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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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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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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Jul
18
Purple-stained cell bodies among grey ones on a white background.

Last Quarter (Occult): Death in an allergic body

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Jul
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The newsletter's usual default woodcut image of the dancing plague skeletons from the Nuremburg Chronicle.

New changes to subscription tiers

Hello, all. This would normally have been the day that I posted a summer Q&A if I'
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Jul
11
A woman with thick black hair and a long grey dress stands before a metal basin heated by a fire, from which smoke rises. She holds a wand and a sickle.

Full Moon: A theory of spellcraft

It's Friday, and I am looking out at the lush green of mid-July under an overcast sky as
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Jul
06
A colorful tempera painting. A woman in a kerchief waits over the naked body of an adult man, on a riverbank.

First Quarter (Zodiac Series): Not the mother they want

It's Sunday, and this is potentially the longest newsletter installment I will ever write, hence the unprecedented two-day
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Jun
27
A basket piled high with herbs, the most visible ones being oregano and thyme, which are both green with purplish undertones. There are also thyme and mint flowers peeking out.

New Moon: The mystery of our others

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Jun
24
A cracked clay ground surface, as of a dry river or lakebed, in sepia tones.

Monthly Music Mailing: Cancer Season

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Jun
21
Rain drops landing on a puddle or pool of water. The water reflects a turquoise-blue color, and it ripples.

Summer Solstice + Last Quarter: A prayer for water

Hello. It's Saturday, and I did not mean to be sending this to you a day late, but
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