some pictures from our equinox rite on Thursday morning. We put together a few deceased plants from the previous season , wrote out intentions on peeled birch bark and tossed it too the ducks, climbed a tree, sat in the sun and read Yates’ ‘The Wanderings of Oisin’

‘Bluesky esoteric book challenge. A book per day (it's okay to skip days if you're really busy), in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best occult books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!’
#esotericbookchallenge

few days late but I’ve spring clean(s)ed my altar today , have decided upon a new system to avoid it becoming cluttered in the physical and magical worlds

Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith, the illustrator behind the Rider-Waite tarot deck (the most widely used and recognised deck worldwide). She also illustrated over 20 books, wrote two collections of Jamaican Folklore and ran Green Sheaf Press, focusing on women writers.

Spong Man: This thoughtful littler fella is a pottery lid of a cremation urn. Discovered in an Anglo-Saxon cremation site in 1979 at Spong Hill, Norfolk, he dates somewhere between 460 and 1090 AD.

very much enjoying this wonderful tome. I’ve been stuck on trains all day trying to get home to visit my family near Whitby, my head is a wash with ghosts of crumbling Roman leaders, both brave and cowardly Britons and the looming menace of the invading saxons (only just read up to about 430)

“The Clacton Spear, or Clacton Spear Point, is the tip of a wooden spear discovered in Clacton-on-Sea in 1911. At approximately 400,000 years old, it is the oldest known worked wooden implement.”

putting on this day long show in Manchester to celebrate the Winter Solstice. 6 live acts announced, one suprise set to be announced and 3 DJs. Should be a banger.

4am reading, so far I am quite dubious and almost disgusted by this book but still extremely curious about where on earth they’re going with all this
This was written at the height of the ‘satanic panic’ in America and must have been extremely (if not intentionally) shocking at the time

third time is the charm