Pagan Community Notes: Week of April 9, 2026

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: an AHS: Coven teaser sparks speculation, Brazil moves to regulate doulas, a “Bless the Gods” parade is suppressed in China, Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans announces its 40th anniversary celebration, Star’s Tarot of the Week, and a hopeful rebound for monarch butterflies.

Editorial: Remember that Venezuela is a real place

Weekend editor Eric O. Scott reflects on events that unfolded this weekend. As bombs fell and political justifications followed, Venezuelan civilians paid the price. Venezuela is not an abstraction or a geopolitical chessboard, but a real place, filled with real people whose lives were extinguished without warning. This editorial examines power, accountability, and the moral cost of treating distant suffering as disposable.