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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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
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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
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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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Dec
26
A castle turret with irregular masonry. It's viewed between trees. Image is monochrome.

New Moon (Again + Occult): Wanting not wanting

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Dec
22
Green conifer needles adorn the branches of some otherwise blurry and snow-covered tree. Two cones hang down.

Monthly Music Mailing: Capricorn Season

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Dec
19
A man with a long white beard and loose robes rises up from a steaming bowl labeled witih the word "Wassail." He wears and bears holly.

Winter Solstice + New Moon: Wassailing as ecstatic song

It's Friday, and the winter solstice looms this weekend — O sweet and snow-laden Jól, depth of darkness, the
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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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