autumn
Column: Yellow Jacket
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Luke Babb finds a nest of yellow jackets in their bathroom – and with them, a sign from Dionysos.
Living
Column: Over Easy
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Columnist Luke Babb describes their deepening experiences with directly interacting with the gods and their journey from agnostic to hard polytheist.
Living
Column: Reading Together
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Luke Babb describes their journey through reading tarot decks, and how a ritual of self-reflection ends up building community.
Culture
Column: the Coming of the Queer Tarot
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Pagan Perspectives
Tarot is a popular divinatory system utilized by many Pagans and Witches of all stripes. With so many variations available to the public (and more being created all the time), we have an opportunity not just to work with an artistic style that we enjoy, but – thanks to the advent of decks engineered with specific communities in mind – we can also “fine tune” the symbolic language utilized by tarot and apply it in a way that speaks more directly to our own experiences and peoples. Enter The Queer Community Tarot. The brainchild of J. Ryan of Queer Street Tarot, The Queer Community Tarot is set to be released this coming November. It intends to speak to LGBT+ practitioners using a common language.
News
Pagan shop owners fight for right to read tarot
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RICHLANDS, Va. –There are places when practicing openly as Pagan is not at all difficult, but there remain communities in which engaging in anything with a whiff of the esoteric or the unusual is met with stiff resistance. Richlands, Virginia appears to be one of the latter.
Richlands is a town of less than 5,000 people in the southwestern part of the state and, at a glance, it seems to be the sort of place where Christian values are held in high regard at least when anything perceived as threatening their supremacy is proposed. What’s causing the recent ripples through this small community is the presence of Mountain Magic and Tarot Shop. which has become a gathering place for Pagans who previously practiced in solitude and in hiding. Proprietors Jerome VanDyke and Mark Mullins are open about being Witches as well as being happily married to each other.