Rowan

Today is the second day of The Feast for the Three Days of the Writing of the Book of the Law in the Thelemic Calendar. On this day, April 9th, under direction from his first wife and Scarlet Woman, Rose Edith Kelly, Aleister Crowley wrote the second chapter of Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of The Law) as was "transmitted" to him from a shadowy presence which identified itself as "Aiwass".

The second day is sometimes called the "Feast of Hadit", after the second god of the Thelemic "trinity", and the speaker of the second chapter.

"I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death.”

A warming tea to help celebrate Beltane or any time you want to set your inner flame free!

Flame and flower, bloom and rise, Awaken now what softly lies. Warm my spirit, spark my soul, Ignite the fire that makes me whole. With every sip, my inner fire flows free, This is my will, so mote it be.

Karla Ortiz, “Second Omen”

Theodora Capat, “The Asasabonsam”

Zdzisław Beksiński (1929–2005), untitled (BI77)

Bat Hour and Hour of the Witches, photography (no AI) by Victoria Veil on Instagram

Agostino Arrivabene (b. 1967), “Kore metamorfica II”

oil on canvas, 2025

Magnificent sky. Les étoiles et les curiosités du ciel. The stars and the curiosities of the sky. 1882.

Sometimes it's just as simple as, after a stressful, long and tiring day, I just want to turn off my brain and get fucked so hard that I forget all about my hard day. And men are best at doing that. Men don't want anything from me except just wanting to use me as an object. Men don't care if I am a lesbian they just want to use me as they want. And I don't have to put any emotional labour in as I have to do with girls.

Frederick Carter (1883–1967), “The Dragon of the Alchemists”

engraved on wood by W.M. Quick, 1936