Pagan Bloggers with Naturalistic Worldviews
For many of our Ancestors, eclipses were times of terror and dread. Now we can forecast them with precision down to a fraction of a second, and understand well what is going on. Plus, we can even predict events with a narrower path of view – like the once in a lifetime “eclipse” of Betelgeuse (the bright red star of Orion’s left hand) by an asteroid!
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The longer nights around Winter Solstice give more dark skies for the Northern lights – with increasing chances as Solar Cycle 25 ramps up! For many of us, this is a big Sabbat, which takes a more preparation (and if you are buying gifts, the Naturalistic Pagan Gift List here might help).
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Just in time to get our Winter Solstice season going, here’s a Winter Solstice singalong on Sunday December 3rd, then Rev. Selena Fox’s guided Winter Solstice Ceremony December 20!
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Need a gift for a Naturalistic Pagan? Here’s a bunch of ideas! While we should declutter our lives and avoid gifts/things which we don’t need, many of these are essential to celebrating our Earth and especially for helping grow both critical thinking and the joy of our real world in both this and the next generation. Enjoy!
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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, human leaders are less often idolized. Paganism’s focus on our own actions aligns with Paganism’s strong thread of individual freedom.
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Happy Samhain! As the darkness falls this Samhain night, our trillions of Ancestors visit us. Who are they? What can they offer you for your struggles today? They can help you anytime during the year – not just now –…
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This is one of the most sacred times of the year for me – a time when I feel my Ancestors even more closely than usual, as well as a time to remember those who have died this past year. …
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All of that is just a start at the many ways that Michael will be with us all into the future. I encourage all of us to discover the many, many life changing works he left us. As when Carl Sagan died, I’m reminded again that times like this speak to us all, urging us to pick up the torch, and carry it into the future.
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Every now and then, I am reminded of how incredible it is to live now. So many things would not just be amazing to nearly all of our Ancestors (who are in my mind especially now with Samhain just around the corner), but often would be literally indescribable. To think that we live, not just on a globe and not on a flat Earth, but that the continents move! Dr. W. Jason Morgan was instrumental in giving us that knowledge – and I appreciate his life, which ended this year.
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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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