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Winter Solstice The Winter Solstice was important to many different cultures in times past. It really marked the passage of seasons and marked a time of celebration for the winter months, it was finally the time to rest at least in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere it marked the time of summer and sunshine filled days. The Solstice celebrations are a hard thing to put a time line on without knowing the exact date the Earth was born. But as far back as recorded history goes, the Winter Solstice, no matter which hemisphere you lived in, was an important event. For our purpose here, we will focus on…

Wise Woman Ways to Prevent Depression The dark months are a time of rest and renewal, not a time of high energy. The fairies return to their underground homes at Halloween and return aboveground on May Day. Give in to the slower pace of the winter. Expect less of yourself; enjoy more time in bed. Stop fighting the dark. Let it be deep and nourishing. Before electric lights, humans slept twelve hours a day during the winter. Recognize the softer energy of contemplation and enjoy it, just as you do the active energy of summer. Herb tonics can help us lighten up and stay healthier all winter. My favorite winter…

Merry Meet! I am new here at PaganPages.org and I am looking forward to this new experience. I feel an introduction is the best place to start. My name is Elizabeth Cusaac and my craft name is MeadowMoon. I was born in Florence, SC on January 18, 1977. I still live in South Carolina with my husband of 14 years and two sons, ages 13 and 8. We were fortunate enough to move to the country in 2006. This move brought about many positive changes in all of our lives. I began homeschooling my sons in 2008 which led me to work from home. As far as the spiritual changes…

Herbs: marjoram, holy thistle, nuts and cones Colors: brilliant white, blue-violet, black Flowers: carnation, crocus, snow drop Scents: musk, mimosa Stones: garnet, onyx, jet, chrysoprase Trees: birch Animals: fox, coyote Birds: pheasant, blue jay Spirits:  gnomes & brownies Deities: Freya (Norse); Innana, Sin and Antu (Sumeria); Saravati (Hindu); Hera and Irene (Greece); Ch’ang-O (China); Felicitas; Janus, Pax and Venus (Rome) Power Areas: Sluggish, below the surface, beginning and conceiving, protection, reversing spells, Conserve energy by working on your own personal problems that involve no one else. Time to work on new goals.

The Dark Feminine as presented in a classical Persian and Arabic Romance Story. The “Story of Laylah and Mayjun” is a Middle Eastern Tale that has many forms. This most interesting of Middle Eastern Love Stories was known throughout the World and actually provided the basis for Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”, as well as being the inspiration for Eric Clapton’s songs “Laylah” and “I am yours”. This Story is a concealed Mystery teaching on the Divine Feminine and it begins with the fact that “Laylah” means “Night” in virtually all of the Semetic languages. So, we begin to see upon further examination of the primary characters, that “Laylah” is in…

“I don’t really know how religion works as a functioning part of a normal life. It is still something separate, something different, something set aside.” – Juni, Living the Path of Mist Practicing the Daily Simple One conviction that has led me so assuredly onto and along the Druid path is the conviction that no amount of philosophizing and debate can make up for a lack of daily, practical work in the spiritual life. It’s easy to forget that any one system can start to seem like the single Truth if you spend too much time within it, and not enough time allowing your body and its natural energies free…

Merry Meet & A Merry Yule to you all!!  We hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season!! This issue of PaganPages is packed full of good reading. A review on Raven Grimassi’s Book The Cauldron of Memory An interview with Anne Newkirk Niven publisher of PanGaia, Crone, And Witches & Pagans Magazines. Looking for ideas on what to make this holiday?  Try Hearthkeepers delicious ideas in her column HearthBeats: Notes from a Kitchen Witch.  Yummy!! Monthly Horoscope December Monthly horoscope 2009 Sagittarius & Capricorn Sagittarians while you generally hate selfish and mean actions, your life’s goal is to help others, but you dislike those who persistently ask for…

She lives in Forest Grove, Oregon, with her husband and three sons. Anne Newkirk Niven happens to be a great inspiration to me in my Pagan and Magical studies, on the top on my people who inspire me list. I first encountered Anne’s work directly as an Editor and Pagan publisher, when I sent in one of my articles/interviews as a contribution to one of her magazines. She mercilessly stole the article from the magazine I submitted it to, and placed it in another one of her magazines! (this is a true story and switching the article to the other magazine is something I am forever grateful for, of course!)…

Pagan theology:  roots and influences So I’m teaching a class “Paganism as a Religious Tradition” and the other night I wanted to cover the progression of modern Paganism from its inception with Gardner to the present.  While that’s a big task, its’ not as big as it seems; I find that many of the Pagans I encounter are not well informed about the roots of our faith, despite a very large number of books on the subject [1].  So a lot of detail and fippery was just as likely to overwhelm as inform, and the class was geared toward a more general religious seeker audience anyway.   I didn’t want to…

Parapsychology Today The scientific study of the paranormal has been established for well over 100 years and although the members of the field take experimentation and theoretical discussion quite seriously, it remains the subject of ridicule by many in the general scientific community and the public. While his formal education has been in mainstream clinical psychology, R. Wolf Baldassarro has been a participant in investigations and an ardent scholar of the latest theories and data since the mid 1990’s regarding the field of psychical research. Beginning in 2005 he returned to full-time paranormal investigations and in January of 2009 created the Paranormal Research & Information Society of Michigan (PRISM) to…