Skip to content
  • logo
  • logo
  • Home
  • News
    • U.S.
    • U.K.
    • Canada
    • World
  • Culture & Living
    • Film & TV Reviews
    • Book Reviews
    • Music Reviews
    • Interviews
    • Living
  • TWH Features
    • Pagan Community Notes
    • Hounds
    • Pagan Voices
    • Uncovering the Past
    • Spotlight on Tradition
  • Perspectives
    • Editorials
    • Clio Ajana
    • Luke Babb
    • Siobhan Ball
    • Sheri Barker
    • Alan D.D.
    • Erick DuPree
    • Meg Elison
    • Storm Faerywolf
    • Lyonel Perabo
    • Eric O. Scott
    • Karl E. H. Seigfried
    • Manny Tejeda-Moreno
    • Guest Columnists
  • About the Wild Hunt
    • Our Mission Statement
    • The Wild Hunt Team
    • Donate Today!
    • Join our Email List- PW is TheWildHunt
    • Discussion Comments Policy
  • Contact Us
  • Report Violence Against Pagans

The Wild Hunt - Modern Pagan News & Perspectives

The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/page/5)

  • Home
  • News
    • U.S.
    • U.K.
    • Canada
    • World
  • Culture & Living
    • Film & TV Reviews
    • Book Reviews
    • Music Reviews
    • Interviews
    • Living
  • TWH Features
    • Pagan Community Notes
    • Hounds
    • Pagan Voices
    • Uncovering the Past
    • Spotlight on Tradition
  • Perspectives
    • Editorials
    • Clio Ajana
    • Luke Babb
    • Siobhan Ball
    • Sheri Barker
    • Alan D.D.
    • Erick DuPree
    • Meg Elison
    • Storm Faerywolf
    • Lyonel Perabo
    • Eric O. Scott
    • Karl E. H. Seigfried
    • Manny Tejeda-Moreno
    • Guest Columnists
  • About the Wild Hunt
    • Our Mission Statement
    • The Wild Hunt Team
    • Donate Today!
    • Join our Email List- PW is TheWildHunt
    • Discussion Comments Policy
  • Contact Us
  • Report Violence Against Pagans

The Long Walk to the Self: New Study Explores How Pilgrimages Transform the Spirit

By Manny Moreno | 2 hours ago

New research on pilgrimages across three traditions finds that the physical and emotional demands of sacred journeys can lead to profound inner change, cultivating reflection, gratitude, and a renewed sense of connection to self, community, and the sacred.

Into the Night: International Dark Sky Week Begins

International Dark Sky Week begins as advocates urge a return to darker nights. As light pollution grows, the observance highlights ecological harm, threatened species, and even the spiritual loss of the stars that once shaped human ritual, story, and connection.

Encountering the Gods: Willow’s Journey at Spring Mysteries

A young practitioner reflects on her first Spring Mysteries Festival, sharing a deeply personal journey of devotion, connection, and transformation as she encounters the Gods through ritual, community, and sacred experience in this heartfelt first-person account.

Cortege

I’m just an hour from home when I pull into my friend’s front lawn and unload three bags heavy with books. “I hear someone’s getting into Norse mythology,” I say with a grin that I almost feel. “It’s your lucky day.”

More Headlines

Review: “Slavic Native Faith”
“God Squad” Waives Species Protections for Gulf Drilling Amid Broader Policy Shift
Spring Mysteries Festival marks 40 years of ecstatic, immersive ritual

Editorials and Analysis

  • Editorial: Trans rights are human rights — and religious liberty is on the line
    By Manny Moreno

    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.

  • Editorial: Pagan Is Not a Synonym for Barbarism
    By Manny Moreno

    "When contemporary commentators describe authoritarian politics as 'pagan,'" writes Manny Moreno, "they risk reinforcing an exclusionary narrative: that Christianity civilized power, while paganism represented brute force. That binary not only oversimplifies history; it marginalizes living religious minorities."

Pagan Living

  • Great Pagan Reads of 2025
    By Lyonel Perabo

    Lyonel Perabo reviews four recent titles of interest to Pagan readers: Fröja's Apples by Sara Bonadea George, The Dead of Winter by Sarah Clegg, Backwards into the Future by Eirik Storesund, and the new volume of the journal Heathenry by Asatru UK.

  • The Witch Who Was Always Near
    By Guest Contributor

    "A story set in Near becomes a mirror," writes Beatrix Kondo, exploring folklore, fear, and the familiar stranger in V.E. Schwab's novel "The Near Witch." "What the mirror reflects is a community organized around the strategic management of its own fear."

Pagan Perspectives

  • Rest. Seriously. Rest.
    By Clio Ajana

    Sometimes, just when we think that the world can’t get crazier, we get a reminder that life can surprise us. April is a curious month, filled at times with rain, […]

  • Pete Hegseth Breaks Teeth for Jesus
    By Karl E. H. Seigfried

    Over the course of the 2010s, it felt as though Heathens in the U.S. military made steady, if slow, progress on their religious rights. Pete Hegseth claims to have reversed all those gains in a matter of weeks. Karl E.H. Seigfried considers where Heathens go from here.

Ancient Cultures

  • A New Mystery Emerges from Ancient Norway: A Viking Woman Buried with Shells and Wings
    By Manny Moreno

    A Viking woman’s grave in Trøndelag has stunned archaeologists: scallop shells laid over her mouth and bird-wing bones nearby reveal a burial practice unknown in pre-Christian Norway, raising new questions about ritual, belief, and symbolism.

  • “We are children of the Sun”: new exhibit honors Mexica Coyolxāuhqui stone
    By Manny Moreno

    A new exhibit in Mexico City honors the discovery of the stunning Coyolxāuhqui Stone, which tells the myth of the Mexica goddess of the moon.

Support The Wild Hunt! (Tax Deductible Donation)

Support The Wild Hunt Directly! (non-tax deductible)

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Notice
There are no upcoming events.

Rune of the Day

Rune of the Day
Rune of the Day
ᚠ

Fehu

Wealth and fresh starts—tend resources so they grow.

Moon Phase

Moon Phase Widget
🌑

Loading moon…

Moon Loading...

Ephemeris

Aries
Sun in Aries
20 degrees
Pisces
Moon in Pisces
14 degrees
Waning Crescent Moon
Waning Crescent Moon
26 days old
Joe's

Tarot of the Week

Tarot of the Week

Deck: Tarot of a Moon Garden, Karen Marie Sweikhardt, instructions by Laura E. Clarson, published by U.S. Games Systems, Inc.

Card: Ace of Pentacles

This week, there is likely to be a continued focus on finances, and wealth—both material and spiritual. There is the potential for new opportunities in increasing financial sources, particularly when it comes to picking up side jobs or projects that are liable to provide a good return for the effort expended. Spiritually, openings for expanding not only how spiritual practices are conducted but also exploring new ways to magically apply what is being learned.

Conversely, all that glitters is not gold. And even if it is actually gold, it does not guarantee that obtaining it will result in happiness. There is also the likelihood of indecision resulting in missed opportunities, but deals that seem to be too good to be true should probably be avoided. Due diligence should be performed before signing on to any new deals, no matter how great they might seem at first.

About the Wild Hunt

  • About The Wild Hunt
  • The Wild Hunt Mission Statement
  • The Wild Hunt Team
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Where Do Your Donations Go?

The Wild Hunt Sections

  • Latest News
  • Pagan Community News
  • Editorials & Columns
  • Arts & Culture

Connect with Us

  • Join our Email List- PW is TheWildHunt
  • Like us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Bluesky
  • Join our Subreddit

© Copyright 2026, The Wild Hunt

Built with the Largo WordPress Theme from the Institute for Nonprofit News.

Back to top ↑