Harvesting Harmony: Lammas Inspired Pagan Music

Lammas or Lughnasadh is traditionally celebrated on August 1st, although in some pagan traditions it is celebrated on the first full moon in August. This festival marks the beginning of the harvest season, and it is a time when pagans give thanks for the bounty of nature. There is an abundance of Pagan music for Lammas. …

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Pagan Music for Protest and Activism

1971 and I was 9, living an almost idyllic childhood, deeply loved and sheltered from the world and news of the Vietnam War, riots, racism, and rising feminism. But that summer, the protest lyrics and subversive rhythms that began drifting through the car window at stop lights, on the radio at a friend’s pajama party, …

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The Red Album: Crow Women’s Story

We’re the Crow Women, a Goddess-focused women’s circle that has had a long, rich life as a pagan coven as well as a parallel identity as an award-winning pagan choir. We’re feminists, and that informs our political actions, our spiritual practice and our music. When a group of pagan musicians from across the USA decided …

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English Ale pagan bonfire in Australia

“The English Ale” in an Australian Landscape

Greetings all from Down Under – South Australia has officially started winter, the storms have blown in,  red and orange leaves have been snatched from the branches of the European trees by our icy southern wind and are laying in damp, slushy pools on the ground.  The gum leaves are glistening on the eucalypt trees …

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Squinting at the Sun

The Dream of Gaian Culture Almost all of the Gaia Consort ideas came from the dream of building community and culture around celebrating the natural world. Imagine a world where the Great Cycles were taken seriously, hearkening back to the early days of agriculture, when we didn’t have the “luxury” of ignoring the seasons.  None …

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