S. V.

Heinrich Kley (1863–1945)

“Walpurgisnacht” (Walpurgis Night)

So I'll just say this.

I see you.

I know what you're doing.

Even if you think no one will notice, even if you remove your emdashes and whatnot, I assure you. I noticed.

Doesn't matter if I'm just one person. With the amount of AI generated BS going around, so many more people will start to notice patterns between all these creators. Why are they structured the same way? Why do the same sentence structures keep repeating? Why are there so many groups of three? Why does the tone sound so different from what this person usually posts?

Why does everyone sound the same?

And let me throw my coin in the buzzword/trendy action bucket, but for Good (because why not, it might be fun):

the next most powerful thing to be as a witch or magical practitioner isss ->

✨becoming actively conscious and MINDFUL about the things you see fit to add to your practice✨

The Holy Mountain is a forthcoming zine of comparative religion, polytheistic theology, occult leftist theory and discourse. We are accepting submissions for visual elements, as well as poetry and prayers, until February 20th.

We are particularly interested in automatic forms of art and those heavily informed by leftist theory. Submit by emailing theholymountaincollective@gmail. All submission files should be PDF of .docx, please include titles of your pieces as well the name you wish to be credited by. You may also include a short artist statement to explain anything about your work you want us to know. Pieces not selected may be chosen for a future edition.

As someone who's done a nonzero amount of train hopping and a lot of travelling, I have the belief that the rails are conduits for a lot of power. Lots of blood and suffering was poured onto them (mostly by slave labor, and further mostly people of color) in the quest for the intercontinental railroad. Millions were displaced for it to be laid. That suffering has soaked into the hot iron, and as it traces its way across the country it carries that power with it.

It's not all suffering, of course. In the time since, the rails have been a way to connect people, whether it's commuters using local light rail or oogles stowing away on a grainer porch, it also bears the energy of travel, of meetings and departings, and of new beginnings. Countless songs and poems have been written about the rails, of their sordid and brutal history and their hopeful and trailblazing futures, and even of their incredibly monumental existence as it currently is.

Before a trip, one of my favorite rituals is to bury a jar or sachet of offerings to Hermes near the local hop-out, and if I'm actually hopping, I'll pour out a little wine bottle from the local convenience store onto the rails I rode in on, as thanks for getting me there.

How much of it is actually useful, how much of it applies to your spirits or cosmology?

Who or what do you neglect regularly? What areas need more attention, more focus? What flames need to be tended?

Is there anything that no longer serves a purpose? Can anything be simplified to greater effect? How much time do you devote to strengthening your core skills and foundations?

A couple people have asked me about my Book and the features it has, so here we go :3

It is essentially this; a Voyager notebook. It's modular and uses elastic bands to hold the little notebook inserts in place. I used to have a really thick junk journal, but it was just very cumbersome to transport and wasn't practical in a lot of other ways. I was really inspired by reading @cafeconbrujeria posting about their Book. I believe they said that the book should be the only item they absolutely need to pack when traveling (or something along those lines), and that's definitely carried over into my own practice.

15th c. necromantic diagrams

pages from a necromancer's spell book, england, 15th c.