Happy Lunasa! May we remember to celebrate, helping to keep our minds on this world, with both good and bad.
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My, What Big Eyes YOU Have! The Webb Telescope Means We All have Bigger Eyes! [Starstuff, Contemplating]
Isn’t The Wonder podcast great? It’s got so much help for new Pagans, and somehow still has new insights for those of us who’ve been doing this for years. One of those new insights jumped out at me when I was listening to an episode of The Wonder a little while ago.
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The Summer Cross-Quarter (Summer Thermstice) Approaches (+ 16 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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A Peek inside the Suntree Retreat, Becoming Pagan, Adversity, the Summer Solstice, 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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Some Facts about the Equal Rights Setback in the United States May Surprise you; by Starstuff, Contemplating
It’s not about “life” or “babies”. It never was.
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Happy Summer Solstice, Tomorrow! The Planets Join to Celebrate with us this year!
Get ready for another wonderful Solstice gift from our Universe! Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter Saturn, Uranus and Neptune join in the Solstice celebrations this year with a planetary parade! This lineup hasn’t happened (1864) since before the first Juneteenth (1865), and won’t happen again until 2040.
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Playlist for the Wheel of the Year: Summer Solstice
Music has been an essential part of the experience of our family rituals. Without it, it would be much more difficult to create the sense of sacred time and space and to evoke the experience I desire for each ritual.
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The Summer Solstice is less than two weeks away, Plus online Celebrations!
“As I stand here on this celebration of Litha, the sacred wheel of the year continues to turn. As my ancestors did in times before and my descendants may do in times to come, I honour the old ways. This is the time of the Summer Solstice……:
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New Video from the Suntree Retreat: Sharing our Wheel of the Year with your Kids!
Well, I guess the baby groups are just starting out small now, after all.
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Humanism 2.0: humanity’s last monotheistic religion? – Part I, by Alex Shenderov, Ph.D.
Rather the defining characteristics of Nature Religions should be evident in how their adherents live their religion. Belief in the absolute sacredness of Nature transforms people’s everyday actions and their relationship with their natural environments. I call this new way of life “the Earth Path”. Initially it is a journey of discovery and transformation in which one develops a radical ecological consciousness, loosing the estrangement from nature so prevalent in our modern lives.
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