Fixed air: theatricality, new world, subversion

I don’t see this as just the card of deceit, but one of the hysteric and drama queen – visionaries who are rarely taken seriously and who can do some subversive damage as a result.

Fixed air: hidden worlds, the maternal, erotic fantasies

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

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

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?