From The Forests of Arduinna
A druid's essays on politics, culture, and the sacred at the end of empire.
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Being A Good King (opens the original)
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The unconscious is a vast land of power that’s truthfully called “magic.” When we work with that land and listen to what it wants, our life becomes brilliant and full.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="971" src=
Sundry Notes, September (opens the original)
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I. Let Loose The Drones of WarOn overcast nights, over a hill outside one of my windows, I can see a vast glow of diffuse light reflected by low clouds. Those lights come from Luxembourg’s small but very busy airport, called Findel, about 9 kilometers or five and a half miles from my village.I don’t often think of that airport, as I rarely take planes. But lately I’ve been thinking about it a lot, since it’s been closed by the government twice in the last week due to sightings of swarms of large
“Apocalypse Not*” (opens the original)
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(*I’ve borrowed this title from the name of an excellent little book by John Michael Greer)<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="971" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8B_n
The Devouring Mother (opens the original)
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What nationalist projects, Israeli mothers trying to control the fate of their son’s sperm, and Linda Clancy strangling her children all have in common is that they’re each examples of the negative or “devouring” aspects of the archetypal feminine.<div class="image2
Death Muppets Against Anti-Capitalism (opens the original)
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No resistance to capitalism can possibly occur when we are scared of our bodies and the bodies of others. But that’s exactly why this kind of fear has become central to what passes itself off as leftism in our current age. Back in 1999, still recovering from the Christianity that had utterly wrecked my adolescence and caused me to loathe myself, I was living in Portland, Maine. I’d moved there to be closer to the only friend who’d stuck by me during my second (and final) year of Christian colleg
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