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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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
11 min read
Aug
24
Monthly Music Mailing: Virgo Season

Monthly Music Mailing: Virgo Season

1 min read
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
4 min read
Aug
14
The silhouette of a dark, horned goat against a twilit sky.

New Moon: A satanic commitment, from past to present

23 min read
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
13 min read
Jul
30
Stalks of vibrant purple lavender flowers, lit by bright sunlight.

Monthly Music Mailing: Leo Season

1 min read
Jul
24
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,
19 min read
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
10 min read
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
21 min read