spring Goddess whose breast milk turned to white lilies when it nourished the ground. The movement of the stars is part of bio-dynamic agriculture. The Pleiades were part of my old logo. Now you see a peony, crescent moons and turkey feathers…