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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: 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.
A new study reveals that thunderstorms may electrify entire forests. Researchers detected faint corona discharges leaping between leaves, producing ultraviolet flashes across treetops, an invisible light show that could influence atmospheric chemistry and subtly shape the lives of trees.
As trans Americans face escalating legal restrictions, religious liberty is being invoked not as protection for minorities but as justification for exclusion. For Pagan traditions that affirm gender diversity, the implications are profound.
A medieval gold ring set with a deep blue stone has been unearthed in Norway’s oldest town, revealing not only exquisite craftsmanship but long-held beliefs in sapphire’s power to heal illness, cool “inner heat,” and guard the soul.
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.