This may be of interest to some of our readers who incorporate Native American or other shamanic practices into their spiritual path. There has been a ban in place for ... Read More

Lord Moncrieff, the owner of Tullibole Castle in Kinross, Scotland, has an interesting new project developing on his grounds. He's building a maze to honor those executed for witchcraft by ... Read More

Thanks to a post in one of our Discussion Forum threads, I was inspired to write up this FAQ. A Forum member asked what sort of holidays people celebrated outside ... Read More

The UK Telegraph writes that a new religious studies course in Great Britain will focus on educating students about religious diversity. Not only with the course cover non-mainstream faiths like ... Read More

From the Arkansas Times, Damien Echols has filed a request for a brand new trial, citing the lack of DNA evidence and misconduct by jurors as a reason for wrongful ... Read More

Send in your tattoo pics!© Patti Wigington 2008 Our Pagan Tattoo Gallery continues to grow! I've received nearly forty awesome photos of people's Pagan and Wiccan-themed body art so far. Be ... Read More

It's been several years since the death of Wiccan author Scott Cunningham in 1993, and it never fails to amaze me how much of an impact his books have had ... Read More

Thanks to Rafe and a few other folks for sending this in. Archaeology magazine's March/April issue features an article on the grave of a 12,000-year-old female shaman, whose body was ... Read More

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Joseph Campbell, folklorist and author. Born in 1904, Campbell was the one who itemized the concept of the "hero's journey" in folklore ... Read More

Image © Patti Wigington 2009 Spring Flower Magic Spring Full Moon Ritual Prayers to the Goddesses of Spring More Wordless Wednesday photos at About.com and the Wordless Wednesday Home Blog.

A reader writes in, "I live in a small southern town smack in the middle of the Bible belt. I am Wiccan, raising my 2 year old the same... Anyway, ... Read More

This is something I'd read about once before, but had sort of forgotten about until another Guide tipped me off. The Earth Hour project is something that is taking place ... Read More

Here's one from St. Augustine, Florida. It appears that every year, the third graders at the Webster School put on a musical program. This year, the program included a song ... Read More

I get a lot of emails from readers looking for Pagan and Wiccan craft ideas, and Connie Barwick, our About.com Guide to Cross-stitch has just put together an awesome gallery ... Read More

The Tech Gods at About.com have just added a new feature for us Guides to use, and the great thing is that it allows you readers to contribute to the ... Read More

Pagan Moonbeams is a website for Pagan homeschoolers, and they always have a ton of great resources available. This Sabbat is no exception -- they've got their Ostara issue up ... Read More

I wanted to share with you an email I got recently, in the hopes that it will help to educate some of our non-Pagan friends a little bit. From the ... Read More

So Ostara's here once more, and that means Spring has officially arrived, at least on the calendar. It's a time of balance, of equal parts dark and light. It's the ... Read More

Did you know that Arbor Day is coming up on April 24? Just a little over a month away -- and in some areas, it's already time to start thinking ... Read More

We frequently read about cases from underdeveloped nations in which people are accused of witchcraft and sorcery, and then suscepted to all kinds of horrible punishments. From the child witches ... Read More

Do you have an Ostara altar set up? If you'd like to share a photo of yours with the rest of us, you can send it in as a jpg ... Read More

Reader Jan from Canada writes in with an interesting question stemming from her genealogy research. She says, "I was wondering if you could shed some light on the group "Vine ... Read More

A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the sad case of a teenage girl whose headless body was buried outside the churchyard in Hoo St. Werburgh in Kent. The ... Read More

I spent the weekend doing readings at the Gift of Light Expo, and as always, it was a fantastic experience! A special hello to Ren, Anthony, Cate, and to Nathan ... Read More

Spring equinox is a time for fertility and sowing seeds, and so nature's fertility goes a little crazy. In medieval societies in Europe, the March hare was viewed as a ... Read More

St. Patrick eliminated Paganism from Ireland© Getty Images St. Patrick's Day is approaching, as you've probably noticed if you live in the US or one of the other countries that makes ... Read More

March 15 is a date known as the "Ides", and has gained notoriety thanks in no small part to the assassination of Julius Caesar. William Shakespeare immortalized the date in ... Read More

The Modesto Bee has an interesting profile piece on the Universal Life Church, which is well known in Pagan circles. In 1962, the ULC began offering clergy ordinations by mail, ... Read More

This 9-foot-high sculpture sits at 7 World Trade Center© Patti Wigington 2006 Spring Flower Magic The Language of Flowers More Wordless Wednesday photos at About.com and the Wordless Wednesday Home Blog.

For all you fans of J.K. Rowling and her boy wizard, a limited-edition first run printing of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone just sold at auction for $19,000. The ... Read More

The New York Times (About.com's parent organization) reports on a new study in which scientists tried to figure out which parts of our brains connect to our spirituality. Apparently, it's ... Read More

One of the great debates in the Wiccan and Pagan community is that of whether or not one should join a coven versus remaining as a solitary practitioner. Although it's ... Read More

In a follow-up to last year's Pew Report, this year we have the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) results being released today. It looks like most of the Really Big ... Read More

From Darwin, Australia, comes the story of a significant amount of discontent over a new police station that has been built on a piece of land sacred to indigenous peoples. ... Read More

If you're in the Central Ohio area, stop in next weekend, March 14 & 15, and visit me at the 7th Annual Gift of Light Expo! It's a great festival ... Read More

It's no secret that many people in the metaphysical community have embraced the power of positive thinking. After all, author Rhonda Byrne made a fortune off The Secret, in which ... Read More

Happy birthday blessings to Laurie Cabot, the Grande Dame of Salem's witchy society! Laurie has practiced witchcraft for over four decades and is the founder of the Cabot Tradition. She ... Read More

Reader MombaiMama says, "A group of friends have formed a sort of loose-knit coven/study group, and we'd like to begin holding rituals to celebrate the Sabbats. The problem is that ... Read More

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you're probably wondering if spring is ever going to get here! This month's full moon is the Storm Moon, and it's no surprise ... Read More

Newsweek's On Faith column probes the following question: In tough times, do those of us who handled our finances responsibly have a moral obligation to bail out those of us ... Read More

We often discuss stories here on the blog that related to the issues of civil and religious rights, and many times the focus becomes a question of: where does one ... Read More

Here we go again. I think there's an unwritten rule in mainstream journalism that whenever anything weird happens that could probably be attributed to nutcases and attention whores, it's far ... Read More

Last month when legislators took office in Pennsylvania, they were each treated to a brand new personally-embossed Bible for their inauguration, and it set the state back about thirteen grand. ... Read More

From Kent Online comes the story of a 14th-century skeleton found beneath a holly tree, in unconsecrated ground. The remains, which appear to be that of a teen girl, were ... Read More

Over in the Discussion Forums, we often get Seekers dropping by with questions about what to do and how to do it. Much of this includes queries about how to ... Read More

The New York Times (About.com's parent company) reports that despite efforts by the military to "enforce tougher restrictions on proselytizing and religious bias," there's still an undercurrent of hostility towards ... Read More

© Raine Hill, used with permission There's often a lot of talk here on the blog about the shortage of books available for kids in Pagan and Wiccan families. Fortunately, author ... Read More

This interesting piece out of Brisbane, Australia, highlights a fundamentalist church that actively recruits teens and young twenty-somethings, and then requires them to put religion over family needs or risk ... Read More