Whirling Winds and Gritty Silt at Black Phoenix!

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HOLIDAY SHIPPING NOTICE:

In order to receive your Alchemy Lab package by Christmas Eve...

 

Internationals! Please place your order by midnight PST December 2nd.

Domestics! Please place your order by midnight PST December 7th.

 

 

In order to receive your Trading Post Package by Christmas Eve…

 

Internationals! Please place your order by midnight PST December 5th.

Domestics! Please place your order by midnight PST December 7th.

 

Black Phoenix Trading Post orders that include the Whirling Wind Moon tee and/or the Blue Moon tee are not guaranteed to arrive in time for Christmas. Lunacy tees and most LE tees do not go into production until we’re done taking orders for them, and they take a few weeks to be made.

 

Please bear in mind that we are not responsible for USPS shenanigans. We do promise that we will bust our asses to get you your orders asap.

 

Please do not take offense at our using Christmas, specifically, as a date marker.

 

 

Without further ado…

 

 

Happy Yuletide, everyone! Whirling Wind is live at BPAL, as are the next scents in the Nile series!

 

WHIRLING WIND MOON

Swiftly walk o'er the western wave,

Spirit of Night!

Out of the misty eastern cave,

Where, all the long and lone daylight,

Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear,

'Which make thee terrible and dear, --

Swift be thy flight!

 

Dreams of joy and fear: swirling dark and airy musks, mogra, plumeria, hyacinth, lily of the valley, dry white sandalwood, gardenia, pale amber, and oakmoss.

 

 

SEASON OF THE EMERGENCE

Month after month the gathered rains descend

Drenching yon secret Aethiopian dells,

And from the desert's ice-girt pinnacles

Where Frost and Heat in strange embraces blend

On Atlas, fields of moist snow half depend.

Girt there with blasts and meteors Tempest dwells

By Nile's aereal urn, with rapid spells

Urging those waters to their mighty end.

O'er Egypt's land of Memory floods are level

And they are thine, O Nile--and well thou knowest

That soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil

And fruits and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.

Beware, O Man--for knowledge must to thee,

Like the great flood to Egypt, ever be.

 

During Peret the Nile’s waters retreat, leaving a lush, fertile black silt behind. This is the time of plowing and seeding: crops and herbs were planted and cultivated, and prayers and sacrifices were offered to ensure a bountiful harvest later in the year.

 

The seeds and the seedlings as the sprout forth from the deep black silt: cucumber, flax, wheat, radishes, leeks, sesame, and beans, with thyme, frankincense, chamomile, coriander, spikenard, cumin, hyssop, and juniper.

 

 

HATMEHIT

The Egyptian fish goddess, orginally a deification of the Nile River, the Great Flood, and the Waters of Creation.

 

The scent of the depths of the River, teeming with aquatic life, sanctified by holy herbs.

 

 

The Blue Moon will be manifesting this December, and we will be offering two interpretations of the event this time around. First, my take on it:

 

BLUE MOON

The spirit of the full moon is capricious, intense and passionate, yet still distant, aloof and cold. Luna herself governs glamours, bewitchments and dream-work, innocent wonder, transient pleasure and delight, the Moment, impulse, mystery and veils. The Blue Moon is one of her rarest manifestations, and this scent is formulated to encapsulate her most complex and profound nature:

 

Mugwort, for psychic sensitivity...

Calea Zacatechichi, for divination through dreams...

Orchid and frankincense, for complexity, wisdom and noscere...

 

... with a potent lunar-charged, oneirongenic blend of blue musk, exquisite woods, moonflower, Madagascan ylang ylang, Florentine iris, Greek cypress, green tea absolute, palmarosa, cucumber, Clary sage, lavender, lemon balm, and passion fruit.

 

 

At the end of the month, Brian’s expression of the Blue Moon will be going live!

 

 

The Whirling Wind and Blue Moon tees will be going live at Black Phoenix Trading Post tomorrow, and the next Vampire Tarot scent and card set and matching tee will be going live at BPAL and BPTP later this month!

 

Whirling Wind Moon and all of the Iteru, Yule and Miskatonic Valley scents are $17.50 each, and Blue Moon and the Anniversary and Resurrected scents are $20 each. The anniversary and Yule scents will be live until January 2010. Blue-Moon-Beth-Style and Whirling Wind Moon will be live until December 5, 2009. Blue-Moon-Brian-Style will appear at the end of the month along with December's second full moon.

 

The four Dark Delicacies Yule scents are live on the Dark Delicacies web site, and are available at their brick and mortar shop in Burbank, CA!