Tag: esoteric art
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Darkening of the Light
Welcome, dear ones. The days grow ever shorter, and the branches bare their souls as the earth is littered with ruby leaves all along my street. Nylon webs sprout from the eaves of houses and purple lights twinkle as we approach the first station of the so-called Holiday Season. Although I haven’t crafted a horror…
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Among the Dwarves
All photos Jason Triefenbach and JM Kamp In my body It is midnight The spray Of black waterfalls Resounds One year ago this week I had the opportunity to visit Iceland with my spouse. In addition to taking in the natural beauty of the island and the quirky culture of its people, I engaged with the…
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Scavenged Rituals
In review: Scavenged Rituals Issue V1N3 released Autumn 2023, available from Portland Button Works and The Spiral House Shop I recently came across an online discussion stating that the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Europe has begun denying entrance to pagans and witches (1). Meanwhile, The Serpent’s Key, an esoteric supply shop in Hanover Pennsylvania, has endured…
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Green Dream Threshold
. One morning, as I woke, I was led toward Henbane by an unseen guide. I tell that story HERE, and by the end of it I’d got my hands on some ink – specifically this Verdant Inks Green Blood Henbane from Rosarium Blends. That was in the Summer- the vial arrived and sat unopened into Autumn…
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Herbarium Tremens
_ Fullness and Satiety to you my lovely friends. Tonight we have our front door open, and the sound of crickets is echoing in from the dark. This above is a cupful of Borage petals and seeds – I have been drying them through the Summer as my plants drop them. This is a generational…
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Hekate Praxis (3 of 3)
Dream, Voice, Ornament, Offering For this final of three planned posts on my work with the goddess Hekate I’ll refer obliquely to my journal of the past couple months, and some of the ways that this deepening relationship plays out. … “16 names of the goddess” I awoke from a dream one morning in early…
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Hekate Praxis (2 of 3)
: : “Through your alchemical ash, I am transformed.” -Cyndi Brannen, Keeping Her Keys : Hekate altar, March 2023.Author’s personal archive. In my recent post “Be Not Afraid” I wrote about Time and some of the ways humans try to organize and chart it. Against the spectre of an unwieldy final piece of writing, I…
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Hekate Praxis (1 of 3)
+ “Hail mighty Hekate of thresholds, many-named goddess of roads and crossroads, gate-mistress, patroness of travelers and of the lost; Solar and Saturnian, bearer of chains who dissolves that which binds us…” + Hello my loves. In this first of three short updates about new ongoing projects, I want to share an experience that is…
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Lunar Salutations and Hallowed Howls
– – “When the spirits ask ‘who are you?’, you better have a damn good answer.” – Aaron Leitch (on Glitch Bottle podcast episode 10 Aug 8 2017) … Hello my friends, and Happy October! It is Autumn in Portland and although the weather here is still warm most days, other harbingers of the season…
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Enflame Thyself
Enflame Thyself Hello again Friends, I hope this finds you in improving circumstances as our shared plague begins to loosen its grip. At a recent corporeal gathering of friends we debated whether Covid is really losing power or if the coming months will see a new resurgence of illness and corresponding quackery from the political…
Ecstatic Agendas 