Scorpio Season and The Glittering Dark
Dear Friend,
Today is Scorpio season, and we get the chance to journey into the glittering dark where we can find so much treasure.
The archetypes for Scorpio are witchy and intense: sorcerers, detectives, mystics, and witches.
As Scorpio artist and writer Hannah Black says, “Not everyone dies and gets reborn every day like us, but everyone does it sometimes, in their own way.”
Scorpio season gives us the opportunity to do just that if we choose to.
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This month in Atmospheres we will be exploring Scorpio I: The Feast, Scorpio II: The Poison Cure, and Scorpio III: Projections.
To get a taste of the month ahead, the bonus Scorpio potion is for everyone to enjoy.
Please take what you want and leave the rest. I hope that the potion sparks your creativity.
If you would like to take part in the live rituals you can join us for Atmospheres.
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🍄 Fruit
Haunted Houses: ‘A Feeling for Space’
Fixed water: dreams, gothic spaces, wells
I told her about a dream about a banquet: the hushed grandeur of the room, gold brocade on the table, rotten fruit drawing flies.
Where Do You Go When You Write?
Fixed water: underwater caves, stalactites, isolation
There is a bottomless green pool of water that chills the air around it. Once you arrive, there is nowhere else to go. There is nothing to do but contemplate the icy, beautiful surroundings.
Gold in the Dark
Fixed water: the shadow, the void, the deep
Our shadow is the place where we can find answers to these questions. In the dark, abyssal, cosmic place we try to repress.
🦠 Spores
I’m working on the very early seeds of a writing class for fairy tale, folk tale, and myth retellings. I have taught versions of this over the years, and I am feeling the pull to make it tangible again.
𓍊𓍊𓍊 Mycelium
This interview between Hannah Black and Alice Sparkly Kat gives an inside look into being a Scorpio artist with advice that everyone can use.
I really resonated with the ‘Death and Scorpio’ episode on the Threads of Fate podcast.
I’m revisiting Liz Worth’s excellent poetry collection Fog Machine Salvation for Goth season. Liz says that the collection is ‘part of a poetry experiment where I’m excavating the language from interviews and accounts of 1980s goth club the Batcave and related scenes and communities.’
I’m in the middle of reading Amy Stewart’s scary debut novel Hex House where a hex isn’t something you work, but something you become. I can’t think of anything more Scorpio than that.
I wish you a week of glittering dark, stillness, and promise.
Love, LJ