Mercury retrograde and a nuanced look at divination
Let’s get one thing straight. Despite people telling you otherwise, Mercury is not in retrograde orbit right now–nor has it ever been. Mercury retrograde is an optical…
Culture
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The Tailteann Games and Lughnasadh
One hundred years ago today, the fledgling Irish Free State established the Tailteann Games for the first time in at least eight hundred years. You may not…
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Recreating a tattoo from the “Siberian Ice Maiden?” I’m not so sure about that.
There has been a lot of buzz about the frozen body of a 2,500 year old Pazyryk woman, known popularly as the “Siberian Ice Maiden.” She was…
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The Samhain celebrated by the ancient Irish and Scottish
Let us welcome the Irish and Scottish fire holiday of Samhain! Forms of this ancient Celtic festival have spread around the world, particularly with Halloween. Such popularity…
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Wheel of the Year criticisms peak at Autumn Equinox
Due to a rather strange set of circumstances, Wheel of the Year criticisms are now part and parcel of the Autumn Equinox tradition. And I’m all for…
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Celtic erasure and how my fellow Pagans often unwittingly contribute to it
Up until recently, I wouldn’t have considered using the phrase “Celtic erasure.” Certainly, growing up in Chicago, “Celtic” was everywhere. St. Patrick’s Day—at least the Chicago-several-generations-removed-from-Ireland version—was…
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Bealtainn calling January: How my Scottish heritage charmed me back to Paganism
I hit a wall on January 8, 2020, but maybe that was the best thing to happen to me in a long time. I was burned out…