“Leo,” Linoleum Block Print. Dragon With Sacred Datura

© Nona Limmen {Instagram / Bluesky}

'The Incantation of Morgan Le Fay' Art by Hogan McLaughlin

Grief, Theodor Kittelsen

Magic is an expression of power and an expression of how that power relates to you, your environment, and your ancestors. Magic is the interface of the land and Divinity; it is the power of the elements around you, the power of the sun and moon, the air that you breathe, and the language of the unseen beings, both benign and malicious, that are living alongside you.

Josephine McCarthy, The Magical Knowledge Trilogy

Maria Sibylla Merian - Musaeum hermeticum reformatum et amplificatum - 1678 - via Beinecke Library

Abraham Saur, Witches’ Brew, 1582

The snake symbolizes something unconscious; it is the instinctive movement or tendency; it shows the way to the hidden treasure, or it guards the treasure. The snake has a fascinating appeal, a peculiar attraction through fear. Some people are fascinated by this fear. Things that are awe-inspiring and dangerous have an extraordinary attraction. The serpent shows the way to hidden things which leads man to go beyond the point of safety, and beyond the limits of consciousness.

1925 Seminar

Carl Jung

“SKULL AND CROSSBONES” ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE // 1983 [gelatin silver print | 38.4 × 38 cm.]