Naturalistic Paganism

Category: Columns


[Starstuff, Contemplating] “Celebrating the Sun on Summer Solstice” by Heather and Jon Cleland-Host

On Solstice, we celebrate both the amazingness of the fragility and impossibility of Life and the overwhelming joy of the Life all around us. This is it! Isn’t it AMAZING?!

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HP Pride: Meet Trellia

“I’ve come to discover that many Pagans feel the same as me — they have a deep yearning to venerate something unseen within nature, although they’re not sure what the nature of that thing is. They also desire to connect somehow with their ancestors and bring back the ‘old ways.'”

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[Pagan in Place] “Home Base Practice” by Anna Walther

The elements, plants, animals, and seasonal patterns that inspire my practice manifest in specific places; therefore I must be grounded in a specific place in order to interact with them.

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[Rotting Silver] “Karma” by B. T. Newberg

Rotting Silver is a column devoted to this Earth in all its tarnished radiance: poetry, prose, and parables of ugliness alloyed with joy.

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“A Sticky, Sweaty, Complicated Mess (That Nearly Everyone Wants)” by Mark Green [An Atheopagan Life]

Unlike the guilt and shame and giggly self-consciousness associated with sexual desire and behavior by Abrahamic faiths, Paganism embraces the body as sacred and sex as a holy and pleasurable adult activity, not necessarily limited to monogamous relationships, but rather allowed by whatever the participants in those relationships decide is acceptable under their agreed rules.

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