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The Eclipse is upon us! Plus Mark’s new book, Ritual Skills, and more! Recent Episodes of THE WONDER podcast, by Mark Green
Are you ready for the Eclipse April 8th? It’s significance to Pagans, as well as Pagan Eclipse Practices, a ritual, and practical details in how to experience totality are in the Eclipse Podcast Episode! Plus Mark’s new book “Round We Dance”, Ritual Skills, etc. All those, and more, are on the page here.
What are Eclipse Portals? Here’s how you can create one yourself!
Many aspects of our world offer compelling ways to see our deep time history, Ancestors, and often similar ways to think about future generations. For me, total solar eclipses are a wonderful case of this. Total solar eclipses are not common. In any given place (say, the Sphinx of Egypt, Mt. Fuji in Japan, or the Yucatan Peninsula, etc.), one needs to wait usually many centuries from one to the next total solar eclipse. For me here in Detroit, Michigan (which will be missed by the path on April 8th), the most recent total solar eclipse was in 1806, and the next one is in 2444, a wait of over 600 years! What if it were possible, when a total solar eclipse happens, to look from one’s current time and place, to see out into another time and place when a total solar eclipse happened or will happen? An eclipse portal?
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The Spring Equinox Approaches! + Online Rituals
As many of you know, I’m writing from way up here in Michigan – the Great White North, eh. When I was growing up in this same area of Detroit, the ice on the lakes would be so thick every year that we’d literally drive trucks out onto the ice with our ice fishing supplies. No more. That’s one more part of us that climate change has stolen.
No-Nonsense Paganism: Why the Wheel of the Year doesn’t make sense to me anymore
In this series, “No-Nonsense Paganism”, I have been striving to strip Paganism down, take away its ancient or faux-ancient terminology, its mythological and legendary pretensions, its foreign (to wherever you are) folk practices, its superstitious and pseudo-scientific justifications, and its esoteric ritual structures, and get down to the phenomenological core of pagan experience: our interaction with the earth and the other-than-human beings who we share it with. You can check out previous posts in this series here.
Unseasonably Warm
It’s late February. In spite of that, the temperature here in Northwest Indiana got up into the high 60s today. I left my winter coat at home. On purpose. I even rolled down the window. The birds seem to think it’s spring too.
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Pagan Coming Out Day – May 2nd
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