Naturalistic Paganism
Finding My People, by Susan Paterson
Meeting new people is pretty scary. Not knowing how to behave in a new context is also scary. I am certainly not the prime example of social anxiety, but still, the feelings are there and they are uncomfortable. Signing on to the Atheopagan Web Weaving conference was intimidating, softened only by the fact that I have interacted with a handful of the attendees online in the past.
No-Nonsense Paganism: Keep It Simple
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.
In this part, I want to talk about why and how to keep ritual simple.
Read MoreHappy Summer Solstice! Check out these Stonehenge Livestreams!
Happy Summer Solstice, tomorrow for many of us! Due to the weirdness of our time zones and spherical Earth, we can watch the Summer Solstice sunrise over Stonehenge late tonight on the evening of the Summer Solstice! What? How? Because when the Sun rises on the day of the Solstice (when the Earth’s axis exactly points the most toward the Sun in the Northern Hemisphere or the most away from the Sun in the Southern Hemisphere) at 4:51 am at Stonehenge, it will be the night of June 20th in the United States (11:51 pm) and will already be the evening of June 21st in Australia! Coverage at that site goes from 11:00 pm EDT to 1:00 am. Or does the Sunset before the Solstice move you spiritually? If so, you can catch the Solstice Sunset livestream from Stonehenge, with coverage from 3:30 – 5:30 pm EDT *today*. (Also, it is Winter Solstice/Yule for those in the Southern Hemisphere).
The Summer Solstice is less than two weeks away, Plus online Celebrations!
It looks like we are finally out of the pandemic! Well, only mostly of course. A new variant could arise, or a completely new virus. But as the data above shows, numbers have stayed low, now that nearly everyone has some immunity (from the vaccines, from getting covid & recovering – many of whom now have long covid, or by being dead). Plus, another metric to look at is the number of covid deaths per day or the number in ICUs with covid – both of which have been low for many months.
Pathworking, Talismans, Awe, and more! Recent Episodes of THE WONDER podcast, by Mark Green
Check out the latest The Wonder podcasts! The stunning awe of our Universe is at the core of our Naturalistic Paganism – and the podcast episode on Wonder dives directly into it! Of course, our wonder of the Universe directly gives us practices, and so Pathworking and Talismans are topics of episodes as well. And of course, all of our individual practice is nearly meaningless compared to what effects we have on future generations, such as through activities with kids. All those, and more, are on the page here.
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Pagan Coming Out Day – May 2nd
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