Art by me: pen and watercolor pencils on paper. And acryllic gold paint borders, of course.
Next week, I will bring this blog some exerpts of a special study I did in college. While not astrology related, the topic looms large in my occult sphere, and as always I suffer with the necessity of nuance. Thus, it is taking time to prepare. In the meantime, enjoy these cards I made circa 2020 or 2021, when I had ambitions to design a full oracle deck even if just for myself.
And a sample of what is to come:
“It is hard to overstate how much the National Socialists used occultism and other eclectic practices of the ‘supernatural imaginary’ (as Eric Kurlander terms it–such as border science, pagan, new age, Eastern religions, folklore, mythology, and many other supernatural doctrines) to secure power by capitalizing on the cultural confusion of the time, “producing national myths, symbols, and stereotypes that made it possible for many...to confront the burdens of life” (Kurlander, 15). These actions “were compatible with many aspects of modernity, mass politics, and consumerism” and lent well to the building of an empire. Waddel’s book inspired the Nazi regime to adopt runic sigils, for example, doubling the sowulu, the rune for sun, as their notorious SS insignia. Of course, this appropriation is not restricted to Norse pagan beliefs; their most well-known symbol, the swastika, was originally a Brahmanical Hindu symbol of peace. The prevalence of these instances exemplifies the larger truth that they would adopt any ideology that might provide an ounce of power. The image of the Viking as the quintessential white human was particularly powerful because it ground their political agenda to the very soil of Northern Europe: its folklore. Yet Hitler himself, contradictory as always, did not support the worship of “Old Gods,” declaring it futile after Christianity…”