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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

How many times can the pendulum of mood swing in an hour? What if the pendulum doubles as a guillotine and you can’t keep your head off the desk any longer? A cat full of porcupine quills will famously cuddle at the kitchen table. There, there

Remedios Varo, "Sympathy” — a red creature and a spiky-haired figure sit at a table, surrounded by threads of light.

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Went for an owl walk in the woods. Saw some bats flitting about. Upon leaving the woods an owl flew into a tree which already contained a softly hooting owl. Some kewicking commenced. A few minutes later first one, and then the other, floated away into the post-sunset twilight 🌖🌿🦉

twilight woods, bare branches stretching upwards and outwards, dusky grey blue sky with a lighter patch of sky below. Some ivy aroundn the trees on the left, undergrowth in the foreground

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Wings so translucent are more aesthetic than appendage, but they work well enough in an emergency. And at night in the forest, emergencies do happen. The ears are her greatest asset. Overheard: everything

Character, or Personaje, a painting by Remedios Varo, shows a creature with transparent bat wings and a cat/mouse face floating on spindly legs through a forest at night.

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

"We are bonded with the ancestors as life to death, light to shadow. The choice is not whether or not to be in relationship with them but whether or not those relationships will be conscious and reciprocal" —Daniel Foor, "Ancestral Medicine"

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

fool on a cliffs edge elixir of memory fuels flight into void

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Reading them and writing them.

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

the archangel Michael prayer started out as an exorcism a protection against attacks from hell use it motherofmercychapter.com/Prayers/LeoX...

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, o prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

petition to St. Michael

Black text in a cursive font. It reads: Saint Michael watch over me and protect me from all harm. Saint Michael watch over me and protect me from all harm. Saint Michael watch over me and protect me from all harm. Saint Michael watch over me and protect me from all harm.

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Francis of Assisi saw every living creature as a mirror of divinity Ask yourself: How can I be of service to others today?

Painting of Saint Francis, depicted in the dark robes with flowers, giving the Eucharist to a donkey or a black goat

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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

THE NEXT FOUR YEARS WILL BE CHALLENGING: "Be the reason why the lights flicker when you enter a room." It's time for our collective power to manifest in a way that protects our children and our environment. Here's just one example :-)}

A sepia-toned photo of a witch seated in a misty woods by a stream, their pointed hat and dark hair obscuring their face, accompanied by the text: "Be the reason why the lights flicker when you enter a room."

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 11/08/2023

A flower garden can be a monastery

Colorful flowers in sunlight. The sky is blue. The flowers are red, pink, and violet. There are dense green leaves

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 15/08/2023

your world is speaking to you listen

Yellow slip of laminated cardboard on the sidewalk in strong sunlight. “We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real, or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and maybe come.” —Ursula K Le Guin

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

unseen forces in a bush

Flyer on the ground under a bush pokes out enough so that UNSEEN FORCES in yellow on black on top of an indeterminate yellow shape is visible to passersby who are paying attention

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Chelidonia was a recluse who made her home in a cave in Subiaco, Italy. Little is known about the life of this Benedictine, who lived until 1152

Illustration of Benedictine hermitess Chelidonia. There is a plant that resembles dandelion in the middle of the drawing that has gold flowers like stars. Two smaller figures are in either corner of the frame -- the one on the right is labeled in medieval script: Chelidonia. By Unknown author - Medicina antiqua (Wiener Fassung), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50269651

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

go your own way

Joan of Arc, or Jean d'Arc, by Albert Lynch featured in the Figaro Illustre magazine. 1903. The colors are pastel. Joan looks weary but strong. She's in full armor but her hair, brown, is free. She's surrounded by white blooms and is holding a flag. A castle is in the distance

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 29/11/2024

Nuns at Lourdes David Moore, c. 1959

two nuns in a gift shop. One is looking through the view finder of a toy camera

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

life goes on -- and we never got used to living without you Freddie Mercury died on November 24, 1991, before AIDS was treatable his four octaves echo with operatic glamor into eternity

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Queen - I Want To Break Free (Official Video)

YouTube video by Queen Official

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Sarah Wingo @sarahwingo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This is a hell mouth I embroidered and gave as a birthday gift to a very dear friend in May of 2020. It is based on an imagine from Hours of Catherine of Cleves, in Latin - MS M 945 fol-168v, detail held at The Morgan in NYC.

Embroidery on cream colored fabric in a 9” display hoop: medieval hell mouth that looks like a scary green muppet with bat wings for jaws, and sharp white fangs, inside this outer mouth is another mouth wreathed on red flames this second mouth frames to human figures and a hand reaching up from below one of the figures wears a mitre (pope hat).

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 08/08/2023

Olga of Kyiv aka That Bitch when the people who murdered her husband wanted her to marry their leader, she said ‘sounds great’ then buried them alive

Elegant depiction of Olga, now a Catholic saint, then, before AD 1000, a woman whose husband was murdered, who acted ruthlessly and violently to protect herself and her people. In this artwork, there are faint, slender, flowering trees in the background. Yoga is fair skinned, has beautiful eyes, and a strong nose, a crown, something of a halo, a cloak, and elaborate robes with patterns and gold accents. She’s holding a large cross

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

a tree can be a monastery

willow tree, bare branches. The area around the base of the tree is dark — fertile soil

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 06/08/2023

clare of assisi was the first woman to write a monk's handbook known, that is we work under cover of tree and gloom

depiction of Saint Clare of Assisi from a fresco (c. 1320) by Simone Martini. Long-faced somber woman with olive skin and modest robes and an intricate sort of halo. Clare looks away

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Keido Toby Rider (楽道) @blackmill.net · 17/11/2024

Kodo Roshi was from my temple. What a true pioneer she was, both in American Buddhism, and gender equality! 🙏

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Santa Muerte by Roxanna Bikadoroff

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

a monastery can be a forest in fog

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

Moses the Black, 330–405 AD has a hell of a story. For years he led an infamous 75-man band of robbers. But once, when he was running from the cops, monks in Wadi El Natrun sheltered him. Their peace moved him; he converted The integrity and thoughtfulness of his struggles with monk life inspire us

Painting of St. Moses the Ethiopian aka St. Moses the Black. Searing blue desert sky with a high sun in background. Moses is black, in cream colored robes with a gold halo. He has a sack of sand on his shoulder that's trailing sand, and a scroll in his right hand: "These sands are my sins, which are running down behind me and I cannot see them, and yet I have come this day to judge shortcomings that are not mine"

Image Credit: Kelly Lattimore

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

Patron saint of the disabled, Giles lived 600s to early 700s A hermit in a forest along the Rhône River, his best friend was a red deer A king hunting his deer friend shot Giles with an arrow instead of her, thus his disability

Image of either a painting or prayer card of Saint Giles. He’s depicted as a white man with a halo, staff, a small deer, whose paw he’s holding and whose head he is caressing. The deer has an arrow in her throat. Pictures of the Saint often show the arrow in his knee. There are trees and a castle in the background

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

Saint Francis of Assisi was a prisoner of war for a year. He likely contracted malaria and TB in the prison camp. We know him as a friend to animals — but Francis also suffered from PTSD. He gets the pain and anguish of trauma disorders

Saint Francis of Assisi, depicted by the Spanish painter Jusepe de RibePhotograph by Leemage / UIG via Getty. He’s barefoot in a belted brown robe, depicted with many patches, kneeling, arms in a V, gazing up at a cloudy blue sky. Trees that may have been struck by lightning — ragged, broken off — are behind him, as is a bearded bald man on the ground studying a book

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mari @amari.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

yes never forget to savour the berry to taste the waters of the lake the clouds to touch eternity within the tea (missing dear thich nhat hahn)

a photo of a small chawan i made filled with matcha, a milky glacier lake floods, with mountains in the background below a cloudy sky

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

She’s got a mortar and pestle at her neck and a tool for time or alchemy in one hand. Those stairs nod to the chthonic; her hair holds space for the celestial. This glowing, resonant corridor walker lives in La llamada (The Call) by Remedios Varo, 1961

The Call by Remedios Varo. An orange woman moves through a mystical corridor. She is in flowing robes and her hair and the robes. Both indicate that she’s moving quickly. Her hair is like a tornado that points upward. The walls have texture and are occupied by mute figures with closed eyes. They feel like trees. The floor has the texture of old New York City parquet floors.

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

IF I DIE OF AIDS — FORGET BURIAL — JUST DROP MY BODY ON THE STEPS OF THE FDA David Wojnarowicz in 1988 David Wojnarowicz died of AIDS in 1992

David Wojnarowicz wearing a denim jacket that he has decorated to read, on the back: if I die of AIDS– forget burial – just drop my body on the steps of the FDA. White lettering, a pink triangle.

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

“Pilgrim paths, green roads, drove roads, corpse roads, trods, leys, dykes, drongs, sarns, snickets — say the names of paths out loud and they become a poem or rite” —The Old Ways, Robert Macfarlane

Uphill trail facing a low mountain. Shrubby landscape, yellow tones

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

A year before his Oct. 7 death, star man Edgar Allan Poe put out "Eureka," a prophetic 40K-word take on the universe Astronomer Alberto Cappi: “It's surprising Poe arrived at his dynamically evolving universe because there was no observational or theoretical evidence suggesting such a possibility"

Sepia-toned portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, who looks serious and troubled. White man, curly dark hair, mustache, white collared shirt, tie. He looks to be in his 40s here

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Austin Osman Spare, artist and animal lover, left a legacy around sigils, which have snowballed in popularity among occultists since his death in 1956

1904 b/w portrait of Austin Osman Spare, a white British man with unruly curly hair in a wool suit and white shirt, arms folded. He looks to be in his 20s here

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

A severed head floats in what could be a box. The left side of the frame could be a frame. It forms an L. So much L. Woman, man — brain cast in flesh and skull. It ponders an anchor, or maybe the anchor is about to ponder the head. This cannot go on

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

what parts of you cannot be broken? feed and hone your unbreakable pieces your unbreakable pieces keep you whole

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Free Palestine. www.patreon.com/soniasulaiman

A Palestinian witch holding a falcon, surrounded by cactus fruit and a gazelle.

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

a mossy rock can be a monastery

Two rocks covered with bright green moss atop copious dry brown leaf litter

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

today is Michaelmas, the feast of Archangel Michael. Pope Leo wrote the Saint Michael prayer in 1884 after having a vision — legions of demons attacking earth, Michael driving them back. In its original form, this prayer is an exorcism

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Michaelmas, Sept 29, which marks the autumn equinox, is the feast of Archangel Michael, who embodies our lifelong wrestling match with progress and setbacks, soul and ego. Michael battled a dragon and so must we — isolation, trauma, poverty, the lead boot of white supremacy Light and dark are tied

colorful chalk depiction of St Michael battling a dragon by Abby Wright. Michael is surrounded by light and pierces the mouth of the dragon with a spear. Taken from a Waldorf School of Atlanta blog post at https://waldorfschoolatlanta.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/the-significance-of-michaelmas-at-the-waldorf-school-of-atlanta/

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

Happy Joan Jett's Birthday to all who celebrate! 🎂❤️👑🎸

Joan on stage huge goofy put it in her face rocking out

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Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Songwriter, poet, novelist, and Zen monk Leonard Cohen was born on this day in 1934. He was given the Zen name "Jikan," which his teacher translated as "the silence between two thoughts." [photo by Angelica Sarkisyan]

A handsome white man wearing the robe and rakusu of a Zen monk.

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crimesididntcommit🏳️‍⚧️ @crimesididntcommit.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

solitude is a beautiful womb!!!

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monk-hermit mystery consortium @monkmystery.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

The visions started age 3: “Before my bones, nerves, and veins were fully strengthened, I have always seen this vision in my soul,” Hildegard von Bingen wrote at 77 Monastic life began as early as age 8 Hildegard’s illustrated Scivias details 26 of her mystical visions

Illumination from Scivias by Hildegard von Bingen. Beautiful, complex image. Red frame, pattern inside the frame, blue pattern inside that, and within the frame is a shape that could be an egg or an oval with hundreds of what could be petals. And a star or series of flowers at the top. There is a small head with a horn within the egg at the bottom. One might imagine Georgia O’Keeffe being inspired by work like this.

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