Over the weekend, I drove out to Otis, MA, for the Harvest Nights Gathering, the inaugural festival for Charter Oak Grove, ADF. They'd requested some ADF Priests via our Traveling Clergy Program (ADF Member's only link), and I was one of the lucky ones able to make it out. I have a couple of things to say about the drive:

• The first thing to say is ( Read more... )

While I suspect that these are supposed to be more. . . economic in meaning, I cannot help but think that there is nothing more Indo-European (though specifically continental Celtic) than a set of bull and bear cufflinks for your best-dressed formal occasion. I might also suggest that the red "Chinese" dragon leaves something to be desired. . . Oh ( Read more... )

H. P. Lovecraft's The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath begins with a trance induction that I cannot help but think about as I struggle with this last question in Trance 1:

"In light slumber he descended the seventy steps to the cavern of flame and talked of this design to the bearded priests Nasht and Kaman-Thah," Lovecraft tells us. Hearing the ( Read more... )

This entry will contain what some of you consider to be sacrilege. And some of you will think it hilarious.

Let me begin at the beginning with a quick recap of how we got to the past two weeks:

1. There is a hole in my house
2. Mice had been entering through said hole
3. We have caught most of the mice
4. There is one mouse left

Yesterday, I spent my lunch hour ( Read more... )

Would anyone with a bare modicum of artistic talent be willing to draw me something?

I need a picture of "a barrel of shoggoths"

For the most part, I've never really been in a position to be doing rituals for others. I've always invited them along, or asked them to do a part, or offered to do a part to them (you know, when the situation called for it ( Read more... )

Last night, I went to Borders, since the Grove liturgy meeting got canceled.

There, I picked up three things:

1. The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
2. A Moleskine notebook for a project I'm working on
3. A blank book to replace (if necessary) our current Grove sign-in books.

The first book, of course, is self-explanitory. ( Read more... )

Altogether, it was not well to meddle with the Elder Ones; and if they persistently denied all access to the marvelous sunset city, it were better not to seek that city.
    -H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
I've been reading the stories Lovecraft references in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and remembering why the Cthulhu mythos ( Read more... )

I know what Lovecraft heard. I heard it, too. It spoke to me on the rocks as I stood above the Atlantic, waves breaking fifteen feet below. I heard the Call.

I really, really like the tentacles at the Walking With Fire website.

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