I Think If Studying The Occult Has Improved Any Element Of My Life, It Is My Wonder At Ordinary Things.

I think if studying the occult has improved any element of my life, it is my wonder at ordinary things. I love being able to see a rock or a plant and know the properties that generations of scientists and philosophers have attached to them. It's a dove, it's a nature Spirit, it's an omen of peace, it's a psychopomp, it is associated with the astral intelligences of the air and Venus and Aries and its entrails can be read to know where to build a settlement. But is also just a pigeon, and pigeons a lovely to see.

Everyone say thank you american indigenous people for cultivating corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, cacao, pumpkin, squash, and anything i missed. Makes life more meaningful globally

Sawtooth Blackberry

“Every late summer is a wonderful opportunity to make rowan necklaces strung on red thread to hang in the home and to give to loved ones for the year. Scarlet wool thread can be used to string them, it is easy to pierce the 'sorb apple' through the pretty star on the bottom of the fruit. Hang them to dry in a warm kitchen, out of the light. Wear the necklace when extra protection is needed, taking care to remove it from getting wet.”

- Corinne Boyer, Under the Witching Tree.

(Photo is mine, made this Rowan charm a few days before the equinox, to be a companion during this season 🌿)