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bitter aloe adorned with the webs of a dome spider (Cyrtophora moluccensis)

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7 months of carving coming to an end, I lost some details and added some. I love and need to see the prints, but honestly, the block is the final art piece for me. It’s what I spend all my time with and each one has a segment of my life attached with it.

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Aliens (1986) Directed by James Cameron

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Michael and the Serpent by Baron Arild Rosenkrantz, c. 1952

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Ivan Bilibin (Russian, 1876-1942), Archangel Michael, 1919-20. Ink and watercolour on paper, 32.5 x 27.5 cm.

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Fehérlófia descends the twisted roots of Turkey Oak. Apollo calls into the darkness of Python's cave...

Michael flies into the gaping mouth of Hell.

Michealmas is upon us. In my practice this is the time of year in which we say goodbye and goodnight to The Sun.

The Sun will slumber and will not awake until spring.

The Sun will descend into darkness and will not return until The Beast is slain.

While Michael traverses the bowels of Hell, there is no one to survey the skies- and so The Wild Hunt begins.

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Priest wearing the mask of Anubis

Fresco from Pompeii, Villa dei Misteri, Temple of Isis

Dated between the late 2nd and early 1st centuries BCE

"Of all the Egyptian animal gods, only Anubis was worshipped outside of Egypt in his animal form. Images of him have been found on wall paintings, in sculpture, on coins and lamps.

In these images he is often shown with his dog head, wearing a cloak and holding a caduceus. The caduceus was the rod carried by Hermes. During the Greco-Roman period Anubis became associated with Hermes, as a result of both gods’ role in leading the dead to the underworld. This figure is called a psychopomp. Sometimes the image of Hermes and Anubis is called Hermanubis."

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Humberto Castro - Horizons, 2021

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Your body is an ancestor. Your body is an altar to your ancestors. Every one of your cells holds an ancient and anarchic love story. Around 2.7 billion years ago free-living prokaryotes melted into one another to form the mitochondria and organelles of the cells that build our bodies today. All you need to do to honor your ancestors is to roll up like a pill bug, into the innate shape of safety: the fetal position. The curl of your body, then, is an altar not just to the womb that grew you, but to the retroviruses that, 200 million years ago taught mammals how to develop the protein syncytin that creates the synctrophoblast layer of the placenta. Breathe in, slowly, knowing that your breath loops you into the biome of your ecosystem. Every seven to ten years your cells will have turned over, rearticulated by your inhales and exhales, your appetites and proclivity for certain flavors. If you live in a valley, chances are the ancient glacial moraine, the fossils crushed underfoot, the spores from grandmotherly honey fungi, have all entered into and rebuilt the very molecular make up of your bones, your lungs, and even your eyes. Even your lungfuls of exhaust churn you into an ancestor altar for Mesozoic ferns pressurized into the fossil fuels. You are threaded through with fossils. Your microbiome is an ode to bacterial legacies you would not be able to trace with birth certificates and blood lineages. You are the ongoing-ness of the dead. The alembic where they are given breath again. Every decision, every idea, every poem you breathe and live is a resurrection of elements that date back to the birth of this universe itself. Today I realize that due to the miracle of metabolic recycling, it is even possible that my body, somehow, holds the cells of my great-great grandmother. Or your great-great grandmother. Or that I am built from carbon that once intimately orchestrated the flight of a hummingbird or a pterodactyl. Your body is an ecosystem of ancestors. An outcome born not of a single human thread, but a web of relations that ripples outwards into the intimate ocean of deep time.

Your Body is an Ancestor, Sophie Strand

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Sun Conjunct Jupiter April 11, 2023 The Sun brings highlights. It sheds light and illuminates.

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Carlo Crivelli (ca.1430-1435 — ca.1493-1500), probably the most individual of the 15th century Venetian painters - St. Michael the Archangel, ca. 1476

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It's been a while since this restriction was pertinent, and I am once again reveling in my usual garb of choice

Wearing head-to-toe black while I still can

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“There is a huge amount of misunderstanding of what astral projection actually is, and what people think it is. And there's also massive misunderstanding about visionary magic. When you're talking about astral projection, journeying, entering the soul garden, things like that, what you're talking about is where, for the most part, the majority of people think that their spirit is locked into their body, that their energy is locked into their body, and that their skin is a barrier and that they go no further, or they have a little bit of an aura around them, and that's it. That's actually not correct. The body is a vessel; the spirit has the ability to spread out. It has no shape, it has no boundary other than the physical body, but it can stretch beyond that, and it can spread right out. It can experience bump up against other spirits, other energies. Your vital force can bump up against somebody else's vital force, or the vital force of a tree or a rock. The mind is the bridge of communication, and within the mind, is the imagination, which provides the vocabulary. What a lot of people think of as astral projection, like I said earlier is this: suddenly you've shot out of your body and you're still looking at your body. You're not out of your body as in you haven't left it. You have stretched because there's no boundary for the spirit, and it's done it in this uncontrolled projected way, which is actually really unhealthy for you. It causes a panic in the body, so it sucks it straight back in again. So it's often very difficult to control and act in what people think of as astral projection. As in, suddenly I'm floating on the ceiling and looking down that sort of thing. Yes, that happens, that is a part of visionary stuff. But it's unhealthy in that it's not as safe, it leaves you wide open for all sorts of problems. It also puts a horrendous strain on the body, so the older you get, the more dangerous it becomes. Whereas working in a more controlled way and understanding this stretching and that being in two places at once is perfectly normal. You don't have to have the spirit just over there and it's left the body. When you do that, if your spirit completely leaves your body, your body dies. It just doesn't work like that. So it is stretched, and maybe that's not the right word. The actual reality is that you're in two or even three different places at once.”

— Josephine McCarthy on astral projection and visionary work, Glitch Bottle #128 (32:40)

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Widow, Morgan Sorensen

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Happy Lunar New year! It’s now year of the rabbit