Smokey Taboo.*

coco rosie just released their new album, "grey oceans." this is the new single and my new favorite song.*

their trailor:


full song:

Summer Travels: Red Rocks, Navajo Lands, & Petrified Forests.*

for the past few months, all i can think of is being in desert landscape. red rocks, red earth, petrified forests, rivers, native land, cacti, silver, navajo prints, beads, and lots&lots of sky. just over a month left until i can make this trek. inspiration&desired lands....*

Celestial Intensity.*

tonight, the full moon is in ever-passionate scorpio. you would be wise to be in tune with these changes. my friend marcella at
percyryder has a great description of what this means in full. if you don't have a copy of your natal chart, you can quickly get a free one here. just trying to keep y'all in the astro-loop....*

Gypsies, Oracles, Palmistry, Diviniation, Dada Landscapes, and Acid for $1.00.*

just some of my favorites from the past week's tumblr extravaganza at beastly oracle, my other oracle of beasts. (everything is linked but it seems there is some confusion about clicking the links to the right. all of my sites are linked here so check it so i don't have to repeat upon recent requests! thanks, dudes.)*

OracleHeptaNauticalMaphradite: The Tumblr Revolucion!*

so i have been posting on tumblr way more than here recently, but i try to connect as much as possible. it is the current leading force among young people worldwide on the web. i thought i would share some of the best blogs on there. what's interesting is that it's not like flickr, where all your images are YOURS. it's about sharing, stealing, reblogging, and creating an entire aesthetic for yourself from images that are completely mysterious and unoriginal to you...then other people are like, "yeah, that's my aesthetic too!" and it goes on and on and on...the editing skills and visual maturation of these young kids around the world is incredible..check it for yourself.

psychonautical: <3 the landscapes....



vermaphrodite: the best editing eye i have seen yet. shapes, patterns, textures...new themes daily.



heptagram: embracing the darkness...




and, last but not least, my own, beastly oracle: magickal trip outs....

Dangerous Minds and Witchy Woman Marjorie Cameron.*

so i was having a google rendezvous and i stumbled upon this amazing blog, dangerousminds. you can search a tag, or look up by category, of which there are tons. (i highly recommend all the subcategories under the "art" heading.) i found this fabulous page on 60's avant-garde filmmakers and saw that he even covered marjorie cameron! marjorie was an occultist in the 40's and 50's in pasadena. (!!) she dubbed herself The Scarlet Woman, claiming to have given birth to a spiritual Moonchild, and also invoked the goddess Babalon with future husband, rocket scientist, and occult priest of the Ordo Templi Orientis jack parsons "to unleash a magickal force on the world." that's my kinda lady.*

playing The Scarlet Woman in kenneth anger's INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME:


with l. ron hubbard:


in curtis harrington's NIGHT TIDE:


her biography, THE WORMWOOD STAR.*

Witchsters and Gypsters.*

it's like malcom gladwell's idea of the tipping point: all of the sudden, things become wildly popular and everyone is into the same trends. in a way, it's cool to see the things i've loved since puberty finally being appreciated, but it's also annoying that things get so appropriated. so it is with all things goth at this moment: everyone is a tarot reader or a gypsy (or, as i recently heard, a "gypster," or a "witchster" ha!), everyone wears black lace and capes and witch boots and loves upside-down crosses and stones and chains and cats and owls...i was talking with my fellow OG goth homegurl on friday night and we were lamenting over this recent aesthetic appreciation of our ever-cherished subculture and the neverending phenomenon of co-opting subcultures for popular culture. there's more to it than black lipstick, dudes (even though we know it does look realllllly cool).*


Givency, Fall 2008


Sisters of the Black Moon




Dash Snow




"Pagan Chic" by Luella Bartley




Gareth Pugh; Gemma Slack


Alexander McQueen photographed by Terry Richardson


Raquel Zimmermann by Terry Richardson