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Pagan Community Notes is our way to get you the most up-to-date news impacting Pagans, Witches, Wiccans, Heathens, and other polytheists. Covering topics from law to land rights, obituaries, witch hunts, and more. If it impacts the Polytheist community in some way, you’ll find it here.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Woolston-Steen Theological Seminary announces its graduating class; a federal judge sides with Texas on allowing the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms; Star’s Tarot of the Week; and new music from Alexian.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Ostara and Mabon blessings across the hemispheres. We sadly mark the passing of KIVA founder and lead singer Ariana Lightningstorm. A young champion of Indigenous rights prompts Cornell to reverse course. Star shares her Tarot of the Week, and we offer songs for the season.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: New Moon Eclectics scores a victory in Georgia, scientists rediscover some super-cute marsupials once thought extinct, “witchcraft” is mentioned in a Seattle-area murder investigation, and we share the sad news that Kat Suthon has crossed the Veil.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Pagans respond to a recent New York Times opinion essay, inclusive Heathen organizations announce a new coalition, Cherry Hill Seminary releases a new episode of Coming to the Center, Star offers the Tarot of the Week, and ATC’s Dusty Dionne presents a special exposé on a remarkable photographer of ritual and nature.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, Mercury Retrograde is underway, and as usual, present, perky, and problematic. Coreopsis Journal and The Commons of Modern Pagans and Spiritual Seekers (COMPASS) both share announcements and invitations to the community, while the ever-energetic Earth-Based Spirituality Action Team announces its next gathering. Regretfully, we also bring sad news: Rev. Mari Powers has crossed the Veil into the arms of the Goddess. Finally, The Old Church With the Purple Door offers an extraordinary video documenting the reclamation of a historic church and its surrounding land as a living Pagan sanctuary.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, an ACLU lawsuit marks a victory for academic freedom as a federal court permanently blocks the Department of Education’s anti-DEI directive. Star shares her Tarot of the Week: The Fool steps forward with a message for the days ahead. Over at Spelling the Heka-Tea, Marcus and Evanne may be stirring a little love into their latest episode. The Aquarian Tabernacle Church shares about a new Wiccan seminary opening in South Africa, expanding clergy training on the continent. And Gallup finds that LGBTQ+ identification holds steady nationwide — no surprise there. Finally, safe travels to those heading to Convocation and Sacred Space — may your journeys be smooth and your gatherings joyful. Have a wonderful time!
