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Saturday Signal is Plutonica.net’s weekly round up of neat stuff found on the occult Internet. Though as it’s been on hiatus for a bit, I’ve decided to highlight a few nifty things you may’ve missed in that time.

As it was in the past, so shall it remain: if you find something weird, cool or otherwise noteworthy, please e-mail me about it. If you’re pro-promotion, include your name and website for extra credit. Thanks!

So, let’s see what we’ve got this week… Continue reading »

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This marks the second edition of Saturday Signal, Plutonica.net’s attempt to sift signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.

Last week Beth (author of Sacred Sonoma) asked “how our “fun day” (Saturday) got named after the least fun god/planet of the week”.

Fun facts: Saturday was named in the second century, and is the only day of the week whose name comes from Roman mythology.  According to Wikipedia, it was “called dies Saturni (“Saturn’s Day”), through which…it entered into Old English as Sæternesdæg and gradually evolved into the word Continue reading »

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The Internet is wonderful; so many interesting things to read, watch and play with, but, let’s face it, there’s also a lot of crap, and sometimes it can be difficult to find the shiny bits.

To combat this, I hereby introduce Saturday Signal, Plutonica.net‘s attempt to sift signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.

Saturday Signal will offer up Continue reading »

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On Wednesday Plutonic.net nominated occulture’s darling Kara Rae Garland for the The Galloway Chronicles‘ 2008 Sexiest Occultist Alive competition.

Late yesterday, following several embarassing scandals amongst their top judges, the winners were announced. Not Kara.  (She’s fine.) Continue reading »

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The Galloway Chronicles, an occult blog which tags itself as an “occult resource of extremely limited appeal”, is running a (fairly informal, from what I can see) contest for the 2008 Sexiest Occultist Alive (or dead).

The contest, billed as “the most important beauty contest since the judgement of Paris”, is described as follows:

This annual contest, normally held exclusively on the astral plane, has been moved to the blogosphere per orders of Dr. Dee, who is trying to make room on his back lawn for events of what he calls “greater occult significance.”

Plutonica.net officially nominates Kara Rae Garland, better known to occultists as Soror Ceilede, for the newly coveted title of Sexiest Occultist Alive (or dead). Continue reading »

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