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Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet
Text ID: By thinking so much, I became echo and abyss. By delving within, I made myself into many.
Night is not less wonderful than the day . . . it is lit by the splendor of the stars and it reveals things to us that the day does not know. Night is closer than day to the mystery of all beginning. The abyss is open only by night: day spreads a veil over it.
Nicolas Berdyaev, "The Middle Ages"
Selene, Goddess of the Moon
Statue of Selene, shown wearing the crescent on her forehead and holding a torch in her right hand, while her veil billows over her head.
In Greek mythology, Selene (Ancient Greek: Σελήνη [selɛ̌ːnɛː] "Moon") is the goddess of the moon. She is the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and sister of the sun-god Helios, and Eos, goddess of the dawn. She drives her moon chariot across the heavens.
Several lovers are attributed to her in various myths, including Zeus, Pan, and the mortal Endymion. In classical times, Selene was often identified with Artemis, much as her brother, Helios, was identified with Apollo.
Amoureux de la nuit et de ses profondeurs.
(In love with the night and its depth.)
— STANISLAS DE GUAITA ⚜️ La Muse Noire, (1883)
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As locations for spiritual interaction, churches are quite naturally 'places betwixt' where the 'Otherworld' and its presences may be particularly palpable. The churchyard, as a burial ground, is a particularly potent 'place betwixt' and thus highly useful to the witch; the graves being employable within traditional charms and rites of 'get rid of' magic, healing, protection and turning. Their dust or earth have their old uses within curative charms, acts of blessing and of cursing. As the centre of a web of 'corpse roads' and 'spirit paths', converging from across the landscape, the churchyard is a place of spirit contact, the sight, and gaining useful information of the past, present and the future. It is to the churchyard the traditionally minded may travel to enter into rites of witch-initiation.
Gemma Gary, The Devil's Dozen: Thirteen Craft Rites of the Old One
Vintage photo of Venus phases from the Helen Groger-Wurm Papers (World II series). © Open Research Library - The Australian National University, Canberra.
Leo constellation, from Firmamentum Sobiescianum, sive Uranographia, part of Prodromus Astronomiae (1690) by Johannes Hevelius
Also made this little bugger from an old file and reindeer bone. Keeps a very nice edge to itself. Give me a holler via ask box if interested in giving it a new home. Also tons of other forged items in my etsy shop so if you are interested to check them out at:
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Prophetess [...] Of blood seared by the venomous spells and prestigia of desire exciting in the bend of your nocturnal throat the voracity of vampires, vast dance of nuptial gravitations.
— ROGER GILBERT-LECOMTE ⚜️ BLACK MIRROR: The Selected Poems of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, transl. by David Rattray, (2010)
The solar eclipse of June 29, 1927. Photo by H. von Kluber in the Lapland region of Finland.
(Cambridge University)
And Art, better than black opium […] an intoxication lulling our scourged hearts to sleep.
— STANISLAS DE GUAITA ⚜️ Rosa Mystica, (1885)
