The Triple Oracle

Great backstory to the studio.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

A desk lamp, two bureaus, a wastebasket, a pencil, six books, three shoes.

a mini barbie dreamhouse atop a giant (relative to the house) chicken legs

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.

It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.

No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

The witch needs no tarot or crystal ball. One of my favourite nature-gifted scrying pools is at the edge of a local water meadow. This is my place for nephomantic cloud-telling. Peering into the still water to look around the corner of tomorrow. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

A video on demand movie rental screen showing the title The Ring. A sentence underneath says “you have 30 days to start watching this video”

That’s not the rule and you know it.

It should be noted before blowing, that dandelions are synchronised to Faery Spring Time, not Greenwich Mean Time. For it is the Faery Clock, not ours. – #CLNolan #Folklore

“In the way of animal people, she did not speak with her mouth, instead using a language that all living things could understand. It blossomed in Ellie’s head like a dream, a series of thoughts she did not consciously control.”

-- Elatsoe, Darcie Little Badger

#booksky

“ ‘And this is the big one,’ she says. ‘What will be.’ And then Rae turns over – of course she does – the Ten of Cups.

The rainbow, the loving couple, the happy children.

I flinch as though at the spring of a trap. ‘Domestic bliss,’ she says. ‘Lucky you.’ “

-- Delphi, Clare Pollard

"I saw a falcon hovering over me in the air, not actually moving. As I looked up, a Swiss woman approached me and spontaneously shared with me that whenever a falcon is hovering like that, it is the Holy Spirit."

-- Walking Home, Sonia Choquette

#folklore #birdlore

When I was in Sligo in 2018 I noticed the elderly couple I was staying with had a penny over the doorway of each door. The gentleman said it was for luck.
I've heard other, more pagan minded people say its for the house spirit.

It's a simple folk practice and I adopted it myself.

Writing Magic on @substack 🥀
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“In the end, it was four words that changed the course of our lives and the history of the world. Perhaps it wasn’t really so surprising. They were, after all, the most important words in any language.

‘What are you reading?’”

-- The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, H.G. Parry

#booksky

On my 3rd attempt today (1st time foiled by bullocks, 2nd by horses), I finally managed to get to the stones of Gwern y Cleppa, on the outskirts of Newport, South Wales! A proud moment. #standingstonesunday @megalithic.bsky.social @meirion.bsky.social

Glastonbury Abbey

Where to start with: Alan Garner As the master of myth and fantasy turns 90 today it’s a good time to look at his wide ranging canon, from Booker-nominated novels to children’s fiction, poetry and essays

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/o...

The damp patch left by a dog lying.down on a grey slate tile floor.

Damp dog lying-down shape left on kitchen floor.

I am still in a very unsettled state of mind.

Fairy rings. I'm writing on early scientific explanations to dismiss the supernatural.

In 1853 a Yorkshire correspondent to "The Naturalist" magazine suggested, from observation of his pet hedgehog, that some fairy rings were caused by hedgehogs running in circles.

Call them fox ways, call them faerie paths or desire lines, but all know when we walk them there's the possibility they will lead us into wonder. For these are our true folk tracks and it's in our hearts to steer our feet towards enchantment. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982

A rabbit escapes from a wheatfield just as ared combine harvester approaches. The scene is observed by an a boy a girl out with their dog.

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Escape’
(Look and Learn, 1964)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt

a fox jumping over a neolithic tomb, with a full moon in the middle, stars whirling around the moon. a foxglove plant in front. Linocut, deep blue and white, Maria Strutz

For today's Full Moon:
a fox jumping over a tomb
jumping over the Moon 🦊🐾🌕
#FullMoon #FoxMoon

There’s always a morning, comes along mid-August, when you wake up and there’s that ‘chill’ in the air. You know autumn is just around the corner. Today is that day! 🍂🍁🍄🍁🍂

A hand holding four shrunken styrofoam cups the size of shot glasses. Two with jellyfish colored on them and two with black and white lines

People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines

Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups

And we are but human & we want tiny cup

A fun interview about other people’s books! fivebooks.com/best-books/f...

a little fox sniffing some purple flowers, surrounded by gravel. Photograph Maria Strutz

My favourite little vixen
sniffing some Pulsatilla flowers
- pretty much exactly on this day 2 years ago 🦊🐾✨

“It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.” - Charles de Lint

"But a deeper part of him knew that he was not dreaming. He was crystal-clear awake, in a Midwinter Day that had been waiting for him to wake into it since the day he had been born, and, he somehow knew, for centuries before that."
-- The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
#books #fantasy #solstice

I assume David Bowie must have chilled the fluid into a freezing hydrocarbon foam or powder and dropped such quantities as to drive off the O2 and smother the flames before the gasoline could itself vaporise and ignite.

Either way an extraordinary achievement for the British musician.

Dirac’s sketches of geometric figures.

Dirac was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th C. This is how he worked, drawing figures to capture geometries — a practice that began with compulsory technical drawing classes as a schoolboy in Bristol.

(Reminder: STEAM > STEM, educating the eye makes the mind stronger.)

print of an owl, with feathers extending from the owl's body like leaves, Kenojuak Ashevak

'Young Owl'
Owls featured a lot in the work of Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak. When asked what owls represented to her she stated that the owl did not have any particular significance for her but that every time she sat down to draw an owl always seemed to come.
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