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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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
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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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May
02
A massive bonfire: orange and yellow flames on a large pile of brush. It sits on the shore of a lake at dusk.

Solar Summer + New Moon (Occult): Walpurgisnacht

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Apr
30
White flowers with five petals and rich green lobed leaves.

Monthly Music Mailing: Taurus Season

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Apr
25
A colorful rainbow of gases in the star-speckled darkness of outer space.

Last Quarter: Margaret Killjoy on confronting apocalypse

Hello. It's Friday, and I'm premiering a new post format: the interview. The themes discussed still
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Apr
18
A view of several megalithic structures that form part of Stonehenge, with green grass and cloudy skies.

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

It's Friday, and I can now hear the robins at dawn. Hello. Some posts that I describe as
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