Herb And Lentil Ritual For Lammas

This is a herb and lentil ritual that we did as part of a bigger working around Lammas time. Again we did this foe someone but alos we always do things to celebrate the Wheel Of The Year cycles. We actually do a lot of rituals outside wherever possible because of the closer connection to nature.

Ice Occultism And Mystical Conjurations

The picture above shows a ritual ice formation with energized pieces of ice used in a specila way for a client. The ice cools things down or can freeze situations that need holding up. The best day to do ice work is Saturday, working with the powers of Saturn, the lead planet.

Ghostly Dandy And The Lilacs,Pagan Pride And The Pippins, Plus Two New Poodles Join The Line-Up

My sister used to have a couple of poodles called 'Poppet' and 'Chico'. Poppet was a small miniature poodle and Chico was a large toy poodle. They were very lively dogs.

I was also reading about a little poodle called Dandy, who in the mid 1940's lived with his owner, a woman called Virginia Copeland, who was an actress by profession, at number 13, Gay Street in Greenwich Village, New York. In the basement apartment below her lived Virginia's friend, the author Elizabeth Byrd.
They use a Ouija board to find a new husband for Virginia as her first one was awful and basically Dandy the dog welcomes a ghost like-stranger and gets covered in lilac which doesn't grow in their garden.
Virginia holds a cocktail party and a man turns up who Dandy jumps in to the arms of and he drops his gift of lilac. The man is called 'Cappy' or Major Capostosto. Virginia marries him and goes to live in Manilla, Philippines, as predicted by the Ouija board. I did look them up and found evidence of their son still being very active at a yacht club in Manilla. Virginia  appears to have had ties with a theatre in Manilla too.

Dandy the poodle went with them to Manilla and was buried there. Elizabeth Byrd went back to her old Greenwich village address at 13 Gay street around 1964 and meets another lady now living in her old basement apartment - an actress with a poodle this time called Misty. They go to see the woman upstairs who lives in Virginia's old apartment and find that the woman who now lives there says nothing at all will grow in the building or the shared garden, except a plant native to the Philippines. so I think the gist of this was meant to be that Dandy was still around somewhere....

Working With The Energies Of The Dark Sun

This is a basket full of dried plants and small crystals - all magically prepared to correspond and work with the dark side of the sun. That is the sun in the shadow aspect. A person's shadow self hides a lot of true information about them and there can be a lot going on under the surface. The shadow self is the true gateway to the soul.

Extra Terrestrial UFO Occult Direct Call Up

The photographs depict ritualistic Extra Terrestrial UFO calls for tapping in to the power of the cosmos and beyond. They were carefully set up to contact alien life forces and channel their energies. There is great energy to be found in the most unusual places.
See also:
The Kirk of Ufology

Baskerville, Misty, The Pippins And Empress Of Fur

I came across the band 'Empress Of  Fur' in early 2016, Before this I had never heard of them. I was looking at one of my favourite urban exploration sites to see if any new explore properties had come on. Urban exploration suddenly got picked up by bored journalists wanting a piece of the pie a few years ago.
The unwanted attention attracted a different sort of explorer, not the photographer wanting to capture a piece of the past and move on, but instead the sort of persons who want to pick up the items and take the past home with them.

For example, once the papers got hold of 'Red Dress Manor' in Wales, the iconic red dress left by Ms Jones and photographed by many an urban explorer - went missing along with her handbags.Alas, they could be photographed no more and probably ended up at a boot sale.

On the particular day I came across 'Empress Of Fur' I had the treat of seeing a new exploration,on a much frequented urban explore site on the web. A murky farmhouse somewhere near Norwich, packed full of the former owner's possessions, covered in spider webs. At the top of the house, the photographer had captured a soundproofed attic, jam packed full of musical equipment from the 80's and 90's, but mostly 90's.

There was even a 90's kettle set on a tray. It was obviously a band practice room and whoever had practised there took music very seriously. A pin board was tacked to the wall displaying pictures and posters of the band 'Empress Of Fur' and Uma Thurman from 90's film, 'Pulp Fiction'. Obviously whoever had played music and practised there liked brunettes!

Next day I clicked on to the Urban Explore site to have another look and the whole post containing the pictures I had been viewing the day before had gone. The photographer had removed them. So I looked up 'Empress Of Fur', a Fenland band and saw they have one very iconic track 'Johnny Voodoo' from 1994.

The doggies have all said they want a tiara like the one worn by lead singer Venus Raygun in the video.

Bite Me Magazine,The Pippins And The Scary Bitches

We came across a really funny Goth-rock style band,called the 'Scary Bitches' whilst leafing through old copies of former vamp lifestyler magazine 'Bite Me'. This is not to be confused with a much more mainstream magazine called 'Bite Me' that has recently appeared on the scene.

The original 'Bite Me' magazine ran from the late 90's to the late noughties and  sort of suddenly disappeared although its website is still on-line with many broken links.It was produced in Scotland by a journalist called Arlene Russo.

What I like about 'The Scary Bitches' is that they are obviously much older women. Usually it is only  men or specialist guitar fan women who are seen working the frets. And you don't get many older lady rockers who are not dolled up like waxworks or Cher - that actually seem to be enjoying what they are doing and so 'The Scary Bitches' are indeed very refreshing.

Another band we found in the pages of 'Bite Me', are 'The Beautiful Deadly Children'. Again, this group, lead by a couple of aristocrats apparently, don't seem to have done anything past 2010. 'Gutterfly' and 'Every Night Is Halloween' are our favourite tracks from this band, in fact we were listening to these particular songs earlier on. 'Every Night Is Halloween' Good motto!

The Pippins love all of it of course - they are a couple of Goths in disguise!