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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Last Quarter: The maximum entropy scam

Last Quarter: The maximum entropy scam

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

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

First Quarter (Zodiac Series): Not the mother they want

First Quarter (Zodiac Series): Not the mother they want

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

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"And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say." Welcome.

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03
Masses of bright gold and black substances, dotted with closer stars that mostly look blue or yellow, but there's a pink one at the very center.

Full Moon: Summer constellations

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Jun
26
Text from a decades-old cookbook. My newsletter service unfortunately doesn't give me a large enough character limit to transcribe it here.

First Quarter: Another recipe interlude

Hello. It's Friday, and our garden is lovely at the moment despite the late start we got with
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Jun
22
Tiny red fruits amid a sea of lush green leaves.

Monthly Music Mailing: Cancer Season

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Jun
19
Swirling, fractally arrayed cones of green-white plant matter.

Summer Solstice + New Moon: Abundance through complexity

It's Friday, and in two more days this hemisphere will see its longest day on the endless Wheel.
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Jun
12
The Milky Way and endless millions of other stars stretch over the silhouettes of conifer trees. The sky's color is blue, purple, and pink.

Last Quarter: Thoughts outside of an afterlife

Hello. It's Friday. And although there has been no drastically negative shift in my own life past what
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Jun
05
Black & white line art in a characteristic late medievial to early modern style. A man without a crown tells a man in a crown something. Stars, mountains, and fishes sit nearby.

Full Moon: A theory of divination (Part I)

It's Friday, and the poppies here have bloomed, and so have the roses. Dragonflies have begun to stalk
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May
29
Dozens of straight, slender white trees with black "stripes" where the bark is splitting. They have green leaves.

First Quarter: Birch

Hello. It's Friday, and for several days I've been overwhelmed by tree pollen. Despite having allergies
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May
26
Delicate five-petaled purple-pink flowers growing in a large mass.

Monthly Music Mailing: Gemini Season

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May
22
A black vertical bar intersected at the top by two shorter horizontal bars, and met at the base by two symmetrical circles.

New Moon: A brief safety reminder about satanic organizations

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May
15
The Manhattan skyline viewed from upon the island itself. Skyscrapers are lit up amid a pink, hazy sundown.

Last Quarter: Autism versus modernity

Hello. It's Friday, and I am riding the high of creation. Any time I step, look, or listen
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