Salt for the Eclipse

Nov

01

A Baroque altar at a cathedral. The photograph has had color channels adjusted to only show black, red, yellow, and white.

Solar Winter + New Moon: Black Mass

It's Friday, and it's Calan Gaeaf — or Samhain to many of you. Hello. From an animist

Nov 1, 2024

13 min read

Oct

31

A forest canopy, mostly deciduous trees now devoid of leaves. A few pine tops stand among them. Black and white.

Monthly Music Mailing: Scorpio Season

Oct 31, 2024

2 min read

Oct

25

The Sun's ghostly white corona around the black disc of the Moon with a red gem at bottom. Black sky due to camera limits.

Last Quarter: This too shall pass

Oct 25, 2024

12 min read

Oct

18

A brown-grey female deer with large, dark eyes and pricked up ears. The background is blurry.

Full Moon (Occult): The short-day rut

Oct 18, 2024

9 min read

Oct

15

A row of trees in various colorful stages of foliage transformation, behind a grassy meadow.

Salt for the Eclipse: Autumn Q&A

Hello. It's the third Tuesday of October. As I've hoped for a while, I am now

Oct 15, 2024

11 min read

Oct

14

Autumn Q&A Reminder

Oct 14, 2024

1 min read

Oct

11

Colorfully striped, frilly fungi on a decaying, mossy log. Oak leaves and acorns surrounding.

First Quarter: The lore of fungi

Hello. It's Friday. The autumn foliage in my particular patch of Maple Nation (as Robin Wall Kimmerer calls

Oct 11, 2024

16 min read

Oct

04

Nasty, dark wooden club-like objects with sharpened spikes protruding from the top.

New Moon: Anatomy of impact

It's Friday; and in contrast to the several Fridays before this one, I have time to properly focus.

Oct 4, 2024

16 min read

Sep

27

A spiral of stones created on grey dirt spotted by scrubby bushes.

Last Quarter: The therapeutics of kink

Hello. It's Friday. The foliage change is well underway now, the autumn rains have begun, a butternut squash

Sep 27, 2024

7 min read

Sep

23

Small, weathered headstones on mossy ground covered partially by falling leaves. The surrounding trees are green but fading.

Monthly Music Mailing: Libra Season

Sep 23, 2024

2 min read

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First Quarter: A short(?) manifesto on survivalism

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New Moon: Kink as primordial principle

Last Quarter: On violence

Solar Autumn + Full Moon: Celtic calendars

Last Quarter: Eternal summer

Full Moon: Fertility in extinction

Last Quarter: Fear as the mind killer

Full Moon: Why I choose animism, Celtic and otherwise

Last Quarter: On heat deaths of universes

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