Zodiac Series

Dec
12
A collection of boulders covered by a flatter stone slab, surrounded by other stones in a circle. It's either sunrise or sunset.

Last Quarter (Zodiac Series): The anthropology of mortality

Hello. It's Friday, and there has been a death in our home. Yesterday my owner's immensely
3 min read
Nov
14
A round, rocky, icy object in outer space. Its color is mostly a kind of eggshell white with some browner smears here and there.

Last Quarter (Zodiac Series): Scorpio's generation

Hello. It's Friday, and it's chilly, and the trees are nearly bare, and the Pleiades are
11 min read
Oct
10
A photographic still life: some ceramic and metal scales loaded with tiny gold discs. Nearby is a seal for wax, some brass trinkets, wooden blocks with black letters, lacework, and flowers.

Full Moon (Zodiac Series): Animist justice

It's Friday. Hello. I woke to our first frost this morning. Some plants in the garden are now
11 min read
Sep
12
Two pale-skinned young women, one with black hair and one with red hair, both wearing colorful dresses, pick roses in a pastoral setting.

Full Moon (Zodiac Series): "To the virgins, to make much of time"

11 min read
Aug
15
A black and white photo of a woman with straight black hair that she holds out to one side. She has very thick, dramatic eyeliner and glittering black lipstick. Her skin is pale.

Full Moon (Zodiac Series): Gothic splendor

It's Friday, and as is typically the case during Leo season because of the explosion of holiday, anniversary,
7 min read
Jul
06
A colorful tempera painting. A woman in a kerchief waits over the naked body of an adult man, on a riverbank.

First Quarter (Zodiac Series): Not the mother they want

It's Sunday, and this is potentially the longest newsletter installment I will ever write, hence the unprecedented two-day
62 min read
Jun
13
An eerie painting of ghostly human figures teeming in a dark environment, clutching at the cloak of a man with a winged helmet and caduceus.

Full Moon (Zodiac Series): Underworld, Otherworld

It's Friday. Hello. To some extent I'm grasping for what or how I can still write
11 min read
May
09
A spacious, open room with white walls, pale wooden floors and tasteful furniture that gives way to a square seating pit with colorful cushions.

First Quarter (Zodiac Series): The form is the function

Hello. It's Friday, and after a decidedly false start last month, I'm making a fresh attempt
9 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