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06/08/2026

Did you know? I, and my business, Intermediary Arts, are official partners of Eerie Expeditions Magazine. Each week, typically, I write for the magazine blog. My feature is called "How I Met Your Monster", and my exclusive articles often appear in the core magazine itself.

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06/08/2026

The time has come. Tillie Treadwell's Enchanted Objects is available for purchase✨️

What enchantment do you dare invite home with you..?

In my debut nonfiction title, I explore animism, esoteric exorcism, voodoo, houdou, history, and much more. Discover true tales from my own case files, classic theories.. and, perhaps most importantly, cutting edge science unfolding only today that explains the possibility and phenomena of inhabited objects- from the inside.

Do you dare? If you're curious, or brave, the book is now there..

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Enjoy!

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Special thanks to Tim Swartz, my friend and publisher at Zontar Press! Please check out his titles as well. If you love my work, you're going to want to catch Mimics: The Others Among Us, and his own standalone volume about Gef the talking mongoose, also on Amazon😉

A horseshoe above the door was never about luck. Salt at the threshold was never about flavor. Cunning folk and rootworkers and Shinto priests and Bakongo banganga were reading material physics the academy did not invent vocabulary for until 1880. Tillie Treadwell brings the folklore, firsthand ...

05/25/2026

Hey friends, getting things sorted out regarding family, writing, and content. Between the ill grandparents and father in law, there's a touch too much going on for me to keep up with my usual work.

Artemaeus needs my support at this time especially. I'll be back soon with the wonderful treasures I've been putting together for you.

Tillie💋

05/23/2026

This Week's Tarot Card is The Magician
Saturday, May 23 through Friday, May 29, 2026

You are going to wake up Saturday morning with the strange sense that the air has been wired overnight. Friday's sky did the work, with the Sun and Uranus meeting at one degree of Gemini in a cazimi the planet has never made in this sign during anyone's living memory, and what crossed the threshold during that conjunction is now waiting in the room with you. The Magician is the card that picks up what the cazimi just put down. He is standing at the table this week with one hand reaching toward the sky and the other reaching toward the floor, with the four tools of the working life laid out in front of him in plain afternoon light. Whatever lit up Friday morning has come down to ground level, and the card on the table is asking you what you intend to do with it now that you have it.

I think the easiest way to misread The Magician is to picture him as a stage performer or a salesman of his own gifts, and on some weeks that reading has a small kernel of truth, but this week is not that week. He is the card of the moment when scattered tools become a vocation. A wand a person already owned, the cup they had been drinking from, the blade they had been carrying for protection, the coin they had been trading with for years- all of that is laid out on the same table this week, all of it for the first time available at once, and the figure standing over it does not need to acquire anything new before the work begins. What this card offers you under a once-in-eighty-four-years sky is the recognition that you already have the four pieces. The week is the assembly.

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05/22/2026

This Week's Essence is Yarrow
Friday, May 22 through Thursday, May 28, 2026

A handful of yarrow held against a wound stops the bleeding faster than anyone would predict, and the people who first noticed the fact were paying attention to what plants do thousands of years before pharmacology arrived to give the observation a vocabulary. Bruise a leaf between thumb and forefinger and the scent comes off the green tissue clean and slightly camphoraceous, almost rosemary, almost a far-off chamomile, settling into a dry herbal bitterness that hangs at the back of the palate. Yarrow steadies. The body's small panicked tightnesses ease a quarter turn, the breath drops below the collarbone, and the practical attention of someone with hands in cold water settles into the room. Gray-green and feathered to a fineness that looks almost like a held green mist, the leaves climb tough flowering stalks above which flat-topped clusters of small white-and-pink florets open across roadside meadows from late May through October. There is a reason this herb has been carried in soldiers' pockets for two thousand years, and a reason fifty of its stalks have sat on the desk of every Chinese diviner since the Bronze Age. Yarrow is what a person reaches for when something needs to be held together while the work of holding gets done.

Achillea millefolium belongs to the family Asteraceae, the daisy and aster clan, and the species name in two Latin words tells the story- millefolium, thousand-leaves, a description of the finely divided foliage that looks, in real life, like an underestimate. Each leaf, five to twenty centimeters long, divides bipinnately or sometimes tripinnately, the divisions running so fine that one leaf carries the texture of a frond crossed with a feather. The plant grows as an herbaceous perennial across the temperate latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, native and wild in Europe, Asia, and North America at every elevation from sea level to thirty-five hundred meters, settling readily into mildly disturbed grasslands, road shoulders, and the open edges of forests. A mature plant reaches anywhere from twenty centimeters to a full meter, with flat-topped clusters of small white-to-pink ray florets holding three to eight rays each. Genus name Achillea traces, in the older European catalogs, to Achilles, who carried this plant through Bronze Age myth and who is the reason the genus has its name at all.

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05/22/2026

Uranus Cazimi in Gemini
Friday, May 22, 2026, 10:26 AM ET

There is a moment on Friday morning at twenty-six minutes past ten Eastern Time when the sky over your house is doing something it has not done in eighty-four years. The Sun rises in the east as it has done every morning since the world was a world, climbs through the green-tipped May light, and by mid-morning it has caught up to a small pale planet four billion miles further out, the two of them sitting at exactly one degree of Gemini for the few minutes it takes the larger body to slide past the smaller one. Uranus is invisible behind the Sun's brightness, held inside the heart of the larger light in a configuration the medieval Arabic astrologers called kaṣmīmī. The last time a Sun-Uranus cazimi happened in Gemini, the year was 1942, the war was still on, the television in a few thousand American living rooms was a brand-new luxury, and ENIAC was three years away from being switched on for the first time.

Cazimi is from the Arabic kaṣmīmī, in the heart of the Sun, and the term names the strongest position any planet can hold under traditional astrology. Abu Ma'shar in ninth-century Baghdad codified the doctrine and inherited it from the Hellenistic tradition before him, and Bonatti and William Lilly carried it forward into European practice. Every traditional astrologer reached for the same metaphor to describe what happens. A planet near the Sun is usually overwhelmed by the Sun's heat, scorched and combust, its function blown out by the larger light. A planet inside the seventeen-minute orb of cazimi is granted a private audience with the king. The audience does not blind the visitor. It elevates whatever the visitor came in carrying.

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05/21/2026

This Week's Animal Totem is the Northern Mockingbird
Thursday, May 21 through Wednesday, May 27, 2026

The first hot night of May, a single mockingbird on the television antenna of a parked car can fill an entire street with the impression of a forest.

She runs through a Carolina wren, a cardinal, a robin, and a frog, repeats each phrase three times, threads in the rising chirp of an unoiled gate hinge from somewhere on the block, and lands on the two-tone yelp of a car alarm she heard last summer. A person on the porch listening for the first ten minutes will swear there are five different birds within fifty feet of the house. There is one bird. Mockingbird at the height of breeding season is one throat doing the work of a small population, convincing enough that the listener concludes the territory under that antenna already belongs to an animal with an unusual amount of vocal real estate. Mockingbird comes forward this week with that fluency, the Gemini fluency between the heard and the answered, the borrowed and the held, the song you grew up with and the song you have made out of it.

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05/20/2026

This Week's Creature Feature: The Changeling
Wednesday, May 20 through Tuesday, May 26, 2026

There is an hour late at night when a young mother has stood up from a chair, crossed the small distance between the chair and the cradle, looked down, and known something she does not yet have a word for. May, with its long evenings, the window propped open to let the cooler air in, the curtain barely lifting in a wind that carries the smell of hawthorn and wet stone from somewhere outside. Inside, a fire half-banked in the grate, a kettle off the heat for a little while now, a wool shawl over the back of the chair, and the cradle still rocking slightly though no hand is moving it. The child in the cradle is the right shape and the right size, and it is not the right child. She does not know this yet in the way that lets her say it. She knows it the way the body knows these things first, in a tightening at the back of the neck, in a small refusal at the surface of the skin, in a sudden cold that runs up through the soles of her feet and tells her the room is not the room it was an hour ago.

That recognition has a name, and the name has been pressed into the speech of nearly every European tradition with a long enough memory to record it. In English we call the being a changeling, a creature left behind in the cradle in place of the child who has been taken. In Irish the older word is Sibhreach, and modern Irish gives Síofra, both describing a swapped child no longer the household's own. Welsh tradition called the same being plentyn newid, the changed child, with plant newid in the plural and crimbil for the kind that arrived already wizened. Across the North Sea, Sweden gave the word byting and the closely related bortbyting, Norway and Denmark used similar forms, and German speakers handed down Wechselbalg and Wechselkind and Kielkopf, names splitting and recombining the way names do when a tradition has been telling the same story to itself in slightly different rooms for a thousand years. Polish folklore gave odmieńce. Asturian Spain knew the xanino, the small unwanted one left by a x**a when she had taken a healthy infant from a cradle not properly watched. Across continents and centuries the word changes and the being does not.

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05/19/2026

This Week's Flower is Forget-Me-Not
Tuesday, May 19 through Monday, May 25, 2026

A forget-me-not asks you to look down. The flower is small enough that a person walking past at a normal pace will miss her, a quarter inch across, blue almost the color of sky-thinking-about-becoming-dusk, with a yellow eye at the center the size of a pinhead. Lower yourself to her height and the blue becomes plural. A patch the size of a dinner plate holds a hundred separate flowers, each tilted slightly differently, the cluster reading from above like a small electric weather pattern with all its lightning lit at once. Her leaves are the shape and softness of mouse ears, which is what her Greek name says she is, and the stem under each cluster is fine enough to bend in the breath of a passing cat. She is the flower for what the eye almost missed, and that almost-missing is the lesson she came here to teach.

From Tuesday, May 19 through Monday, May 25, the calendar arranges itself around two events large enough to bend a season. Sun crosses out of Ta**us into Gemini on Wednesday, May 20, at 8:36 PM EDT, opening the air-element half of spring after a month of slow earth-element building. Thursday afternoon Uranus completes his five-month retrograde shadow, crossing forward over the one-degree-and-twenty-eight-minute mark in Gemini where he stationed retrograde last September, entering territory he has not occupied in any forward direction since the summer of 1948. By Friday morning at 10:26 AM EDT, the Sun catches Uranus at one degree Gemini in an exact conjunction, a configuration the older astrologers called cazimi, "in the chariot of the Sun," and the meeting is the first Uranus cazimi in Gemini since 1942. Memorial Day in the United States falls on Monday, May 25, the last day of this post's window, with Mars in Ta**us square Pluto in Aquarius firing across the holiday afternoon. Three large signals inside one week, all asking for the same thing in slightly different tones- pay attention to what is being remembered, and pay attention to what is breaking open into something new.

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05/18/2026

This Week's Stone Totem: Herkimer Diamond
Monday, May 18 through Sunday, May 24, 2026
Pick up a Herkimer diamond and the first thing the hand registers is that it has two ends. Most quartz crystals grew attached to a wall of host rock that fed them, finished one terminated point on the open side, and carry a rough seam at the base where the rock let them go. A Herkimer grew loose inside a small pocket in dolostone, free-floating in a vug the host rock had no chemistry to bind it to, and finished both ends into the same six-sided point in opposite directions. What you hold in your palm is a piece of clarity that completed itself on both sides at once. Run your thumb along one of the long faces and it will feel cool and close-grained, hard at around 7 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale, sometimes carrying a small interior speck of black hydrocarbon the geologists call anthraxolite, sometimes carrying a tiny bubble of fluid older than every human civilization. Five hundred million years is a long time for a stone to wait to be picked up.

Herkimer belongs to this week the way a particular stone belongs to a particular sky. The Sun is in the last hours of Ta**us on Monday morning and crosses into Gemini on Wednesday evening, which hands the back half of the coverage week to the air sign that has been waiting on the calendar since the wheel turned. Uranus, which crossed into Gemini in late April for the first time in eighty-four years, reaches a degree on Thursday May 21 that it has not seen moving forward since September of last year, when it stationed retrograde at one degree and twenty-eight minutes of Gemini and turned back into Ta**us for the long winter walk home. Around 1:54 PM Eastern is the moment the crossing happens. The morning after that, on Friday May 22 at 10:26 AM Eastern, the Sun catches Uranus at one degree of Gemini in the meeting astrologers call a Cazimi, with the planet sitting in the heart of the Sun, too close to the brightest light in the sky to be seen and yet doing the most concentrated work of the conjunction precisely because of that closeness. A doubly terminated quartz, which sends and receives along the same hexagonal axis at the same time, is the stone that knows the geometry of that meeting in its own body.

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