✨🪞HAUNTED MIRRORS 🪞✨ A man acquires an antique mirror with a bloodthirsty ghoul trapped in the glass. This is the premise of From Beyond the Grave’s “The Gatecrasher” (1974), based on a short story by Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes.

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The best doors are the ancient ones softened with decay, with peeling paint and corrosion. To knock thrice on such a door is a magical act, to invite the mystery, the paradoxical and irrational into one’s life.

‘The night demon has supped of your good wife’s blood, and will return for the rest’

Those talking openly about witchery often focus on the active aspects – possibly because they like telling people what to do. There's a neglect of passive enchantments, those parts of witchery where we listen, where we commune with the land. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Might actually visit New York now

A 1963 interview with the woman dubbed the most famous witch in England: Sybil Leek, the Witch of Burley in the New Forest, “a forest that is absolutely steeped in witchcraft”. youtu.be/E-74hcZYh3M

“All things come from the mediation of One, so are all things born from this One. Its father is the Sun, its mother is the Moon. The wind carries it in its belly; the earth nourishes it.” TABULA SMARAGDINA of Hermes Trismegistus Art: Vincenzo Cartari’s Images of the Gods of the Ancients, 1608

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TREE OF LIFE with Qabalistic attributions, by Steffi Grant

When we cross into a stone circle, we not only journey into the Long Neolithic, we walk into ritual, into a continuing sense of sacred. We mustn't look at it as a completed story. It is ongoing. Our being there only adds a new chapter to it. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Holy Grail

"Hour of the Witches" by Victoria Veil captures the essence and freedom of the season. Gorgeous. #beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #halloween #witch #photography #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art

Éliphas Lévi's esoteric interpretation of the image of the Virgin Mary known as the Miraculous Medal. "its figures are so perfectly kabalistic that it is truly a marvellous double Pantacle. /1

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Same.

Seen on my walk today…a cyclops from a cabinet of curiosities

Inverted pentagram and a stylised rose on a pillar in a house, late 15th to early 16th century, Loule, Portugal

“We should never identify ourselves with reason, for man is not and never will be a creature of reason alone, a fact to be noted by all pedantic culture-mongers. The irrational cannot be and must not be extirpated. The gods cannot and will not die.” CARL JUNG Art: love by petrra

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Hurry, we’re late for Halloween…

“For the true heavens are everywhere, even where you stand and walk. If your spirit grasps the innermost birth of God and penetrates the sidereal and fleshly birth then it is already in heaven” JAKOB BOEHME (1575-1624) Art: "Into Great Silence" / 2023 / self-portrait by Laura Makabresku

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Seen on my walk today…looks like me

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Gothic af BVM

It’s cool when you wander around a town and see alchemical graffiti

Green Man and Green Woman with vine leaves sprouting from their mouths. (‘Foliate heads’ if you are a soulless pedant). Lisbon cathedral. Once considered relics of paganism scholars now reject this explanation, but they remain powerful and mysterious symbols. I love them!

I have found my ideal office….

Witch persecution. And, oh, how I wish schools would teach just a bit on the continued persecution of supposed "witches" in the centuries after the witch trials. It would help a generation better understand our current Western persecutorial society.

Seen on my walk today…Woodland Temple or hermit’s cave?

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Is it PAN, SILENUS or the mysterious BAPHOMET? Polychrome faience tiles from Lisbon, Portugal, 1650-1675. My photo.

I have a room reserved for:

Lucifer rising…

Ready for the weekend?…

He dreamt of thousand year storms and black obsidian pyramids. He dreamt of folding space and things that lived in tunnels carved through time. Such reveries are not rare nor unique, but his skills at manifesting them for others to share was. - #DAKilroy on the visionary author Olag Candle

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Creature and concept artist Vincent Coviello designs the most perfectly intriguing fantasy creatures! I would love to meet one of these in the woodland... but keep a safe distance, of course. #beautifulbzarre #vincentcoviello #creaturedesign #fantasycreature #woodlandcreature #woodlandfantasy #art

This picture of ‘Scary Jesus’ is too good to leave until Sunday ‘I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.’ Revelation 5:6

Some of our most powerful rituals of connection require no wand, no knife, no fire. The witch walks and land folds itself into her. In contemplation of nature's mysteries, she has a knowing she is part of them. We are not divorced from any part. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Seen on my walk today…a very wet Cecil Court here in London but at least Watkins books is dry

“The cobbler Jacob Boehme was a great philosopher. Some reputed philosophers are just great cobblers.” KARL MARX On Freedom of the Press Art: Nicolaus Häublin, Allegorical Portrait of Jacob Böhme, Amsterdam 1677, Copperplate engraving, etching, personal photo

My magical steed

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This lovely volume arrived from the publishers @fulgurpress today. Very much my ‘cup of tea’ given my fascination with spiritual alchemy and occult symbolism. It’s great to see a text focussed on women in alchemical imagery from a feminist perspective.

"Every moon needs its sun" Oil on linen 46x55 cm, by Lara Hochreiter 1st Prize Winner of the Catherine K. Gyllerstrom Emerging Artist Award Winner in the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize. www.moderneden.com/collections/... #beautifulbizarre #art

Fran De Ananda’s ‘The Moon Veil’ conjures a spectral figure, its luminous presence set against a shimmering, otherworldly landscape. The Mexican artist weaves symbolism, mysticism, and cosmic reflection into a vision that feels timeless & surreal. Discover more at Bender Gallery >> bendergallery.com