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Aries Full Moon, Libra Solar Festival October 2019 Cosmic Weather Forecast
By Curtis Lang with Jane Sherry on Oct 11, 2019
This Full Moon week a Cardinal T-Square pits the Sun-Moon Libra-Aries axis against the Pluto-Saturn conjunction in Capricorn. That indicates existential crises demanding long-term planning and comprehensive changes to our social structures and individual lifestyles to prevent short to medium term catastrophes and insure long-term survival for our civilization and for ourselves.
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Category: Cosmic Weather Forecast
Tags: astrological forecasts, Capricorn Stellium 2020, crisis of human civilization, environmental crisis/solutions, geopolitics, global financial crisis, global news, pagan, recipes, wicca
Happy Halloween, Samhain and Diwali
By Curtis Lang with Jane Sherry on Oct 9, 2019
Pagan, earth-centered religions see the Divine manifest in Nature and all of Creation, believe in the concept of immanence (the Goddess/God within), believe in the spirit which resides in all things seen and unseen and in unending cycles of birth, growth, death and renewal.
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Category: Cosmic Weather Forecast
Tags: cross-quarter-days, diwali, foods for healing, great goddess, halloween, recipes, samhain, wicca
A Maypole in Prison
By Starhawk on May 1, 2016
There are a surprising number of Pagans in prison—something like 20,000 in the U.S. Most of them become Pagan while they’re incarcerated. While the numbers of Christians are higher, the Pagans have some of the highest numbers of active, participating members of any religious group—and are among the least served, with no paid chaplains and endless barriers for volunteers.
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Category: Cosmic Weather Forecast
Tags: geopolitics, global news, great goddess, pagan, wicca, wise woman ways
Jane's Lammas 2012 Garden Report- We Honor Our Mother and Her Harvest
By Jane Sherry on Aug 1, 2012
Mother, today we celebrate the unity of the human family. Mother, we ask your forgiveness, for our destructive ways. Mother,we seek today to learn to forgive one another. Help us, Mother, to learn to love you as the old ones loved you, so that we may heal ourselves and our environment.
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Category: Jane's Garden Report
Tags: cross-quarter-days, environmental crisis/solutions, foods for healing, great goddess, organic farming/gardening, pagan, wicca
A Maypole in Prison -- Starhawk Defends Pagans' Right to Worship
By Starhawk on Aug 11, 2011
There are a surprising number of Pagans in prison—something like 20,000 in the U.S. Most of them become Pagan while they’re incarcerated. While the numbers of Christians are higher, the Pagans have some of the highest numbers of active, participating members of any religious group—and are among the least served, with no paid chaplains and endless barriers for volunteers.
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Category: Global News
Tags: pagan, wicca, wise woman ways
Meltdown Strategies: Financial Disaster and Climate Change
By Starhawk on Jun 23, 2009
The environment is not an afterthought: it’s the ground of economy, security and survival. Environmental protection, environmental justice and regeneration must be our top priorities, because they are the only sound foundation for every other endeavor.
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Category: Global News
Tags: crisis of human civilization, environmental crisis/solutions, global financial crisis, pagan, wicca, wise woman ways
Witches Abhor Torture
By Starhawk on Jun 12, 2009
Witches abhor torture. We still remember the Burning Times, the campaign of torture and persecution carried out throughout Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries against anyone accused of Witchcraft or heresy.
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Category: Global News
Tags: geopolitics, great goddess, wicca, wise woman ways
The Quickening of the Year
By Jane Sherry with Curtis Lang on Feb 3, 2009
Candlemas is one of my favorite times of year, the time when in the depths of winter, I can dream of spring again, when the days wax in light & the birds return to our yard looking for food. Candlemas is the promise of the quickening not only of the seasonal year, but also the promise of desires' fulfillment.
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Category: Jane's Garden Report
Tags: candlemas, cross-quarter-days, great goddess, wicca
Candlemas 2007 Newsletter
By Curtis Lang and Jane Sherry on Feb 7, 2007
Today is Candlemas, the Feast of Imbolc, the Celebration of the Solar Festival of Aquarius and the Full Moon is in Leo. With Saturn retrograde and opposing Neptune, we need extra patience, strength and tranquility.
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Category: Cosmic Weather Forecast
Tags: astrological forecasts, candlemas, cross-quarter-days, great goddess, meditation, pagan, wicca, wise woman ways
Toward an Activist Sprituality
By Starhawk on Sep 21, 2003
The integration of magic and activism sometimes means bringing magic into an action -- doing a spiral dance in the midst of the tear gas of Quebec City, or in Grand Central station surrounded by riot cops. It might mean starting our strategic planning with a trance or a Tarot reading, or invoking Water as we work against the privatization of water resources.
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Category: Global News
Tags: pagan, people power, US politics, wicca, wise woman ways
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