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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A colorful scientific illustration of a plant stalk with green, many-forked leaves and little pink flowers.

First Quarter: Weaving the Nine Herbs' Charm

Hello. It's Friday, and lately we have begun to harvest tomatoes, and we found our first new potato,
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Jul
17
A black and white photo of a circlet of woven-together branches that have very large, nasty thorns.

New Moon: A brief ontology of sadism & masochism

It's Friday. This landscape is seemingly being freed from the latest wave of wildfire smoke from hundreds of
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Jul
10
A leafy green plant with seed-covered spikelets, rising from a crack in the pavement.

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

Hello. It's Friday, and recently my household has harvested our garlic, tamed unruly cucumber vines, watched tomato fruits
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Jul
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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