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Monday, October 7, 2024

"Irish village" by Daria R

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See the piece on ArtStation here! See where else the Artist Shout-Out has spread here! The shout-out choice was inspired by the Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Day: síneadh fada, which is, "An Irish diacritic mark having the form of an acute accent, which is placed over a vowel to indicate that the letter should be pronounced with a long sound (as É in Éireann, í in síneadh, etc.)."

Codices It was the “supermoon” of 2017, or at least the visible supermoon of 2017 for where I lived the other night, and compared to many full moons of the last year, this one wound up being far more involved. Sabbatic revelry was the first order of business, but as I chatted with the Devil, he was very focused on what to do with my “grimoire.” (I’ll put it in scare-quotes here the first time,…

Nemetona & Self & Enchantment & Other

I don’t get enough time outside—work and other business occupies time that I try to reclaim for myself again when I am able. And I’m hoping I’ll have a bit of time here in the autumn to do more outside. If nothing else, for me, sitting and reflecting while outside leads into a kind of meditative “zoning-out” in nature, “communing” with nature. I will watch the swaying trees and leaves, listen to…

[NB: Recent Affairs & Notioning]

Reading: I’ve recently read Geosophia by Jake Stratton-Kent and decided to order his The Testament of Cyprian the Mage for reasons. I’ve also read A Trojan Feast by Joshua Cutchin (very interesting), Gordon White’s Pieces of Eight (very good), The Mabinogion again (Otherworldly journey records & travelogues), selections from The Celtic Heroic Age (edited by John T. Koch; yes, that’s his nomme de…

[NB: Further Leviathanic Notes]

I ponder the leviathan and myths and the Otherworlds. When you are working on your culture and your practice— Does it promote toxic masculinity (or toxic something-else)? Does it exclude other myths, peoples, art? Is it monological & promote instrumental reason? Does it treat the earth & people & nature with respect, even reverence? Do you feel open & intimate with yourself, others, with the…

[This post draws on notions I get at in terms of aesthetics, worlding, and etc. via Heidegger, Adorno, and Berque.] While engaging in some reductionist and sexist ponderings about tantra, Kenneth Grant offers the notion of tantra (& trance) as getting the object of consciousness (ego) to diffuse itself into the field of consciousness. In a sense, disassociating ego to Talker and into the world…

I finally caught up to where my magical journals, since I started Antic Delights way back in ’13 or so, are transcribed. Today, I thought, “I’ll see about that really old journal–or the first one in the shelf.” It dates probably from ’94 to ’96 or so–and it demonstrates I’ve always been eclectic, trying to synthesize and make sense of everything. But also, my Talker felt the need to list all the…

Directionality has been a topic that bothered me for ages. Western occultism tends to assign different significances to the four cardinal directions, and I found myself wondering Why. Why is East associated with Air in many traditions while South is Fire? Why does Black Mother appear in the North? The Directions have elemental and temperamental associations as well as different assignations of…