Arts & Culture
The Rule Nobody Questions
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Beatrix Kondo examines gender, power, and the lines drawn in Lee Knox Ostertag’s 2017 graphic novel “The Witch Boy.”
Arts & Culture
Classics of Pagan Cinema: I Married a Witch
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“The witch in this story does not try to make it look natural,” writes Meg Elison of this 1942 classic. “She doesn’t play fair, split the difference, or win graciously for the sake of appearances. She wins utterly.”
Arts & Culture
Encountering the Gods: Willow’s Journey at Spring Mysteries
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A young practitioner reflects on her first Spring Mysteries Festival, sharing a deeply personal journey of devotion, connection, and transformation as she encounters the Gods through ritual, community, and sacred experience in this heartfelt first-person account.
Arts & Culture
Review: “Slavic Native Faith”
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Manny Tejeda y Moreno reviews “Slavic Native Faith” by Kaarina Aitamurto and Scott Simpson, a study of the umbrella of reconstructionist religions sometimes known as Ridnovirstvo or Rodnovery. The book is free to download until April 14.
Arts & Culture
Spring Mysteries Festival marks 40 years of ecstatic, immersive ritual
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At 40, the Spring Mysteries Festival remains a distinctive Pagan gathering, offering an intense, immersive ritual experience that challenges participants to move beyond observation and inhabit the sacred story of Persephone’s transformation through devotion, embodiment, and sustained communal engagement.