Light One Candle

Last updated on: December 21, 2015 at 6:47 am By Amy Beltaine

The ability to sink into the darkness of this season is one of the gifts of Pagan paths. The chill, the hunger, and the loss that is so hard to live through is also a source of great gifts. Read more

A Daily Pagan Practice for the Year

Last updated on: December 18, 2015 at 5:00 am By Allison Ehrman

I put together a Wheel of the Year Plan for myself, based on my interpretation of the pagan calendar. I hope to fine tune it each year as I pick up new practices and activities. Read more

Denton CUUPS Cancels Yule Celebration

Last updated on: December 17, 2015 at 6:57 am By John Beckett

CUUPS Chapter in Texas cancels Yule Celebration after arson hits their church a few days before the ritual. Read more

Revelations of Winter Solstice

Last updated on: December 16, 2015 at 5:01 am By Rev. Catharine Clarenbach

…. Seek Me in the light that is in the darkness and seek Me in the darkness itself. And know that your seeking and yearning will not avail you unless you know the Mystery—that if you do not find what you seek within yourself, you will never find it without. For behold, I have been with you from the beginning and I am that which is attained at the end of desire. ~~ J. D. White after D. Valiente On... Read more

Ahura Mazda

Last updated on: December 15, 2015 at 5:00 am By Dan Harper

Dan Harper writes about the oldest existing monotheist religion, Zoroastrianism and its god Ahura Mazda. Read more

To Be A Witch Is To Bend And Shape

Last updated on: December 13, 2015 at 11:47 pm By Valerie Freseman

Earth-centered: what does it really mean? To me the term means that there will always be Christmas and Easter Christians, but also Samhain and Beltane pagans. Read more

Light a Candle To Begin

Last updated on: December 11, 2015 at 5:00 am By Alison Leigh Lilly

Alison Leigh Lily writes about navigating the holidays in a multi-faith extended family, "I settle down to sleep on the edge of that thriving, stubborn little village of Paganism murmuring among the rolling hills. But in the distance, the city glows with memory and a kind of longing sadness on the horizon." Read more

On a Starry Night

Last updated on: December 10, 2015 at 5:00 am By Meghann Robern

It was one of the few times in my life that I have experienced simultaneous immanence and transcendence. I had the sense of the full power within me, the life force of my individual essence and its physical, emotional, and mental forms, and the ability to bend the arc of the universe towards justice. Read more

Tan'gun

Last updated on: December 8, 2015 at 5:00 am By Dan Harper

Taejonggyo, a new religious movement in Korea, worships Tan’gun, the legendary founder of the first Korean kingdom. Read more

Joy: The Persistent Ally

Last updated on: December 7, 2015 at 5:00 am By Liz Fisher

Betty is one of the most Joyous people I have known. This does not mean that life has been easy for her or that she has never experienced deep melancholy or sadness over personal difficulties or the inequities visited on so many innocent people. Read more