l-u-c-i-i-e

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

Trails of the AHR 31-35/? - Alpine Haute Route, June 2021

photo by: nature-hiking

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

Henri [2025]

Introducing Henri, the grass goat of the summer solstice. 🐐☀️

(Henri is the French form of Henry; I was watching a livestream of a French metal festival yesterday when creating him.)

[@stormcrow513]

see also: #goat, #midsummer

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

If you bring the drinks, I bring the psychedelics 🦄😉

@graveyarddirt @buddyblanc, coven matessss 💜 @gryphis-eyes and @friend-crow, of course 🌟 annnnd I can't find chicken anywhere 😭

Moot party!!

idk how to do these so reblog and tag ur moots/besties :3

i’ll start

@boingodigitalart @gummygoatgalaxy @morbidravez @thewarnerssister @20thcls @weblena-for-life @r4wr-c0r3zz @alex31624 @cinabonsticks

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

Brave Bird

by Li Wang

Landscape and Wildlife Mobile Photography Awards (MPA)

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

St John's Eve Herbs - part 3 : Procedures.

Smoking in a traditional fire is a widely used method for plants because, just as it does for humans, fire strengthens their power.

Generally, plants are presented to the flames by attaching them to a pole or throwing them across the fire, with the aim of "binding" (for example) backaches that may occur during the harvest. Green wheat belts are sometimes made specifically for this purpose, which are also woven with ivy to treat rheumatism.

It is also possible to weave certain herbs together and then present them to the fire to ensure protection and prosperity for the house, its inhabitants, and livestock.

-

[Excerpts arranged by me from M.C. Delmas's Dictionnaire de la France Mystérieuse. Pic @ladepeche.fr]

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

St John's Eve Herbs. Part 2 : Harvesting methods.

They must often be picked the day before, before sunrise.

It is important that they be covered with dew. In some regions, however (Vosges and Ardennes), they must be picked under the midday sun, while the Angelus is ringing.

In principle, herbs are harvested wherever they are found, but there are some specificities. It is often recommended to pick them backward, on an empty stomach, or even while reciting a magic spell and at sunrise. These are prescriptions frequently found in medieval and ancient herbalism, the "active" ingredient of each plant always being linked to a form of magic.

The gatherers are most often women, old or young virgins; I'll let you guess why.

-

[Excerpts arranged by me from M.C. Delmas's Dictionnaire de la France Mystérieuse, pic @lemondedesplantes.com ]

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

St John's Eve Herbs _ intro (1/5)

"Do not gather ferns or fern seeds on Saint John's Eve, do not sow them, do not cut or pull up herbs, do not expose woolen or linen cloths to the air or dew that night, imagining that they will not be eaten by moths or moths and that the herbs gathered that night will be beneficial and useful."

Thus, through the voice of Abbot Thiers, the Church condemned the gathering of Saint John's Eve herbs in the 17th century.

However, despite the Church's opposition, the magical power of Saint John's Eve herbs was widely reported in the French countryside in the 19th century.

-

[Excerpts arranged by me from M.C. Delmas's Dictionnaire de la France Mystérieuse. Pic @lemondedesplantes.com ]

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

@graveyarddirt

The soul sinks into the depths of prayer.

In the boundless, serene light of God’s loving presence,

the thirsty desert within begins to bloom —

fresh grass spreads gently across its barren ground,

and every crevice of old wounds, now heavy with grace,

quietly blossoms into life.

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

Anna Akhmatova, from "Leningrand Elegy"

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

Not bad for being drawn on the fly while I'm at work 😅

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

thee too, modest tressèd maid, when thy fallen stars appear; when in lawn of fire array’d sov'reign of yon powder’d sphere; to thee i chant at close of day, beneath, o maiden moon! thy ray.

see also: #mirabilis, #moon, #music

* Listen to/purchase: Moon, by Mirabilis

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

Utrecht Botanic Garden, Utrecht, The Netherlands

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

So, celebrate the Mother, the great Ancient One, to celebrate Life, the Source, and finally the Sun.

I created, with herbs long prayed over and whispered at night while falling asleep, a phantasmagorical, prophetical, dreamlike incense, composed of :

- Bay leaves (guardian ally, friend of Delphi)

- Red rose petals (a beautiful, dying girl)

- Daisies (Queen bees, Little Neighbors )

- Long-leaf rice scented with jasmine flowers (flowers of the Mother, abundance)

- Flytrap seeds (her gaping Maw)

- Datura inoxia seeds (Time, beyond time)

- Black sacra frankincense (resin of my Father, the great tree in the Desert, unconquered.)

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

Well, something has jolted me out of my usual lethargy lately, AND I translated some stuff about St. John's Eve hebs folklore this morning.

Then, I found more energy (where? Who? How?) to creatively prepare for my solstice, at 4:42 a.m. on Saturday. Luckily, it's early, because the daytime heat will be oppressive, as predicted.

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

More flowers and some leaves taken from 'Lessons in Flower Painting' by James Andrews.

Published 1836 by Charles Tilt, John Menzies, Thomas Wardle.

Getty Research Institute.

archive.org

[l-u-c-i-i-e]

Dishonored (1931) - Josef von Sternberg

- What makes you think of death? - Was I thinking of death?