Drawing of a horse in a night sky filled with stars and clouds. A tiny red house with a blue rooftop sits in one of the clouds at the horse’s front feet. The body of the horse says: “You are your home. Make it a good place to live.” The colors are black, blue, red, yellow, and brown wax crayon.
🎨 Artwork by Elena Fiorenza Gatti
The moment I posted this, my instance came back online and I started getting the day’s notifications all at once.
I am so torn now.
I am on a European instance over there and appreciate the advantage of the global eye-view of current events the space grants easy access to, but there are some drawbacks to being so far removed from the thick of folks who have overlapping interests, common ground, and shared geography. /3
I’d been thinking that I’d like to post more over here for a while, but haven’t wanted to maintain more than one account.
This disruption feels like a good nudge and prompt to move over here. I’ll trying it for a few days and see how it feels. 2/
I’ve mostly posted on mastodon for the last couple of years, but the instance that hosts my account seems to be down for maintenance today. It’s a relatively small instance and I can’t find any report on it indicating how long or what the cause of the disruption may be. 1/
pale blue sky, cherry blossoms
manifesting spring
#rolleiflex #believeinfilm
a streetlight halo
the cherry tree in stillness
waiting for something
Green cover with angel scattering poppies held in her gown, gold decoration and lettering, gold border. ‘Lullabies of Many Lands’
Book Cover of the Day:
Native Texans like me will tell you that a Democrat winning handily in Tarrant County is like…what if King Charles announced he was abdicating the throne at 77 to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a UFC champion?
Mouthing “what the fuck?” while smiling, for once, is nice.
Hard to overstate how big a deal a Rehmet win would be. Tarrant County is the epicenter of Christian nationalism in Texas, an incubator for far-right policies, and nexus of billionaire Tim Dunn's network, which is riding hard for Wambsganss. Rehmet almost entirely funded by donations of $100 or less
Tarrant County shakin'
Jasper Scherer on X: Early voting + mail-in results for the special election runoff for #SD9 (a Trump +17 district in Tarrant County) Rehmet (D) with 56%, 25,667 votes Wambsganss (R) with 44%, 19,979 votes
Tarrant County is the largest red county in the nation. I cannot emphasize enough how big this is. Rehmet winning this race against Wambsganss would be an earthquake of Biblical proportions.
re: that reskeet of the Tarrant County, TX election results…I'm *from* Tarrant County, pre-Portland. I was involved in activism & government in Fort Worth. I can personally attest that a 31-point swing toward a Democrat in Tarrant County TX state senate is absolutely bonkers banana pants.
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
Dark Moon in Capricorn
For those looking for something to do on the Dark Moon, I'll share what I received in my meditations today.
When I’ve been called upon to do exorcisms of homes and offices, one technique I use is a 7 Day Candle, Charged in conjunction with conjuring a Pillar of Light,
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anchoring the light on the candle, and imagining the light pillar connecting to the the orbits of the Moon, Sun, Planets and Stars, to the center of our Galaxy. The bottom of the pillar goes into the depths of the Earth, and through the layers of the underworld, to the Heart of the Underworld. 2/?
For those who haven’t been to D.C., the monument is in the midst of a Vesica Pisces shape, and I think that invocation of the creative force of the Divine Mother is also essential with such a phallic pillar imagery. 7/?
Snow covered mountains, dark blue night sky, stars, trees in foreground, painting.
Goodnight.
Winter Night in the Mountains, Harald Sohlberg, 1914.
Brock by moonlight https://www.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/product-page/brock-by-moonlight-print
Badger loved to gaze into a moonlit night,
Seeing what he could see in low dancing light.
One glance wasn’t enough to take it all in,
And to truly see what was hidden within.
With patience, he studied each shadow, each hue,
And saw more with his heart than his eyes ever knew.
#ColdMoon #FullMoon
A close-up of two iron lances with gold decoration
A new discovery has revealed gold-decorated iron lances that were sacrificed at a sacred spring in modern-day Boeslunde approximately 2800 years ago.
Iron weapons with similar gold decoration from this period are unusual and without parallel in all of Northern Europe.
vestmuseum.dk/en/nyt-fund-...
Digital painting of a blue sky, covered in small white clouds tightly packed together, varying in size and opacity so as to form an undulating blanket.
We report: when the clouds form out of the ether this way, we get the feeling we are being shown the invisible mechanism that holds the sky together. The scales of this mackerel sky are rapidly joining together, and we can feel the air getting more humid. We unfold our raincoat.
December 3rd
I got this specifically for hot flashes a little while back, which it immediately brought under control, but it’s brought such wonderful gifts to my spiritual practices that it feels wrong not to share. If you do not know black cohosh root, it’s a wonder worker.
Seen on my walk today…
A fairy moth scene in muted green tones. The figure of a young woman with strands of light rising from her head like a crown stands on a circle of 9 giant moths. A large toad at her feet has wings coming out of its mouth indicating it’s just caught a nice meal, and large mushrooms grow all around.
🎨 The Light We Carry, oils on copper panel, Annie Stegg art
Digital painting of a bright blue sky, half of it covered with fibrous white clouds wrapped around one another, wispy on their edges.
We report: in another place, the sky remains this blue most of the day. The clouds appear out of thin air, and fade back without causing much disruption, barely approaching the sun during their short-lived existences. The air is dry, even quite warm when we stand in the sunshine.
Digital painting of a dramatic sunset sky, a stripe of bright yellow on the horizon, and bright orange clouds fading out to purple-grey. The clouds are wide strokes, but very thin where they fan out.
We report during a slow burn of a sunset: first, a yellow glow on the horizon, and then the wisps of gold streaking through the sky. By the time we went out to see more, the artefacts of the sun were holding the whole thing together, delicate architecture built over an hour.
Digital painting of a sunset sky, a gradient of blue and orange, with a cluster of grey and bright orange clouds of various sizes off to the left-hand side of the frame.
We report in waning sunshine: a couple of days after the equinox, we experience its lesser-known cousin, the equilux. We thought our expert was making fun of us as they spelled it out. Today, day and night are the same length. We stand here at sunset in a rare moment of balance.
Sweet Briar wallpaper design for Morris & Co by J.H. Dearle in 1912. This pattern features a repeating motif of delicate pink rose heads blooming amidst barbed, woody stems and curling green leaves.
John Henry Dearle
