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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21
Black ink on a white page. There are depictions of circles, triangles, diamonds, and five- or six-pointed stars, with Latin and Hebrew lettering.

New Moon: On grimoires

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Nov
14
A round, rocky, icy object in outer space. Its color is mostly a kind of eggshell white with some browner smears here and there.

Last Quarter (Zodiac Series): Scorpio's generation

Hello. It's Friday, and it's chilly, and the trees are nearly bare, and the Pleiades are
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Nov
07
The newsletter's usual dancing plague skeletons woodcut.

Full Moon: No post this week

Hello everyone. I had started to write today's weekly missive, but I've found that I need
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Oct
31
Two pictures of trees with their fruit. Fuller image descriptions are provided for standalone images further down.

Solar Winter + First Quarter: Yew, blackthorn

Hello. It's Friday, and of course it's Halloween, which as some of you may recall I
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Oct
30
A colored print engraving of a dark greenish-black scorpion whose shape overlays the stars in the constellation Scorpio.

Monthly Music Mailing: Scorpio Season

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Oct
24
A bronze statue of a naked man thinking pensively. It's Rodin's "The Thinker."

New Moon: A relatively brief philosophy of mind, for the ritualist

It's Friday. Hello. I have a little more time to write today than I have over the past
22 min read
Oct
17
A spindly green plant with white seeds at the top, on the side of a road.

Last Quarter: "Just relax"

Hello. It's Friday, and I'm utterly overwhelmed by required or chosen responsibilities and goals. Candidly, I
25 min read
Oct
10
A photographic still life: some ceramic and metal scales loaded with tiny gold discs. Nearby is a seal for wax, some brass trinkets, wooden blocks with black letters, lacework, and flowers.

Full Moon (Zodiac Series): Animist justice

It's Friday. Hello. I woke to our first frost this morning. Some plants in the garden are now
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Oct
03
Variously sized pieces of grey and reddish stone held together by white mortar.

First Quarter: Hail to the stoneworkers

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Sep
26
The "default" newsletter header image of dancing plague skeletons.

New Moon: No post this week

Hello all. I regret to inform you that as recently anticipated, my schoolwork is impacting my ability to guarantee weekly
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