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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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

"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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18
A view of several megalithic structures that form part of Stonehenge, with green grass and cloudy skies.

Full Moon: "Reconstruction" versus context restoration (a pagan pedant's primer)

It's Friday, and I can now hear the robins at dawn. Hello. Some posts that I describe as
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Apr
14
The usual woodcut of dancing skeletons in homage to the Black Death.

Spring Q&A Reminder

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Apr
11
Two young white lambs on green grass with a blurry rural background.

First Quarter: Toward the pastoral, with difficulty

Hello. It's Friday, and around this latitude, a traditional marker of early spring is generally drawing to a
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Apr
04
A botanical illustration of a plant with clusters of tiny white flowers and soft-looking leaves.

New Moon: Ordeal by illness

It's Friday. Hello. I have covid. And as some majority of people who've had covid (and
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Mar
28
A view of the Moon, illuminated on the left and dark on the right, against the dark night.

Last Quarter: "Find your people"

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Mar
24
Striated purple flowers with yellow stamens rise from a bed of green grass.

Monthly Music Mailing: Aries Season

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Mar
21
A white lamb with a golden halo stands on an altar, blood flowing from its chest into a cup. Angels and humans kneel before it on green grass under sunlight.

Spring Equinox + Full Moon (Again): The sacrificial lamb

It's Friday, and the equinox holiday of Ostara has just passed. Hello. Last year's post for
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Mar
14
A weathered, old printed page that reads, "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, in three volumes," followed by a Paradise Lost quote and publisher info.

Full Moon: Mary Shelley's masterpiece

It's Friday. Hello. I don't know if this will become a long post or a short
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Mar
07
Green and brown curled up fern fronds. They are very small, just barely rising from the soil.

First Quarter: Morel & fern

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Feb
28
A many-colored wheel around a seven-pointed star with a man's face in the center. Strange symbols and illustrations pervade.

New Moon: Surveying alchemical symbols

It's Friday, and I am simultaneously in recovery from last weekend's travels (beautiful, but overwhelming) and
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