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As 2025 closes, The Wild Hunt looks back on a year shaped by conflict, vigilance, and resilience, where Pagan communities confronted power, defended religious freedom, and strengthened collective voice through storytelling, organizing, and shared witness.
In keeping with TWH tradition as we approach a new year, our resident tarot expert, Star Bustamonte—who shares a weekly card in our Pagan Community Notes—charts a course for 2026 through a month-by-month spread drawn from twelve intriguing tarot decks.
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.
“Though this reservoir posing as a lake would not survive the removal of the Shasta Dam,” writes Meagan Fischer, “there is an ecology here. I am not an ecologist, but what I can report is that, like they said in Jurassic Park, life finds a way.”
“There is a powerful magic in the names we use for ourselves and each other,” writes Storm Faerywolf, “and taking on a new name is a common practice in many religions, not just witchcraft. To take a new name is, in a very real sense, to forge a new identity.”