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19/06/2026

The Devil of the Tarot de Marseille is far stranger than the popular imagination suggests.

Neither wholly male nor female, neither beast nor human, the figure appears as a hermaphroditic entity crowned with horns, standing between worlds. Bound to its pedestal are two companions, not in agony but in willing attachment — suggesting that the chains of the Devil are often forged through desire itself.

Throughout centuries, the card evolved from the grotesque demons of Renaissance Italy into the enigmatic archetype of the Marseille tradition. Its symbols speak in the language of alchemy: the black, red, and yellow podium recalling stages of transformation; the bat wings, the torch, and the animal features evoking instinct, magnetism, and the hidden forces of nature.

Far from representing evil alone, the Devil embodies attraction, obsession, temptation, power, and the mysteries of the unconscious. It reminds us that bo***ge is not always imposed from without - sometimes it emerges from the very desires we cultivate.

Image 1: Classico Tarocco di Marsiglia, 19th Century
Image 2: Besancon Tarot 1784

Symbolism Alchemy Occult Arcana

17/06/2026

A falcon-headed figure, draped in crimson, presides over an altar of sacrifice and transformation. Above, the all-seeing eye and the ouroboros — symbols of consciousness and eternity — radiate through a storm of celestial fire. Between the pillars of Alpha and Omega, skulls, bones, and ritual vessels remind us of the inseparable dance between death and renewal.

At the center of the table rests the offering itself, while skeletal witnesses stand at the threshold, as though attending a ceremony older than memory.

Rich with alchemical, initiatory, and mythological symbolism, The Feast of Gods evokes a vision where destruction and creation belong to the same cycle, and where the sacred reveals itself through transformation.

A banquet held at the edge of time, beneath the gaze of the infinite.

Art: David Gough

Mythology SacredArt Ouroboros

14/06/2026

Western culture often speaks the language of separation, yet beneath the surface ancient symbols continue to dream through us. Ritual survives. Myth survives. The desire to gather, to contemplate, to celebrate the mystery of being alive survives.

Occulture begins in the recognition that behind our divisions, we share the same sky, the same questions, the same hunger for transcendence.

And perhaps culture itself becomes sacred when it remembers how to bring people together around wonder.

From Occulture Berlin 2019, at Anomalie Art Club.

A reminder that the invisible thread has never been broken.

Video: .maggi

11/06/2026

Before surrealism had a name, Harry Clarke entered Poe-land.

In 1919, the Irish artist created a series of haunting illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, translating the author's worlds of madness, beauty, and decay into intricate black-and-white visions.

Influenced by Symbolism, Art Nouveau, and the grotesque elegance of Aubrey Beardsley, Clarke's images inhabit a twilight zone between dream and nightmare — where bodies dissolve into ornament and darkness itself becomes alive.

More than illustrations, they feel like apparitions.

A meeting of two imaginations uniquely suited to one another, proving that some visions are destined to haunt across centuries.

25/05/2026

This week marks the birth anniversary of Kenneth Grant.
One of the key figures in the transition from classical occultism into what we now recognize as occulture.

A student of Aleister Crowley, Grant pushed esoteric thought far beyond ceremonial structure, opening it toward surrealism, dream states, subconscious exploration, extraterrestrial mythologies, and non-linear states of perception.

With Grant, the occult became less about fixed systems and more about transmission.

Symbol as portal.
Image as psychic technology.
Consciousness as mutable terrain.

His work anticipated many of the currents that later emerged through chaos magick, industrial culture, experimental sound, and underground esoteric aesthetics. The boundary between ritual, fiction, art, and psychic experience began to dissolve.

This is why his influence still feels contemporary.

Not because he preserved tradition, but because he mutated it into something unstable, visionary, and open-ended.

A current still moving beneath contemporary subculture.

ChaosMagick Esoteric

22/05/2026

Today is time to remember Occulture Conference 2022, in .

A venue with a profound soul, a moment of deep encounter, a memory that does not get lost.

For many more to come,
may magick enlighten your paths!

19/05/2026

Victorian ghost technology.

Long before cinema, virtual reality, or digital hallucination, there were already manuals teaching people how to conjure apparitions through perception itself.

This Victorian publication promised the ability to summon “ghosts everywhere and of any colour” — not through spirits, but through optics. Using afterimage effects, the book transformed the eye into a medium of projection, revealing how easily perception could generate the supernatural.

What makes it fascinating is the tension at its center:
a book about ghosts designed to destroy belief in ghosts.

The author frames the work as an attack on superstition, arguing that apparitions emerge through physiological and psychological processes rather than the spirit world. Spectres become optical events. Haunting becomes a malfunction — or possibility — within perception itself.

And yet, despite its scientific intentions, the imagery remains deeply uncanny.

Bright phantoms. Floating figures. Ritual-like instructions for invocation. A process where staring long enough causes hidden forms to emerge and dissolve repeatedly against darkness.

In trying to rationalize the supernatural, the book accidentally enters occulture territory:
where science, illusion, ritual, and altered perception begin to overlap.

A reminder that every technology of vision also becomes a technology of haunting.

Esoteric Afterimage Hauntology Symbolism

14/05/2026

BODY AS RITUAL — Occulture Conference 2025

How does the body become a site of magical transformation?

🜁 Seminal Alchemy and Alienated Agency — Cavan McLaughlin
This lecture explores chaos magic, Thelemic ritual, and the symbolic power of sexuality through practices of sigilisation, ritual chastity, and erotic transformation.

🎥 Watch the full lecture now on our YouTube channel
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12/05/2026

Featuring El Artesano, an original artwork by José Gabriel Alegria Sabogal, Occulture’s 2025 t-shirt carries part of the atmosphere that shaped the gathering.

The piece moves between symbolism and craft, functioning as more than image alone, a trace of the current translated into wearable form.

A signal for those who recognize it.

Limited quantities available - link in first comment.

Artwork:

10/05/2026

Spring in occult tradition carried fire, fertility, desire, ecstatic ritual. The moment where nature becomes excessive again. Where boundaries soften and older currents return to the surface.

Beltane has always belonged to that threshold.

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