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A new op-ed warns of a growing mental health crisis among conservationists, driven by ecological loss, funding pressures and a culture of self-sacrifice.
The authors call for greater investment in workforce well-being and support.
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Painting of a stylised landscape with tall trees on exaggerated thin and long trunks, green fields and hills
Trees in the Sky, 1939 by Canadian painter Emily Carr #womensart
Work and play make the world go ‘round.
After finishing a full lunar cycle of devotional sorcery to Mene-Selene, which resulted in some fertile symbolic imagery and two powerful new incantatory chants, I’m enjoying a week of downtime and nothing but labors and leisure!
Gods bless us, every one!
In response to the nomination by President Diaper-Rash of virulent corporatist sociopath Steve Pearce to head the Bureau of Land Management, I will be donating $10 (over 70%) from every copy of Barbarous Tongues sold between now and midnight March 1 to the Center for Biological Diversity.
$10 from every sale of Barbarous Tongues to the Center for Biological Diversity!
tinyurl.com/barbaroustongues
#lifeonearth #biophilia #esotericart #greensky #witchsky #artandecology
Sun Disk accumulation.
A friendly reminder that there are no shipping charges this month on domestic orders of Barbarous Tongues: a Journal of Arts and Esoterica! Details at tinyurl.com/barbaroustongues
#helios #witchsky #ancientgods #solardeities
Seeking inspiration for your magical path in 2026? Use code BARB26 for Free Shipping on all domestic (US) orders of Barbarous Tongues: a Journal of Arts and Esoterica, now through end of January.
tinyurl.com/barbaroustongues
#witchsky #occultbooks #esotericarts #happynewyear2026
Post-Solstice incantatory prepwork
This graphic for my Food Justice class presentation is getting a little out of hand; Acid-Socialist communion wafer?
#foodjustice #sciencevisuals #researchagenda #graphicdesign #psychedelicart
Turn your life
Like a key
Push hesitations wide open
And enter the road
As if it is a foggy tablature
Historian and folk magician Dr. Alexander Cummins talks necromancy, divination, land spirits and more in Barbarous Tongues: a Journal of Arts and Esoterica. Available now at tinyurl.com/barbaroustongues
#folkmagic #necromancy #geomancy #witchsky #booksky #esoterica #grimoires
Mandy Wilde ruminates on the dark aspects of the Goddess Hekate as accessed through William Blake’s The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy. Wilde also presents Aug 19 for Salem Witchcraft and Folklore!
tinyurl.com/barbaroustongues
#hekate #hecate #williamblake #artwriting #witchcraft #esotericart #witchsky
Francis Dot is a research-based artist living and working in Portland OR. Featured alongside an impressive group of visionaries in Barbarous Tongues, available from Ecstatic Agendas!
tinyurl.com/barbaroustongues
#collageart #portlandoregon #esoterica #timetravel #contemporaryart #witchsky #booksky
Delighted to be part of this hot new zine journal, and had a blast chatting about folk necromancy, geomancy, and more in this interview.
Artist, occulturist, and merry prankster Tom Banger is featured alongside a fantastic cohort of creative minds in Barbarous Tongues, now available from Ecstatic Agendas!
tinyurl.com/barbaroustongues
#templeofpsychickyouth #collage #cutups #anansi #zines #booksky #witchsky #artsandculture
I’m stoked to announce the arrival of
BARBAROUS TONGUES: A Journal of Arts and Esoterica. BT bridges art, poetry, magic and ecology in a spirit of nondogmatic cultural cross-pollination. 80p paperback, 8.5x11”.
tinyurl.com/barbaroustongues
#esoterica #occulture #paganpride #witchsky #booksky
“Natural climate solutions have already locked away vast amounts of carbon and offer co-benefits like biodiversity and water security.
Delaying action while chasing "permanence" or perfect solutions is more dangerous than managing the risk of carbon reversals.”
www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
Digital illustration of a crow standing on a branch with a rainbow progress flag in its beak. Surrounding the bird are rainbow colored flowers and pedals. The background is beige.
Happy Pride Month!!! 🏳️🌈
“… the importance of the magical fire in goetic ritual assumes a greater symbolic importance, given the connection of the original Goes with fire as well as mountains and volcanoes and their associated divinities.” - Jake Stratton-Kent, Geosophia Vol 2, p 83 (2010).
Yesterday’s native groundcover and edible tuber spree heralds the next phase of my urban greening research. (cont. in 1st image)
#urbangreening #nativeplants #communityresilience
#greensky
Life is such glory
The air is so crisp
The berry so juicy
It pours down my wrist
False Solomon’s Seal starters fresh through the mail from Cane Creek Meadows on Etsy! These PNW natives provide luscious punctuation marks to the understories of local wooded parklands. Can’t wait to bring them up here at home!
#falsesolomonsseal #nativegroundcover #urbangreening
The Devil Archetype
Liberation, Shadow Self, and the Journey to Authenticity
The Devil archetype represents the confrontation with the parts of ourselves that we often conceal, the shadow self, hidden desires, and the chains we place upon our own freedom.
open.substack.com/pub/wickdcro...
“I remember when this whole thing began, no talk of God then we called you a man! and believe me my admiration for you hasn’t died…”
There are no tariffs being put on Russia. Hmmm
Booker= HERO
Schumer= ZERO
Dandelion has the face of the sun and pale roots like fingers reaching down into the earth