aging
Column: Keeping Time
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In an essay filled with the blooming imagery of her garden, Sheri Barker considers time and how we move thorugh it.
Paganism
Column: May We Touch the Past?
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Weekend editor Eric O. Scott comments on the recent defacement of Stoney Littleton Long Barrow and the relationship of Pagans to ancient sites.
apocalypse
Column: The Ashes of the Old
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As wildfires rage across the western United States, Eric O. Scott ponders the role of prayer, magick, and circular time in finding a way out of this current destructive stage of the world.
Editorial
Column: Soup for the Land Wights
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Pagan Perspectives
Today’s column comes from your humble Weekend Editor, Eric O. Scott. Eric was raised by witches. He has a PhD in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Missouri and has written for The Wild Hunt since 2012. The Wild Hunt always welcomes submissions for our weekend section. Please send queries to eric@wildhunt.org.
Paganism
Column: The Voodoo Spiritual Temple and the Accumulation of Magick
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I hold in my hands a skull. It has the same terra cotta color as a flower pot, and the same kind of weight. White paint has been flecked across its surface; sigils have been painted. The lines rise up from the surface of the skull such that with closed eyes I can still run my fingers across the surface and know whose vévé I am tracing. Start at the base of the skull, the cross flanked by coffins: that’s Baron Samedi.