Shannon Arsenault is perhaps best known as the soul-shattering voice fronting New Orleans sludgegaze band @slowhole , but as Pythia, Shannon showcases an entirely different side of her musicianship. Approaching DJing as an oracle would prophecy, Pythia channels otherworldly visions and shares them with her audiences via a range of genres from ambient and industrial to trance and techno. Named from the oracle at the Temple of Apollo, Pythia is sorceress of the dancefloor, conjuring another world where we can resonate on a shared frequency and feel the pulse of communal luxury. Don't miss @psychep0mp 's NOPE debut at Proletarian Disco this Friday at @thecryptneworleans .
NOPE Presents...
NEW ORLEANS PROLETARIAN DISCO
feat. @gvbrielamaj@psychep0mp@blushakurx__ & @nonlethal_weapons
May Day 2026
at @thecryptneworleans
9pm - late
$10 notaflof
the world is ugly and so am i.
going on tour this weekend with my friends and @eyehategodnola
in spite of our worldly afflictions, i am very excited.
📸: @aimingattheblackstar
this week crazy as hell…. @slowhole record comes out friday, we’re hitting the road for ~3 weeks with Thou on saturday, also slowhole is playing in baton rouge wednesday. libra eclipse wednesday too ahhhhh! 🥲tonight i’m djing at Night Bloom (my set is at midnight) and it’ll be the last you’ll see of me in new orleans til Halloween. 👻 goodbye ily xoxo 🪽
Venus is in Leo for such a short run this year, which leads me to reflect on when Venus was rx in Leo this time last year for ~three months, & how I came out the other side a completely different person. it was such a necessary shedding, burning, bleeding that reanimated me, and to this day it haunts me in the best way🩸🐍✨🔥
“Only that of which is separated, can unite.” // Solve et Coagula, from the lesser Coniunctio towards the Greater Coniunctio 🐦🔥
For Psyche, there is no wholeness in the unconscious malaise of Eros’ palace. There is no wholeness in the illusion of perfection. To know this, is followed by a dreadful initiation, where you are ushered towards the painful chrysalis that says “Death births You”. Separatio is the space where Artemis is refuge. The goddess is the balm for Psyche’s depression, who knows that to be unified with Eros again, a Greater wholeness (individuation) must be achieved.
What have you survived, what separation and mourning have you endured, how have you been pushed, to rise up and meet with your own wholeness? How have you been shaken out of your own unconsciousness? Death is in close proximity with what brings you closer to the fullness of being alive. Soul (Psyche) continuously faces death in her pursuit of Love (Eros), but paradoxically becomes more alive in her intimacy with death. “The constant possibility of Psyche’s destruction is a perverse measure of her creative urge towards wholeness” (Nelson) We as psyche/soul owe the goddess many deaths, and to what life emerges from your many deaths?
Thinking lately of Artemisian solitude as balm for the psyche in mourning & depression; the Lunar goddess as a guide through the process towards a Greater Coniunctio. 🌑
(1) Psyche Weeping by Kinuko Craft
(2 & 3) Psyche’s Knife by Elizabeth Eowyn Nelson
in the Hour of Venus — glimpse of devotion, energies, & workings from the Venus Starpoint in Gemini 🕯️🌊
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i’ve been quietly sloughing & untying my psyche from the knots of worn out cycles and roles that i have grown weary of. moments of clarity can be harsh. to face truth is a necessary inner liberation from the things that lay malignant, rotting, decomposing & deceased within the psyche,. clarity is not only a knife but a scalpel. i’ve deconstructed and excavated stories, narratives, and the decaying parts of myself so many times in order to transform. the slough continues, persistent and pervasive, until you die or it kills you. you do it because you must.
I’ve been called to share less of myself & my practice online over the years for energetic and spiritual protection. I’ve always thought it is better to just say less in these spaces, (as I prefer to be the gatekeeper of my privacy & how i am perceived lol) which I still think is true for myself to a large degree… I’ve divined on this again though, & have been reminded of how powerful it is to be vulnerable, how protected I actually am, & how powerful my voice is. That being said, my voice & ability to be vulnerable will inevitably find itself in unconventional spaces where I feel it is most needed, most authentic & creatively utilized, for not only myself but for others. Lately, I reserve my power and who I am for my closest friends & loved ones, and when I offer myself in performance & devotional practices. I do long for a safer connection here, away from incessant mal de ojo, from the muck of the internet’s unconscious, but that gets trickier as these spaces have transformed from spaces of connection to hollowed out platforms for marketing. Trying to find the balance of not being afraid to take up space here & share myself, while also protecting my work, energy, and my dreams. 🕯️🌊🧿
Ｖｅｎｕｓ ❣️🗡️
وبين العتمة
في حياة
في هوى
حب جديد
Bringer of Peace, may you hold the impossible heart of Man, the grief of the world, the love, dreams, hopes, & safety that deserved to be realized. 💧
You who fortifies, Algol
Bearer of eyes eternal, Algol
Excavate the corrosive cadaver that besets me,
the false hero who stalks and haunts,
who keeps Soul besieged,
Liberate me from his endless snares
The wicked stone body is not mine to bare, but his alone
Algol,
Petrify with eyes that impose righteousness,
Fortify me from injustice by your thousand-serpent hisses,
Hail Beta Persei, O Ras Al-Ghul
