https://ritualdust.com/tags/occult/ Recent content in occult on Ritual dust Hugo -- gohugo.io en-ca Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/print/henbane/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/print/henbane/ The third print of my monthly print club, a henbane plant, one of the psychoactive plants used by witches in their flying ointment. Linocut on paper, 3" x 5" - 2022 Join the monthly print club on Patreon and get an original print by mail every month: https://www.patreon.com/ritualdust Henbane limited edition linocut print Small original linocut print, made in an edition of 24, numbered and signed, printed on locally made paper 45$ CAD https://ritualdust.com/works/print/hekate/ Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/print/hekate/ Second print of my monthly print club, the key to the underworld and the snake, two symbols of Hekate, the goddess of boundaries, the underworld and witchcraft. Linocut on paper, 3" x 5" - 2022 Join the monthly print club on Patreon and get an original print by mail every month: https://www.patreon.com/ritualdust Hekate limited edition linocut print Small original linocut print, made in an edition of 30, numbered and signed, printed on locally made paper 45$ CAD https://ritualdust.com/works/paintings/glaive-of-mars/ Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/paintings/glaive-of-mars/ One of the magical items found in my chtonic travels, a symbolic glaive associated with the god Mars. Pencil and acrylic on paper, 5" x 9" - 2022 Painting of a small glaive with a wolf guard, a pommel representing two snakes eating each others tails and a tip from which a flame rises Detail of the pommel with two gold snakes Detail of the tip of the glaive, coated with gold Detail of the wolf that ornates the guard https://ritualdust.com/works/paintings/sun-sickle/ Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/paintings/sun-sickle/ One of the magical items found in my chtonic travels, a symbolic sickle connected with the sun. Pencil and acrylic on paper, 5" x 9" - 2022 Painting of a bronze sickle with a pommel featuring a solar symbol Close up of the handle, wrapped with leather strips and the pommel Detail of the tip of the blade Detail of the pencil and acrylic textures on the blade and the background https://ritualdust.com/works/paintings/sun-invocation/ Tue, 28 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/paintings/sun-invocation/ A singular flame, borrowed from the sun, captured in paint on wood, enshrined in a sigil. Acrylic on wood, 6" x 6" - 2021 Final painting, an oil lamp lit with a sigil to the son overlaid over it On winter solstice of this year 2021, I had the feeling that I should take painting back again, after more than 10 years. For a year now I’ve been going on personal and artistic journeys on the solstices and equinoxes, looking for insights and inspiration. https://ritualdust.com/works/paintings/underworld-1/ Tue, 28 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/paintings/underworld-1/ This small painting is the first in an ongoing series of depictions of chtonic travels, or katabasis, spiritual descent to the underworld in search of knowledge, lost souls or magical items. Acrylic on wood, 6" x 8" - 2021 Small painting representing a large cave with fire coming from below it, large bonfires are lit inside of it surrounded by tiny figures Detail of the lower part of the painting, showing a ledge, some rising smoke and fire Extreme close up of the painting showing tiny figures with torches assembled around a bonfire Details of the ceiling of the cave, covered with stalactites https://ritualdust.com/works/illustration/baphomet/ Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://ritualdust.com/works/illustration/baphomet/