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Looking toward 2026, our communities face uncertainty, but we have practiced resilience to an art. Amid political noise and cultural strain, care, memory, and mutual support remain our strongest tools for survival—quiet acts that resist erasure and sustain meaning through turbulent times.
“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.”
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, we celebrate Cherry Hill graduates and honorees, as discussions of Sol Invictus and Yuletide traditions make their expected appearance in mainstream media. We are also saddened to share that Faelind has crossed the Veil into the arms of the Goddess. As always, Star offers her Tarot of the Week, and Moon the cat channels Bastet on solstice morning at Stonehenge.
Siobhan Ball invites readers on a tour of three sacred waters in the United Kingdom: the Aquae Arnemetiae of Buxton, Aquae Sulis of Bath, and the Red and White Springs of Glastonbury.
Amid renewed scrutiny of the Epstein files, readers raised concerns about Pagan scapegoating. A careful review of the newly released documents shows rhetoric, metaphor, and fringe claims—but no evidence connecting Epstein or his crimes to Witchcraft, Pagan religious practice, or occult ritual activity.
Olive oil has nourished kitchens, temples, and rituals for thousands of years. A new archaeological study, however, presses long-held assumptions, suggesting that some residues once identified as olive oil may be a little slippery—and hide unexpected pitfalls in the ancient record.
