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As artificial intelligence reshapes science, culture, and power, Pagans find themselves navigating a world where algorithms influence creativity, civil rights, and governance. From Project Genesis to grassroots resistance, the stakes of AI’s expansion are no longer abstract—but deeply personal.
A recent experiment reveals how order can emerge from restless motion. Though not chaos in the technical sense, Brownian systems show how randomness can sustain structure, inviting careful reflection alongside humanity’s oldest creation stories.
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.
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.
As the year darkens, Yule invites something deeper than celebration. The solstice season calls for honesty, rest, and reckoning—listening to what the long nights reveal, releasing what no longer belongs to us, and preparing, quietly, for the light’s return.
