‘Each person is a sun and a moon, and a heaven filled with stars. ‘ Paracelsus Astrologer, occultist, alchemist, doctor, radical & magician – He’s totally fascinating. From his Wikipedia entry: “….His wanderings as an itinerant physician and sometime journeyman [ Read more…]
“Magic rites, primitive civilizations, alchemy, the language of flowers, fire, or sleepless nights, are so many stages on the way to unity and the philosophers’ stone.” Albert Camus Images: Colette Calascione
Today is the birthday of Jacqueline Susann, the Ultimate Leo Novelist & a total pioneer of the clit-lit confessional women’s genre. Before Jackie Collins, Sex & The City or the Real Housewives franchise, there was Jackie… So Ultra-Leo was she [ Read more…]
I have had a copy of I-Ching – a.k.a. Book Of Changes – since I was about 15. Like old ephemerides, they tat apart from such regular use. It’s a book of divination – Jung went mad for it as [ Read more…]
David Pybus is a “21st Century alchemist & aromancer” who is a.k.a the Perfume Hunter/the Indiana Jones of the fragrance world. He attempts to recreate ancient scents…a la this sort of thing…That annoying numeral 1 cannot be removed. I think [ Read more…]
So, as I suspected, the Cancerian Full Moon bought me out in full Zen-Noire-Hippy mode, with the usual Crab Moon carbophilia…I am talking: * New appreciation of the daffier herbal teas, such as the dandelion & burdock combo. * Hippy [ Read more…]
