Velumnoctis - ✴ 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖊 ✴

Night is not less wonderful than the day . . . it is lit by the splendor of the stars and it reveals things to us that the day does not know. Night is closer than day to the mystery of all beginning. The abyss is open only by night: day spreads a veil over it.

Nicolas Berdyaev, "The Middle Ages"

J. van de Velde II, A witch at her cauldron surrounded by beasts, Wellcome Collection, 1626

photographs from the u.s. naval observatory total solar eclipse expedition, may 17, 1901.

'Witches' Conclave' from the book "The Phynodderree, and other legends of the Isle of Man" (1882)

“I found myself, in truth, on the brink of the valley of the sad abyss that gathers the thunder of an infinite howling. It was so dark, and deep, and clouded, that I could see nothing by staring into its depths.”

Dante, Inferno.

Full moon / 2 July 2023