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You would have taken my soul spellbound into your embracing arms as into a magic circle.

— FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN ⚜️ Hyperion, transl. by Ross Benjamin, (2008)

When sun goes down And moon gets high You can hear her cacklin’ Out in the night

Monstrous witch on a broom, Cornelis Saftleven

Mid 17th century

Liberation from self-sabotage requires an understanding of how we co-create the life we experience. We are not innocent victims suffering at the cruel hands of fate. Rather, we participate in the circumstances of our lives by giving consent, consciously or unconsciously, to most of the pleasure or the pain we experience. Self-responsibility enables us to see that our reactions to the inevitable stresses and challenges of life are a result of choices that we are making. It requires the courage to acknowledge that we may have an emotional investment in maintaining our negative emotions and beliefs.

Freedom From Self-Sabotage

Peter Michaelson

Wrought iron key, Germany, 15th-16th century

from The Museum of Applied Arts Budapest

“Witches, with hearts like a wild song,”

— Charles Guérin, tr. by David Paley, from Poems; “The Bridal Night,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

January 27, 1924 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

J. van de Velde II, A witch at her cauldron surrounded by beasts, Wellcome Collection, 1626

I do believe in an everyday sort of magic - the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of syncronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone.”

— Charles de Lint

Silver mirror, Roman, 4th century AD

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Spiked dog collar, 17th or 18th century.

Used for hunting dogs to protect the neck from attacks by bears, wolves, or wild boars.

Summoning x Lugburz

Post-Mortem Laureatus, Kimon Loghi, 1896

Gemma Gary, The Devil’s Dozen: Thirteen Craft Rites of the Old One

'16th-century english devil, applying cosmetics' in masks - jamie shalleck (1973)

A Pair of Intertwined Serpents, Kundalini, Carl Gustav Jung

armor composed of 1.074 plates / Polish, 16th century