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A true metaphor: ‘Neither are these only similitudes...but the same footsteps of nature, treading...upon several subjects or matters” https://t.co/MsN61hOLMb

Mercury and Venus join their flaming torches together to heat the alchemical flask, into which the Moon and Sun descend. Venus plunges a fiery torch into the sea, while Mercury pours water from a sea shell.

Le Rudiments de la Philosophie Naturelle,
Nicolas de Locques 1665

PERSEPHONE by Kaysha Siemens

Edward Reginald Frampton, The Angel of the Sea, 1906

In folklore, we are sternly admonished never to take food from the Fairies- for eating it will trap us in fairyland.
Of course, us witches & occultists know better- that if we are offered a Fairy banquet, we must, without question, WOLF IT DOWN AT ONCE!
#SuperstitionSat

As we walk between Venus & Mercury towards Ham House we are walking the path of the Arrow, Sagittarius in the Hermetic qabalah. It’s therefore curious that Ham is adjacent to the supposed landscape zodiac figure of Sagittarius discovered by Mary Caine

I take landscape zodiacs with a large pinch of salt, but it’s interesting to note Ham House is adjacent to the landscape figure of Sagittarius in the Kingston Zodiac as described by Mary Caine. Cabalists will understand the link between ♐️ , Teferet, Malkuth, Hod & Netzach

The art of Sidney Sime (1865 –1941), English fantasy artist, often remembered for his illustrations for the Irish author Lord Dunsany.

According to the ancient view, the moon stands on the borderland between the eternal and the ephemeral, earthly, sublunar realm.

Macrobius says “the realm of the perishable begins with the moon and goes downwards..There is no doubt that the moon is the author..of mortal bodies”