O Lady Kirke, Enchantress. Hawk-eyed, gleaming with the honeyed blood of your father, Helios twined with the Oceanid nymph-nature of Perse. ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ Get your own magical icon of #CIRCE - ON SALE in my print store. OFFER ENDS TOMORROW! [Shown here is the hand embellished #24ktgold leaf edition]

I’m going through a process of honouring each of the deities I have drawn forth through focused intention - for a full quarter moon. The enchantress CIRCE is currently holding court:

Starting this week, I’m diving deep into the ancient mysteries behind each god and mythic being I’ve drawn forth through ritual and movement. SO LET ME KNOW Which deity are you most curious to explore first? Here are four of my goddesses… 1. DALIX 2. ARTEMIS 3. CIRCE 4. DEMETER #ancientgods

#BLODEUWEDD goddess of flowers and springtime, goddess of wisdom and transformation. Number 1 in LARGE size is still available. I’m sharing a 20% off ALL PRINTS code in my Tuesday Musings tomorrow. Get Tuesday Musings for free at www.redkelders.com 🖤✨ #pencildrawing #artsky

“You are wine, you are not wine but the head of Athena. You are wine, you are not wine, but the guts of Osiris, the guts of IAÔ PAKERBĒTH SEMESILAM ŌŌŌ Ē PATACHNA IAAA” #PGM VII. 643-51 #ritual #altar

Holding both the possibility of witnessing the death of everything we love whilst also still being consistently sparked with the sublime beauty and wonder of life is the exquisite challenge of our times. That holy crux where beauty and terror intersect is where real, deep and true great art emerges.

I we all need to see Circe for #caturday … #mainecoon #blackcat

“I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire” #TeresaofAvila c1565

Courting plants and animals and tiny gods: Show up in the same place frequently, in all your tender glory. Bring little gifts and stories. Ask them about themselves, and share your intimate secrets. Gradually holding hands. Listening - feeling - for what ripples beneath the silence. Swooning.

“Here in this body are the sacred rivers. Here are the sun & the moon, as well as all the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body.” #Saraha, 8th century CE #pencildrawing #art

The Queen in residence - Dotty with gorgeous with @rkelders.bsky.social artwork .

“Art - real art - connects artists, and their art, and those who experience their art, to the metaphysical background of the world, to the imaginal world that lies deep within the physical.” #StephenHarrodBuhner ANDEDION #pencildrawing #art www.redkelders.com

I was just speaking of @rkelders.bsky.social's #CIRCE image last night, and how I think she's next to earn a space in my growing gallery of a shrine. Her eyes hold the intensity of a darkened sky, her hands stretched with power; she is a Witch Queen, and she's never looked better.

I have some esoteric 'tools' in my #PocketsOfResistance, and I found one of them today by accident. An opportunity arose that allows me to help bring some relief to people, even if briefly. Its form was unexpected. Look in your own small sphere, and I bet you will find something similar. #KeepGoing

With the anticipated tariffs that will soon come into effect for items sent from UK to USA, I have decided to absorb my increase in production costs and not raise my prices at all this year. People of USA already have enough change to deal with, and I want even more of these divine messengers there.

Seems we need the magic, courage and fortitude of divine forces more than ever right now. My pledge to these ones as I was drawing them was to get them into the hands, homes and hearts of all those who really need their benevolent blessings. #CIRCE s enchantments reveal the true nature of things.

Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood. #C.S.Lewis HEKATE CHTHONIA DRAKAINA PROPYLAIA Hekate of the Earth, Serpent, The One Before The Gate.  #pencildrawing #art

Gods and Mythbeings still exert their great will and majesty. The Fates softly smile as they spin on and on. Vast and epic sagas spanning thousands of years are still unravelling, weaving and surging through our glittering bones. Waiting for us to take up the mantle of our own true glory. #HELIOS

All the things we give up. Everything we say no to so that we can say yes to the divine. All the relationships we don’t follow up because there is this one. Lovers we have left, lovers who have died Because we couldn’t fully say yes to them. Because we can only say yes to this one. #BARBELO

The Moirai put in mortal men the heart of endurance. #Homer #TheIliad THE MOIRAI pencil drawing, 2021 #art

I think the epidemic of loneliness comes from a great forgetting of how to tend deep relations. Remembering our tiny yet important place in things, and giving full honour and reverence to that, we are never alone. #ritual #offerings

“Picture for a moment the effortless way in which the winds blow through the skies. Think of rain, of cloud, storms. Treat everything with great care. Try to move very delicately. Try to move with the strength of the young. Try to move with the delicacy of the aged.” #KazuoOhno

Continuing my tradition of uplifting creators that inspire me - @rkelders.bsky.social makes transcendent spirit portraits that positively light up a space for worship. I am the proud owner of two of her prints, both regularly stop the breath in my lungs.

Year of the Snake… #MEDUSA pencil on paper, 2021 See the full glorious uncensored image and get limited edition signed fine art prints at redkelders.com/art 🐍✨

Hi Red, I am new here too and had to go change my own settings in order to see your images. FYI it has to be done on the web version, not the app 🤷🏻‍♀️

I can’t share my art on Meta, nor on BlueSky. Social media platforms are no longer viable ways to advertise what we are doing. I’m grateful I built a good sized mailing list last year. If you’re self-employed be sure to have several legs on your table for when at least one of them gets cut.

It's become an increasing challenge this past year to make a living from art, but it's never been a better or more necessary time to be an artist. To bring forth from the unseen what needs to be seen. To remind people of the mythic realms, of awe and wonder. #magicalart #pencildrawing #oldgods

My drawings are getting flagged for sexual content here too. I already self labelled them ‘non-sexual nudity’, but BlueSky’s moderation is saying my Aphrodite drawing is an explicit sexual image. It’s just a pencil drawing of a figure in a classical nude pose. Censorship everywhere!

“No god, no idol, nothing except the burning pain of love” - Faiz Ahmed Faiz #Aphrodite Pencil on paper, 2023 ❤️‍🔥Prints available at redkelders.bigcartel.com ——————————— #greekgoddess #greekmythology #mythologyart

This drawing of mine is the one that has been restricted the most here over the years, and gotten me into the most trouble. Underneath the white 'forbidden zone' here is just an unclothed figure. There's really nothing offensive, in my eyes.

In my dream a primal ancient force told me: "Immortality is the real power", and also: "I existed; I matter". I woke feeling moved and humbled, with a wordless knowing of why our prayers, libations and offerings to ancients, ancestors and gods are so essential.

I think the epidemic of loneliness comes from a great forgetting of how to tend deep relations. Remembering our tiny yet important place in things, and giving full honour and reverence to that, we are never alone.

Last shipping date for USA is THIS FRIDAY 6th DEC. All my magical prints are personally signed and numbered by me, and each is lovingly wrapped in tissue and ribbon. Just let me know where to send it, and I can take complete care of any gifting on your behalf. Https://redkelders.bigcartel.com

“The alloted function of art is not, as often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow the Soul, rendering it capable of turning to Good.” - Andrei Tarkovsky MEMENTO MORI pencil on paper, 2023

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ” - Pablo #Picasso #pencildrawing #mysticism

Look at these lovely packs of blank folded cards I had made, featuring my newest drawing of the Welsh goddess conjured from flowers: Blodeuwedd. Get them in my store at redkelders.bigcartel.com 🖤✨ #themabinogi #blodeuwedd #celticmythology #welshmythology

What kind of stories do you tell yourself about who you are? Do they need updating? Rewriting? It’s all made up. You could walk for 5 days in a deserted landscape letting the crumbs of who you thought you were fall out of your threadbare pockets.

Those first few moments when you lay your hands upon another. Someone - allowing your touch. The holy cascade of information. Where is the breath? #pencildrawing #creativeflow #creativeinspiration

Open up your spine. Let it articulate the stories of your ancestors.

Who speaks for the rivers? Who feels to express the rights of plants and trees? Who will vouch for the beasts and creatures, wings and fins and fur? Who listens to the slow-worn wisdom of the Giantess, Serpent Queen, immense and ancient rock?

We're trying to wean ourselves from Twitter. Please retweet this post if you like what we do so we can gain more followers and we can finally leave that godawful place.

“The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.” @madelinemiller.bsky.social Circe CIRCE | KIRKE pencil on paper, 2023 Prints available at redkelders.bigcartel.com #greekmythology #mythology #mysticalart

"Niu Tou Ma Mian as underworld deities in folk beliefs, depicted as a bull-headed and horse-headed figure, who guide deceased souls to the underworld for judgment, serving as ghost messengers." It seems they enjoy their job. 6/7

In my drawing of Blodeuwedd, I included three of the flowers she was made from. Do you know which ones they are? #blodeuwedd #welshmythology #mythologyart

Not sure people realise how hard it's been recently for artists to survive, or how deeply appreciated every single order is. If you can't buy something, it makes a huge difference just to share our work. If you can't share our work, a little sacrifice to the Old Gods on our behalf means a lot, too 💜

And then the drawing came thick and fast, the whole image clear in my mind, as I began to sketch it quickly, to try to hold something of that brilliant essence, that piercing joy that comes with a sudden knowing… #art #mysticism #ritual #somatics

“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.” - Georges Bataille, Abjection and Miserable Forms, 1934

Come to me From the four winds of the world, Air-traversing, great god. Hear me in every ritual which I perform Come to me Lord, you who sometimes raise the light, Sometimes lower the darkness, with your own power. - from PGM III. 494-611 trs Betz 'Spell to establish a relationship with Helios'

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