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By Starhawk Ten years ago tonight, I was sitting in a spokescouncil in a warehouse in downtown Seattle, surrounded by a sea of dreadlocked youth, preparing to rise at dawn and hit the streets the next morning. Was it that night or the next I went with my friends Margo Adair and Bill Aall with . . . → Read More: November 30–10 Years Since Seattle: Climate Change Action by Zsuzsanna E. Budapest Before all else, know that we are always in deep and energetic transformation. Always. Not just at the end of a millennium, but in the middle of it and at the start of it – always. These constant transformations do not depend on our particular way of counting of time: a . . . → Read More: Harmonizing with the Fates By Ruby Sara Greetings, best beloveds, from the gray and waning light of the pretty-wild-urban midwest. I have not said much these past few weeks, having miles to go before I sleep and all that business…the business of bread and ritual and tables and friends. But for the moment, there is a silence and a . . . → Read More: Riddle and Meditation: Gods by Andrah Wyrdfire Dorothy Crinshaw of the Indianapolis Public Schools was able to return a phone call made last week to her office before Thanksgiving regarding IPS censoring Pagan/Wiccan and Atheistic content and was able to answer a few questions. When asked if she could verify whether or not IPS was censoring Pagan/Wiccan (alternative spirituality) . . . → Read More: Public Schools response to internet censorship Do you know that we had supposed witches and devils here in Virginia long before they appeared up in Massachusetts? When those three small ships, the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery, arrived off the coast of Virginia in April of 1607, they brought with them 104 English men and boys. The settlers themselves . . . → Read More: Early witches in Hampton Roads by Jason Pitzl-Waters The Covenant of the Goddess (aka C.O.G.), an international organization of autonomous Wiccan groups and solitaries, has started its first official blog in order to spotlight its extensive interfaith work. “I am happy to anounce that The Covenant of the Goddess has started a new National Interfaith Representative’s Blog. Four of our . . . → Read More: C.O.G.’s Interfaith Work By Swanscot In the British Isles the rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) has a long and still popular history in folklore as a tree which protects against witchcraft and evil spirits. The physical characteristics of the tree may have contributed to its protective reputation, including the tiny five pointed star or pentagram on each berry opposite . . . → Read More: The magical Rowan tree By Monte Whaley Even in third grade, Susan Devan Harness knew she didn’t belong in the white world. She already was being called “squaw girl” by classmates. Harness drew suspicious stares and was followed by employees every time she entered a store in the Montana town where she was raised. But it wasn’t until she . . . → Read More: Forcibly adopted American Indians torn between cultures By Andy Guerriero We like to feel superior to the people who lived centuries ago, what with their shitty mud huts and curing colds by drilling a hole in their skulls. But we have to give them credit: They left behind some artifacts that have left the smartest of modern scientists scratching their heads. For . . . → Read More: 6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can’t Explain By ROBERT FERGUSON Mention the Vikings and most people will immediately think of horned helmets, blood eagles, and grizzled barbarians raiding and pillaging their way across the seven seas. It’s a cliché, of course, but one embedded with an element of truth. During the early years of the Viking Age (circa 800–1100) the Vikings . . . → Read More: True Romantics Wore Horns |
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