The Pagan Grove

by Norbert Nagel, Creative Commons License Hail Eostre, the rising dawn and the coming spring! As Your golden rays gleam above the hori...

Okay, they've been everywhere this past week - posts about Ostara the holiday, about Eostre, debating Her claim to historical fame, He...

I made a post about this last year , and have had a few requests for an update, so I thought I'd finally get around to posting even thou...

Spring Maiden by Frank Dicksee As explained by tumblr user Thorraborinn here , the first day of the Icelandic month of Góa is a day cel...

 I haven't written about most of the group rituals I've participated in lately - it was a requirement for the Dedicant's Path,...

Photograph by Ian Capper, shared via Creative Commons License As Vanatru or Earth-centered Heathens, it's easy to love the Vanir.  T...

photo courtesy of wikicommons The Saga of Hákon the Good was written sometime in the 1260's, describing the reign of King Hákon I, ...

by Boschfoto on Wikicommons Creative Commons License Sometimes, being a Heathen with a leaning towards the historical can get a little c...

From amigo-design.com I make my grand entrance back to the Pagan Blog Project today, after a lengthy computer-breakdown-induced absence....

As the daylight begins to wane, cooler nights settle over the land and cause all sorts of changes in the world around us. Many ancient...

from oakwillow.com.au I read an amazing article The Triumph of Mabon  on Jason Mankey's Patheos blog Raise the Horns this morning, a...

Photo by  Dirk Beyer After coming home from Pagan Pride Day, I was exhausted.  That next morning, I didn't have the energy to get up...

Pagan Pride Day Altar This past Saturday, the Pagan Pride Day I'd spent the better part of my summer and fall helping to plan for wa...

painted in 1847 by Oluf Olufsen Bagge I've written before about how much I love  Nebraska Heathens United .  A local, but all-inclus...

For Midsummer, I wrote a ritual for Prairie Shadow Protogrove in a Germanic hearth culture to mirror the honoring of Sunna that we had done...

At Beltane, I attended a ritual held by the Order of the Red Grail. The ritual itself was very traditionally Wiccan, casting a circle, call...

For the spring equinox, Prairie Shadow held a Greek ritual honoring and welcoming Persephone back to the world. It was held in my living ro...

Public Domain The Venerable Bede, an English monk and scholar writing in the 8th century, leaves us a very incomplete, but helpful pictu...

Wheel of the Year from the  Museum of Witchcraft, Boscastle Creative Commons license Calendars - they can be such a touchy subje...

This is not a post about the NeoPagan holiday of Ostara, but rather about the word from which early Wiccans borrowed the name of their ho...