The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/chicago)
Despite challenges from rain, COVID-19 and venue changes, Greater Chicagoland Pagan Pride returned triumphantly, uniting nearly 1,000 attendees with workshops, rituals, and activism-focused teachings, all celebrating the power of community, resilience, and finding one’s voice.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, a Texas metaphysical shop is harassed by an anti-LGBTQ2SI+ group, Occult Society bookstore in Chicago hosts series, we welcome Star Bustamonte back to the weekly tarot, and more events.
This is why I no longer wear the hammer in public. There’s just too much darkness lurking below the surface, across the board.
Sometimes, the Mead of Poetry works indirectly. An old rock ‘n’ roll song is stuck on repeat in my head, spinning unceasingly between my ears. Actually, it’s not even an entire song. It’s just a verse or a chorus or sometimes only a line or two. Someone else’s creative creation gets lodged in there, doing work on my mind that only I can hear.
TWH catches up with the Chicago chapter of the Fellowship of Isis that celebrated their 30th annual festival last autumn with dances, oracle readings, lectures, and a sharing of cultural history