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In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Ostara and Mabon blessings across the hemispheres. We sadly mark the passing of KIVA founder and lead singer Ariana Lightningstorm. A young champion of Indigenous rights prompts Cornell to reverse course. Star shares her Tarot of the Week, and we offer songs for the season.
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes (and its long one), Equinox Blessings to our readers, Covenant of the Goddess announces new leadership, congratulations to the TempleFest team, Pagan Pride Events across the country, musical events starting tonight, and more.
Over the last few months, I have been exploring definitions of what makes a hard winter. How do I define that experience? Sometimes I stayed awake at night, turning thoughts in my head, worrying at this topic like a child poking a loose tooth with her tongue.
The performance of the Eleusinian Mysteries in Eleusis draws inspiration from traditions that have their roots in ancient Greece, offering modern Pagans a window to the past in the celebration of Spring.
TWH – This week marks the celebration of the vernal (spring) equinox and the astronomical beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere. The actual equinox occurs Tuesday, Mar. 20 at 12:15 am EDT (10:29 UTC). At the same time in the southern hemisphere, it will be the autumnal equinox, and the beginning of the fall season. Many Pagans, Heathens, and polytheists celebrate the spring equinox as Ostara, Lady Day, Shubun-sai, or simply the coming of spring.