Celebrations Life! We celebrate life today, especially life’s growth and evolutionary diversification. We see the resurgence of life around us, and for me, this reminds me of the surge of life over the all of Earth’s history. An now, with…
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The Pandemic Gives us Online Rituals for Beltane
Have you been attending gatherings by zoom meetings or other remote software? I have. I’ve visited more various Pagan, UU, Atheist and other events in the past few weeks than in many months before that. And not just any events,…
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The May Cross-Quarter (Vernal Equitherm or Beltane) is just two weeks away! + 13 online celebrations
As I stand here on this celebration of Beltane, the sacred wheel of the year continues to turn. As my forebears did, I do now, and so may my descendants do in time to come. The dark half of the year is over and Summer has begun.
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Signs Out of Time – a Review, by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
At the conclusion of each chapter of Journey into Dreamtime there are “Dreamtime Reflections”, posing questions for personal consideration, inviting personal participation and pathways into some actual sense of an alive self in relationship with the alive world described.
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Light Pollution, by Katerina and William (Science Editorial Team)
Recently, a study was published that named light pollution as one of the factors contributing to the decline in numbers of fireflies worldwide. The abundance of artificial light in the environment is confusing the nocturnal beetles, and can thereby impede…
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Happy Spring Equinox!
Amid all the eggs and bunnies, it’s easy to forget the challenges that evolution has overcome (and continues to wrestle with) when it comes to eggs and babies.
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Announcing our Science Editorial Team!
Announcing our new Science Editorial Team! I’m overjoyed at both the response to our call for science input as well as the team we have now as a result! Both the undestanding of science, and especially the respect for evidence,…
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The Spring Equinox Approaches…
For me, the growing daylight (reinforced by the start of Daylight Savings Time) is a reminder from our Earth itself, one of those many helpful features of our seasons, to begin thinking about, and planning for, the Spring Equinox/Ostara. Another reminder – one that is rather bizarre – is the appearance of a “warm-blooded” plant that smells like a zombie!
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Lupa’s Essential Books For Pagans
Sorry I’m not handing you yet another rehash of the Wiccan Sabbats or a bunch of spells. Over the past few years my paganism has become much more firmly rooted in the physical, and my reading list reflects that. After all, what good is a nature-based path if you don’t know diddly about nature itself?
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Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, Review by Brock Haussamen
When I read today about reverence for nature, anxiety about the climate, and the fused destinies of humans and the environment, I hear Humboldt loud and clear.
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