The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/wicca/page/2)
Fire burns as long as we take care of it, recognize what it needs, and how to keep it alive. We can’t do it the same way during summer and winter. Raven Grimassi also kept this in mind. A tradition doesn’t stay frozen in time, but grows with its members as they shape its ideas and work.
For most holidays we write a whole new ritual and there’s no guarantee that any particular element will recur from year to year. I’ve been to Ostaras without eggs and Samhains without the names of the dead. But I’ve never been to a Beltane without the Maypole. That one remains.
We were finally finding a way into the grooves of the Akashic record: the information superhighway was the Force, it was the oversoul, and we paid for it by the minute. One of the very first things I ever searched for on Alta Vista was Witchcraft.
Almost immediately the charges of “Oathbreaker” began to surface, for I had dared to speak out against a beloved elder. Now I was fair game for attack, verbally and magically. This was the beginning of what would later morph into targeted harassment. In the midst of this, my husband mentioned the situation to a mundane co-worker who replied, “Dude, you’re in a cult!”
As ICE expands enforcement, undocumented practitioners of minority religions worry whether they will have time to secure their consecrated items or even be allowed to take them during deportation, highlighting concerns over religious freedom and immigrant rights.
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