Velumnoctis - ✴ 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖊 ✴

Continually trying to look on the bright side interferes with our finding the wisdom that lies in the fruitful darkness. Continually striving upward toward the light means we never grow downward into our own feet, never become firmly rooted on the earth, never explore the darkness within and around us, a darkness without whose existence the light would have no meaning.

The Fasting Path

Stephen Harrod Buhner

Architectural plan for the Singertor vestibule of St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna, by Laurenz Spenning, ca. 1454-1477

Belden C. Lane, The Great Conversation

A Visitation of Insomnia (1970) © Hollis Frampton.

The figure of Melusine, at the 16th century sculpture garden of Bomarzo, Italy.

Clearest image of Venus, taken by Japan's Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter.

Charles Baudelaire, from The Flowers of Evil: Poems; "A Former Life,"