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: A short(?) manifesto on survivalism

First Quarter: A short(?) manifesto on survivalism

Special Announcement: Subscription tier adjustments & summer sale

Special Announcement: Subscription tier adjustments & summer sale

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

Full Moon: Fertility in extinction

Full Moon: Fertility in extinction

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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Oct
15
A row of trees in various colorful stages of foliage transformation, behind a grassy meadow.

Salt for the Eclipse: Autumn Q&A

Hello. It's the third Tuesday of October. As I've hoped for a while, I am now
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Oct
14

Autumn Q&A Reminder

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Oct
11
Colorfully striped, frilly fungi on a decaying, mossy log. Oak leaves and acorns surrounding.

First Quarter: The lore of fungi

Hello. It's Friday. The autumn foliage in my particular patch of Maple Nation (as Robin Wall Kimmerer calls
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Oct
04
Nasty, dark wooden club-like objects with sharpened spikes protruding from the top.

New Moon: Anatomy of impact

It's Friday; and in contrast to the several Fridays before this one, I have time to properly focus.
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Sep
27
A spiral of stones created on grey dirt spotted by scrubby bushes.

Last Quarter: The therapeutics of kink

Hello. It's Friday. The foliage change is well underway now, the autumn rains have begun, a butternut squash
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Sep
23
Small, weathered headstones on mossy ground covered partially by falling leaves. The surrounding trees are green but fading.

Monthly Music Mailing: Libra Season

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Sep
20
A decrepit New England-style colonial house with decaying white siding, surrounded by bare trees.

Autumn Equinox + Full Moon: Horror, media, and healing

It's Friday. Hello. After more than a year of health struggles that may come down to a very
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Sep
13
A scientific illustration of a green plant with ovate blade-shaped leaves and round black berries.

First Quarter: The poison path

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Sep
06
Bare alpine tundra. In the background, white snowy mountains. In the foreground, black asphalt.

New Moon: To do more with less

It's Friday. Hello. Thank you for bearing with my absence last week. The situation that stole me away
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Aug
30
The danse macabre image of dancing skeletons that graces Salt for the Eclipse's webpage already.

Last Quarter: No post this week

Hello. It's Friday, but for the first time ever I have to apologize that there will be no
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