Paganism
Resilience aka Celebration of Life
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Clio Ajana shares insights on the turning of the Wheel from light to dark, and its energetic connections to resilience and independence.
Editorial
Editorial: National Memorial for Peace and Justice is a stark testament to America’s history
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Wild Hunt’s news editor, Star Bustamonte, recounts her visit to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, and reckons with the American legacy of racial violence and oppression.
Washington DC..
Column: Awakening the Boundary Stones of Washington, D.C.
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Guest writer Rayna Templebee describes rituals held by the Pagan group Connect DC to reawaken the magick in the boundary stones of Washington, D.C.
Paganism
The 1619 Project is part of the urgent now
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Editor-in-Chief Manny Tejeda-Moreno comments on the 1619 Project and the enduring role of white supremacy in American society.
News
Artist Gabrielle Tesfaye channels spirits, ancestors for new film
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CHIANG MAI, Thailand — From the early 1600s to the mid-1800s, living African slaves would sometimes be thrown overboard from slave ships sailing the Middle Passage, as the transatlantic voyage of the slave trade was called. If the slave ships faced water shortages or any kidnapped Africans came down with a disease, slaves could be tossed overboard, sometimes chained together en masse. “So many bodies of dead or dying Africans were jettisoned into the ocean that sharks regularly followed the slave ships on their westward journey,” according to that encyclopedia entry. In the new film The Water Will Carry Us Home by multidisciplinary artist Gabrielle Tesfaye, those ships are followed by a very different entity: Yemaya, the Yoruba orisha of the sea and the mother of all life. “There are many stories within African spirituality of water spirits following the slave ships, Mami Wata, the presence of Yemaya,” Tesfaye said in an email interview from her home in Chiang Mai, Thailand.