The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/author/erickdupree)
Erick DuPree, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist, author, and Heathen whose research explores masculinity, queer culture, and the intersection of occult mysteries.
“This is the solstice’s quiet gift,” writes Erick DuPree. “Its power isn’t in revelation, but in the small, stubborn persistence of light. The sun returns not with fanfare, but with a flicker — a single flame that dares to whisper not yet done.”
“‘No good deed goes unpunished,'” writes Erick DuPree after seeing the new film Wicked: For Good. “The song had always been powerful, but in Erivo’s hands it felt like something older than Oz, older than Broadway, older even than the myth itself.”
Erick DuPree on what Gothic novels can teach us about society, then and now.
“What set tea apart, though, was its intimacy,” writes Erick DuPree. “Astrology required training and calculation; alchemy demanded secrecy, resources, and years of study. Tea-leaf reading needed only a pot, a cup, and an attentive eye.”
We are living in an age of rupture. In the midst of this instability, people are reaching—not for quick fixes, but for something enduring. Something rooted. For a growing number, Paganism, polytheism, and Heathenry offer exactly that.