Seven of Cups
Fixed water: hopes + fears, unknown pleasures, the void
The holy and haunted passions of Projections are a type of unknown pleasure – a world that is conjured into being through imagining something new.
Television
Fixed water: prayer, holy visions, projections
In Catholicism there is endless creativity in the naming of patron saints. Some of the more obscure ones include St. Julian the patron saint of murderers, and St. Lidwina, the patron saint of ice skaters.
SCORPIO III: Projections
Fixed water: phantasmagoria, dreams, fairy tales
Projections captures the whole spectrum of shadow and light in this decan, from haunted to holy.
Six of Cups
Fixed water: alchemy, memory, distillation
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.’
Scorpio II: The Poison Cure
Fixed water: nostalgia, symbiosis, healing
A little can be enlivening, a spur to creativity, but a lot can be paralysing or dangerous.
Five of Cups
Fixed water: loss, appetites, sacrifice
That reminder of loss can be a sharpener to appetite. Time is short. Do you want to be perfect or do you want to be gluttonous for experience, pleasure, and joy?
Scorpio I: The Feast
Fixed water: hunger, desires, indulgence
There is fun and playfulness and drama in feasting – the Martial double-edged sword of creation and destruction.
The Register of Candied Decay
Fixed water: undead mermaids, undersea salons, slime
‘Goo-Goo Lagoon’ shows XXX in a ‘rococo undersea salon full of kitschy trinkets, her appearance, everything about the scene, should appear excessive and slightly off.’
Where Do You Go When You Write?
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.
Gold in the Dark
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.
Haunted Houses: A Feeling for Space
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.
Rain-Sown Wheat
Fixed water: unfinished business, deep emotions, divination
We record this by leaving the work unfinished and unresolved. The absence is a space for grief.
Writing as Devotion
Fixed water: shadow, will, integrity
Writing is an act of devotion, the same as any other magical practice.
The work of writing is as integral to their lives as any other form of ritual, ceremony, or prayer, and their devotion produces magical results in their writing.
A Ritual for The Underworld of your Writing
Fixed water: petrichor, deep wells, decay
The sun doesn't disappear. We just can't see it as much as in the height of summer. There is treasure in the void. There is gold in the dark.
A Spell for Writer’s Block
Fixed water: working through, deep release, breaking open
You can work with this ritual to come back to creative centre whenever you are feeling blocked.