Pagan Community Notes: Week of June 13, 2024

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, well-known author, Mortellus, shares an experience about how a simple question became an opportunity to attack them in multiple ways and in multiple rounds. Also this week; research request on the Satanic Panic, events and more.

Leaning into Imbolc: a focus on hearth and home

Brigid’s influence here is far-reaching, as is the gentle determination of her spirit. I believe that it is her nature to be more pleased by action than by words or acts of worship, and across the many forms she takes or names she holds, she is aware and approving of the renewal of interest in what some consider a simpler life.

Hard Candy Christmas

Some of us have gone numb and non-functional; others are deep in the season and lighting candles, decorating trees, celebrating the return of the Sun, and practicing so many other traditions and acts of faith and love that this writer cannot name them all. I, myself, am holding space in the in-between this year.

The People’s Tree

On November 2, the evergreen tree that will grace the west lawn of the White House at U.S. capitol was harvested from Pisgah Forest. Tonight, Ruby, the red spruce was lit up for the first time.