Agent Provocateur ‘Season of the Witch’

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From a report on LiveScience:

Diamonds are crystallized forms of carbon that predate the oldest known life on the planet. In lab experiments aimed to confirm work done more than three decades ago, researchers found that when treated with hydrogen, natural diamonds formed crystalline layers of water on the surface. Water is essential for life as we know it. Also, the tests found electrical conductivity that could have been key to forcing chemical reactions needed to generate the first birth.

Now Chil the Kite brings home the night
 That Mang the Bat sets free -
 The herds are shut in byre and hut,
 For loosed till dawn are we.
 This is the hour of pride and power,
 Talon and tush and claw.
 Oh, hear the call! - Good hunting all
 That keep the Jungle Law!

Red takes name.

This week’s sky watch:

Mars and Saturn (magnitudes +1.7 and +0.8) are getting ever lower in the west at dusk, as shown in the scene above. They were in conjunction, 0.7° apart on July 10th, and they remain less than 2° apart through the 13th. And Regulus (magnitude +1.4) twinkles down to their lower right. Look early before they sink too low and set!

Chaweng Beach’s Library Hotel, this week’s destination. We’ll write from Thailand.

The smell of burning rubber. Hot and acrid, but there’s a tinge of sweetness to it as it envelops you. Suddenly it’s a incense-heavy and oddly beguiling. Nighttime and in Glastonbury grove shimmers with moonlight. You are here. Under the heavenly conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, the only time the Black Lodge will open to you. And there’s fear, the key that opens the door, the coin of the realm. The owl screeches above and it’s there. Red curtains lead you in. Bulgari Black is the scent they all wear here. The dweller on the threshold will meet you with your own face. Here is a place the soul must pass through on its way to perfection but to meet it with less that perfect courage will bring certain annihilation.