The Otherworlds Review

Introducing the Otherworlds Review

September 2017 · Sun in Virgo · Full moon in Pisces And it seems to me the struggle has to be waged on a number of different levels: they have computers to cast the I Ching for them but we have yarrow stalks and the stars it is a battle of energies, of force-fields, what the newspapers call a battle of ideas – Diane DiPrima, Revolutionary Letter #45 Blow up the sun – Feral Pines Welcome to the first issue of The Otherworlds Review, a monthly newsletter by and for those who walk the threshold, who attend to the openings between the worlds, who wear the mask and who look beyond the veil. In the varied lineage of the underground and anarchist press, we receive and transmit communications from place... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Otherworlds Review #2: Ghosts

October 2017 · Sun in Libra · Full moon in Aries Hurl me into the next existence, the descent into hell won’t turn me. I’ll crawl back to dog his trail forever. They won’t defeat my revenge, never, never. I’m part of a righteous people who anger slowly, but rage undammed. We’ll gather at his door in such a number that the rumbling of our feet will make the earth tremble. – George Jackson Say, “I am a child of Earth and starry Heaven; But I descend from Heaven alone. This ye know yourselves. But I am parched with thirst and I perish. Give me quickly The cold water flowing forth from the Lake of Memory.” The sun in justice is perfectly balanced by its mirror in... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Otherworlds Review #3: Masks

November 2017 · Sun in Scorpio · Full moon in Taurus We might describe the lunar month leading to this moment, when the moon radiates in the company of the starry bull, as the time of the mask. Children disguise themselves as faeries and goblins and show up on doorsteps demanding tricks and treats; descendants paint skulls upon their faces in honor of the ancestors; faces are carved into fruit and left at thresholds as offerings for the restless trouping spirits; nocturnal mischief and masses are held in the streets. Masquerade, carnivalesque processions, fantasies and grotesqueries. And also the death throes of empire persist. Toxic waters brewed from a century of industrial abuse continues to drown those lives left behind ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Otherworlds Review #4: Snakes

December 2017 · Sun in Sagittarius · Full moon in Gemini The avenger that completes the task of liberation in the name of generations of the downtrodden. This conviction, which had a brief resurgence in the Spartacus League, has always been objectionable to Social Democrats. Within three decades they managed to erase the name of Blanqui almost entirely, though at the distant thunder of that name the preceding century had quaked. – Benjamin, “On the Concept of History” Let us finally conclude the immanence of the smallest scraps of matter. Although their lifespan is of one second, their rebirth is boundless. The infinity of time and space is not the exclusive privilege of the universe as whole. I... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Otherworlds Review #5: Calendars

January 2018 · Sun in Capricorn · Full moon in Cancer · Saturn in Capricorn What characterizes revolutionary classes at their moment of action is the awareness that they are about to make the continuum of history explode. The Great Revolution introduced a new calendar. The initial day of a calendar presents history in time-lapse mode. And basically it is this same day that keeps recurring in the guise of holidays, which are days of remembrance. Thus, calendars do not measure time the way clocks do; they are monuments of a historical consciousness of which not the slightest trace has been apparent in Europe, it would seem, for the past hundred years. In the July Revolution an incident occurred in which this consciou... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Otherworlds Review #6: Always Coming Hom...

February 2018 · Sun in Aquarius · Full moon and total lunar eclipse in Leo I am not a progressive. I think the idea of progress an invidious and generally harmful mistake. I am interested in change, which is an entirely different matter. – Ursula K. Le Guin I approached the confines of death, and having trod on the threshold of Proserpine, I returned therefrom, being borne through all the elements. At midnight I saw the sun shining with its brilliant light; and I approached the presence of the Gods beneath, and the Gods of heaven, and stood near, and worshiped them. – Apuleius, Metamorphoses But as always we refuse to despair. We are aware that many comrades are searching for possibilities to... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Otherworlds Review #7: Spiritual Anarchi...

Sun in Pisces · New Moon in Pisces The puppet, called “historical materialism,” is to win all the time. It can easily be a match for anyone if it enlists the services of theology, which today, as we know, is small and ugly and has to keep out of sight. – Walter Benjamin The new moon has always been the ally of runaways, anarchists, and insurgents. In the darkness, guided only by the stars, we make our escapes, we hide from our enemies, we attack. The doors to these possibilities are especially open during Pisces, the watery sign of all things hidden and the last sign before the cycle begins once again with fire. A Piscean origin story tells of Aphrodite and Eros leaping into the Euphrates and taking the f... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Otherworlds Review: Afterwords

The Orphic initiators of antiquity, the Orpheotelestai, were said to travel from city-state to city-state healing ancestral curses, performing initiations, offering deliverance by way of sacrifice, and distributing piles of magical books. One such book, the Orphic Hymns, contains ritual technology for the invocation of the gods in nocturnal rites. Another, the lesser known Orphic Lithica, functions as a handbook on the magical uses of stones by the ritual practitioner. Stones figure prominently in the reemergent magical traditions of the present, and these traditions are beginning to wake up to the danger posed by the commodification of sacred stone and plant allies. This danger is nowhere more evidenced than in the esthetic-extraction fren... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

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