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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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

"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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Jun
27
A basket piled high with herbs, the most visible ones being oregano and thyme, which are both green with purplish undertones. There are also thyme and mint flowers peeking out.

New Moon: The mystery of our others

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Jun
24
A cracked clay ground surface, as of a dry river or lakebed, in sepia tones.

Monthly Music Mailing: Cancer Season

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Jun
21
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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Jun
13
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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Jun
06
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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May
30
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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May
27
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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May
23
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
12 min read
May
16
Purple polished gemstones marked with runes in gold paint. They sit on a wooden surface surrounded by herbs.

Full Moon: Learning the runes

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May
09
A spacious, open room with white walls, pale wooden floors and tasteful furniture that gives way to a square seating pit with colorful cushions.

First Quarter (Zodiac Series): The form is the function

Hello. It's Friday, and after a decidedly false start last month, I'm making a fresh attempt
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