Introduction to Tarka Journal's "Queer Dharma" issue. I have an essay in it. open.substack.com/pub/tarkajou...

Well, if it’s 28 April, it must be the 156th anniversary of a somewhat eventful trip to the theatre for Miss Stella Boulton and Mrs Fanny Graham – starting, as it did, with jolly nice seats in a box, and ending with their arrest 🧵

A photo recently slipped out from Rebellion Punk Music Festival 2024! Check out www.monokrom-photos.com for a fantatstic archive of thousands of band photos! #gigs #photography #gigphotography #gigphoto #bands #festival

A great resource for designers! centurylibrary.com/unlock-the-l...

Ever develop an all-consuming habit and want to share it with people so that you have company while your world burns around you? Anyway, I wrote a basic guide to painting miniatures based on my limited skills, minimal experience and low expectations for results. www.vintagerpg.com/2026/04/a-be...

The shadow of the Long Neolithic stretches out its hand to grasp our imagination. It refuses to let us go. Holds us with a sense of ongoing sacredness. Pulls stories from the then into the now. We are all made citizens of its wonder. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Peter J Carroll (1953-2026) The Wizard has gone. The celebrated occultural author, teacher and innovator Peter J Carroll passed away unexpectedly in the early hours of Wednesday 22nd April 2026. www.specularium.org/blog/the-wiz...

🥳 _Advertising Pornography, 1822-1870_ is now available on Nineteenth Century Data Collective! This is a package of two complementary datasets derived from advertising material issued by major figures in the early Victorian pornography trade. One draws on sales catalogues, one on periodical ads +

This may be of interest: Tash Walker & Adam Zmith: The Log Books Author Q&A and discussion on the history of queer helpline Switchboard founded in 1974 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tash-walke...

However solitary the witch, it does well to remember we don't inhabit the landscape alone. Often you'll discover that some territory is shared, if not already claimed. In Hookland, sharp eyes will find which woods are walked by Fox Brides. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Fox skeleton enfolded in blossom and thorns - Black tea and beetroot ink 🤍🌿🦊 #FoxFriday

Nice piece by @robincdouglas.bsky.social on the story of Pagan Revivals. antigonejournal.com/2024/10/paga...

Excellent essay by Allan Johnson exploring mail-order occultism in the early 20th century. publicdomainreview.org/essay/magic-...

Interview with Gudrun Bühnemann on her new book, "Scholar, Serpent, Yogin, and Devotee: The Many Faces of Patañjali in Indian Traditions" newbooksnetwork.com/scholar-serp...

So looking forward to this...

New blog post. The third essay in my series on tantric tattvas. This time I'm taking a look at the tattva schema of Lakṣmīdhara, from his 16th century commentary on the Saundaryalahari (“Flood of Beauty”). [yantra by @mariastrutz.bsky.social] enfolding.org/tripura-tatt...

Something for U.S. friends to check out. www.psmuseum.org/art/exhibiti...

Good morning all! For those who can't wait any longer: our book PERFORMING MAGNETISM is already available in open access, with huge thanks to @leuvenup.bsky.social Read it here: openresearchlibrary.org/content/d7d0... Or here: www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...

Great essay on Tibetan Tantra by the amazing @ben-joffe.bsky.social perfumedskull.com/2026/04/14/w...

‘The Greeks figured Pan, the god of Nature, now terribly stamping his foot, so that armies were dispersed; now by the woodside on a summer noon trolling on his pipe until he charmed the hearts of upland ploughmen.’ — R.L. Stevenson, ‘The Pipes of Pan’ #FolkloreThursday 🎨Arthur Rackham

Two socialist rituals from 1924 - a marriage ritual and a child naming ceremony. "We meet in this public manner in order to testify our conviction that every child born to our race, of whatever nation or colour, should be honoured as a new member of Humanity" robindouglas.org/2025/09/08/t...

Fine folk #FF @sebbyb.bsky.social @dirkmaggs.bsky.social @mariastrutz.bsky.social @annodracula.bsky.social @kjsoar.bsky.social @skionar.bsky.social @philh.bsky.social @odavies9.bsky.social @simonguy.bsky.social @stonelands.bsky.social @loreandordure.com @sjfarrer.bsky.social

Some have a kissing tree, some have a thinking tree, some have a tree they tell their secrets to. I am a greedy witch. I've as many trees as lovers and I've performed magic with most of them. My favoured wood is like a party filled with old friends to talk to. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Thresholds may be the witch's engine of sorcery, but the wise among us learn to recognise those that should not be traversed. Not every gate has to be opened. Not ever border needs to be danced across. There are times where we only need acknowledge they are there. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982

New blog post. My review of Brooke Palmieri's superb book, "Bargain Witch: Essays in Self-Initiation". enfolding.org/book-review-...

Wee Alex making like an Aztec, apparently. So mote it be! youtu.be/BqOtLso0f-U?...

My favourite Remedios Varo painting 🌿🌀🦉

Sometimes as a witch I will go those places in the wood where winter lingers and sing spring's green songs. Not as summoning, but as blossom reminder, as hope of returning chiffchaff chorus. Whether I do this to remind myself of renewal or the wood becomes blur. – #EmilyCBantingt #WitchSky

As an author, I treat the boneyard as a resource. Its gravestones are lithic library. Rarely will I walk its paths without being gifted a character's name, a tale to tell. It whispers to me. The dead desire to talk and it would be rude to ignore them. – #CLNolan

New blog post. A quick tour of the 36 tattvas of the tantric traditions. Second of a three-part series. Sriyantra by @mariastrutz.bsky.social enfolding.org/tantric-tatt...

Protected, an elephant calf huddled next to their Mama's legs - this is a linocut I carved a few years ago #AnimalMarch #KleineKunstklasse

spring fox surrounded by tulips 🦊🌿🌷 Rosehip ink, beetroot ink and watercolours #FoxFriday #FoxoftheDay

Striped Hyena/ Gestreifte Hyaene #animalMarch #KleineKunstklasse 🤍🐾🌒

Portrait of a striped hyena #AnimalMarch #KleineKunstklasse

In difficult times people petition the Mare de la Mer, on behalf of ageing relatives, loved ones, strangers in need. 'May the Mare de la Mer offer fierce comfort, may the Mare de la Mer protect us all' (traditional Hookland prayer and blessing) @hookland.bsky.social

"Waldeinsamkeit You green expanse, How distant is The world from here!" (Joseph von Eichendorff) 🎨 Caspar David Friedrich (1822) #bookwormsat

You'll come across practitioners who will play hierarchical status games by telling you that your cauldron is cringey. These are the same people who will judge you on their continuity fantasies with no historical basis. Forget them. Witchcraft is what works. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Dream of the Ghost Narwhale 🤍 #animalMarch #KleineKunstklasse

Out at the brackish end of the Restal Waste, the King-Under-the-Sea shows off boats that did not pay their tide tithe. Mud-fast and salt-bullied, they serve as slow sacrifices. Reminders to pay your dues. Out here, no debt to the monarch goes uncollected. – #DAKilroy

Walks with Foxes 🦊🐾🌘 #FoxFriday #FoxoftheDay

Cold-blooded horse - Firehorse Kaltblutpferd/Feuerpferd #animalMarch #KleineKunstklasse

My first contribution to #AnimalMarch - a snow leopard 🤍🐾🌿 The buff of the leopard's pelt comes from black tea

It is rare for something shot in Manchester to feel absolutely Hooklandian, but Small Prophets is a rare thing - an esoteric TV comedy that grows the heart. Mackenzie Crook is a genius. Small Prophets is television treasure. m.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKL...

Fox and blossoms and bones and bees 🤍 - Black tea, turmeric and beetroot ink #FoxFriday #FoxoftheDay 🦊🐾🌿

a study of bees 🌘 Linedrawing coloured with turmeric and blackberry ink 🌿🐾🐝

New Blog post. A quick romp through the twenty-five tattvas ("principles") of classical Saṃkhyā - a very influential system for early yoga philosophy and later adopted by the tantric traditions. enfolding.org/tattvas-in-s...

If you haven't already, make sure to sign up for this fab FREE event next Thursday! #FolkloreThursday, @culturalfutureshub.bsky.social and @theforemotherscafe.bsky.social all on one day!

If you want to read an excellent thesis on contemporary Magic, check out Dr. Justin Woodman's writings - available on his homepage.

Another recent acquisition. Paul Baker's "Fantabulosa: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language".

If you have ever wanted to hear me talk about the role of Forteana and folklore within Hookland in an East End pub …. April is your lucky month.