Naturalistic Paganism
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Happy Samhain! Now, Eclipses highlight the Beltane/Samhain Pairing!
Happy Samhain! As the darkness falls this Samhain night, our trillions of Ancestors visit us. Who are they? What can they offer you for your struggles today? They can help you anytime during the year – not just now –…
Read MoreNo Nonsense Paganism: It’s Fall When It Feels Like Fall
Pagan rituals can be performed in response to our experience of world around us, rather than an assigned time of a calendar.
Read MoreMichael Dowd, who gave us all so much, has died [Starstuff, Contemplating]
All of that is just a start at the many ways that Michael will be with us all into the future. I encourage all of us to discover the many, many life changing works he left us. As when Carl Sagan died, I’m reminded again that times like this speak to us all, urging us to pick up the torch, and carry it into the future.
Read MoreGratitude for Ancestors, and the Treasure Trove of Knowledge they gave us – Remembering W. Jason Morgan [Starstuff, Contemplating]
Every now and then, I am reminded of how incredible it is to live now. So many things would not just be amazing to nearly all of our Ancestors (who are in my mind especially now with Samhain just around the corner), but often would be literally indescribable. To think that we live, not just on a globe and not on a flat Earth, but that the continents move! Dr. W. Jason Morgan was instrumental in giving us that knowledge – and I appreciate his life, which ended this year.
Read MoreNo-Nonsense Paganism: Cultural Appropriation in Pagan Ritual
In lieu of pulling haphazardly from other peoples’ religions, I think we Pagans would be better served by focusing on the connection to that experience which is common to both contemporary and ancient pagans (as well as many non-Pagans): the experience of communion with the more-than-human, wild, natural world.*
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Pagan Coming Out Day – May 2nd
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