‘Tis the Season: Celebrating Yule
Thanksgiving is over, so I can legitimately put on the holiday music, pull out the garlands and set a date for getting a tree. (This weekend. Because why wait?) Yule (Jul) is the most important holiday of the Heathen calendar. It’s multi-day celebration that can last up to twelve days (“On the first day of...
May 2nd is International Pagan Coming Out Day
A few months ago, Jax made a compelling case for coming out of the broom closet. The folks at International Pagan Coming Out Day (IPCOD) agree with her thesis! IPCOD is not just a day, it is a non-profit organization that promotes a positive image of paganism and offers advice on how to transition from...
Introduction to The Pagan Newswire Collective
When Jax and I first started this blog, we didn’t really think we would post political commentary. Ah, we were so young and naive 6 months ago! Well, maybe not young. [Jax’s voice in GG’s head, “Speak for yourself!â€] And not exactly naive. We just didn’t know what direction the blog would take. Yes, we...
GG Gives You Science, I Give You Unfounded Meditations on the Nature of Chaos, AKA WTF is Yule?
Serious UPG* alert. There are 5,000,000,000,001 holidays this month. (I counted.) And as every pagan knows, the greeting “Happy Christmakwanzakah†doesn’t account for the one thing most December holidays center around – the solstice. As GG pointed out earlier this week, the solstice is the longest night of the year. Long ago when I realized...
