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An Undiscovered Vale
An Undiscovered Vale #onceandfuturefaith
The spring equinox, reckoned as the moment of each solar year after the winter solstice and before the summer solstice when the center of the sun passes directly over Earth’s equator, the instant when the solar terminator—the liminal boundary between night and day that rushes endlessly across the face of our rotating planet—transits through perpendicularity with the equator, marks the occasion of…
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On the Spirit of Imbolc
On the Spirit of Imbolc #onceandfuturefaith
By some traditional, agrarian reckonings, the point in early February halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox marks the beginning of spring. This occasion has been celebrated by certain peoples of northwestern Europe as Imbolc, a name which may refer to the pregnancy of ewes around this time of year. Reform Pagans call this sabbat Spring Eve, and we take this opportunity to…
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Gather We Around One Flame
Gather We Around One Flame #onceandfuturefaith #paganfuture
We wish you a very happy Mid Winter, Yule, Alban Arthan, and the rest! At this time of year, when days are shortest and the sun hangs lowest in the sky, we make time to celebrate solidarity, hope, and patience. One element that sometimes figures in our Mid Winter celebrations is the Yule log, a folk custom of unknown origin that has become for many of us a familiar favorite and a symbol of the…
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Masquerading Together
Masquerading Together #onceandfuturefaith #paganfuture
Winter Eve, Samhain, the Pagan New Year, Sabbat of Sabbats—when the natural world enters a season of relative dormancy, we remember the past and those who have gone before us as we celebrate the dark, the mysterious, the ominous, the frightening, the macabre, even death itself. For many, this sabbat is a favorite; for others, it is difficult or painful. Whatever our opinion of this time when “the…
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Celebrating the Harvest through Sacrifice
Celebrating the Harvest through Sacrifice #onceandfuturefaith #paganfuture
At Mid Autumn, when day and night pass through a moment of balance amidst the ongoing harvest season, we have an opportunity to celebrate sacrifice, reconciliation, and balance. This year, in particular, we call our attention to the balance that Reform Paganism strikes through the sacrifice of certainty and the reconciliation of ostensibly contradictory opposites through a hieros gamos(“sacred…
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Today’s Pagans Don’t Need a Prophet
Does Paganism need a prophet? This question was recently floated by Jon Halstead, and Anna Walther offered a response that Paganism needs not a prophet but a shared purpose. In a sense, they’re both wrong. (more…)
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Fifteen Theses: 1. “Naturalism”
“Naturalism” #OnceAndFutureFaith
Humans are, by Nature, creatures of spirit. Our archaeological record, particularly at Göbekli Tepe, suggests that before even we grew crops to feed ourselves or built permanent dwellings and settlements, Nature called us to worship together; civilization did not predate worship, but our commitment to communal worship may have brought us civilization. Whatever other faculties humankind possesses…
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A Natural Law of the Harvest
A Natural Law of the Harvest #OnceAndFutureFaith
When we come each year to Autumn Eve, Lughnasadh, Lammas, the midpoint between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox, we celebrate the feast of the first fruits of the harvest. As we enjoy our sabbat, we would do well also to reflect on a certain natural law of the harvest, which reminds us, “We reap what we sow.”
Some Pagan traditions call this idea the Law of Karma, while others describe a…
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A Magickal Physics of Power
A Magickal Physics of Power #onceandfuturefaith
Mid Summer, also called Litha, gives us an opportunity to celebrate joy, vitality, and power. And “Power for the Will” is a cardinal aspiration that we develop in Reform Pagan practice through the Element of Fire, which corresponds to ritual observances of common and special occasions over the course of human life in Nature. Mid Summer is, therefore, a fitting occasion for Reform Pagans to…
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Open But Unbroken
Our Circle Is Open But Unbroken #onceandfuturefaith
At Summer Eve, Reform Pagans circle to celebrate passion, union, and creativity on or about the occasion of Beltane, an ancient “fire festival” dedicated, in many ways, to love. (more…)
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A Faith Ever New
A Faith Ever New #onceandfuturefaith
Reform Pagans celebrate Mid Spring (also called “Ostara”), a sabbat of regeneration, breakthroughs, and new beginnings, around the time of the vernal equinox, when hours of light and darkness in a day are most nearly equal. This time of year also sees new life emerging everywhere from winter’s dormant Earth. According to ancient wisdom traditions, the part (microcosm) and the whole (macrocosm)…
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Pagan Renewal: A Brief Exposition
Pagan Renewal: A Brief Exposition #onceandfuturefaith
If Reform Paganism is, as we say, a new branch of the great family tree of Paganism, then the living pith consists in our conviction, vision, and mission: We affirm our conviction that all persons possess an innate spiritual capacity rooted in Nature. We affirm our vision of humanity’s once and future faith, inspired by both ancient wisdom and modern learning, ever reforming for the present and…
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The Perpetual Flame
The Perpetual Flame #onceandfuturefaith
Reform Paganism’s sabbat of Spring Eve, coming halfway between Mid Winter and Mid Spring, draws some of its inspiration from the ancient Gaelic festival of Imbolc, a celebration of the goddess Brigid around the traditional beginning of the season of spring. Spring Eve calls us to focus our Will upon openness, purification, and resolve. We contemplate the Imbolc tradition in which a representative…
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Mid Winter Blessings
Mid Winter Blessings #onceandfuturefaith
Amidst the busyness that comes upon us every year around this time, we at PaganRenewal.org wanted to take a moment not merely to wish you season’s blessings of peace and love but rather to affirm that these are now, as always, our reality, if only we will open our hearts. For Reform Pagans, the sabbat of Mid Winter, coincident with the winter solstice, is a sacred occasion for coming together as…
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In Memoriam & Ad Infinitum
In Memoriam & Ad Infinitum #onceandfuturefaith
As we come again to Winter Eve, the end of the harvest season, the time when the Veil between the mundane and spiritual worlds thins, we have an opportunity to turn inward, celebrating our heritage, remembering our beloved dead, and recognizing our own mortality as the cold and dark close in around us. Here at PaganRenewal.org, we are taking this opportunity to recognize our Pagan forebears and…
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Love: A Reform Pagan Perspective
Love: A Reform Pagan Perspective #OnceAndFutureFaith
Love is a discipline the mastery of which makes us more powerful Pagans and humans: Just as our power grows as we acquaint ourselves more deeply with Nature, Truth, the focus of Will, and our True and Higher Selves (or “inner divinity”), so our power grows as we acquaint ourselves more deeply with Love. For Love, like Truth, is a position of strength. When Reform Pagans speak of “Love” rather…
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On the Harvest: Sacrifice & Love
On the Harvest: Sacrifice & Love #OnceAndFutureFaith
One of the greatest contributions that Reform Paganism and the Pagan Renewal offer the broader Pagan and human communities is our emphasis on love—sometimes called “compassionate lovingkindness and sympathetic joy”—as an essential practice and virtue. Reform Pagans appreciate that, no less than Nature orients the body to prosperity and vitality, the mind to truth, and the will to power, Nature…
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