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Pagan Community Notes: Week of December 18, 2022
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In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: December solstice events, Ardantane features in local publication, the After School Satan Club, and more news.
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Pagan Community Notes: Week of May 16, 2022
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In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, the Department of the Interior and Bureau of Indian Affairs release a joint report on boarding schools, a new Earth-based spirituality team, blood moon video, and more news.
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Ardantane, a Pagan school and experiment in Pagan land management
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JEMEZ SPRINGS, N.M. — Ten years ago, a group of Pagans in northern New Mexico created a Pagan school and retreat center called Ardantane. Since that time, students have enrolled in 1,275 of Ardantane’s classes. To learn more about the success and operations of this unique place, The Wild Hunt spoke with two members of Ardantane’s staff: Rowan and Amber K. Rowan serves as dean of the School of Magick and Witchcraft. Amber K, who is also a prolific Pagan author, serves as executive director of Ardantane. Both Amber K and Rowan follow the Our Lady of the Woods tradition.
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Pagan Community Notes: Andy Conn, PantheaCon, partial solar eclipse and more
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SACREMENTO, Calif. — Activist and witch Andy Conn died unexpectedly Feb. 2. Conn was an active member of the Bay Area Pagan community, involved with the Church of All Worlds and activist movements such as Occupy Sacramento and Earth First!. His son Nick wrote in a memorial, “My father was a complicated, dynamic man that shone so bright in his short life.
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Pagan Community Notes: Environmental Statements, Raven & Crone, Christopher Lee and more!
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On Thursday June 18, Pope Francis is scheduled to release a “teaching letter,” also called an encyclical, on the environment. This highly anticipated document will most likely become big news of the week as the Pope enters the debates on climate change. A recent New York Times article suggested that, through this work, he is “seeking to redefine a typically secular discussion within a religious framework.” Many activists, around the world, stand ready to applaud his efforts to publicly engage in the global Earth Stewardship conversation and, thereby, hopefully increase pressure on communities, businesses, organizations and governments to enact change. To some Pagans and others, who already position the Earth or a connection to natural systems of place, at the center of their spiritual practice, the need for such a document might seem superfluous.