Recourse to Beauty, (tentatively) vol. 1

Images, sounds, & words plus some announcements

Hi Everyone,

Something I became hyper aware of during last year’s Venus retrograde—and am reconnecting with on today’s Full Moon in Leo—is how vital beauty is to my well-being, and how when I forget about the centrality of aesthetics in my life I can easily become lost.

I have a couple classes now open for registration, some one-on-one openings, and a new weekly meeting for paying subscribers who are interested in engaging the major arcana in an ongoing, practical way. In lieu of a simple text announcement, I thought it might be fun to pull together a little set of recent favorite visuals, sounds, and words in a possibly new kind of Offering (but more likely a just-this-once thing).

The registration links are behind the paywall, because one of the perks of being a paying subscriber is that you get first dibs on live offerings. Either way, hope you find something resonant here. And if you’re eager to get to the registration links, just scroll all the way down.

Onward,

Jessica

Winter office

Tweet from Rasha Abdulhadi

From Betty Martin’s The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent and big shoutout to my therapist for telling me about her!

^ this is the best song, h/t to

Sydney Gore

& her hibernation.24 playlist

Gilles Deleuze, from his 1987 lecture, “What is the creative act?”

Gilles Deleuze, from his 1987 lecture “What is the creative act?”

^ This song is so sweet, I love Mon Rovîa <3

From Line Ryberg Ingerslev’s paper, “What the experience of transience tells us about the afterlife” in TheoLogica (2023)

A still from “The Ladies of the Kind Death” directed by Fabrizio Galatea

From the sixth letter in Meditations on the Tarot, “The Lovers”

Sardinia, source unknown

^ Okay, this dubplate Queen Omega did for Little Lion Sound is RIDICULOUS. Her voice is unbelievable. A go-to for me when the cruelty’s too much.

From the booklet in Sufjan Stevens’ latest album, Javelin

Mexico City, 2023