Happy Winter Solstice, or Yule! Of course, our spherical planet also gives us the beautiful symmetry of the Summer Solstice (Litha) being celebrated now by our Southern Hemisphere friends. With the exact Solstice moment after 11 pm EST today, it…
Read morePagans Scapegoated Again, this time in the UK – by Starstuff, Contemplating
Pagans again blamed for something they didn’t do? Say it ain’t so, Joe! It’s not a surprise, of course, that Christian privilege means that time after time, non-Christians (especially Pagans, because they can’t be demonized for being foreign) are vilified…
Read moreThe Gift of Winter, by Stardust, Contemplating
For many of us in the Northern Hemisphere, we are about to enter a wonderful season! Winter is an incredible gift which we all too easily take for granted, or worse, complain about. Like the constantly changing sky, the constantly…
Read moreRobbing Fox to Save Rabbit, by Lupa
We need to return to an ancestral way in which nature is not an Other, but an Us. If we truly love nature, if we consider ourselves friends to the animals, then we need to know nature itself, through books and observations, through science and questioning. We need to know the rest of nature as well as we know ourselves.
Read moreYule (the Winter Solstice) is right around the corner!
How are your celebration plans coming? With less than 4 weeks left before Yule (the Winter Solstice), I have to admit I’ve got only a little ready. For many of us, this is a big Sabbat, which takes a more…
Read moreReclaiming the Cosmic in Holiday Rituals Webinar This Thursday (November 14th)!
This program is a pilot for a proposed forum on including the sacred story of the Universe in our seasonal and religious celebrations to more deeply address the environmental crisis. It’s a live Q&A&S and you’re invited to send in Questions and Share your cosmic rituals.
Read moreThe Last Mercury Transit until 2032 just started! Cloudy? You can see it happening online! [Stardust, Contemplating]
It’s common for us Pagans to be among those most aware of what the planet Mercury is doing, and while going retrograde happens every few months (~3 times a year) a Mercury transit (when Mercury “eclipses”* the Sun) is much,…
Read moreHappy Fall Equitherm (Samhain)!
Our Ancestors reach back in an unbroken chain billions of years long, including literally billions of people, trillions of non-human Ancestors, and many more. Today our Ancestors speak to us, and we speak to them. Celebrations Death, the dead, and…
Read moreA Few Glimpses of the Real Lives of our Ancestors, by Starstuff, Contemplating
In many ways (not all!), this is a great time to be alive. In addition to benefits of medicine and technology, my Samhain observance (and indeed, my life overall) is enhanced by a large and growing body of knowledge about…
Read moreSamhain (The Fall Equitherm) Approaches!
Got your house decorated yet? Samhain (the Fall Equitherm) is less than two weeks away! For many of us (including me), this is one of the most sacred times of the year – a time when I feel my Ancestors…
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