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In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, we feature a wrap-up of the Beltane Fire Festival and a look at the growing visibility of Paganism in Maine. We also mark National Public Gardens Week and International Migratory Bird Day, celebrate an elevation within Aquarian Tabernacle Church, and sadly honor a crossing of the Veil. Star also shares her Tarot of the Week.
New archaeological and genetic research suggests bread wheat may have first emerged 8,000 years ago in the South Caucasus region of modern-day Georgia. The findings connect ancient farming communities, wild goatgrass, bread wheat, and even early winemaking in one of humanity’s earliest agricultural landscapes.
As President Donald Trump’s poll numbers drop, political rhetoric is taking a surreal turn. “Spellbinding” claims, warnings of Satanists, and rising fear-based narratives suggest conservative power is being maintained not through policy, but through fear.
The Wild Hunt wishes all of our readers a blessed turning of the wheel, as the northern hemisphere celebrates Beltane, the southern celebrates Samhain, and around the world we celebrate May Day.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: We begin with the sad news of chaos magician Peter J. Carroll’s passing. As the next Sabbat arrives under the Flower Moon, Beltane blessings to the North and a blessed Samhain to the South.