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This is my hortus conclusus (Latin, literally ‘enclosed garden’) where I can write about and discuss many things. I’m always reading, researching, thinking and learning.

Received wisdom on Substack is to occupy one niche and stick to it, writing about the same topic all the time. I can’t do that, because I have too many interests.

Topics of fascination include: folklore; myth, mythography & mythopoeia; earth mysteries; magick - in theory and practice - and magickal traditions; the paranormal; esoteric history; ritual & symbolic landscapes; psychogeography, hauntology & folk horror; occulture; books & publishing; music; occult fiction and poetry.

In other words, the World and everything in it, but always interpreted through an occult lens.

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