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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Mar
20
Black & white photo of a cemetery tomb with Jesus crucified while his mother Mary looks on. The rest of the graveyard is very foggy.

Spring Equinox + New Moon: A crucifixion

It's Friday, and night and day are equal. Hello. I don't know exactly how much time
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Mar
13
A tunnel of sand and stone, with a golden light at the far end.

Last Quarter: Near-death

Hello. It's Friday, and the red-winged blackbirds have now returned to congregate by the woodland brook. Large patches
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Mar
06
A relatively monochromatic image of a Baphomet-like figure seated with a caduceus and surrounded by reptilian women, with two pentagrams, one inverted.

Full Moon (Zodiac Series): The mystic in art

It's Friday, and in this last season of the zodiac, I now intend to bring my twelve-month zodiac
10 min read
Feb
28
A twee photograph shot at the golden hour. It shows bread, a tea cup and pot, an open book, and some purple flowers on a white cloth, among other items.

First Quarter: The homestead vs. the commune

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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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