Eleanor Voss
Portland, Oregon
archives · marginalia
Bio
Eleanor Voss writes on esoteric history and the archive as a devotional practice. Her work has appeared in several small-press journals focused on Western occultism.
Areas of Interest
- Western esotericism and the Golden Dawn tradition
- Marginalia and reader traces in secondhand books
- Archival theory and the ethics of the unfinished draft
- Domestic space, memory, and the sounds a house keeps
- Tidal and seasonal timekeeping in devotional practice
On Mere Thelema
- “The Marsh Keeps Its Own Time.” July 26, 2026.
- “In Praise of the Marginal Note.” July 8, 2026.
- “The Archive as Confession.” May 25, 2026.
- “A Sequence for the Dry Season.” March 12, 2026.
- “The Sound a House Makes When No One Is Home.” March 3, 2026.
Publications
Book
The Marginal Hand: Reading Practices of the Anonymous Annotator. Threshold Editions, 2021
Article
“Tidal Reckonings: Time-Keeping in Coastal Devotional Practice.” Journal of Esoteric Studies, 2019
Lecture
“The Archive as Altar” (lecture), Portland Center for Book Arts, March 2023
