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I dried and pressed Aconitum napellus flowers and put them in a frame with sealing wax.
I dried and pressed Aconitum napellus flowers and put them in a frame with sealing wax.
Foxglove and wolfsbane hand embroidered brooch.
A velvet lampshade I had sewn a few years ago.
A button pin designed with the cover art of my manga, 'Of Spark and Cats', photographed with crocuses.
Wolfsbane cloche necklace pendant.
Both of the wolfsbane patterned spoons I've woodburned. Left: 2023, right: 2020.
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My new favorite hobby is pouring myself a nice glass of wine and browsing popular Amazon reviews for tarot decks.
In all seriousness, as a theologist I find this sort of thing utterly fascinating. There is a complete disconnect of the self in the kind of person that the first reviewer must be, an utterly uncritical cosmology of what external pressures likely brought them into the occult community.
Humanity has repeatedly sought to create religion in times of upheaval, both on a societal and a personal scale. Thereâs a reason why New Age spirituality and interest in the occult have so rapidly exploded within the past decade or so of the Information Age. People are distancing themselves en masse from organized religionâand ESPECIALLY Christianity, and its politicized trappings within the United States governmentâbut feel the need to keep the religion aspect. In difficult times, belief in something beyond the self and the material is a thing of fundamental comfort. It makes the random suffering and confusion of the world more bearable, grants a sense of satisfaction and control in your life otherwise lacking.
But the occult, specifically, is antithetical to the Information Age in many ways, and utterly anathema to capitalism, and this intersects in a very key way for a person like Jen B. The occult is the infallibly unknowable. It is finding things you can never understand and the joy of trying to grasp the impossible however you can. The world is filled with unexplainable and the strange, and there is a deep and potent joy I feel in studying it, both on a practical level and in an academic level. I love examining why we as a species keep reinventing wizards and powerful spirits who exert influence over our lives in ways we cannot comprehend.
But that is not the occult that Jen B wants. Jen B wants a very, very, very, very, VERY new understanding of the Occult. She wants the occult to be a place of peace and tranquility and sterilized, sanitized self help. She wants clean pale blues and neutral earth tones with lots of natural lighting in a yoga group. She wants to buy crystals that will alleviate her anxiety and realign her chakras, and she does not want to examine why she thinks buying crystals will alleviate her anxiety, and she does not want to research what chakras actually are beyond Pinterest infographics of see-through people in a lotus pose. She, as a Lightworker VERY specifically, wants to feel important, and like it is her duty to heal a broken and toxic world, but she has no idea why she wants to do it or how she could actually do that, and she wonât examine that because the answer isnât easy and comforting.
The world is a chaotic and cruel place filled with random suffering and deeply ingrained toxic power structures which seek to literally profit off of sucking the life out of billions of people in a slow and miasmic way. But Jen B cannot approach this from a radical mindset, cannot bear the mundane and banal reality of âThese problems are caused by political and corporate structures to enforce government control and subservienceâ. Jen B seeks the occult because she wants to discover that the reason she hates her job and feels no satisfaction from it is actually psychic emotional vampires draining her life force chi, and she can prevent them from feeding off her by thinking really hard about how they canât actually do that.
For the marketing directors of Targetâs next New Age self help book, for the contracted freelancers who are hired to write a cutesy pastel purple â101 Spells For The Working Witchâ to be sold for $10.99 at Barnes and Noble, for the white reiki masters and yoga instructors who like houseplants, the occult is not a place of wonder and mystery and the unknown and the unknowable. The occult is not the occult for them, because they want to learn that spiritual enlightenment can be found on Amazon.com for 24.99 plus shipping and handling, because the world is scary and complicated and doesnât make sense, and crystals are pretty little rocks you can arrange into shapes, and this makes them feel like they can survive another day of being forced into doing absolutely nothing of worth, meaning, or time, so that they can use an imaginary high score in their bank account to buy water and a studio apartment.
Overall this is super good, but i disagree that the occult is antithetical to the information age. Id say its antithetical to the narrative that society and especially corporate powers often impose onto the information age, and what corporate and state interests want the information age to be. But at the bones of it⌠its defined by an unfathomably massive and deep well of raw⌠stuff. Images. Recordings. Peoples day to day thoughts. Corrupted garbage data. Art. Things that may or may not be art. Genuine and non-genuine communication. Near unfiltered access to the trillions of facets of the human experience.
The sheer scale is utterly beyond human comprehension . The clean corporate controlled web 2.0 is ultimately little more than a scaffolding built over the surface of this thing, one that will one day collapse.
If you use a packet capture program such as wireshark you can quickly see that the internet is not as clean and well structured as it tries to appear. Even the communications of one device with one browser tab open are too numerous and quick to try to read as they flow in. Its held together with the data science equivalent of duct tape, full of weird quirks thats purpose is now so obsolete that they seem more like rituals now.
The information age is not an age of perfect reason, or well ordered and organized data. It is not an age of conquering information itself. Its an age of trying to tame an untamable frothing sea of raw information and failing. Its an age of being exposed to a reservoir of thought and stupidity and archives and profoundness and archives of archives and profound stupidity and seeming garbage data so large that its incomprehensible
You know what, I actually love that take and I fully agree with it! My intent with saying it was antithetical was sorta more along the lines of, âThe occult is trying to understand the unknowable, and you canât really mass-produce magic like a listicleâ. So I guess maybe a better way to understand it is that the Information Age that the corpos want to sell you can never truly be magic, but the technology of the Information Age is not necessarily as fettered?
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White wolf taxidermy purse.
The head is mounted but hollow, with a closure of fabric on the back of the head. I didn't know what I was going to do with this wolf head pelt for a while, but this is perfect because I will get to take this wolf with me when I go out. The strap is borrowed from another purse of mine -- I will make or acquire a more suitable one eventually.
I finally got another woodburning tool, something I have wanted for the last two years now. I shouldnât have waited so long, but now that I have it, I woodburned a wooden spoon with aconite flowers, and then tea-stained it.
Softmount Rex Rabbit - Florence
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â It snowed for the first time this season, so here is a lovely winter photo of my manga, 'Of Spark and Cats'. â
Embroidering in my grandparents' house.