Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) - The South Wind, 1928

🐉 Ulyssis Aldrovandi . . Bononiæ, apud C. Ferronium, 1640.

Full moon / 2 July 2023

“There is something waiting for us at the edge of the woods, and it is our fate to meet it.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype.

Pluto in true color

It was as if something was perpetually tugging her downward, toward the underworld, the mess, the dirt, and the filth, as if she was unable to feel disgust when others did and was overwhelmed by fascination instead.

Ia Genburg, The Details, tr. Kira Josefsson

“I want to raise up the magic world all round me and live strongly and quietly there.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. February 1934

Silver mirror, Roman, 4th century AD

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art