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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Feb
25
Yellow, unopened daffodils poke up from snow.

Monthly Music Mailing: Pisces Season

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Feb
20
A black & white engraving of a bearded, robed man holding various magical implements. Another man sleeps off to his side.

New Moon: The esoteric & the occult (Part II)

It's Friday, and the birds are becoming far more vocal, and taps are going up on the maple
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Feb
13
Two images of the same pale blue gas giant planet, its thin ring seeming to spin "vertically" around it rather than horizontally.

Last Quarter (Zodiac Series): Eliminating eccentricities

Hello. It's Friday, and because I'm going to be traveling in a few hours I only
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Feb
06
The usual dancing skeletons woodcut.

Full Moon: No post this week

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Jan
30
A piece of straw art. It looks like an equilateral cross where the arms seem to emerge from a squared spiral formation in the middle. The straw is green.

Solar Spring + First Quarter: St. Brigid's crosses

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Jan
29
A lit candle that appears orange in the light of its gentle flame. Black background.

Monthly Music Mailing: Aquarius Season

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Jan
23
New Moon: The seat of power

New Moon: The seat of power

It's Friday, and it's been several months since I had anything to say in a public
11 min read
Jan
16
A colored engraving of the constellation Capricorn, with the stars filled in to seem like a goat with a curving fish tail.

Last Quarter: My Capricorn Moon

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Jan
09
The constellations Orion and Taurus against an oddly pale, pink-purple sky complicated by clouds. Beneath are the silhouettes of pines.

Full Moon: Winter constellations

It's Friday, and these woodlands are seeing their second day of thaw after several weeks of snow that
11 min read
Jan
02
Thin, delicate stalks of a green herb with opposite pairs of elliptic, round-tipped, untoothed leaves.

First Quarter: Respiratory remedies (with disclaimers)

Hello. It's Friday, and as we are in the very thick of winter we are also going about
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