New Moon

May
30
A shimmering night sky with thousands and thousands of visible stars, cut through by the Milky Way, which looks like tendrils of white and black smoke.

New Moon: On a moonless night

It's Friday, and our rose bush is on the brink of erupting with ten times more flowers than
12 min read
May
02
A massive bonfire: orange and yellow flames on a large pile of brush. It sits on the shore of a lake at dusk.

Solar Summer + New Moon (Occult): Walpurgisnacht

11 min read
Apr
04
A botanical illustration of a plant with clusters of tiny white flowers and soft-looking leaves.

New Moon: Ordeal by illness

It's Friday. Hello. I have covid. And as some majority of people who've had covid (and
2 min read
Feb
28
A many-colored wheel around a seven-pointed star with a man's face in the center. Strange symbols and illustrations pervade.

New Moon: Surveying alchemical symbols

It's Friday, and I am simultaneously in recovery from last weekend's travels (beautiful, but overwhelming) and
8 min read
Jan
03
A woodcut of a bearded man in robes, better described by the main image caption because of Ghost's alt text character limit.

New Moon: Making rite

10 min read
Dec
06
Two people wearing all black attire and stylized gas masks play electric guitars on a stage. Heavy orange lighting.

New Moon: Ecstasy in the rhythm

It's Friday. Hello. In these very difficult weeks, I have found music more of a sanctuary than ever.
12 min read
Nov
08
A glittering impression of colorful, shining objects on a night-black backdrop, too many to count.

New Moon (Again): Meanings of life

7 min read
Nov
01
A Baroque altar at a cathedral. The photograph has had color channels adjusted to only show black, red, yellow, and white.

Solar Winter + New Moon: Black Mass

It's Friday, and it's Calan Gaeaf — or Samhain to many of you. Hello. From an animist
13 min read
Oct
04
Nasty, dark wooden club-like objects with sharpened spikes protruding from the top.

New Moon: Anatomy of impact

It's Friday; and in contrast to the several Fridays before this one, I have time to properly focus.
16 min read
Sep
06
Bare alpine tundra. In the background, white snowy mountains. In the foreground, black asphalt.

New Moon: To do more with less

It's Friday. Hello. Thank you for bearing with my absence last week. The situation that stole me away
13 min read