A house for the old tools

Light the lamp.
Learn the work.

A gay-led, LGBTQ+-affirming library for the altar, the moon, the cards, the herb cabinet, and the turning year. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, intersex, asexual, and questioning people are welcome at the table.

Begin the practice Read the cards

A candlelit apothecary table with rosemary, quartz, a brass snuffer, and a bowl of water on plum velvet.

The Lovers, drawn for this library: two women holding hands in a garden, an angel above them. — The Lovers

Season, story, and sky

Keep exploring

Entire catalogue

Moonlight through a dark library window.

The moonPhases, water, and ordinary nights

A glowing jack-o-lantern, apples, and a black taper.

SamhainThe last harvest, and the open door

A marble figure in a dim gallery, face turned away.

Queer sacred storiesGods and histories, read with care

Every room in the house

Open a section

Altar workSet a surface and keep it Herb cabinetSixty-two plants, with cautions Crystal cabinetForty-two materials on the shelf Tarot readingSeventy-eight cards, and a draw Lunar magicEight phases you can actually keep The yearEight festivals, both hemispheres SpellworkWorkings for home, garden, and self AstrologySigns, planets, houses, aspects Further craftKitchen, green work, and tools

From the desk

Come in. The lamps are already lit.

I am Julian Wilde. This library is being written in public, page by page, for people who want a pagan practice they can keep. The furniture is Victorian. The teaching is new. Use the rites at your own altar, and keep your own name.

History stays labeled as history. A working written for this house says so on the page. The shelves are here for study, devotion, and the pleasure of a well-set table.

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