Pagan Community Notes: Week of May 7, 2026

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.

Pagan community Notes: Week of October 2, 2025

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: South Florida Pagan Pride shines with a successful gathering, ATC Matriarch Belladonna LaVeau shares a message, Cherry Hill Seminary announces it will begin offering ordinations, Star offers her Tarot of the Week, and (careful broom riders!) the fall migration fills the skies with birds on the move.

Guest Column: Thinking in New Directions

TWH welcomes Christian Cooper, Pagan, author of the new memoir “Better Living Through Birding,” and host of the new National Geographic TV series “Extraordinary Birder,” to consider new directions for magical practices beyond the classical elements.

Column: The Owner of Fire

“No matter how hard they tried, the other animals did not know how to use fire like the king, but man did. Since then the hummingbird, the partridge, and the booby bird have become guardians of humanity for their gift.”