Re reading Modern Nature by Derek Jarman in anticipation of his birthday on 31st January. I am constantly affirmed in my feeling it is one of rhe most spiritual books I have ever read.

A new book acquisition. Simon Young's "The Witches and Fairies of Nineteenth-Century Ilkley".

My favourite little vixen, reimagined as a many-tailed fox #FoxFriday 🦊🌀🌒

How battlefield became 'England's most haunted' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We wander winter afternoons where the light is too weak to keep the ghosts at bay. Stumble onto paths that can only be haunted. Each footstep scuffs up stories, scuffs up spirits. We walk and leave a wake of whispers. – #DAKilroy, 1982

Parodie, dans le numéro d'août 1988 du zine Pagan News, du topos des articles de journalistes chrétiens s'infiltrant dans des sectes satanistes (Source: Delinquant Elementals: A Pagan News Anthology, de @philh.bsky.social et Rodney Orpheus, Strange Attractor Press, 2025).

and here are two Hookland Otters [Lutra Lutra Hooklandii] in the Field of Prophecy, with some water lillies. I do think they look rather content... 🤍🐾🌿 Please note that these are two different linocuts, not just one presented in mirror image 🌘

I have placed a few sets of Hookland Bookmark on my online shop. * Please note, these are for UK shipping only * I am hoping to print more bookmarks in the New Year and ship them internationally then. www.maria-strutz.co.uk/product/book...

Spotted whilst browsing academia edu: Jessica Annette Albrecht's "Transgender Kali". "This article explores the relationship between Kali worship and transgender (primarily trans feminine) identities in Sri Lanka." www.academia.edu/143833974/Tr...

The Bonehorse of Hookland #BookmarkoftheDay @hookland.bsky.social

Current reading. Brooke Palmieri's wonderful and moving "Bargain Witch: Essays in Self-Initiation". A review will happen at some point.

New from Brill - "Subtle Energies in Therapy, Spirituality, Arts, and Politics". Free pdf version available. brill.com/display/titl...

There are certain pools whose drowned spirits sing of weakened sunlight, weed-dressed bones. Sing of mud embrace, decay's alchemy. At the threshold of their banks the witch may sing back of those things she wishes transformed in their waters. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Queen of Owls, as seen through the eyes of Trippy Pete, Child of the Hum. Mixed media image by myself and @philh.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social 🖤 #OwlishMonday

To walk the colonades at Ashcourt Necropolis is to tread upon grief-soaked stones. You are haunted by absence, enfolded in a thousand dead whispers. Despite our attempts at grand demarcations between living flesh and slow corruption, death remains a shared singularity. – #CLNolan

For some folk Nokes, UFOs are a religion. They’ve got to testify. If it isn’t the Space Gospel at told to them by Commander Ril of the Planet Skareg, it’s that Meldon Hill is a holy place of galactic convergence. I wish all of the preachy bastards would get beamed up. – #DICallaghan

Blast from the past. Flyer for the 1994 Wildwood Conference in London, organised by Caroline Wise, who put on great events throughout the 1990s.

Just spotted this - "Faith, folk and the far right Racist and anti-racist Heathenry and occultism in Britain" (open access pdf version) manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179463

New blog post. "The Yuggoth Working". An account of a magical experiment in Clapham Wood from the Nyarlathotep Coven (original photo source: wikipedia). enfolding.org/one-from-the...

In Hookland, many a folkloric tale starts not with ‘A long time ago’ or ‘Far, far away’, but with the line: ‘Out across the dark moor where strange songs are still heard …’ For folklore tells strongly of place and our relationships to it. – Dr. M. Benn #Folklore #FolkloreThursday

new video from the Vimarsha Foundation: Yoga From the Perspective of Trika Shaivism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dByz...

Blue Owl Phoenix 💙🪶🌀 Hope is that thing with feathers (Emily Dickinson) #OwlishMonday

Another one for the reading list: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Here's a blast from the past - '90s Brit occultists discussing the esoteric significance of numbers.

Current reading. Arun Saldanha. "Psychedelic White: Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race" (Univ Minnesota Press, 2007).

People talk about us Children of The Hum as 'weirdo hippies, 'ragged walkers' blindly following something they couldn't hear, couldn't understand. They never understood that we lived in a landscape of wonder. They saw pylons, we saw sublime structures. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH

New for the reading pile. Melissa Seims' new book "Light in Extension: A History of Bradford's 1888 Golden Dawn Temple Horus No.5" www.thoth.co.uk/books/light-...

Some notes on the goddess Durgā: her battle with the demon Mahiṣa, a Durgā meditation, and the nine Navadurgās. (image source: Wikipedia). enfolding.org/some-notes-o...

A date for your diaries! Leeds' underground goth club returns! Sets running the gamut from OG post-punk to industrial techno, with special set from SOBORGNOST!!! (- recently seen supporting Cabaret Voltaire). I'lll put up a ticket link in the next few days! Art by @mariastrutz.bsky.social !

A fox jumping over a tomb, jumping over the moon. If you are lucky enough to witness such an event, you may choose to whisper important news to the fox: the passing of a loved one, the birth of a child, the fall of tyrants. The news will be passed on to the clan #FullMoon #FoxMoon #SuperMoon🦊🐾🌕

Calling all bird loving artists! This month's bird is the Spotted Owlet. 🤎 Draw! Paint! Sculpt! We hope you'll join us. Posting day is Nov 26th. Rules and Full Size Ref. Photo here: birdwhispererproject.com/participate/ #birds #BirdWhisperer #art #owl

The episode in question: zencastr.com/z/e6-2aUqk

Video lecture "ripartite Lineages and Cremation Ground Revelations: Crossovers Between Early rDzogs chen and Kaula Śaivism". staged.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/tripartite-l...

Fancy delving into some earth mystery based magazines from the last 40 years? Take a look at these suggestions: stonefolklore.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/p... #EarthMysteries #Zines #NeoAntiquarian

Here is a latter-day Child of the Hum @philh.bsky.social

Fox curled around the skull of a young fox 🖤 Black tea, beetroot ink and blackberry ink #FoxFriday 🦊 #Samhain 🌀

New blog post. A short introduction to the goddess Bagalāmukhī, one of the Mahāvidyās. She is particularly associated with binding the speech of enemies. (image source: wikipedia) enfolding.org/on-bagalamuk...

Nice essay on Yantras from Tarka Journal's Substack: open.substack.com/pub/tarkajou...

New blog post. Some reflections on speech, language, and active listening in group discussions. From the archives of the London Tantra Discussion Group. enfolding.org/speaking-fro...

Nice piece on the etic/emic divide: open.substack.com/pub/tarkajou...

Last night we had a party to celebrate Patricia MacCormack's latest: Death Activism. Ideas, conversation, drinks, books. When Continental philosophy and thoughtful occulture are at their best, they're luminous. @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social

For the storytelling competition the fox wanted something special, and went to Bespoke Beasties; So for one day and one night he turned into a fox of many tails/tales, became a flying fox, and donned an antler crown. Dear Reader, he won the competition! 🦊🌀🌒 #Guild11Mysterium 1/2

First prompt for Guild Eleven Mysterium Mine has morphed into 'Precious Pumpkin-lings'; a fox having collected a hoard of delicious little pumpkins for winter 🦊🌖🍂 #Guild11Mysterium

Also just how some of the Shinto kami look like almost Lovecraftian monsters but are indeed gods, manifestations of the mysterious power and presence of the divine (linked to Brahman) and operating along the lines of some incomprehensible will or destiny. See Onamuchi above but also Take-Minakata.

"Light as the moon’s path over the sea the run of the hare over the land" Anna Crowe from 'A Calendar of Hares' 🎨 'Running of the Hare' Robert Gillmor #BookWormSat @asls.org.uk

New blog post - from the London Tantra Group wiki project. The Gaṇeśa Upaniṣad, translated by the late Mike Magee, with explanatory footnotes by me. Gaṇeśa painting by @mariastrutz.bsky.social enfolding.org/ga%e1%b9%87e...

SIgn up now for our forthcoming campaign to publish the lost books of Victor Neuburg! tinyurl.com/vinepress

New blog post: How the Hindu goddess Santoshi Ma achieved fame through a 1975 film, "Jai Santoshi Ma". enfolding.org/hail-to-the-...

A fascinating essay on LAM by the talented Ben Joffe! perfumedskull.com/2025/09/16/a...