Warning: Contains Vincent. Welcome to Studio Vlog #03! Today, I’ll be showing me shipping off Patreon rewards, working on the next commission and packing new store orders. The Trekkell’s pet contest that went on IG is now over. Here you get to see the...
Veronica Varlow posted on her blog about battling dark thoughts. (If you haven’t started following her, please do. She is just a wonderful and inspiring woman with stories to share. Revolver springs to mind). I pondered about it after reading her post...
This is a short and easy one. How to Summon a Lover to Call through mirror magic. One of the many things my mother loved to do is call people … without ever lifting the phone! She does this in her bathroom, standing in front of a mirror. Every morning, while putting...
The first record of any mermaid imagery was the Syrian goddess Atargatis (also known to the Greeks as Aphrodite Derceto). Her iconography usually depicts a nude woman with the lower half as a two-tailed fish holding a mirror and comb. In Santeria, she’s known as...
Altars, shrines, and Walter Mercado Documentary on Netflix. My friend Jorge Ocasio (you can find him at Original Botanica making the most beautiful votive candles) announced one night on my Facebook feed, “the Walter Mercado documentary is up now on Netflix!” My brain...
I’m still not quite sure what happened exactly. Maybe it was the isolation and having no outside distractions. It could have been me adhering to Solomonic purity rites at the time, in conjunction with general prayer/meditation (that I usually do when I’m gearing up...
This particular piece has been literally years in the making. I think sometime in 2010, I purchase this huge canvas for $80 at a Pearl Paint outlet store in Long Island. It was going out of business, so when I saw the 40-50% off everything, I took advantage of it. I...
There is notations of everyone at some point experiencing astral smells, being touched, hearing music and signing, voices, or whispers. Fish and something rotting (death?) were prominent. Floral smells such as roses and lavender were present as well. Kay in the scryer...
This particular experiment took a few years to prepare for. The date of the operation took place on 12/12/13. Gathering the ritual tools and fashioning others. Learning the prayers and practicing the simple banishings. Creating the lamens/pentacles and...
If you haven’t heard about the amazing Bobby Dee, he’s not just a literary scholar, author and academician of Lovecraftiania and R. E. Howard studies, but of the weird community at large in its various manifestations. He is also an amateur fiction writer and artist. I...
