Procession of the Night Theatre:

An Exposition on the Lunar Stations

by J.M. Hamade

The book is divided into two sections. The first, Procession of the Night Theatre, follows the dream/story logic of a Thousand and One Nights in contemporary fashion. Each night a lunar station. Written as a mixture between fiction and poetry, it functions as a ‘night side’ exploration of the 28 stations. The second section, An Exposition on the Lunar Stations, unites the Indian nakshatra, the Chinese xiu, the Arabic manzil, and more, in a comprehensive study of the lunar stations through their many significations, magics, and delineations. This section functions as a ‘day side’ exploration compiling years of research, source materials, and chart studies.

J.M. Hamade (starnightdwell) (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, diviner, writer and educator residing in New York City. Focusing on the aesthetics of esoterica and the occult, they’re work bridges contemporary artistic practice with archaic forms of knowing. Various species of ‘image magic,’ both general and historical, are explored through like-practices of astrology, star-lore collecting, and observation of celestial phenomena. Similarly, the investigation and experimental application of talismanic art forms is at the forefront of their work. Possessing a keen interest in craft, Hamade has apprenticed in the ways of butchery, the funerary arts, and most recently, the art of floristry. Passionate about both the printed word, they have published both writing and illustration with Hadean Press, The Mountain Astrologer, and Revelore Press. Hamade has received a BA focused in Printmaking from San Francisco State University. They are currently an MFA candidate at the City College of New York.

In the Belly of the Beast:

Hydran Stellar Witchcraft & Astrolatry

by Sasha Ravitch and Maeg Keane

“To be taken by Mother, to be devoured by her and reborn as her child, as her Witch, as her lover (often as all three, simultaneously), is to taste salvation disguised as damnation. To stitch blooded starlight into your flesh in patterns which exult and exalt the throbbing, slobbering, squirming viscera hidden in the fragile sheath of your epidermis. It is to rip open, rend apart, and ravage the membranous layer of ozone which separates the corporeal spirit from the firmamental one. Red and gold and aching all over: suspended in the sanguine yolk of a gilded egg. Ichor stained, heavy hands, your skeleton sagging beneath the weight of unbearable yearning. She rises inside you, swallowing the river of your spine, and electrifying it into its own sentience. All of your body will weep to feel Her–you will find yourself wanton and begging to be swallowed over and over again. ‘Eat me, eat me, Mother, eat me so that I may Live again’.”

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In this pioneering monograph of Stellar Witchcraft and Astrolatry, Sasha Ravitch and Maeg Keane will guide participants through the scarlet ribbon of the Stellar Sea Serpent’s mysterious body of roiling red-light: Hydra, the great Queen Cobra of unending Red Appetite, and one of the most sprawling but occulted and mysterious constellations in our sky.

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Scrying Angelos

by Nitasia Roland

“We are surrounded by divine presence…”
– Iamblichus, On the Mysteries

“Every angel is terrifying.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

Scrying Angelos, by Nitasia Roland, is a book-length Lyric Essay shaped by poetry, prose, fragmentation, and the intertextuality of written material from historical sources that blend the contemplative study of Western esoteric, occult, and animist traditions, ancient cosmologies, primordial wisdom, and magical currents with oracular methods of trance, water scrying, tarot divination, automatic writing, dream-weaving, vision and phantasm, synchronicity, and communion with angelos (Gk ‘messenger’) and angelic intermediaries between the gods and humankind.

Tapping into the juxtaposition of AI (artificial intelligence) with AI (angel intelligence), the pages in this book align with the 78 Tarot cards that have been generated within the astral technology of Midjourney AI. Written prompts were soulfully constructed for the machine bots to search the ambient field and algorithm that processes and repurposes myriad combinations of input that humans have created from all over the world all swirling into the vortex of data sets, thereby capturing and synchronizing pertinent information and creating breathtaking surreal art within the blink of an eye.

The cards work as portals between the four cardinal directions, and the prismatic essays and their mythopoetic narratives are the offerings and incantations that invoke a perception of sublime and terrible beauty through which angels traverse from the splendor of their empyrean domain through the liminal realm into our field of awareness, inviting these more-than-human guides and holy ones to deliver their divinatory and interactive messages.

Nitasia has drawn these contemplations from a lifelong intrigue with angels. The various scholars, saints, mystics, magicians, spiritualists, artists, tomes, and sources that inform her work are, Michael the Archangel in the PGM (Greek Magical Papyri), the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, Homeric epics, Dionysius the Areopagite, Fallen Angels, Watchers, and Avenging Angels, Shem HaMephorash, Zoroastrian Fravashi, the Hermetic Corpus, Plotinus on the imagination and nous poietikos, Revelation, Apuleius’ The Golden Ass, Kabbalah, Christian Gnosticism, medieval angel magic texts, King James Bible, Avicenna’s angelology, Books of Enoch, John Dee, Emanuel Swedenborg, Jacob Boehme, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Hildegarde von Bingen, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Italian Renaissance art, William Blake, Gustave Moreau, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Keats’ “Negative Capability,” the Duino Elegies of Rainer Maria Rilke, the writings of Henry Corbin, Ioan Couliano, Gershom Scholem, Moshe Idel, Harold Bloom, Matthew Fox, Rupert Sheldrake, and various celestial and chthonic daemons, gods, and psychopomps.

Nitasia Roland received her MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast in 2019 and is a writer, poet, indie tarot deck designer, and publisher with Urania Press. She is a hedge witch and practitioner of magic and Hellenistic Household devotion. She keeps her lap filled with books in her home with her two daughters and three cats in coastal Maine.

A new series is coming to Revelore!

A L K A H E S T I A

edited by Joseph Zabinski

AND NEW WORKS BY

Joy Usher
Philip Graves
Kristin Mathis
Alexander Cummins + Brian Johnson
Chris Reppucci + Elodie St-Onge-Aubut
Ko Hashiguchi + Francine Gee
Anthony Wynands III
Jeremy Johnson
Sasha Ravitch
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John Anderson