Beneath the Moon's Pale Beams

Herbalist + Traditionalist + Occultist + Folk Witch

[painter-shishkin]

Covert, 1874

Ivan Shishkin

[poppyseedxoxo]

[maureen2musings]

Glen Coe, Ballachulish

Sinitta Leunen

[shisasan]

This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer’s last stand.

Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking

[the-art-archive]

Cauldron of the Sorceress (1879) by Odilon Redon

[vizuart]

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Lost Pleiad, 1884

[shisasan]

𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝟸𝟽, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[megairea]

“Your unspeakable gaze rests on my eyes… Without stars and without flowers, I dream the impossible In the cold night.”

— Renée Vivien, from Roses Rising; The Muse of Violets: Selected Poems (tr. by Catharine Kroger)

[the-evil-clergyman]

Hylas and the Water Nymphs by Henrietta Rae (1909)

[soft-lovely]

the earth delights to your bare feet

[clavicle-moundshroud]

[llgf]

Lucifer by Gustave Doré in Paradise Lost.

[shock]

I love rivers. all the lore and mythology about rivers is real. they’re all big and powerful and can kill people, and they are very judgmental. but they can also if they want just strip you of all wrongdoing. and that’s where salmon and frogs live

[sisterofthewolves]

[vintage-ukraine]

Young Witch by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, 1900s

[satanasaeternus]

Glyn Smyth

[feral-ballad]

Zhang Jiuling, ed. by Jane Portal, from Chinese Love Poetry; “Looking at the moon and longing for a distant lover”