Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.

I liked the pic with the labyrinth among the green, then I looked closely, saw the skeleton getting ready for a picnic, and I loved it

Another blog post is up : Planetary Days and Hours in Magical Practice: History, Development, and Use #WitchSky #OccultSky #PaganSky

Seriously, if you have purged every Neil Gaiman book from your collection because Bad Man, but you’re still buying boy wizard shit, I am judging you. Not even silently.

“I don’t celebrate death” okay well skill issue

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing

As promised to link to my first actual Hookland book. It is only small, but covers a lot of the ghost soil. If enough of you buy it and like it there will be a Volume Two. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123 It will also be available in an actual bookshop soon.

FROM THE VAULT (or, cool stuff we've had for a second so let's appreciate) MIRU I & II by @hinokodo.com A pair of solo solarpunk map-making games. MIRU invites you to investigate the land around your idyllic village, learning, collecting, and avenging your family by killing a god...

G201 Three witch sisters.

We can have inclusive community or we can have a community that makes space for Nazis. We can't have both, and there's no question that inclusion is the healthier, more sustainable, & genuinely Heathen choice. #HeathenSky #PaganSky #WitchSky #DruidSky

A1487.1 Origin of astronomy.

The best thing about being an initiate of a solitary Order is that nobody else ever has to see you in your home made robe with your little wand and crown, muttering bad poetry in a candle lit room.

K18.1.1 Throwing contest: trickster addresses Angel Gabriel.

Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.

Wine is poured onto the ground at Dendera; its bouquet fills your chapel. How pleasant is its aroma to the nose of the powerful ones. (OGC)

I do not know how to state this with any greater clarity (or urgency): If you enjoy your freedom to exist as you choose, to create as you are inspired, to dress in ways that delight you, to be visible & authentic & real You are in danger. Your freedoms are in danger. They are coming for us all.

Before the Colombian exchange, Italians didn’t cook with tomatoes and Indians didn’t cook with chilli. Hungarians didn’t use paprika before the Ottoman conquest. Do those still count or are we playing Calvinball?

Got around to trying out one of the recipes in @majnouna.com's marvelous "Inks and Paints of the Islamic Golden Age" (srsly, go buy it) and experimenting with historical spycraft and ground-hidden-truthing. Thread!

July 2026 Sarcastic Horoscope Mercury, Saturn, and Neptune Retrograde, a Sextile of the Malefics, and Venus in Fall. Not really our best month #AstroSky libraryonacrossroad.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/j...

Greater Feast of Public Universal Friend, died July 1, 1819 at Jerusalem, New York, US hermetic.com/hermene... #calendar #historic #OTD #OnThisDay

When the selkie returned to the beach, a man was holding her sealskin. "Is this yours?" he asked. "May I borrow it?" "You want to be a seal?" "No, but when I take it off, I'll be a woman, right?" "My heart, you already are," the selkie said. "That skin is mine, but I can help you find yours."

I implore you. Like things. I don't mean to hit an engagement button on social media sites. I mean enjoy stuff. Don't be beige. Cringe is a manifestation of internal fear and other's condiditoning shame for no reason. It's bs. Be weird.

Feast of Simon Magus, June 29 hermetic.com/hermene... #calendar #recurring #OTD #OnThisDay

Check out what I and some friends have cooked up! ko-fi.com/s/25d307ccbd

Shufflemancy with my trusty og iPod touch

... Well, I'll be damned. 14 hours later than was supposed to, the Nave di San Giovanni manifested. A tiny one, but it's there. A very interesting Omen for this year, I'll have a lot to reflect upon. #PaganSky

FUCK

For it is St. John’s feast and all our shadows are given permission to walk abroad independently. We can only hope that they get up to the right sort of mischief.

It’s St. John’s Day and I know many of you know that means certain gates to St. Martin’s Land become visible for a few hours. Please consider this version of a traditional Hookland song by the wonderful @lunatraktors.bsky.social as a Public Information Film. m.youtube.com/watch?v=reT0...

I am Yesterday, I know Tomorrow. (BDB)

Every st. John's Eve, i do an italian folk rite called Nave di San Giovanni (the Ship of st. John - or st. Peter. Which would be more correct, since he was a fisherman, but his feast it's on the 29th, so. It's a little unclear, but my mother had always known it as st. John's). 1/4

The destination of a path cannot be understood in isolation from the path taken to get there, because how you arrive at it determines how you understand it. Your experience getting to a destination by one path is not identical to or even equivalent with other paths, except in the most trivial sense.

It is a special day and even more special evening in Hookland. For today is St. John's Eve and this means feast fires and bone fires, St. John's wort and malkins. Of course it also means the Bone Horse will need roasted ale and cake. Art by @mariastrutz.bsky.social #StJohnsEve #Folklore

A661.0.2.1 Heavenly music caused by four columns under Lord's chair.

Reasons for writers to use "big" words: 1) The "big" word conveys a nuance of meaning that the "normal" word may not, being too vague 2) The "big" word sounds cool (as in, the word actually does sound cool and not like the writer is trying to get sapiosexually laid) 3) You fucking feel like it

Seing the Solstice on the Meridiana of san Petronio is always an experience #AstroSky #PaganSky

#ProjektSolarSigil neI uoI dNV ♄ / 7

#ProjektSolarSigil NnOEIuO LAdDNTD IASoIsA CIvCEAT IhNSElI LzEgORm OEIRINE ♀ / 7

I am Thoth the skilled scribe whose hands are pure, a possessor of purity, who drives away evil, who writes what is true, who detests falsehood, whose pen defends the Lord of All; master of laws who interprets writings, whose words establish the Two Lands. (BDF)

10 years ago today, I reached Santiago de Compostela. I had been traveling for 5 days, and walked 100km. Each night, I wrote a tiny reflection on what I learned that day. At the end, I realised the involuntary elemental connection. libraryonacrossroad.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/p...

#ProjektSolarSigil GDEE Drol NGEE isII ♃ / 7

#ProjektSolarSigil SElqOOSE IULINEOT OOfIOEHd vCEOTRPg RIAEPLaO CrOHARApR TuTCOENI ECCCEUEt ☿ / 7

What is remembered lives and unto them may there be granted the accomplishment of their wills. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, Alexandria, Egypt. Photo Carole Raddato, 2020 #iconomancy library.hrmtc.com/20...

St Johns church, Glastonbury peeping through the mist. Photo taken on Glastonbury Tor on Sunday.

#ProjektSolarSigil CNOTL IhoLE NEEeu ITEIm OCIgv ♂ / 7

#ProjektSolarSigil SAAAEIEEI DUNCNELIA CELtHTpCL SHLLEEFIO NUEqAECOO GDDSCTEAL gGAUIOETD EOOTAALRO NIRRALFUR ☽ / 7

#ProjektSolarSigil TsCRpI ONnTDD OOEMRE ICOuMN cOOEiE ENEANA ☉ / 7