Naturalistic Paganism

Category: experience


Pagan Conferences are Great! Are These Near You?

Throughout all of this, It’s been wonderful to connect with other Pagans in the wider Pagan community, and join in many different rituals and celebrations. It can be a tricky balance at times between my own hard-nosed naturalism/atheism and the prevalence of pseudoscience/woo in the wider Pagan community. I sometimes have to remind myself to consider if a supernatural belief is very harmful or not, but overall it’s been great to simply enjoy a ritual with others, even if we personally think of the language used differently – such as if many others see a deity as literal and I see a metaphor. After all, no one thinks anyone is going to hell for being a heretic.

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Solar Eclipse (Only Visible from Antarctica) Tuesday, then a Blood Moon March 3rd! Here are some Ritual ideas. [Stardust, Contemplating]

Knowing that eclipses come in pairs (a solar eclipse paired – two weeks away – with a lunar eclipse) is yet another example of our Naturalistic Pagan approach of learning and knowing about our Universe, and also celebrating that Universe…

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Much more than “just” Astronomy, here’s an Opportunity to Discover our World, Starting January 20! Free for Some!

For a lot of my life, I understood the colors we see as, well, of course the colors that the world is.  End of story.  But then I heard about infrared light.  And ultraviolet light.  And found out about the whole “electromagnetic spectrum” – all of which are the same thing – all “light”, just in different colors.  Most colors of which we can’t see.  To realize that we only see a tiny slice of the colors that exist was mind opening!

Many other basic concepts like that are included in this course.

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What magic will *You* make this New Years Eve?

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! 

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Auroras are coming soon! [Stardust, Contemplating]

As you read this, a blast wave of trillions of energetic particles is bearing down on us, with impact expected in hours (night of November 11-12 and 12-13).  The resulting auroras may fill the skies in many Northern areas with…

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