Velumnoctis - ✴ 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖊 ✴

Prophetess [...] Of blood seared by the venomous spells and prestigia of desire exciting in the bend of your nocturnal throat the voracity of vampires, vast dance of nuptial gravitations.

— ROGER GILBERT-LECOMTE ⚜️ BLACK MIRROR: The Selected Poems of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, transl. by David Rattray, (2010)

Denis Forkas

The Burney Relief ( also known as the Queen of the Night relief ). A terracotta plaque from the Old-Babylonian period, dated between 19th-18th century BCE.

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A Pair of Intertwined Serpents, Kundalini, Carl Gustav Jung

Claude Paradin, Devises Héroïques, 1551

As you well know, you are something of an enchantress. And I am still under your spell. In earlier times you would probably have been either worshipped or hanged — or perhaps both, in that order.

Paul Brooks, quoted in ‘Anne Sexton: A Biography’ by Diane Wood Middlebrook

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen." — Shannon L. Alder