CREATING IN THE DARK

Creating magic in the dark is not a myth. It’s reality of the highest.

GLUTTONY

In summer, you can discover new all sorts that validate your ‘no belief’ belief.

ALGOL’S ABSINTHE

‘I’m making my own absinthe,’ I told a few friends at a conference in Oulu, Finland this week, ‘and I always use your sacred spirit, aka 60 percent Koskenkorva Vodka.’ What I should have said is that I don’t just make absinthe. I ritualize the making of it, so that when I will finally drink it,

THE INVERSE, OR HOW TO BOOM THE CARDS LIKE THE DEVIL

This is this and that is that. ‘Is there a third card?’ the sitter asks, and you just say, ‘no, there’s isn’t. And you know why? Because it’s not necessary.

THE SHINING

I’m calling my post today The Shining, to allude to the horror book by Stephen King, but I could just as well have called it The Fiddling. It may well be that I’ve just finished writing a whole book using images from the unknown and unseen Marseille Tarot of Carolus Zoya, but somehow, and for