Sublime

And you found you did not mind being a devil, so long as you were his.

Marlowe stands close and lights it for him, smelling of hair cream and something else as well. The faintest whiff of brimstone. Marlowe enjoys a different kind of immortality, achieved by different means. No magic acorns or slumbering under trees. He sold his soul on the dotted line, joined an exclusive members’ club. Eternal life. But not eternal

Since antiquity, the main traditional astrological and alchemical correspondence to marriage has been the coniunctio Solis (☉) et Lunae (☾), the coniunctio Lunae et Lunae, and the conjunction of the moon with the ascendent.

“But I want to see Eli.” “Why?” she asked. “You can’t kill him.” “That may be.” His fingers curled around the shovel. “But half the fun is trying.”