an image shows a black and purple patterned cloth with a bottle of perfume marked Cleo May extrait de parfum. Superimposed text reads “Cleopatra May I: Magical Makeup, Final Pharaohs, & Beauty Spells that last for Millennia” bottom text reads: drfinchconjure.substack.com

hey bluesky! been a long time, hope you’re enjoying yourselves as much as possible! I just wrote a little essay about Cleopatra, Cleo May, & Magical Makeup. You can read it here: drfinchconjure.substack.com/p/cleopatra-...

Various bottles and pipettes are arrayed around a central digital scale—this is a humble perfumer’s workstation.

Hi bluesky, how are you? It’s been some time since we all spoke. I have been hidden away, in a fair & secret chamber, absorbed in the practice of perfumery.

Totally understandable! More and more good things to come 🌱

I want to sincerely thank all the students who participated in my class series on Conjure Materia with Brother Yona thru @spiritusarcanum.bsky.social !!!

You truly impressed us with your scholarship, your ethic, and your magical creativity.

Stay tuned for more announcements from us soon!

A flower growing in an ornate pot sits behind a box containing small flower seedlings. Print in muted tones.

'Primrose' - Kubo Shunman, ca. 1810.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

Great thread here with lots of occult zines worth looking thru! #witchsky #occultsky

A flyer emblazoned with an image of an angelic figure with bat wings holding a lantern. This spirit figure seems to beckon the reader forward. The text reads, “Come to the NEW MOON OCCULT SALON...and talk about "American Spiritualism" With guest speaker Stephen Patrick (@stephenpatrickspiritualist) 3/29/25 • 7-9 CENTRAL TIME Join the Discord server! Drop in as you please • Listen or share

Witches, mediums, rootworkers, conjurers of all stripes—come to the New Moon Occult Salon & chat with us about Spiritualism, ghosts, guides, ancestors, communication with the beyond!—it’s free & it’s happening here:

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This month the New Moon Occult Salon is proud to feature Stephen Patrick of the Rochester Spiritualist Society! Come join us for this free online skillshare and chat about:

Séances, Mediumship, Ectoplasm, Women’s Suffrage, The Fox Sisters & much more!

A flyer emblazoned with an image of an angelic figure with bat wings holding a lantern. This spirit figure seems to beckon the reader forward. The text reads, “Come to the NEW MOON OCCULT SALON...and talk about "American Spiritualism" With guest speaker Stephen Patrick (@stephenpatrickspiritualist) 3/29/25 • 7-9 CENTRAL TIME Join the Discord server! Drop in as you please • Listen or share

Witches, mediums, rootworkers, conjurers of all stripes—come to the New Moon Occult Salon & chat with us about Spiritualism, ghosts, guides, ancestors, communication with the beyond!—it’s free & it’s happening here:

discord.gg/AvrheqUBs9

Two animal allies in Southern Conjure & Rootwork are the raccoon and opossum. Raccoons, lil'bandits - sly, ultimate survivors; Opossums - cunning of life, death, & resurrection, wise trickster spirit sometimes connected to fire/Sun. A little song from "SUWANNEE RIVER: Strange Green Land" by Cecile H Matschat (pub 1938), and illustration by Alexander Key. "Old sow sank in the deeps of the branch, While the raccoon fiddled an' the possum danced." #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #AnimalAllies #FolkWitch

Two animal allies in Southern Conjure & Rootwork are the raccoon and opossum. Raccoons, lil'bandits - sly, ultimate survivors; Opossums - cunning of life, death, & resurrection, wise trickster spirit sometimes connected to fire/Sun. (Post: 1/2) #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #AnimalAllies #FolkWitch

lmao 🤣

Hi witches! Hi rootworkers! Hello magicians of every kind!

Something special approacheth TOMORROW NIGHT after the sun dips below the horizon~

Come to the New Moon Occult Salon—a free online magical soirée—and talk about Seership with professional fairy seer Rose Aurora!

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Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

A white flyer with a picture of a red devil on it. It reads: “Sunday February 23rd—9 pm EST—Folklore Storytime, Ask us Anything, & Card Readings!”

I’ll be live over on Instagram tonight, (I’m @phoebe.hildegard over there!)

I will be pulling cards and reading folktales with some other practitioners—come through if you want to talk folklore, divination, witchcraft, folk magic, conjure! We’d love to see you 💃

A drawing of an adorably-anthropomorphized guillotine saying "Hey kids! Remember, people have never gained rights by asking nicely for them!"

🥰 excited to see you there!

Trinity Blood art is so goooooood

Someone just pointed out I look like Esther from Trinity Blood and that is a huge compliment as Trinity Blood is one of my all time favourite series 😭❤️

More Trinity Blood art by Shibamoto Thores.

As described, depicted in a landscape, the owl has two butterflies each side of his head.

A lapwing, an owl and a goldfinch set in natural surroundings. Etching by A. Collaert, 17th century.

A flyer that reads “Come to the New Moon Occult Salon & talk about Seership with guest speaker Rose Aurora. 2/27/25 from 7pm to 9pm CST.”

Step right up good people of #witchsky, #occultsky, come to the New Moon Occult Salon!

Come chat and share from your own experiences of magic, spirits, and spellcraft in this free online magical mixer, sorcerous soirée, conjurer’s convocation!

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Go birds 🥰

Interesting : library.yale.edu/news/cards-l...

"There was an owl liv'd in an oak
The more he heard, the less he spoke
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
O, if men were all like that wise bird."
~ The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes

In this image, a visual joke is made using acronyms. Here I will list the acronyms and explain what they stand for. The joke being made here is a political one, one which is expressly anti fascist. Yes to DSBM, or depressive suicidal black metal (it’s a real style of music look it up) Yes to BDSM, or kinky shit NO to NSBM, or national socialist black metal (nazi punx fuck off) Yes to SSBM, or the video game “super smash brothers melee” Hope that clears things up! Eliminate nazi scum!

Here’s a humorous infographic for the gamers & for the metalhead of #metalsky !

For anyone confused about where I stand, hopefully this clears things up!

(See alt text for a translation, explanation of this visual joke)

May his memory be a blessing 💐

This is a cool online charity event for a great cause that features a ton of awesome subjects and people, including
@daviddemchuk.com @meanlouise.bsky.social
@leannareneehieber.bsky.social

Plus, it's called GOTHS FOR BREAKFAST, c'mon! 🦇👻😈

Classic series! 👏

How Bad Brains created a new punk genre YouTube video by Sound of History

Let’s kickoff Black History Month with a short doc on Bad Brains!

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A goodreads review of the Lesser Key of Solomon. One star. There are hundreds of D&D / RPG supplements out there to choose from, and in general I don't buy third-party supplements anymore, especially since my campaigns have been on hold for a while now. I bought this on a whim during the campaign of one of my long-term gaming partners in which my character intended to create a fake demonology book to give to the asshole necromancer who had raised us as various forms of undead and was keeping us in his thrall. This supplemental is actually not D&D or D20 specific, and is more descriptive, potentially useful for providing flavor to the campaign. The only real strength of this book is in the illustrations of the seals and the magic circles, which could easily be dropped into a broad range of settings, with or without modifications. Additionally the names of the various spirits could be lifted - some will be familiar, and other not as much. It would have been nice if the authors had chosen to fit more of these entities into the various pantheons of D&D, but they stuck with a Judeo-Christian background making this of limited value in most D&D settings. The presentation of the material is poorly organized

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