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 (Zodiac Series): Not the mother they want

First Quarter (Zodiac Series): Not the mother they want

New Moon: On a moonless night

New Moon: On a moonless night

Last Quarter: Margaret Killjoy on confronting apocalypse

Last Quarter: Margaret Killjoy on confronting apocalypse

Full Moon: "Reconstruction" versus context restoration (a pagan pedant's primer)

Full Moon: "Reconstruction" versus context restoration (a pagan pedant's primer)

Last Quarter: A life lived as a life

Last Quarter: A life lived as a life

First Quarter: A short(?) manifesto on survivalism

First Quarter: A short(?) manifesto on survivalism

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

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

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A woman with thick black hair and a long grey dress stands before a metal basin heated by a fire, from which smoke rises. She holds a wand and a sickle.

Full Moon: A theory of spellcraft

It's Friday, and I am looking out at the lush green of mid-July under an overcast sky as
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A colorful tempera painting. A woman in a kerchief waits over the naked body of an adult man, on a riverbank.

First Quarter (Zodiac Series): Not the mother they want

It's Sunday, and this is potentially the longest newsletter installment I will ever write, hence the unprecedented two-day
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New Moon: The mystery of our others

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A cracked clay ground surface, as of a dry river or lakebed, in sepia tones.

Monthly Music Mailing: Cancer Season

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Rain drops landing on a puddle or pool of water. The water reflects a turquoise-blue color, and it ripples.

Summer Solstice + Last Quarter: A prayer for water

Hello. It's Saturday, and I did not mean to be sending this to you a day late, but
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An eerie painting of ghostly human figures teeming in a dark environment, clutching at the cloak of a man with a winged helmet and caduceus.

Full Moon (Zodiac Series): Underworld, Otherworld

It's Friday. Hello. To some extent I'm grasping for what or how I can still write
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Very tall, white-barked, slender trees with green leaves line a dirt road under a blue, partly cloudy sky.

First Quarter: Ash, aspen

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A shimmering night sky with thousands and thousands of visible stars, cut through by the Milky Way, which looks like tendrils of white and black smoke.

New Moon: On a moonless night

It's Friday, and our rose bush is on the brink of erupting with ten times more flowers than
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A hand-engraved and painted star map of the constellation Gemini with the stars filled in to look like two children.

Monthly Music Mailing: Gemini Season

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Lush white flowers with dozens of nested petals apiece, with cream-yellow centers that are still unfolding.

Last Quarter: Funerals for the overlooked

Hello. It's Friday, and an abnormally late nor'easter has just swept over this landscape, leaving it
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