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Pagan Community Notes: Week of February 19, 2026

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In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, an ACLU lawsuit marks a victory for academic freedom as a federal court permanently blocks the Department of Education’s anti-DEI directive. Star shares her Tarot of the Week: The Fool steps forward with a message for the days ahead. Over at Spelling the Heka-Tea, Marcus and Evanne may be stirring a little love into their latest episode. The Aquarian Tabernacle Church shares about a new Wiccan seminary opening in South Africa, expanding clergy training on the continent. And Gallup finds that LGBTQ+ identification holds steady nationwide — no surprise there. Finally, safe travels to those heading to Convocation and Sacred Space — may your journeys be smooth and your gatherings joyful. Have a wonderful time!

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Pagan Community Notes: Week of February 20, 2025

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In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: a rare parade of planets will be visible before vanishing for 15 years, World Justice Day begins, UN Human Rights, Minority Rights Group International announces its 2025 International Contest for Minority Artists, Star’s Tarot of the Week, and more—plus, we’re heading to ConVocation this weekend!

Paganism

Boy Scout helps Pagan food pantry

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LANSING, Mich. – Recently Bill Ehle, director of the Lansing food pantry Pagans in Need, received a phone call from a pantry in nearby Grand Ledge. The pantry’s representative “was trying to arrange food help for a person in the Lansing area,” Ehle said. When Ehle requested the standard information, the woman reveled her pantry was run by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, a Protestant Christian denomination. “She said, ‘You’re OK with that?’ ” Ehle recalled.

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Pagan Community Notes: Mountain Magic, Raleigh Pagan Pride Day, Vanessa Goldman, and more

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RICHLANDS, Vir. —  Mountain Magic and Tarot Shop will not be offering tarot readings within the store any time soon. The shop owners, Jerome VanDyke and Mark Mullins, challenged a local zoning regulation that prohibits “fortune telling” in the store. They asked the city council to consider changing the code so that divination would be permitted. At a standing-room-only meeting Feb.