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“When I got some energy back, I sat down to tend my altars. The small chores of cleaning, sorting, and reorganizing took all of my attention. As I worked, I couldn’t shake the feeling that the tattoo had changed something, had somehow shown that I was serious enough to have some credit.” Luke Babb writes on the lessons and absences that made up their December holidays in 2021.
Clio Ajana greets the first month of the year as a time to take a pause and recalibrate, enjoying the gifts of Janus.
“As soon as this month is over, when it’s barely midnight and January has only just begun, many Venezuelans take a suitcase and run as far as they can, seeing how far they can travel in the new year. What we didn’t know was that even those of us who did not run would leave the country, and we wouldn’t have a return date.”
“…tan pronto como se acabe el mes, cuando empiece enero, apenas sea medianoche, muchos toman una maleta y salen corriendo tan lejos como puedan, esperando poder viajar en ese nuevo año. Lo que no sabíamos era que incluso los que no corrimos saldríamos del país, y no tendríamos una fecha de regreso.”
The Wild Hunt’s editor-in-chief, Manny Tejeda-Moreno, reviews the year in Pagan news and looks forward to the stories TWH expects to cover in 2021.