Pagan Community Notes: Week of January 16, 2025

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: a new conference is coming to Portland, Oregon; Imbolc preparations at Circle Sanctuary; ATC’s Dusty Dionne becomes chairman of the local parks board; concerns about representations of the Welsh language and culture; and more news.

Christmastide

“What if,” I say idly, “I started celebrating Christmas again, but in an Arthurian sort of way?” “Camelot is the Christian wart on the face of pagan England,” my husband grumps.

The Offer Stone

This is the first time I cross path with what Finns call a hiidenkivi (“cult stone”) and the Swedes a jättekast (“giant’s throw”), and for a little while longer my mind meanders, thinking about the ancient stories that were more than likely told about this place in ages past.

What Goes Up Must Come Down

Like the god, Janus – we are able to look forward and backward at this time. Whether it is the cold, turn of the calendar pages, or just the break in time when we can simply sit and be with ourselves – we see who we are, where we have been, and where we wish to go.