The Wild Hunt News

“As the weather cools,” writes Clio Ajana, “the leaves change colors, and start to fall, we feel the veil thinning. We welcome our ancestors into our homes, our practices, and our lives. We celebrate with them and rejoice at their presence in our lives.”

https://wildhunt.org/2026/10/emotional-fractures-and-the-whispers-of-ancestral-connection.html

#pagan #witchcraft #ancestors #autumn #freedom #kintsugi #emotionalfractures #ancestralconnection #usa

[Review] Cosette Paneque reviews this exhibition at the Melbourne Museum, which features many items that have never before been seen outside of Italy.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/10/review-rome-empire-power-people.html

#pagan #witchcraft #museum #art #ancientrome #melbournemuseum #romeempirepowerpeople

The Pentagon’s new Office of Religious Affairs centralizes military religious policy and “spiritual readiness,” drawing praise from Hegseth as restoring chaplaincy while prompting concerns about religious liberty, minority faiths, and an explicitly Christian framing.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/10/hegseth-creates-powerful-new-office-to-oversee-religious-affairs-and-spiritual-readiness.html

#pagan #stateofforce #petehegseth #officeofreligiousaffairs #chaplaincy #christiannationalism #military #paganism

Torrential rains in Florence threatened to damage a painting of the god Bacchus by the Baroque master Caravaggio when a skylight leaked in the Uffizi gallery.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/10/carravagios-bacchus-saved-after-flash-flood-in-the-uffizi.html

#pagan #romangods #bacchus #caravaggio #uffizimuseum #dionysus #art #homoeroticism

Pagan Community Notes for Oct 1, 2026

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, Witchy fashion, Ouija boards, protection magic, a Pagan scholars’ network, Star’s Tarot of the Week, plenty of community happenings, and even a playlist because, well, October.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/10/pagan-community-notes-week-of-october-1-2026.html

#pagan #witchcraft #witchyvibes #WitchyFashion #ouijaboard #magick #tarot #music #inops #anthropology #ArtificialIntelligence

Researchers deliberately burned a modern papyrus scroll to help recover words lost nearly 2,000 years ago. Their experiment suggests traces of lead in ancient ink could reveal which of Herculaneum’s unopened scrolls may still speak.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/09/reading-by-fire-a-new-path-to-herculaneums-lost-words.html

#pagan #witchcraft #uncoveringthepast #archaeology #herculaneum #mountvesuvius #PlosOne #papyrusscrolls #science

More Witches are watching Practical Magic 2 and reviewing it. Star Bustamonte and Stacy Psaros find Hollywood magic, familiar tropes, family curses, sympathetic Witches, and enough Owens family nostalgia (and midnight margaritas) to make the return journey worthwhile.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/09/practical-magic-2-more-witches-watching.html

#pagan #witchcraft #witches #practicalmagic2 #moviereview #nostalgia #midnightmargaritas

More than 56 million years ago, something took wing. Now, combining ancient fossils with genomes from living species, researchers are rewriting the bat family tree, and tracing these creatures toward their mysterious beginnings in Paleocene Europe.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/09/something-took-wing-in-paleocene-sunsets.html

#pagan #witchcraft #bats #archaeology #fossils #genomics #science

Drawing upon the models presented by the Norse gods Tyr and Thor, Karl E.H. Seigfried argues for the Heathen ethic of taking action against injustice despite personal costs.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/09/tyr-thor-monsters-and-macklemore.html

#pagan #heathen #norsemythology #ragnarok #asatru #macklemore #antisemitism #edsheeran

An 11th-century serpent pendant discovered in northwestern Russia pairs a Christian warrior saint with a snake-haired figure rooted in the Medusa tradition, revealing the complex intersection of Christian faith and older protective practices in medieval Rus’.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/09/two-faces-of-faith-11th-century-amulet-with-medusa-like-image-reveals-a-changing-religious-world.html

#pagan #archaeology #uncoveringthepast #gorgon #christianfaith #starayarussa #medusa

Siobhan Ball welcomes our readers to soup season with a look into the history of sage’s association with healing and other forms of magic, along with a recipe for white bean soup with sage and chorizo crumb.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/09/the-lore-of-sage.html

#pagan #witchcraft #recipes #kitchenwitch #sage #lovespells #healing

[Letters to the Editor] “Support Pagan owned, or values-aligned, small businesses” writes ATC Archpriest Dusty Dionne as they discuss the aligning spending and donations with Pagan values to strengthen the community.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/09/letters-to-the-editor-spending-in-alignment-with-pagan-values-matters-more-than-ever.html

#pagan #paganism #witchcraft #support #communitybuilding #economy #spending

925 - Remembering Dolly and her amazing legacy. #dollyparton #dollyday

Pagan Voices: At the September equinox, the Wheel turns once again. Selena Fox, Belladonna LaVeau, Lilith Wolf, Jim Sayers, Macha NightMare, and Manny Tejeda y Moreno share reflections on harvest, gratitude, death, renewal, and balance.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/09/the-wheel-turns-pagan-voices-for-the-september-equinox.html

#pagan #witchcraft #wicca #autumnequinox #harvest #autumn #equinox #septemeberequinox #mabon

Alan U. Dalul reviews the new oracle deck by Balázs Tátrai and Lilla Bölecz from Watkins Publishing, following up on their previous work, The Book of Forgotten Witches.

Click the link to read the deck review by @AlanDDAuthor@mastodon.social

https://wildhunt.org/2026/09/2822829.html

#pagan #witchcraft #oraclecards #oraclereview #theoracleofforgottenwitches #balazstatrai #lillabolecz

“I have been teaching Witchcraft professionally for 35 years,” writes Storm Faerywolf. “In addition to selling my books and my art, this is how I make my living. I don’t have a “regular job. At 14 I formally dedicated myself to the Craft and never looked back.”

https://wildhunt.org/2026/09/teaching-witchcraft-in-the-21st-century.html

#pagan #witchcraft #teaching #paganism #perspectives

Pagan Community Notes for Sept 17, 2026

#Equinox Blessings!

Pretty Much Everywhere on this Planet (You know, the one there’s no substitute for) — Meteorological autumn began on September 1, covering September, October, and November—or, as we call them in South Florida: Heatember, Hotober, and BelieveItsFall. For most, though, the new season truly begins with the equinox.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/09/pagan-community-notes-week-of-september-17-2026.html

#birds #mabon #tarot #autumn #pagan #witchcraft

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

Lehigh Valley Pagan Pride Day continued despite repeated disruptions by Christian protesters, who reportedly confronted adults and children before security intervened and police ultimately removed them from the event.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/09/pagan-pride-celebration-continues-after-protesters-disrupt-lehigh-valley-pagan-pride-day.html

#pagan #witchcraft #paganprideday #harassment #christianaggression #paganism

“I would warn you that there will be spoilers,” writes Meg Elison in her review of the new film Practical Magic 2, “but there doesn’t seem to be much point as the sequel retells the same story as the original.”

https://wildhunt.org/2026/09/nostalgia-is-a-curse.html

#pagan #witchcraft #practicalmagic2 #nostalgia #moviereview #witchesonfilm

[Book review] Beatrix Kondo reviews the first book in the Witches of Olderea series by Ireen Chau. “Think Jane Austen crashing a Barbie movie, if Barbie could accidentally hex a prince.”

https://wildhunt.org/2026/09/witchy-reads-for-a-happy-ending-the-herbwitchs-apprentice.html

#pagan #witches #witchesofolderea #bookreview #theherbwitchsapprentice #ireenchau

[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