This week­end we attend­ed the sec­ond edi­tion of L’Homme Sauvage fes­ti­val, in the French region of Occ­i­ta­nia. We nev­er thought it would be pos­si­ble, but this edi­tion was even bet­ter than the first one. Every­thing seemed to col­lide per­fect­ly: the peo­ple, the per­for­mances, the loca­tion, and a feel­ing that gave cohe­sion to it all, orches­trat­ed… Con­tin­ue Reading →

I final­ly returned from the fourth edi­tion of the Viridis Genii Sym­po­sium, which took place in the Pack For­est in Eatonville, Wash­ing­ton, and it has been a hec­tic, impres­sive, and life-chang­ing expe­ri­ence. I had the chance to trav­el to a com­plete­ly new place by myself, I met amaz­ing and like-mind­ed peo­ple, and I learned a… Con­tin­ue Reading →

Exis­tence often ignores our per­son­al agen­da. The events that take place in our lives make us col­lapse and we feel like every­thing pre­vents us from mov­ing for­ward as we had pre­vi­ous­ly planned. Our life and our path are sub­ject to that of oth­ers and to those things that we do not expect, to the Inevitable.… Con­tin­ue Reading →

On Sep­tem­ber 29th we start­ed a jour­ney to L’Homme Sauvage fes­ti­val, held in the small town of Aspet, in the French Pyre­nees. As we have men­tioned sev­er­al times, Occvl­ta is now estab­lished in the Cata­lan Pyre­nees, an area called Pal­lars Sobirà, so it was real­ly easy to get there, just need­ing to cross one moun­tain… Con­tin­ue Reading →

Autumn is here. Not astro­nom­i­cal­ly, not “offi­cial­ly” here, but there is always one day when you can feel the vibra­tions of autumn in your bones, in the trees, in the wind. And that time came last Thurs­day. I left home to do the last har­vest before the Dark Half of the Year (dur­ing that time… Con­tin­ue Reading →

As you may know, we have been work­ing on the upcom­ing Toad Witch col­lec­tion, com­posed of a series of poi­son­er rosaries, tal­is­mans, the new Toad Witch Incense, and the Har­vester Sets with knives by Bore­alis Iron­works. Due to logis­ti­cal prob­lems, the release of the col­lec­tion is post­poned, but at least we can give you a… Con­tin­ue Reading →

It has been long since we last wrote an arti­cle for the blog. If you are famil­iar with our Insta­gram, you will be aware that we have moved to the north­ern part of the Iber­ian Penin­su­la, and so, that we now live in the Cata­lan Pyre­nees. To us, that change is med­i­tat­ed, and the rea­sons… Con­tin­ue Reading →

The Path Enven­omed, what we call met­zine­r­ia or pon­zoñería in our moth­er tongues is, as its own name states, a Path, and so it implies some degree of move­ment ‑may it be up or down, for­wards or back­wards. But, as many oth­er paths, it must be must stride care­ful­ly. Met­zine­r­ia is not only about plants but… Con­tin­ue Reading →