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.

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, and which drives our behaviour.

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.

Cardinal air: speculation, madness, atmospheric strangeness.

Much of the transformation of the game from mundane to numinous is achieved through the intervention of a sudden moon in cosmic magenta which changes the landscape entirely.

Cardinal air: chaos magic, willpower, telepathy

The aerialist reminds us of the possibilities of this card, just as the telepathic lamb controlling the swords above her head: it is possible to wield mass, force, and energies that feel chaotic in the service of a singular goal.

Cardinal air: eye of the storm, altitude pressure, inner strength.

It depends on your mood as to how you might interpret the storm clouds.

Cardinal air: big mood, the mundane sublime, weird landscapes

Weird landscapes tell us so much about making the hidden aspects of life visible, and, about our interconnectedness with the natural world.

Cardinal air: Bonds, Promises, Endurance

This is the engine of storytelling – in any story, there is a winnowing of options, a set of choices that become a single choice. This is what makes the story resonate – we can feel the experience of the characters as they grapple with what we must, every day.

Cardinal air: zone rites, magic, intensity

What happens within the zone can be wild, magical, and sacred, so long as it is protected by the power of a safe container.

Cardinal air: curiosity, meandering, surprises.

The work exists because of you and your unique understanding of the world you are creating, so how could it ever disappear?

Cardinal air: mycelial networks, field notes, fungal categories

In The Museum of Atheism, each chapter begins with a description of the fungus that has taken over the town of Rosewood, where the action happens. These descriptions act as field notes about real and imagined fungal forms

Cardinal air: hoodwink, meditation, play.

This scene could be from a play or a photoshoot. The figure could be sitting for a portrait, or waiting for a lover to release them from a game.

Cardinal air: initiation, commitment, artistry.

Every artwork requires both sacrifice and desire.

Venus and the Moon.

Cardinal air: wild foxes, psychedelic spores, freezing air.

On Christmas night, a small girl is crowned at a pageant, before stumbling into the snowy darkness, alone, to meet her greatest fan

Cardinal air: harmony, nourishment, artists

I’m thinking about art about artmaking. My own process is in disarray at the moment, and I am finding solace and guidance in the work of other artists grappling with these questions.

Mutable earth: roses, funerary plants, secrets.

The sweetness of Venus, with the fast movement of Mercury, speeds up the border between ripeness and rot, and between freshness and decay.

Mutable earth: Homecoming, mortality, transition

This card feels like a hopeful and homely card to pull - it gives a sense of things being in their rightful place - but the ten gives a sense of the next transition to be to something else, another stage of life. For some of us, that transition is into the realm beyond life, and the spectre of death haunts this card and decan.

Mutable earth: reality blur, possession, bodies.

The film unspools like a dream. The actors slip in and out of character. It isn’t always clear which parts of their histories belong to them, and which to the characters they’re playing. Artifice and performance are made visible but also blurred.

Mutable earth: blackberries, ripeness and rot, thresholds, brambles, boundaries.

Virgo II is about late summer slipping into autumn. Melancholy and heavy ripeness. Delicious fruits that mark the end of the harvest.

Mutable earth: mint, clarity, lamplight, ancient traditions

This atmosphere is guided by Mercurial movement, freshness, and clarity. It is the clarity and coolness of mint tea on your tongue.