Due to Hurricane Ike, there will be no Mabon issue of Rending the Veil. Editor in Chief Sheta Kaey was forced to evacuate and remains without power still, with no reliable ETA for reconnect. Look for RTV to return for Samhain and a new pagan year – hopefully on the new servers. Everything has been substantially delayed, however, so it remains to be seen if we will be able to move in time. Get your Samhain submissions in now!
“In 2004, Llewellyn published Donald Tyson’s novel, Necronomicon, based on the stories of H.P. Lovecraft. While former Necronomicons were written as grimoires, Tyson took a novel (ahem) approach to the text, having fun with it and viewing it, as he told me at the time, as “entertainment.” He followed the following year with Alhazred, a much thicker novel relating the travels of the mad Arab from a first-person perspective. Later, he introduced the richly illustrated …” Read more…
“Imagine that you were a spirit, one who had never experienced being human – an elemental, perhaps. First of all, you have no body, and therefore none of the bodily requirements: you do not need food, shelter, or sex. You do not have a fight or flight reflex, or any physical reflexes. You don’t feel sad when the serotonin in your brain is low, nor do you feel happy when flooded with dopamine. Still, that alone would …” Read more…
“Pluto entered Capricorn Jan. 25 for the first time in our lifetime. Due to Pluto’s retrograde pattern, it was initially in Capricorn for a temporary period, from January 25 until June 13, 2008. Pluto undergoes the final stage of traveling through Sagittarius from June 13 until November 26. Once Pluto has re-entered Capricorn on November 26, it will remain in Capricorn for a good long time – until March 23, 2023. Fifteen years is considered a relatively …” Read more…
“Welcome to the new almanac alternative column, “The Altmanac,” a series that we hope will eventually expand into a printed and bound calendar project. In this issue, we present the months of August and September. The Altmanac features fun, interesting, and unique alternative “holidays” that will give you a few laughs and a few extra reasons to party. The images below are small versions. Click the image to see a larger version, and see the text link for a very large, 200dpi …” Read more…
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