satanism

Nov
21
Black ink on a white page. There are depictions of circles, triangles, diamonds, and five- or six-pointed stars, with Latin and Hebrew lettering.

New Moon: On grimoires

14 min read
Aug
29
A black and white engraving: a robed person crawling and passing through a boundary on the horizon where their world of trees, buildings, and celestial objects gives way to abstract textures.

New Moon: The esoteric & the occult (Part I)

It's Friday. Hello. I'm about to be on a weekend trip that will prevent me from
8 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
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
Jul
05
Two sepia tone photos of a bronze sculpture. The sculpture is half-man, half-goat, reclining, bearded, playing a flute.

New Moon: The Devil as Pan

It's Friday, and not only is the Moon new, but the Earth is at aphelion, its furthest annual
8 min read
Apr
12
New Moon: Lucifer/Apollon

New Moon: Lucifer/Apollon

11 min read
Feb
09
A painting. A humanoid goat is crowned with leaves and surrounded by old women with distorted faces, bearing dead infants.

New Moon: The Devil I know

It's Friday. Hello. I'm coming back to some first principles of my rites this week, because
17 min read
Oct
20
A white design on a black background. There are a lot of abstractly threatening shapes, encircled with the word ASMODAY.

New Moon: Asmodeus/Dionysos

13 min read
Jul
21
Etsy listings, mostly for shirts that say, "Satan is my Daddy," "Satan is my sugar daddy," "Satan is a woman," and so on.

New Moon: Mass market satanism

It's Friday. Hello. I'm writing up something very long and extra footnoted that I've
22 min read
May
26
A painting: delicate, wispy, and muted except for the red garb of the titular whore, topless on a multiheaded beast.

New Moon (Again): Great Beast, Scarlet Woman

15 min read