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

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

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

New Moon: On a moonless night

New Moon: On a moonless night

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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30
Monthly Music Mailing: Taurus Season

Monthly Music Mailing: Taurus Season

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Apr
24
A vibrant blue, indigo, turquoise, and green piece of knitting, on yellow metal needles, in a basket.

First Quarter: Knitting updates

Hello. It's Friday, and this is going to be a relatively practical reflection; I haven't written
8 min read
Apr
17
A large grey-black orb, dimly discernible with the features of the lunar surface, covers the Sun's silver corona on a black backdrop speckled by stars and planets.

New Moon (Occult): Strange ecstasies

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Apr
10
An aerial view of a white industrial building whose shape and surrounding parking lot form a rather soulless footprint on the surrounding green landscape.

Last Quarter: The maximum entropy scam

Hello. It's Friday, and at this latitude Orion has begun setting before midnight, and come nightfall I expect
19 min read
Apr
03
Full Moon: Nordic myths

Full Moon: Nordic myths

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Mar
27
Yellowish, dry grass on a flat plain with blue sky and small white cumulus clouds overhead. Possible blurry animals near the horizon.

First Quarter: Living with land(s)

Hello. It's Friday, and the dawn chorus seems louder by the day, and the very first flowers have
11 min read
Mar
23
Monthly Music Mailing: Aries Season

Monthly Music Mailing: Aries Season

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Mar
20
Black & white photo of a cemetery tomb with Jesus crucified while his mother Mary looks on. The rest of the graveyard is very foggy.

Spring Equinox + New Moon: A crucifixion

It's Friday, and night and day are equal. Hello. I don't know exactly how much time
9 min read
Mar
13
A tunnel of sand and stone, with a golden light at the far end.

Last Quarter: Near-death

Hello. It's Friday, and the red-winged blackbirds have now returned to congregate by the woodland brook. Large patches
9 min read
Mar
06
A relatively monochromatic image of a Baphomet-like figure seated with a caduceus and surrounded by reptilian women, with two pentagrams, one inverted.

Full Moon (Zodiac Series): The mystic in art

It's Friday, and in this last season of the zodiac, I now intend to bring my twelve-month zodiac
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