LIMINANCE

Opening Whisper

On the threshold between September and October, a word rose through the fog. I thought it had always been with us, tucked into the hidden lexicon of the craft, but it was new, laid at my feet by the autumn haze.

Folklore & Origin

Liminance was first spoken at The Hallowed Nook on October Eve, 2025. It is a word gifted by the unseen, delivered by the leaves dancing along the kerb. It carries the sense of both liminal and luminance ~ A glow that is neither full light nor full dark, but the faint lantern one carries through shadow.

Keeper's Note

I half-blame Liadán ~ Poet, ancestor, guide, for slipping this word into my mouth. Or perhaps it was October itself, breathing through the dark. Either way, the word clung to me, insistent as breath in the cold.

Practical Craft & Use

Liminance can be spoken as a Whispered Ward when moving through uncertain times. It is not a light of banishment, but of guidance, enough glow to see your own next step.

  • Use it as a mantra in meditation: "I walk by Liminance"

  • Write it into your grimoire margins when recording threshold work or foggy states.

  • Pair it with candle magick or lantern rites, especially in October, to embody its meaning.

Liminance may also be carried as a Lantern-Word uttered aloud to kindle the faint glow that steadies you on the path. Whisper it into the fog, or into the dark corners of your own heart, when you need just enough light to continue.

Why Liminance Matters

There are moments when light is too sharp, and darkness too heavy. In those in-between states ~ grief, change, waiting, survival, we walk with only the faintest lantern. Not a brilliance to banish shadow, but a glow that steadies the step when the path is hidden.

This is Liminance. The glow that lingers when all else feels swallowed. Both seasonal and soulful, the October fog on the lane, the ember of endurance in the heart.

Why Not Other words

Other words almost carried the feeling, but each fell short:

  • Liminality ~ captures the threshold, but too clinical, too anthropologist.

  • Luminescence ~ holds the glow, but none of the shadowed passage. Too scientific.

  • Illuminance ~ flat, technical, without mystery.

  • Luminance ~ brightness without soul.

Liminance the missing piece, the dim glow carried through liminal spaces, a lantern that guides but does not banish the dark.

Every spell needs its right word. This was mine.

OCTOBER WHISPER

The season does not soften for me, nor do I for it. We meet in silence, Shadow to Shadow.

October does not ask for smiles. I move like a ghost in her fog. A dim lantern in hand, its light enough to find, the echo of footsteps from the past, or the trace of those i choose to follow.

This is my October Liminance. A glow that does not banish the dark, but guides me through it.

Closing Whisper

Liminance is not mine to hoard. If it speaks to you, take it. Write it into your pages. Whisper it when the fog is heavy. It belongs to the thresholds, not to me.

First spoken at The Hallowed Nook, October Eve 2025