The Wild Hunt News

Pagan Community Notes for July 30, 2026 In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Saturn officially enters retrograde (at least from Earth’s point of view), we celebrate Lughnasadh, Star shares the Tarot of the Week, and a new essay explores the long history of suspicion directed toward wealthy, independent women labeled as “witches.” https://wildhunt.org/2026/07/pagan-community-notes-week-of-july-30-2026.html #pagan #paganism #witchcraft #astrology #saturnretrograde #tarot #witches #lughnasadh #lammas

The Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans celebrated its 40th anniversary in Salem, Massachusetts, honoring four decades of Earth-centered ministry, interfaith engagement, and community building while reflecting on religious liberty, resilience, and the movement’s future. https://wildhunt.org/2026/07/cuups-marks-40-years-of-building-pagan-community.html #pagan #witchcraft #CUUPS #covenantofunitarianuniversalistpagans #anniversary #convocation #historicsalem

Pagan Community Notes for July 9, 2026 In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: CUUPS Convocation turns 40, Hexed stirs fresh controversy, Fast Company and Vogue shine a spotlight on modern witchcraft, Star shares her Tarot of the Week… “Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it.” https://wildhunt.org/2026/07/pagan-community-notes-week-of-july-9-2026.html #pagan #paganism #fastcompany #occult #witchcraft #metaphysicalshop #vogue #hexed #disney #cuups #tarot

A herd of wild horses in California are said to have damaged the local ecosystem. A federal plan to remove the horses is being challenged by an Indigenous tribe that claims the government has not consulted them as required by law. https://wildhunt.org/2026/07/fate-of-wild-horses-left-unclear-as-indigenous-tribe-files-complaint-against-their-removal.html #pagan #wildlife #wildhorses #monolake #indigenous #ecology #paiute #nationalhistoricprotectionact

A group of Heathen organizations writes in to reiterate their opposition to Folkish Heathenry and announce their ongoing coalition for inclusive Heathenry. https://wildhunt.org/2026/07/opinion-no-frith-with-folkism.html #pagan #heathen #asatru #thetroth #frith #folkism #politics

“We tell the myths out of context, reinterpret the events through the lenses of our time, reinterpret the people to be the kinds of heroes we want,” writes Luke Babb.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/05/ithaca-bound.html

#pagan #witchcraft #odyssey #Heathen #odysseus #homer #greekmythology #myths

Pagan Community Notes for May 7, 2026:

In this week's Pagan Community Notes: we feature a wrap-up of the Beltane Fire Festival and a look at the growing visibility of Paganism in Maine. We also mark National Public Gardens Week and International Migratory Bird Day, celebrate an elevation within Aquarian Tabernacle Church, and sadly honor a crossing of the Veil. Star also shares her Tarot of the Week.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/05/pagan-community-notes-week-of-may-7-2026.html

#pagan #witchcraft #beltane #firefestival #paganism #tarot #ATC

The Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism announced the discovery of a statue of the goddess Athena from the Augustinian period that is nearly two meters tall in the ancient city of Laodikeia.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/04/two-thousand-year-old-statue-of-athena-discovered-in-turkey.html

#pagan #archaeology #turkey #athene #athena #homer #odyssey

Pagan Community Notes for April 23, 2026:

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Woolston-Steen Theological Seminary announces its graduating class; a federal judge sides with Texas on allowing the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms; Star’s Tarot of the Week; and new music from Alexian.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/04/pagan-community-notes-week-of-april-23-2026.html

#pagan #pentacle #militaryveterans #woolstonsteentheologicalseminary #10Commandments #tarot #witchcraft #alexian

“This is a deck that brings a lot of innocence and simplicity to the readings I use it for,” says @AlanDDAuthor@mastodon.social “not as much as if an elementary school girl was telling me what to do, but more through a connection to my own inner child.”

https://wildhunt.org/2026/04/cardcaptor-sakura-and-teaching-magic-to-the-children.html

#pagan #cardcaptorsakura #anime #tarot #oraclecards #clowcards #innerchild #manga #nostalgia #paganchildren

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Russians turn to Witchcraft amid uncertainty, new research on happiness (is it Witchcraft?), a remembrance of elder and Witch Margot Adler, we mark the crossing of the Veil for Ted Gill, Star’s Tarot of the Week, and Earth Day events.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/04/pagan-community-notes-week-of-april-16-2026.html

#pagan #margotadler #witchcraft #russia #tarot #earthday

At 40, the Spring Mysteries Festival remains a distinctive Pagan gathering, offering an intense, immersive ritual experience that challenges participants to move beyond observation and inhabit the sacred story of Persephone’s transformation through devotion, embodiment, and sustained communal engagement.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/04/spring-mysteries-festival-marks-40-years-of-ecstatic-immersive-ritual.html

#pagan #springmysteries #festivalreview #aquariantabernaclechurch #immersion #pagangatherings #persephone #demeter

In 2020, Lauren Parker was driving through the desert listening to David Bowie’s 1976 album “Station to Station,” starring one of Bowie’s most haunting characters, the Thin White Duke. “I didn’t even know if I liked the album,” she writes. “I just couldn’t shake it.”

https://wildhunt.org/2026/03/one-magical-movement-a-poets-occult-journey-with-david-bowie.html

#pagan #witchcraft #davidbowie #musicreview #poetry #blackstar #kabballah #stationtostation #treeoflife #qabalah

[Review] Lyonel Perabo reviews Chloe Zhao’s film, a moody, witchy exploration of grief and art that incorporates the medieval Nine Herbs Charm into its story of Agnes Hathaway and William Shakespeare.

Warning: spoilers ahead!

https://wildhunt.org/2026/02/a-witchs-harrowing-sorrow-a-review-of-hamnet.html

#pagan #witchcraft #moviereview #hamnet #shakespeare #witchcore #herblore #grief

“Something that awestruck me is the wide variety of languages in this record,” writes Alan U. Dalul, “including German, English, Latin, Greek, Hungarian, and more. We are in deep need of diversity, of union, which this record celebrates through language and heritage.”

https://wildhunt.org/2026/02/review-fauns-hex-is-true-musical-witchcraft.html

#pagan #witchcraft #faun #hex #musicreview