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In her own words, an Iranian Pagan recounts life, faith, and fear under Iran’s theocracy, explaining how ancient stories, seasonal rites, and spiritual identity have become tools of survival and resistance against the regime during the current protests.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: a controversy long foreseen by the Everglades Moon Local Council begins to unfold. We also share Star’s Tarot of the Week. Meanwhile, we are saddened to report that The Goddess and the Green Man in Glastonbury, England, will close its doors at Imbolc. We also cover the Miccosukee Tribe’s response to what appears to be a politically motivated presidential veto, and revisit the storm that helped ignite Norway’s deadliest witch trials.
Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott visits the current exhibition at the St. Louis Art Museum, “Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Sea,” the first American retrospective of the German artist in 20 years.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, Bòn fèt Endepandans and New Year’s Day traditions take center stage. Professor Ronald Hutton offers a lecture exploring the many histories of Hecate, while the Wolf Supermoon rises to close the holiday weekend. Star shares the tarot of the week, and we turn our attention toward the Feast of the Epiphany and more importantly, La Befana vien di notte…
In keeping with TWH tradition as we approach a new year, our resident tarot expert, Star Bustamonte—who shares a weekly card in our Pagan Community Notes—charts a course for 2026 through a month-by-month spread drawn from twelve intriguing tarot decks.
“Though this reservoir posing as a lake would not survive the removal of the Shasta Dam,” writes Meagan Fischer, “there is an ecology here. I am not an ecologist, but what I can report is that, like they said in Jurassic Park, life finds a way.”
