Naturalistic Paganism

Happy Spring Equinox!

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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.

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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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Just a Few Days to the Eclipse! Finalize those Plans now! Here’s a Ritual, too!

The eclipse is approaching fast now – just a few days left!  As described earlier, you have to be in the path of totality to experience this total solar eclipse!  Don’t miss it!  The next total solar eclipse in the United States isn’t until 2044, and even that one is only visible from a small area.  Perhaps most important – can you show a child this eclipse?  All the details you need are below.
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Being Pagan Every Day, Imbolc, and more! Recent Episodes of THE WONDER podcast, by Mark Green

There’ve been some great topics on The Wonder podcast!  Being Pagan Every Day, an interview with Jaala, councilmembers, and Imbolc!   All those, and more, are on the page here.

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