Magic is a two-way process: you use it to change yourself and in return, it changes you. Letting yourself enter a magical reality is not about creating an enclave of magic beyond your everyday life, but of allowing magic in- allowing for the intrusion of the weird, the irrational, the things you can’t explain, yet are undeniably real.

Phil Hine, Condensed Chaos (via curses-and-plagues)

anlagatglas:

“Scandinavian ogham” (i.e. runes) from the Lebor Ogaim, a medieval Irish treatise on ogham alphabets.  What I particularly love is the attempt to reproduce runes (designed for carving) with pen strokes.  The first six large letters are the start of the runic alphabet: F U Þ A R K.