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

"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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Dec
12
A collection of boulders covered by a flatter stone slab, surrounded by other stones in a circle. It's either sunrise or sunset.

Last Quarter (Zodiac Series): The anthropology of mortality

Hello. It's Friday, and there has been a death in our home. Yesterday my owner's immensely
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Dec
05
A large chart of intricate squiggles.

Full Moon (Occult): Sigil

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Nov
28
The usual black & white woodcut skeletons again.

First Quarter: No post this week

Hello all. It should probably be my last of these frequent disruptions until whenever I find a new job, but
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Nov
24
A jet black violin spattered by water droplets. It sits at the bottom of a bathtub with its bow nearby, surrounded by red rose blooms.

Monthly Music Mailing: Sagittarius Season

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Nov
21
Black ink on a white page. There are depictions of circles, triangles, diamonds, and five- or six-pointed stars, with Latin and Hebrew lettering.

New Moon: On grimoires

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Nov
14
A round, rocky, icy object in outer space. Its color is mostly a kind of eggshell white with some browner smears here and there.

Last Quarter (Zodiac Series): Scorpio's generation

Hello. It's Friday, and it's chilly, and the trees are nearly bare, and the Pleiades are
11 min read
Nov
07
The newsletter's usual dancing plague skeletons woodcut.

Full Moon: No post this week

Hello everyone. I had started to write today's weekly missive, but I've found that I need
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Oct
31
Two pictures of trees with their fruit. Fuller image descriptions are provided for standalone images further down.

Solar Winter + First Quarter: Yew, blackthorn

Hello. It's Friday, and of course it's Halloween, which as some of you may recall I
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Oct
30
A colored print engraving of a dark greenish-black scorpion whose shape overlays the stars in the constellation Scorpio.

Monthly Music Mailing: Scorpio Season

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Oct
24
A bronze statue of a naked man thinking pensively. It's Rodin's "The Thinker."

New Moon: A relatively brief philosophy of mind, for the ritualist

It's Friday. Hello. I have a little more time to write today than I have over the past
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