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As catastrophic wildfires reshape North American forests, governments are increasingly embracing Indigenous fire stewardship, recognizing that healthier landscapes depend not only on emergency response but on restoring long-term relationships with the land.
Long before Lithuania officially embraced Christianity, Orthodox migrants and local converts lived alongside a predominantly pagan population in medieval Vilnius, offering new archaeological evidence that religious change unfolded gradually through migration, trade, and everyday life.
The Interior Department has opened a brief public comment period on a proposal to remove protections for the landscape surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park, a move Tribal nations warn could expose one of North America’s most sacred Indigenous landscapes to expanded drilling.
“If someone were trying to trap me,” writes Meg Elison in her review of the exhibit, “one of the surest ways would be to put up a sign to say there’s a show focused on tarot inside this building, this cardboard box, this tiger pit. This thing is a Witch magnet.”
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: a cardinal (not the bird kind) reignites the Pachamama controversy and debate over Paganism in the Catholic Church, career spells make the business news, Brittany explores the “misnamed Witch,” and, of course, Star’s Tarot of the Week.