Fixed air: theatricality, new world, subversion

By shouting loudly and making gestures – but making them aesthetic (like the tattooed cat outside the circus tent) – there is more chance that others will pay attention to the dire situation of the existing world and feel compelled to help build a new one.

Fixed air: hidden worlds, the maternal, erotic fantasies

Aquarius III is lit by the Moon and wrapped in Venusian silks.

This is the sixth consecutive decan of Saturn, and it is softened by these intuitive, erotic, influences.

Fixed air: apples, the ferryman, the farthest shore

The Six of Swords is about the magician, the passer between realms, the holder of liminal spaces, the one who cuts through.

Fixed air: shapeshifting, divination, underworld

They can act as a mirror for the forbidden impulses in all of us; a dangerous and holy place to exist.

Fixed air: self-determination, excommunication, liberation

The Five of Swords asks us to distinguish between the battle and the war – is a minor victory worth it or does it provide an obstacle to your vision?

Fixed air: exile, iconoclasm, rebellion

The black sheep remains uniquely itself. It is a symbol of self-determination.

Fixed air: exile, un-home, paradoxes

To write the ecological uncanny, then, is to spend time in these ‘generic out-houses’, and to lie squat beneath the heavy architecture of habit and belief.

Fixed air: occult systems, leaky borders, containers

The necropastoral offers a key to looking at obscured but visible worlds that exist in the interstices of the media, the spectacle, the haunting.

Fixed air: systems, ancient wisdom, collective practices

This can become the container for all of your rituals, devotions, and divinations, and a space to process what your subtle body is experiencing when you generate, edit, and share creative work.

Fixed air: hacking, repurposing systems, linguistic play

Berg’s collection offers this small hope, this tiny act of witchcraft in a collection that both reproduces and interrogates patriarchal violence and its necrotizing effect.

Fixed air: revelation, visions, futures

These everyday objects take on a plastic significance, the ashtray is a repository for waste, and the mingling of the ash with the ‘pink seat’ suggests an uneasy disruption of categories.

Fixed air: future visioning, collective energies

What happens if you think about your projects not in terms of word counts, but in seasons? Could you be guided by a full seasonal cycle, from solstice to solstice, or Samhain to Samhain? Or could you work with your solar return?