Salt for the Eclipse
Meditations on witchcraft, kink, ecstatic mystery, old lifeways, fertile arts, and trauma healing in an apocalyptic era.

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Feb
25
Yellow, unopened daffodils poke up from snow.

Monthly Music Mailing: Pisces Season

1 min read
Feb
20
A black & white engraving of a bearded, robed man holding various magical implements. Another man sleeps off to his side.

New Moon: The esoteric & the occult (Part II)

It's Friday, and the birds are becoming far more vocal, and taps are going up on the maple
9 min read
Feb
13
Two images of the same pale blue gas giant planet, its thin ring seeming to spin "vertically" around it rather than horizontally.

Last Quarter (Zodiac Series): Eliminating eccentricities

Hello. It's Friday, and because I'm going to be traveling in a few hours I only
5 min read
Feb
06
The usual dancing skeletons woodcut.

Full Moon: No post this week

1 min read
Jan
30
A piece of straw art. It looks like an equilateral cross where the arms seem to emerge from a squared spiral formation in the middle. The straw is green.

Solar Spring + First Quarter: St. Brigid's crosses

7 min read
Jan
29
A lit candle that appears orange in the light of its gentle flame. Black background.

Monthly Music Mailing: Aquarius Season

1 min read
Jan
23
New Moon: The seat of power

New Moon: The seat of power

It's Friday, and it's been several months since I had anything to say in a public
11 min read
Jan
16
A colored engraving of the constellation Capricorn, with the stars filled in to seem like a goat with a curving fish tail.

Last Quarter: My Capricorn Moon

9 min read
Jan
09
The constellations Orion and Taurus against an oddly pale, pink-purple sky complicated by clouds. Beneath are the silhouettes of pines.

Full Moon: Winter constellations

It's Friday, and these woodlands are seeing their second day of thaw after several weeks of snow that
11 min read
Jan
02
Thin, delicate stalks of a green herb with opposite pairs of elliptic, round-tipped, untoothed leaves.

First Quarter: Respiratory remedies (with disclaimers)

Hello. It's Friday, and as we are in the very thick of winter we are also going about
17 min read