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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First Quarter: A short(?) manifesto on survivalism

First Quarter: A short(?) manifesto on survivalism

Special Announcement: Subscription tier adjustments & summer sale

Special Announcement: Subscription tier adjustments & summer sale

Salt for the Eclipse: Totality

Salt for the Eclipse: Totality

Last Quarter: Progress does not exist

Last Quarter: Progress does not exist

Last Quarter: Not walls, but protocols

Last Quarter: Not walls, but protocols

New Moon: Kink as primordial principle

New Moon: Kink as primordial principle

Last Quarter: On violence

Last Quarter: On violence

Solar Autumn + Full Moon: Celtic calendars

Solar Autumn + Full Moon: Celtic calendars

Last Quarter: Eternal summer

Last Quarter: Eternal summer

Full Moon: Fertility in extinction

Full Moon: Fertility in extinction

Last Quarter: Fear as the mind killer

Last Quarter: Fear as the mind killer

Full Moon: Why I choose animism, Celtic and otherwise

Full Moon: Why I choose animism, Celtic and otherwise

Last Quarter: On heat deaths of universes

Last Quarter: On heat deaths of universes

"And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say." Welcome.

"And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say." Welcome.

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Nov
15
A large pile of relatively clean but unpeeled potatoes. Their skins are yellowish.

First Quarter: A recipe interlude

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Nov
08
A glittering impression of colorful, shining objects on a night-black backdrop, too many to count.

New Moon (Again): Meanings of life

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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
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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

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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

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

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
11 min read
Oct
14

Autumn Q&A Reminder

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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
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.
16 min read