Velumnoctis - ✴ 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖊 ✴

inside the St. Marien Cathedral

Zwickau (Saxony), Germany

And Art, better than black opium […] an intoxication lulling our scourged hearts to sleep.

— STANISLAS DE GUAITA ⚜️ Rosa Mystica, (1885)

Sword, Southern Germany, 1st half of the 16th century

from The Museum of Art and History Geneva

Devises Heroïqves (1557) Claude Paradin

The witches chair from the mermaid inn, Rye, East Sussex

Continually trying to look on the bright side interferes with our finding the wisdom that lies in the fruitful darkness. Continually striving upward toward the light means we never grow downward into our own feet, never become firmly rooted on the earth, never explore the darkness within and around us, a darkness without whose existence the light would have no meaning.

The Fasting Path

Stephen Harrod Buhner

Maxmilián Pirner (1854-1924) - Hekate, 1901

The goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts and necromancy (...and dogs)