Velumnoctis - ✴ 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖊 ✴

The solar eclipse on Wednesday, April 17th, 1912, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Vintage photo of Venus phases from the Helen Groger-Wurm Papers (World II series). © Open Research Library - The Australian National University, Canberra.

Magic is an expression of power and an expression of how that power relates to you, your environment, and your ancestors. Magic is the interface of the land and Divinity; it is the power of the elements around you, the power of the sun and moon, the air that you breathe, and the language of the unseen beings, both benign and malicious, that are living alongside you.

Josephine McCarthy, The Magical Knowledge Trilogy

NOSFERATU (2024), dir. Robert Eggers

Armored breastplate crafted by Filippo Negroli (fl.1532-51), made of metal. Currently part of the collection at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy.

Paul Caponigro (1932–2024) - “Entrance, Reefert Church, Ireland”

gelatin silver print, 1989

“I needed to be reminded of mysterious and sacred things,”

— Albert Camus, from his preface to Jean Grenier’s “Les Iles,” c. 1959 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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

Babs Webb

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

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