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There is a question that I’ve asked myself sometimes and that I haven’t had an answer to for a long time: What do I get from working with the ancestors? From all the spirits and all the entities that I could work with – the deities, the fae, spirits of the land, egregores – why should I work with the departed specifically?
We are grateful to you, our readers, who shared ancestor altars and bovedas this year. TWH wishes its northern hemisphere readers a blessed Samhaintide and a merry Beltaine in the southern hemisphere.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, a statue thought to be a water nymph turns out to be Aphrodite, upcoming Samhain events, tree sounds, and more news.
Then, almost all of a sudden, the convulsions become overwhelming and a nurse helps place my wife in a sitting position, before telling her to push. It is all fused in my memory as a short and intense blurb, but it actually took a good half an hour before, from under my wife, a small, mostly hairless mammal appeared. The nurse grabbed it, showed it to me, shouted “it’s a girl!” before depositing it onto my wife’s chest.
We had just become parents. I had just become a dad.
What the actual f–k?
Lyonel Perabo’s daily walk to his child’s kindergarten takes him through his hometown’s cemetery, a place to reflect on history and what has been passed down to us.