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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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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An array of antique tools displayed against a background of wooden planks. The tools include a saw, chisels, awls, and more.

First Quarter: Hail to the woodworkers

Hello. It's Friday, and the season is starting to shift in subtle but numerous ways. This land'
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Jul
12
A digitally altered photograph of dried mushrooms with long stems and small caps. The colors are overly bright red to blue.

New Moon (Again): No control

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Jul
05
Two sepia tone photos of a bronze sculpture. The sculpture is half-man, half-goat, reclining, bearded, playing a flute.

New Moon: The Devil as Pan

It's Friday, and not only is the Moon new, but the Earth is at aphelion, its furthest annual
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Jun
28
Last Quarter: Healing from loneliness

Last Quarter: Healing from loneliness

Hello. It's Friday. Unlike some weeks, I'm prepared to dive right in to the meat of
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Jun
24
White, delicate elderflowers with some green fertilized berries. There are dark green leaves all around.

Special Announcement: Subscription tier adjustments & summer sale

Greetings, reader. I'll keep this as brief as I can. Don't bother reading if you hate
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Jun
24
Tiny, cute, golden flowers on a green phallic stalk set with floppy, fuzzy leaves. A bumblebee feeds within one flower.

Monthly Music Mailing: Cancer Season

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Jun
21
Red day lily flowers with yellow centers and stamens. They are surrounded by green grass-like leaves.

Summer Solstice + Full Moon: Sacred marriages considered

It's Friday, and it's the day right after the longest of the year in this hemisphere.
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Jun
14
Dark green round-lobed oak leaves, with young green acorns growing in their midst.

First Quarter: Oak, mistletoe

Hello. It's Friday, and we're in what I call the hinge of summer. As mirrored at
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Jun
07
A cave interior riddled with stalactites on the ceiling, reflected perfectly by a pool below.

New Moon: Embodied, ungendered magic

It's Friday. Hello. Without delving into detail here — at least not today — I can unambiguously state that after
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May
31
A sepia tone photo of what looks like an abandoned brick basement, with a vacant chair and detritus strewn everywhere.

Last Quarter: Lethal dangers

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