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

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Two pale-skinned young women, one with black hair and one with red hair, both wearing colorful dresses, pick roses in a pastoral setting.

Full Moon (Zodiac Series): "To the virgins, to make much of time"

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Golden brown, rough-looking rope cords running all in the same horizontal direction.

First Quarter: Rope materials for newcomers

Hello. It's Friday, so I'm sending you the usual weekly missive; but it's also
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Aug
29
A black and white engraving: a robed person crawling and passing through a boundary on the horizon where their world of trees, buildings, and celestial objects gives way to abstract textures.

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

It's Friday. Hello. I'm about to be on a weekend trip that will prevent me from
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Aug
26
A tubular cluster of black berries in gradations from purplish black to pale green, on a pink stalk.

Monthly Music Mailing: Virgo Season

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Aug
22
Blue seawater with a rippling movement through it, under a clear sky.

Last Quarter: Trauma is a waveform

Hello. It's Friday, with Virgo season setting in. Poke berries are ripening, wild lettuce flower buds are preparing
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Aug
15
A black and white photo of a woman with straight black hair that she holds out to one side. She has very thick, dramatic eyeliner and glittering black lipstick. Her skin is pale.

Full Moon (Zodiac Series): Gothic splendor

It's Friday, and as is typically the case during Leo season because of the explosion of holiday, anniversary,
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Aug
08
Clusters of bumpy berries in various stages of ripeness from green to red to black, hanging on thin green branches.

First Quarter (Again): Black raspberry jam

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Aug
01
Lush yellow inflorescences on green stalks with thin leaves, against a blue, nearly clear sky.

Solar Autumn + First Quarter: Blooms of the golden days

Hello. It's Friday and a holiday; since these two things coincide, I have ritual commitments that take some
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Jul
31
Monthly Music Mailing: Leo Season

Monthly Music Mailing: Leo Season

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Jul
25
A black and white photo of several hanging chains against a dark background.

New Moon: Ordeal by bondage

It's Friday, and our household is starting to bring in the cucumbers and the tomatoes. Hello. I never
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