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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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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Feb
21
An overhead shot of many green conifer trees.

Last Quarter: Death as tragedy & transformation

Hello. It's Friday, and I wrote this post in advance because of how I've taken an
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Feb
14
A songbird with dark wings and head, an orange breast and belly, and a yellow beak. It sits on snow and some debris.

Full Moon: Birdsong

It's Friday, and I am watching icicles melt to the sound of chickadees, titmice, cardinals, juncos, sparrows, and
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Feb
07
A log cabin exterior with a lantern over a doorway and a sign with the French phrase "cabane à sucre."

First Quarter: Sugaring time

Hello. It's Friday, and for the first time since last June, I am circling back to the theme
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Jan
31
An orange ball of fire on a dark background.

Solar Spring + New Moon: A love strange, dark, and magnificent

It's Friday. Hello. This month is ending on a terrible, almost paralyzingly fearsome note. I don't
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Jan
30
Monthly Music Mailing: Aquarius Season

Monthly Music Mailing: Aquarius Season

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Jan
24

Last Quarter (Occult): Over the edge

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Jan
17
A night sky with stars and clouds, but more prominently enormous bright red and pale green streaks of the Northern Lights.

Full Moon: Astrolomy of the aurora

It's Friday. Hello. Though the days grow marginally longer, I sit now in the middle of the coldest
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Jan
14
Winter Q&A Reminder

Winter Q&A Reminder

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Jan
10
Black and white photo of a wall-mounted sundial, hours marked with Roman numerals. Top text reads "as a shadow such is life."

First Quarter: Living by the Sun

Hello. It's Friday, and although it's several weeks past the solstice I still don't
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Jan
03
A woodcut of a bearded man in robes, better described by the main image caption because of Ghost's alt text character limit.

New Moon: Making rite

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