Details painted by Rembrandt (1606–1669)

The rose window of the Strasbourg Cathedral

🔆 Sending warmth and light to you all. One for All Hallows' Day - not taken today, but still worth posting. My favourite photo I've taken of York Minster at first light - it seems to magically exude warmth and light - after the darkness recedes and night turns into day...

The famous sculpture Sylph by Ukrainian artist Volodymyr Tsisaryk is located in Lviv.

The Ides of March, by Edward John Poynter (1883)

Franz Hein (1863-1927 German expressionist painter and printmaker) "Cinderella, the Feast at the Castle"✨

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, detail of the arrival of the Queen of the Night, stage set for Mozart’s Magic Flute (1815).

Attend to the present moment, for this is the stone now placed in the temple of your character. /G\

"Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human" ~ Prof. Graham Harvey art: Ed Org

Did you know that the Sea Goat was sometimes depicted nestled inside a seashell?  One of the things I find interesting is that even when portrayed within a shell, the lower half keeps its aquatic essence like common depictions of the Sea Goat. Capricorn is often shown with a

Hecate Guardian of the crossroads, keeper of the keys

The zmeu is a prominent figure in Southeast European folklore, particularly within Romanian narrative traditions, where it occupies an ambiguous space between dragon, demon, and aristocratic antagonist. Unlike purely bestial dragons, the zmeu is frequently anthropomorphic: it

El león y el águila, el sol y la luna, lo fijo y lo volátil. La alquimia nos revela verdades profundas sobre nuestra propia naturaleza. Esas partes contradictorias que apenas sabemos cómo conectar, cómo hacerlas dialogar sin que una devore a la otra. Son precisamente estos

“Quien se conoce a sí mismo ha iniciado la Gran Obra.” El autoconocimiento es la verdadera piedra filosofal.

The three Spirit Nights of the year are Beltane, Summer Solstice and Samhain. On these nights, the veil between our world and The Otherworld is exceptionally thin, and those with special insight can cross over art: Susan Schroder

Alphonse-Louis Constant, says Éliphas Levi (1810-1875), The Wisdom of the Ancients. Collection of symbolic figures with captions and explanations, by Éliphas Lévi, professor of occult sciences, 1874