Introducing Seeds for #ObscuraWednesday

Aphina Reyes

19 Aug 2025 — 2 min read

What is #ObscuraWednesday?

It’s a weekly stream on Bluesky (within #occultsky) where poets, artists, photographers, promptalists, ritual-makers, and storytellers bring work shaped in the half-light — where shadow guides the vision and symbols breathe. Participants and witnesses are equally welcome: post, browse, amplify, and be moved.

Last week, #ObscuraWednesday opened as a clear field — no theme, just the current of hidden light moving through words, images, and symbol. This week, we begin something new: themes to spark your making without fencing it in. Think of them as seeds — you can plant one, braid a few together, or wander off-path and bring whatever you’ve made that still hums with the #ObscuraWednesday aesthetic. Seeds are direction, not directive.

How the seeds work

Three seeds each Wednesday. Use one, use all three, or mix & match into your own mashup.
Seeds are prompts, not rules. If your piece carries the Obscura mood, it belongs.
Any medium: poetry, flash fiction, photography, illustration, ritual notes, sigils, generative art.
Post on Bluesky with #ObscuraWednesday (and #occultsky if you wish). Witnesses: follow the tag, repost favorites, and leave thoughtful notes.

August 20 — Three Seeds

Threads Unseen: Whispers of the pattern beneath the pattern. Lines that tug at what’s not yet formed.

Veilbreak: A soft rupture where revelation slips through. A crease in the ordinary.

A Shadow Learning to Speak: The unspoken finding a voice. The silhouette shaping itself into language.

August 27 — Three Seeds

A Seed Hidden in Thunder: Potential wrapped in storm—germination by voltage.

Keys Dreaming of Locks: Imperfect fits, future doors, the promise of opening.

Reverberate: What returns after the first strike — echo, ripple, afterlight.

Joining the current on Bluesky

Each Wednesday, post to #ObscuraWednesday (and #occultsky). Title your piece if you like. Note which seed(s) you touched — or surprise us with your own. If you’re witnessing, drift the stream: repost what moves you, leave a line of appreciation, build a small constellation around a creator’s work. Attention is part of the art.

Why seeds?

Because a seed helps the forest gather. Because a single word can tilt the lens just enough to let the hidden speak. Because an open prompt invites many doors — and #ObscuraWednesday is a house of doors.

Bring what listens behind your work. Let the light whisper through your darkness. We’ll see you in the stream.

KEYS, LATCHES, TURNS

Under utility light gone sacral, a whitened doorknob blooms with rime. The lock wants more than a key; pressure gathers, and the crossing crosses back. Down that hush-lit corridor, the pane keeps writing what you cannot — an afterglow you carry home. I. Threshold Mechanics First frost writes thin Enochian across

DUST PNEUMA

In a shuttered classroom, chalk dust lifts into script; breath learns to write back. A vow traces a lung-sigil; the room teaches the hand. Pressure reverses, protection speaks. Fluorescents tremble; the bell’s afterring hangs — fine, white — behind the ribs. I. THE ROOM THAT REMEMBERS YOUR BREATH You key open

Ember at the Threshold

Breath fogs the dusk-lit doorway; colors bruise to plum and coal as the veil thins and ember glows. Lanterns lift, threshold-work stirs, ancestor-footsteps hush the air. Step lightly — carry a small flame — and enter. October #ObscuraWednesday — Monthly Theme Reveal What is #ObscuraWednesday? A living field of occult, esoteric, and arcane

THE KNIFE-MOON PALIMPSEST

Beneath a knife-moon’s hush, a scriptorium waits — veils shifting, brass glowing faintly, silence bending toward song. A breath withheld, a breath returned, and the page begins to write itself. I. THRESHOLD: THE BREATH THAT WASN’T You must begin where the breath refuses you — there, where the monastery’s