• Monthly Columns

    Turning to the Dark – An exclusive poem for PaganPagesOrg by Mabh Savage

      Turn to the dark, my love, Shield your eyes from the dying sun’s glare Give me your weathered hands, here Thrust them into my darkening hair Stroke my locks, my love, Twine them in your fingers tight Now you may look, open up, Take your first step into the night. Walk with me, my love, Take each faltering step Seeks the stars, the moon, Find where the secrets are kept. Take a breath of this air, so chill, Watch the ghosts in your steaming sigh, Turn again, this way, up the hill, Let us strive toward the sky. Feel the heart of the cooling Earth Feel the thrum of…

  • Reviews

    Book Review – Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs

    Book Review Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs Publisher: Andrews McMeel Pages: 384 Rerelease Date: August 23, 2023   Storyland is a collection of tales about Britain, from its origins to much more recent times. This book started as a collection of illustrations, then became a series of articles for Country Life magazine. Those original illustrations have made it into the book, and what illustrations they are! Striking images of otters and boats and giants hauling rocks make this volume a stunning visual feast. Unsurprising, considering that in the introduction the author explains how her experiments with linocut printing were inspired by illuminated medieval manuscripts. I agree…

  • Interviews

    Interview with Phoebe Garnsworthy Author of ‘I Affirm My Power’ with Lady Saoirse

    Bright Blessings, Readers! Last issue, I was able to review Phoebe Garnsworthy’s book I Affirm My Power, and you may have had the chance to read it by now. I have even more exciting news…Phoebe was good enough to let me interview her! Sometimes I give a full intro of the author and their work, but usually that is when the review and interview are together. If you want to know about Phoebe and her book, check the review in our last issue: Book Review – I Affirm My Power: Everyday Affirmations and Rituals to Create the Life That You Desire by Phoebe Garnsworthy – PaganPages.org   Now- without further…

  • Interviews

    A Talk with Sharon Blackie, Author of Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life

    Sharon Blackie, PhD, is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction, and a psychologist who has specialized in neuroscience, narrative, mythology, and Celtic studies. Her unique approach to working with myth, fairy tales, and folklore highlights the insights these traditions can offer us for authentic and meaningful ways of being. Her work has been published extensively in professional journals and consumer media, and she offers workshops and seminars worldwide and online. She lives in Wales, UK. More information at SharonBlackie.net and www.Hagitude.org         Q: Why do elder women matter? What do they have to offer in today’s challenged and challenging world? Sharon Blackie: In our more distant…

  • Monthly Columns

    Learn to Recognize Your Unproductive Grooves…Book Excerpt from The Guidance Groove by Dr. Carolyn Kurle

    Learn to Recognize Your Unproductive Grooves So You Can Choose to Live within Your Guidance Groove   *An excerpt from The Guidance Groove: Escape Unproductive Habits, Trust Your Intuition, and Be True by Dr. Carolyn Kurle Grooves are created and sustained when repeated action makes a valley across a surface. You create and sustain inauthentic behavior grooves by allowing fear to dictate your choices, then habitually following the resulting unhelpful patterns that wear paths across your life. These Unproductive Grooves of Inadequacy, Obligation, Scarcity, and Unworthiness hold you in place, prevent connection to your authentic self, and dictate your interactions with the world. Grooves are also created when you lose…

  • Interviews

    Interview with Author Alysa Bartha

    Tell me some things about you…your background, your path to where you are today…what do you see your future path looking like? “My path has not been one singular event but a succession of events – an unfolding. I’ve always been fascinated by unusual things – esoteric disciplines, occult etc. Because my interests did not jive with my mom’s beliefs, at 15 I set out on my own. Well, not entirely on my own – I went to live with my Dad where I discovered he and I had many things in common. He helped me to discover the tools that I use today. I learned at an early age…

  • Interviews

    Exclusive Q&A With La Carmina about Her New Release “The Little Book of Satanism”

      La Carmina is an award-winning alternative culture journalist and TV host. She runs the leading blog about Goth travel, fashion and Satanism (LaCarmina.com/blog), which was featured in The New York Times and Washington Post. La Carmina is the author of four books including Crazy, Wacky Theme Restaurants: Tokyo and Cute Yummy Time, published by Penguin Random House. She received a journalism prize from the Society of American Travel Writers, and her writing has appeared in Time Magazine, CNN, Business Insider and Architectural Digest. As a TV personality, La Carmina has danced with William Shatner and Henry Winkler on NBC’s Better Late Than Never, dined with Japanese monsters on Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre Foods, negotiated a $666 taxidermy head on Discovery Channel’s Oddities, cooked cute…

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    Stay in Your Magic, Keep in Your Power an Excerpt from “Happy Witch” by Mandi Em

    Stay in Your Magic, Keep in Your Power (Excerpted from “Happy Witch” by Mandi Em)   Magic can help you feel powerful, but there can be a big difference between the way you feel post-ritual and the way you feel as you’re going through your mundane life. The feeling of connectedness and otherworldly magic can get lost in the shuffle sometimes when the day-to-day chaos starts piling up, leaving you feeling zapped and depleted. No more! Cultivating a magical life can be the antidote to feeling pressed by the mundane and disconnected from your power. This is the big secret of the craft: It allows you to keep perspective of the…

  • Monthly Columns

    Equinox of the Heart – Exclusive Poem from Author Mabh Savage

    A Brand New Poem from Author Mabh Savage, Exclusive to PaganPagesOrg.       Equinox of the Heart   March winds come before April showers May flowers Cleaning the earth Blowing away Winter’s chilling dust Remnants of rot Leaf piles dead Slushy, slimy heaps of Seasonal trash Yet busting out with life Wood lice, slugs, snails, early caterpillars Then birds that come to feast Blackbirds, robins, and now the mistle thrush Pecking industriously Through a compost carnival Early spring’s banquet Against a backdrop of Cautious blossom.   My heart, my heart blooms like the Snowdrop the Crocus the Narcissus Waiting to be plucked To plunge me down into the Earth…

  • Reviews

    Book Review – Radiant Circles: Ecospirituality and the Church of All Worlds by Alder MoonOak

    Book Review Radiant Circles Ecospirituality and the Church of All Worlds by Alder MoonOak Publisher: Moon Books 320 Pages Published: November 1, 2022     Alder MoonOak states in the introduction of this book that Neo-Paganism is one of the fastest growing religions in the Western World. Although this religion has the optics of being new – the beliefs and practices originate in natural magick and earthy traditions that support a synchronicity to the ways of nature. This book examines Neopaganism and the belief system of the Church of All Worlds. Alder MoonOak cites many theological, cultural and historical works. He explores Ecospirituality and includes Spirit, Humanity and the Earth,…