Beauty

The Wheel of The Year is a funny thing. And quite beautiful, really. As we undulate forward into a new season of life, we...

When the circle of the year turns in September, it is a certain, defined clicking into place, one that takes us from the slow...

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems” —Rainier Maria Rilke As the world blooms, in the spirit of spring renewal,...

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” —William Blake   With temperatures dropping, it’s time to reach for warming lotions, luscious creams, and fragrant oils...

Feature Image: ©Columbia Pictures / Diltz / Bridgeman Images _____ Amid a swathe of tribal fertility idols, leopard-lined cloaks, and a cabaret singer imported from Montmartre,...

The Renaissance was a fertile period of European culture, celebrated for its remarkable artists, its scientific advances in anatomy and astronomy, and its flowering...

Featured Image: Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing (1778-87), by Angelica Kauffmann. Wikimedia Commo Is there anything more glorious than a bath? It’s sheer delight that...

With the great feline lunation of late last month still romping about, August shines with the promise of joyful new beginnings. Conjuring what makes the...

A Fairy Tale (1985), by Arthur Wardle “All seemed to sleep, the timid hare on form.” —Sir Walter Scott Sleep. That most fickle of good fairies....

Article from the Mermaid Issue #59 Subscribe | Buy Issue Oshun, African goddess of all things beautiful and erotic, is a playful, flirtatious coquette and—lucky for...