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 settler's dilemma in the age of apocalypse

Last Quarter: The settler's dilemma in the age of apocalypse

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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Oct
16
The usual dancing skeletons woodcut.

New Moon: No post this week

Apologies, kind subscribers. Despite my tentatively resumed posting schedule last week, family life still became quite all-consuming today. I
Oct
09
Fire creeps over pine needles in a forest, leaving a black carpet in its wake.

Last Quarter: The way out (a glimpse)

Hello. It's Friday. My hiatus is not complete in a hard and fast way, but I am starting
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Sep
11
New Moon: No post this week

New Moon: No post this week

Sep
04
Ancient Greek pottery in the red-figure style. A goddess in the center sits in a winged chariot, accompanied by other figures who serve her.

Last Quarter (Occult): A new gender, again

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Aug
29
Detail of a tall stone inscribed with red runes in a futhark alphabet. Grass and trees are behind it.

Full Moon: What to guard & what to surrender

It's Saturday, and there are snippets of gold and red on the edges of the maple trees, and
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Aug
24
Monthly Music Mailing: Virgo Season

Monthly Music Mailing: Virgo Season

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Aug
21
About half a dozen wicker baskets of various rectangular or round shapes, some with handles or lids.

First Quarter: Hail to the basket weavers

Hello. It's Friday, and because I slept extremely poorly last night, I was tempted to skip posting this
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Aug
14
The silhouette of a dark, horned goat against a twilit sky.

New Moon: A satanic commitment, from past to present

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Aug
07
The usual dancing skeletons woodcut.

Last Quarter: No post this week

Hello all. This placeholder post is just as a reminder that I'm skipping today's normal Friday
Jul
31
In the foreground, three hanging things: a fresh green chrysalis, a transparent chrysalis showing the butterfly within, and a monarch butterly emerged.

Solar Autumn + Full Moon: Fertility reexamined

It's Friday, and on this particular Friday I have been married for fifteen years, and tomorrow comes the
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