Pagan Community Notes: Week of April 17, 2025

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: COVR announces its 2025 award nominees; Amnesty International calls for urgent action in Ghana; and a new heritage trail in Essex explores the history of the witch trials. Plus: Star’s Tarot for the week, and very clever crows- Q.E.D.

Unleash the Hounds (link roundup)

There are lots of articles and essays of interest to modern Pagans and Heathens out there, more than our team can write about in depth in any given week. Therefore, the Wild Hunt must unleash the hounds in order to round them all up. 

For those readers following the Dakota pipeline story, the Standing Rock Sioux were handed their first legal victory June 14. Judge James Boasberg “said that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed to perform an adequate study of the pipeline’s environmental consequences when it first approved its construction.” However, that is not the end of the struggle. The court did not stop construction altogether, but rather paused it until a proper study was done and could be evaluated.