#ObscuraWednesday — December Theme Reveal

December’s creative current: malls, firewalls, night buses & bones

#ObscuraWednesday is a weekly creative aperture in the veil — a consecrated stream of symbolic voltage that moves through Bluesky. It’s where the unseen leans into form as words, images, rites, sigils, and quiet signs, without being emptied of its mystery. #ObscuraWednesday is not a trend. It’s a creative occult current.

Each Wednesday, the field opens: poets, photographers, illustrators, tarot-slingers, ritualists, code-witches, theologians of the late-night bus stop — all step to the edge together and let something hidden speak. You can bring a finished piece or a fragment, a spell or a story, a photograph caught out of the corner of your eye. You can also simply arrive as a witness; here, attending is a form of making.

This invitation is open to everyone who feels the creative pull of the liminal:

• artists, writers, photographers, designers
• occultists, mystics, diviners, armchair theologians
• and those who don’t yet claim any of those names, but feel the current humming under their skin

#ObscuraWednesday is for you if you feel the creative hum of the liminal and mysterious.

Hinge-month in the dark

December 2025 opens under a Gemini Super Full Moon and closes in Capricorn’s stone-bright dawn. It is the hinge between mutable Fire and cardinal Earth — the Sagittarian arrow loosed into the night and the Capricorn mountain receiving it as carved commandment. Jupiter’s storytelling yields, week by week, to Saturn’s architecture; big dreams begin asking for bones.

In the sky and in the nervous system, several pressure-nodes flare:

• 4 December — Super Full Moon in Gemini: a Mercurial flood of language and signal, excellent for bibliomancy, oracular writing, and spellcraft that works by breath and word.
• 10 December — Neptune stations direct in late Pisces: veils thin; glamour drains; what was fog becomes coastline. Devotion loses costume and gains clarity.
• 19 December — New Moon in Sagittarius near the Galactic Center: a seed-point of vow and long aim, perfect for oaths, learning-works, and “I will” statements you mean to keep.
• 21 December — Sun enters Capricorn at the Winter Solstice: Christic light hidden in rock and rebar, the Crowned and Conquering Child born in the cave of the world.
• 24–25 December — Venus into Capricorn, Christmas Eve & Nativity: love takes on structure; the Word takes on flesh; the solar Logos descends into matter like a secret sigil laid in the foundations of a city.

Esoterically, December is a month of Kairos inside Chronos — a pressure in the days themselves, where calendar time and sacred time briefly overlap. Liturgies of Advent, Saturnalia’s reversals, Guadalupe’s black-rayed mantle, Lucia’s candles, and the Nativity all braid through these weeks like threads of one vast, shimmering icon.

Within that braid, #ObscuraWednesday asks a particular question:

What does revelation look like now, in malls and highways, data-centers and floodplains, backlit screens and candlelit altars?

This month’s themes move through that question like a slow procession — part feast day, part glitch, part underground station of the cross.

Arrow into Night, Child of Stone

Our December arc walks the fault-line where sacred calendar and late-capitalist infrastructure grind against each other, throwing sparks.

One week, the current moves as “Saturnalia in the Megachurch Mall” — Jupiterian misrule under fluorescent Advent sales, saints and mannequins sharing the same spotlight while Saturn watches from the parking-garage shadows. Think escalators as ziggurats, food courts as temporary temples, hymns remixed with PA announcements. What happens when ancient carnival spirits wake up inside climate-controlled sanctuaries of commerce?

Another week, the field narrows into the sharp glow of “Lucia’s Firewall of Candles” — St. Lucy’s eyes reborn as LEDs; procession as protective script; debugging the dark with flame. Here the current touches both folk magic and cybersecurity: a circle of wax and code around what you hold most luminous.

Later in the month, as the Sun roots deeper into Capricorn and Mars takes up disciplined residence there, the stream rides the city’s circulatory system as “Night Bus of the Fifth Gospel.” Imagine a gospel written not in parchment but in bus routes and transfer stubs, in overheard fragments at 2:17 a.m., in the faces of fellow travelers illuminated by sodium lamps. A scripture of exhaust and breath where every stop is a minor annunciation.

Threaded through all of it is December’s larger motif:

• Arrow into Night — the Sagittarian thrust into unknown distances; vows made at the edge of what you can see.
• Child of Stone — the Capricornian insistence that whatever is born in you this month must find a way to live in matter: contracts, craft, habits, structures, streets.

This is a month for work that refuses the old split between “sacred” and “secular.” Guadalupe appears at the event horizon of a strip mall. Lucia’s crown syncs with server racks. Crèches bloom under overpasses. Graveyards of toppled monuments become places where new ghosts learn how to speak.

#ObscuraWednesday holds this all as one field:

• Bring photographs that catch halo-light in CCTV glare.
• Bring poems that read like leaked gospel fragments from a future council.
• Bring sigils drawn on receipts, talismans made of transit cards, dream-logs from the week Neptune turned and your devotions changed shape.
• Bring rituals that could only be done in a stairwell, a parking lot, a livestream chat, a kitchen at 3 a.m.

Above all, bring what feels true to this moment where Jupiter’s stories hand the mic to Saturn’s stones; where the Logos, again, chooses to ride in on breath, blood, and bus schedules.

Weekly Themes for December

Wednesday, December 3rd 

1. Saturnalia in the Megachurch Mall
2. Guadalupe at the Event Horizon
3. Crown of Thorns, Crown of Wires

Wednesday, December 10th

1. The Ocean Clears Its Throat
2. Lucia’s Firewall of Candles
3. The Virgin’s Laboratory of Mirrors

Wednesday, December 17th

1. Midwinter Carnival on the Reservoir Ice
2. Star-Chart Tattoo Parlour Vigil
3. Campfire Nativity beneath the Overpass

Wednesday, December 24th

1. Night Kitchen of the Hidden Host
2. Bone Yard of Fallen Monuments
3. Night Bus of the Fifth Gospel

Wednesday, December 31st

1. Shrine of the Divergent Clocks
2. Neon Baptistry Behind the Club
3. Elevator Garden between Floors

How to enter the current

All are welcome to participate in #ObscuraWednesday. You do not need a lineage or a polished portfolio. You need only a willingness to pay attention and to let that attention take form.

Think of it as a weekly ritual of self-discovery and world-discovery:

• a way to locate where December’s myth is moving through you
• a practice of noticing what glows at the edges of your day
• a chance to ask, gently but seriously, “Who am I becoming, and what is asking to be born in me now?”

You do not need to be a practicing occultist to join this current. The occult thread is there — Hermetic, Thelemic, Enochian, Kundalini, and many other lineages hum in the background of this field — but no one will ask you for credentials.

If you are a practicing occultist, you do not need to be “an artist” in any formal sense. Your grimoire margins, your dream diagrams, your altar photos, your after-ritual debrief threads — all of these can be art once they cross the aperture. Conversely, if you are an artist with no interest in ritual mechanics, your work is equally welcome; the current delights in cross-talk between disciplines.

Participation can look like:

• posting your creative piece with the tag #ObscuraWednesday into the Bsky stream each Wednesday during the month
• or quietly witnessing the work of others, letting their symbols stir your own inner archive

Every Wednesday you show up, you’re not just posting — you’re helping hold a small, shared temple in time. Over weeks, that temple becomes a mirror: of your own becoming, of the month’s slow alchemy, of a community learning to see the sacred in bone, wire, neon, ash.

Your call to action

This month, let yourself be the arrow and the stone.

Choose one week’s theme that tugs at you — maybe the Megachurch Mall, Lucia’s firewall, the Night Bus, or another that feels like it already knows your name. Sit with it. Let December’s skies and streets filter through you. Then:

Make one thing. A stanza, a sketch, a sigil, a snapshot, a short rite, a single, strange sentence. Tag it #ObscuraWednesday. Drop it into the current.

Step through the aperture and see what looks back.