Pagan Community Notes: Week of July 3, 2023

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, Rev. Selena Fox and Circle Sanctuary help resist attacks on LGBTQI+ rights including an event tonight, July’s supermoon, dolphin baby talk (what more do you want?), upcoming events and more news.

A Blessed Spring Equinox

Today is the vernal (spring) equinox. It is the astronomical beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Wiccans, Heathens, Polytheists and various modern Pagans celebrate this day as Ostara, Lady Day, Shubun-sai, or simply the spring equinox (autumnal equinox for our friends in the Southern Hemisphere.) Other Spring festivals and holidays, include Holi or the Hindu festival of color, Higan in Japan, Nowruz or New Year on the Persian calendar, the Christian Easter and Jewish Passover. And there are many others. This year’s vernal equinox, which will occur today at 6:45 pm (EDT), will coincide with two other astronomical events: a solar eclipse and a supermoon.