Paganism
Column: Unfinished Business
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Clio Ajana writes on the unfinished business left as the pandemic begins to draw down, and wishes TWH’s readers a happy Pride.
Paganism
Column: Finding New Ground in Ritual
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Clio Ajana reflects on the role of ritual in our daily lives, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of these quiet ceremonies.
Paganism
Opinion: Take a Deep Breath
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Clio Ajana recognizes the conclusion of the 2020 presidential election as a moment to let out a long held breath.
Paganism
Column: Spiritual Decluttering
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This has been a really rough summer for many people around me, and for my own family. As we approach Labor Day, the start of September, the peak of what should be a festive holiday weekend, I find my heart and thoughts turning to tuning out pain. There has been so much of it, from natural disasters to political fireworks to unifying eclipses. We’re on a wild roller coaster with no brake sand it seems, no way to get off. So we default to what we know: we multitask. We busy ourselves.
Paganism
Column: Healing the body, mind, spirit during retrograde
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“Release the past to rest as deeply as possible.”
The last tweet from Charlie Murphy the night before he died. For many Pagans, Mercury Retrograde carries the reputation of being a time to expect communication, traffic snarls, computer problems, and overall worry about saying or doing the wrong thing. How many times do you wonder why everything seems to be going wrong, only to relax when someone says, “Mercury’s in retrograde”? Pagans in general learn early about the stars, astrology, and the impact that times of delay can have in general. Venus in Retrograde asks us to think hard about who and what we value: who do we let into our lives, what or who do we treasure and how, what means the most to us overall?