For Earth Day, we offer up this humble gift as a free download. Hymn to Gaia/Children of Gaia by Half Pagan We are mere vessels,…
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The vernal equinox approaches. Time to step into the light! SECULAR SPIRITUALITY: Author Bart Everson will participate in a discussion with the theme “Can we derive…
And so the season of madness begins again.
I just came across an intriguing new article by Cynthia Green on JSTOR Daily. I learned plenty. It also contains the following zinger:
For some reason, we don’t celebrate Twelfth Night anymore.
In response, I can only paraphrase Bugs Bunny:
She don’t know us very well, do she?
EVENT: Sunday, July 9, 2017, 4-6pm at The Venue, 114 S Grant, Bloomington, Indiana This summer, join me for a community discussion on the question,…
Just in time for May Day — I’m proud to announce the launch of NaturalPagans.com, a new site that aggregates relevant postings from various bloggers…
I’m honored to have work featured in Return to Mago. It’s an online magazine dedicated to “the Primordial Knowing originating from the Great Goddess, Mago.” Here’s more…
And so the season of madness begins again. If you want to understand America, study Christmas. If you want to understand New Orleans, study Mardi…
It’s almost that time of year again, so I thought I’d share this original song for the winter solstice. It may not be a genius…
Tonight is Twelfth Night, if you know how to count like a New Orleanian. Everybody’s heard of the Twelve Days of Christmas, but few people…
Yo, check my mandala. (I’ve always wanted to say that.) It’s the autumnal equinox again, an event I’ve celebrated now six years running, a time…
Today is International Mother Earth Day. Yes, that’s the official name as designated by the United Nations. And isn’t that a more interesting, more compelling,…
This year the vernal equinox coincides with a supermoon and a solar eclipse. We won’t be able to see the eclipse from our part of…
For over a year I’ve been writing a series of short essays on a cycle of holidays, starting with the winter solstice. Now here we…
October greetings. I hope you will take a few moments to read the latest installment of my column, “The New Spooky.”
It’s about that time. Yeah, you know what I’m talking about: the equinox. No, not that equinox — the other one. I thought I had little…
When is Lammas anyhow? Though usually observed on August 1, I recently learned that August 6 is known as “Old Lammas.” I think that might…
A fresh mix for that most obscure of holidays. You should listen to this sometime in the next week or so, preferably whilst fashioning corn…
Just in time for the summer solstice, my article “Flowers to Flame” has been published on Humanistic Paganism. I think this may the best thing…
As I researched the Haymarket Affair and the history of May Day in America, it was interesting to learn that Bohemian anarchists played a prominent…
Ten years ago today I started writing here at b.rox. I didn’t give much thought to the content of that first post, in terms of…