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Spring Bushcraft Gardening for a Native Climate Adapted Pocket Forest

May 7, 2026 Rua Lupa agriculture, atheism, Atheopaganism, Beliefs, biodiversity, Bioregionalism, Biosphere, Canadian Mutt, Circle of Life, civilization, Climate Change, Climate Solution, Community, Crafting, culture, DIY, druid, Druidism, Ecological Restoration, Ecology, ecosystem, Ehoah, Environment, Environmentalism, Environmentally Friendly, Food, Food Forest, Food Sovereignty, Food Systems, Four Lake Seas, Future, Garden, gardening, Great Lakes, Home Design, Homestead, interconnection, Interconnections, Landscape Design, Mixed Heritage, naturalism, naturalistic, Nature, Nature Restoration, neopagan, Northern Hemisphere, pagan, Paganism, Parks, Passive Design, Permaculture, Philosophy, Regenerative Design, Religious Naturalism, Rewild, Rua's Rambles, Saegoah, Season, Seasons & Stardust, seeds, Sense of Place, Shinto, Socialism, Solarpunk, Spaceship Earth, spiritual, spirituality, Spring, Sustainability, TurtleIsland, Wildcrafting, Wildfood, Wildlife, Wildscapes, Worldview

Been making wattle staves out of the trees that rewilded on the property to make a deer fence on the …
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What magic will You make this New Years Eve?

December 25, 2025 NaturalisticPaganism Emotion, experience, Halloween, HP, Jon Cleland Host, Latest Posts, naturalistic pagan, pagan, Practice, spirituality, Starstuff, Contemplating, witch, witchcraft

This year, for the first time in the ~14 billion year history of our Universe, all of us can do so with a synchronized web page!

Yule (the Winter Solstice) is coming up fast, + a bunch of Online Rituals!

December 13, 2025 NaturalisticPaganism Calendar, Christmas, Families, HP, inspiration, Latest Posts, Meaning, naturalistic pagan, pagan, Practice, Seasonal, Seasonal Themes, spirituality, Winter Solstice, Yule

The longer nights around Winter Solstice give more dark skies for the Northern lights – Solar Cycle 25 has already proven to be very strong (see previous posts), with more to come! 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).

The Dinner Parties: On the Power of Repetition

October 11, 2024 Eli Effinger-Weintraub holidays, judaism, pagan, pagan stuff, reclaiming naturalism, ritual, spiritual practice, tashlich

A great thing about Tashlich is that we come back to it every year. If I do teshuvah “wrong” this year, I can learn from that mistake and try again next year, and the year after that. I love this circular approach to time in Judaism.

No Longer Believing Is A Trip

March 3, 2024 Rua Lupa atheism, Atheopaganism, Beliefs, Canadian Mutt, Christianity, Cultures, Facebook, Human Rights, humanity, identity, naturalism, neopagan, Nonreligious, pagan, Paganism, Political Barking, Religion, Religious Naturalism, Rua's Rambles, Seasons & Stardust, spirituality, Tradition, traditions, Worldview

This image, meme, came across my Facebook feed and unexpectedly became a prompt, having coaxed memories I nearly forgotten.

Why Hexes Don’t Scare Me

March 15, 2023 Mark Green Atheology, Atheopagan, pagan, ritual

As Pagans, we live in a vivid world full of wonders. For we naturalistic Pagans, those wonders have names like photosynthesis and aurora borealis and cumulonimbus and flamingo. We pay attention to the world around us, and learn about its extraordinary …

NATURALISTIC PAGANISM: A Challenge to the Paradigms of the Overculture

January 15, 2023 Mark Green Atheopagan, Opinion, pagan

A Presentation to the 2023 Conference on Current Pagan Studies: January 15, 2023 THANKS for inviting me to present to the 19th annual Conference on Current Pagan Studies! I’d like to extend my appreciation to the organizers and co-creators of this even…

What Do We Mean by “Revering Nature”? A Reality Check

October 13, 2022 Mark Green Atheology, Death, Ecology, pagan

Life is one of the Sacred four pillars of Atheopaganism. And it is often said of Pagans generally that we revere or even “worship” Nature. So…what do we mean by that? To explore that, we have to go back about 250 years to a major well…

As If it Were the Last

October 10, 2022 Eli Effinger-Weintraub deathwork, holidays, judaism, pagan, pagan stuff, reclaiming naturalism, ritual, spiritual practice, yom kippur

Yom Kippur was this week, and I found it trickier to integrate into my Pagan practice. While Rosh Hashanah has several lovely rituals that felt easy to respectfully adapt, Yom Kippur is literally 25 hours of fasting and asking God to put away the smitey stick for another year, which jars with my beliefs about sin and the sacred. So I took a while to find my bearings with this holiest of Jewish holy days.

A Naturalistic Pagan Casts Their Harms on the Waters

September 27, 2022 Eli Effinger-Weintraub holidays, judaism, pagan, pagan stuff, reclaiming naturalism, ritual, rosh hashanah, spiritual practice

Now that I’m no longer Christian or a daughter, I feel pulled to reconnect with that erased part of my ancestry. I have -0% interest in converting, but I’m slowly and cautiously integrating small bits of practice and culture when I feel I can do so in ways that respect both Judaism and my own beliefs and values.