To cap off our summer, we can revel in another triumph of human achievement, the soft landing of the Vikram Lunar Lander near the South Pole of the Moon! It’s hard to overstate the magnitude of this accomplishment – the…
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CritWitchCon 2023! Environment, Community, and Responsible Magic, Sept. 29 – Oct 1
Another fun Con! Our first Con took place on Friday the 13th in August of 2021, and we’re so excited for our third Con (now at the beginning of Spooky Month, Sept/Oct). So come join us September 29-October 1!
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Paganism is Different, Part 2: In Paganism, No Single Deity is in Complete Control [Stardust, Contemplating]
Paganism is radically different from many huge religions, and that these radical differences appear to have a large impact on our lives, on the lives of future generations, and on our world. In Paganism, no single deity is in complete control. Paganism’s rejection of one deity in control aligns with Paganism’s strong thread of individual freedom.
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You can join a Witch’s Brew This Sunday, August 20! From The Critical Thinking Witch Collective
Welcome, Witches, while we wag-on with wonderful, wondrous words! Our first Con took place on Friday the 13th in August of 2021, and we’re so excited to be preparing for our third Con (now at the beginning of Spooky Month, Sept/Oct). So come join us 2023 August 20th, for Magic (In) Words, our anniversary Brew!
We will be exploring the power of words, the history of magic words, and (as always) will have plenty of time for connecting.
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Community, Nordic Animism, Lammas, and more! Recent Episodes of THE WONDER podcast, by Mark Green
The concept behind THE WONDER—named, of course, for the awe and reverence we feel as we contemplate the magnificent Universe—is that it will be an ongoing resource for non-theist Pagans to inform and inspire our practices and stimulate our thinking.
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Happy Summer Thermstice/Lammas!
Happy Lunasa! May we remember to celebrate, helping to keep our minds on this world, with both good and bad.
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What the Perseids (just a few weeks away, Aug 11-13!) Taught me about Parenting, by Starstuff, Contemplating
But I was wrong – very wrong. In the blink of an eye the toddler is forever gone, ….
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The Summer Cross-Quarter (Summer Thermstice) Approaches (+ online Lunasa Rituals)!
Lammas thus celebrates the heat of the summer, and with it, productivity and the early harvest – as well as the returning darkness. Those in the Southern Hemisphere celebrate Imbolc at this time.
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Meeting the Meat: An Animal Initiation, by Mark Green
The Animal that, frankly, kind of scares us. It’s sweating and eating and breathing and excreting and lusting, and none of that is under our control. It’s as if our consciousness is surfing a powerful, turbulent wave of capricious, hungry, insistent flesh…except that the consciousness is the wave, too, not separate from it.
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Finding My People, by Susan Paterson
Lastly, while talking avidly with Julie (one of the organizers) about talismans we unintentionally create and the symbolic, psychological power they hold for us, they remarked to our small room “Now, that would make a good talk.”
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