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[An Atheopagan Life] “Riverain and Adapting the Wheel of the Year” by Mark Green
The most important part of my celebration of Riverain is my annual rain hike: When a nice heavy storm comes along, I suit up and go for a hike in a wilderness area. There is something moving and lovely...
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[Starstuff, Contemplating] “Celebrating the Sun on Summer Solstice” by...
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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[Starstuff, Contemplating] “Lunasa: The Power of Summer!” byHeather and Jon...
Lunasa celebrates this heat at its peak: this is the hottest part of the summer. It is also the holiday to celebrate the fruits of summer's heat with the first harvests of the year.
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[A Pedagogy of Gaia] “Preparing a Ritual” by Bart Everson
A ritual should have an overall purpose, and everything should contribute to that, similar to what Edgar Alan Poe termed the "unity of effect" in a short story. The purpose of this ritual is, of...
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[A Pedagogy of Gaia] “After the Ritual” by Bart Everson
This is a follow-up piece to last month’s essay, “Preparing A Ritual”. Before Something always seems to die around Lammas. Last year it was our pet fish, Inky. The year before it was a raccoon under...
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[Starstuff, Contemplating] “Gather together: Harvest and Community” by...
In modern times, the Fall Equinox is a time when summer vacations are ending and school is beginning. Communities that were parted in the spring are reforming again. Stories are being shared. Old...
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Happy Spring Equinox!
It's so cool to live on a spherical planet! Some of the ways many of us are celebrating were published a few weeks ago, but I did happen to come across this video, which is almost the same as the...
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Early Spring Theme: Diversity
In Deep Time, early spring can match the time from the first animals to the diversification of life in the Cambrian. And what forms! Though many of the basic animals we are familiar with were just a...
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The May Cross-Quarter (Vernal Equitherm) is just two weeks away!
In the Northern Hemisphere, May 1st time is traditionally celebrated in the Neo-Pagan Wheel of the Year as Beltane. The name derives from the Irish Gaelic Bealtaine or the Scottish Gaelic Bealtuinn for...
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Late Spring Theme: Challenges!
In Deep Time, late spring can span the time from the Cambrian to the early Mesozoic – a time during which life moved onto land, including, belatedly, our vertebrate Ancestors. Surviving on land...
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The Summer Solstice is just two weeks away!
The Summer Solstice approaches! Ready? The Summer Solstice is known in Contemporary Neo-Paganism as Litha or Midsummer. Neo-Pagan mythology often marks this as the moment the sun god meets his death,...
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The Summer Cross-Quarter (Summer Thermstice) Approaches!
The Autumn cross-quarter or “Summer Thermstice” is celebrated on August 1 as Lughnasadh/Lammas/Lunasa. This is the hottest time of the year in many places in the Northern Hemisphere. Lammas thus...
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Happy Summer Thermstice/Lammas!
Heat! Summer! Productivity! These and many other themes join with the baking of bread and early harvest celebrations.
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[Pagan in Place] “It’s Not Lammas: Hearthfire in the Texas Hill Country”, by...
As Pagans we seek to consciously align our lived experience with seasonal cycles, but those of us who live in a humid subtropical climate don’t have to pretend it’s Lammas right now. Here in Central...
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Late Summer Theme: Cooperation
In Deep Time, late summer can span the time from the mid to the late Mesozoic – a time during which many new forms of cooperation evolved, adding the many cooperative ways of life already discovered....
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The Fall Equinox Approaches!
In the Northern Hemisphere, the fall equinox is celebrated in a couple weeks (it is September 22nd this year) as Mabon, also called Harvest Home. (Those in the Southern Hemisphere celebrate the spring...
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Early Autumn Theme: Ancestors and Descendants
In Deep Time, early autumn can remind us of the Cretaceous extinction event – the cataclysm of fire, tsunamis, and earthquakes that banished the (non-avian) dinosaurs to extinction and led to you...
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Samhain (The Fall Equitherm) is just two weeks away!
Got your house decorated yet? Samhain (the Fall Equitherm) is nearly here! For many of us (including me), this is one of the most sacred times of the year - a time when I feel my Ancestors even more...
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