The articles published on Pagan Song reflect the ethical grounding of the pagan community. We strongly support social justice for all races, economic levels, sexual orientations and genders. As worshippers of Mama Gaia, we are passionate about protecting the environment. Many of us express this through the Wiccan Rede: “an it harm none, do as you will”. Freedom balanced with responsibility.
Threads of social consciousness run through many of our articles. Here are some examples.
Environmental Justice
Last Tree Falling
Most of the inspiration for my songs comes from nature, things that impressed or distressed me deeply. Of course, one such subject that has a great impact upon me, as it does with many of the pagan fraternities worldwide is the prolific deforestation and habitat destruction leading to biodiversity loss...
Earth Council of Beings
“Every Day is Earth Day.” This is a comment that we hear every time April 22 rolls around. While mostly lip service for most, it is a statement that we especially, as Pagans, should take to heart. The Earth really is our Mother after all, and she supports us in...
All Earth’s Children Gotta Sing!
When you are in need of a Mother’s love, just look down at your feet. When you call Her, She comes! Every day, our feet are stuck to Her as She spins in the cosmos. From this connection to Her, we have everything we need to live. All the other...
Living in Tower Times
Tower Moments
As a musician, ritualist, and healer who has been so focused on shadow work over the past few years, I want to blog about a difficult life transition, and one that absolutely everyone can relate to. In my own personal life I’ve been going through what I would refer...
The Haunting – A Meditation During Tower Times
The Tower If we were asked to choose one tarot card to represent the times we are in, a great many of us would conjure the Tower without skipping a beat. The Tower, crumbling under the strike of lightning, can no longer support the people or the institutions within its...
Sacred Ashes
Welcome to Tower Time. It currently is hovering over our nation. I first heard the term “Tower Time” about a decade ago from Byron Ballard (The Village Witch of Asheville NC). She has a new book out, The Feral Church, talking about the future she foresaw coming. Well, friends and...
Cruel World: Song for Tower Time
I wrote Cruel World a few years back. I got the tag from a conversation with a dear friend in Asheville; we were discussing how things were not what they once were. We were talking about Tower Time, the world, our lives, and other things not quite right. Thinking back...
Social Justice
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...
The Red Album: Chant, Song & Rap
By Kira Lang of Spiral Rhythm Our three tracks on The Red Album: Pagan Voices for Reproductive Rights (redalbum.org) are very different but with the same goal. Bringing awareness to reproductive rights, raising funds to benefit those in need, and using our voices in protest of injustice. They are the...
The Raven and the Wren
Sitting in the waiting room of a surgical hospital is how I spent election morning. Wondering if the surgeon would be able to concentrate as he repaired the tiny holes in my sister’s ear, and would she still maintain any hearing in her right ear? I sat there with my...
Singing for Social Justice
The roots of connection between social justice and music run deep. Music has a unique power not only to tap into a deep emotional state, but also share that state with an entire group of people. It is both evocative and connecting, making it a perfect medium for social justice...
Reproductive Freedom
The problem with letting people have rights is that they get used to them and react badly when you come back to take those rights away. I’m talking of course about the June 24 Supreme Court decision that takes away women’s Constitutional right to control their own reproductive functions. In...
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...
Magic, Music and the Movements They Make
Forgive me, Dear Readers. I always try to write positive, uplifting blogs of Magic & Music for you, but sometimes, a positive perspective is seated in depressing and dangerous subjects. Such is this entry. This last weekend, after a long day performing at the Oklahoma Renaissance Faire, I was surprised...
Love and Compassion and Allyship
We’ve had an emotional couple of weeks in the American pagan community (and our country). Many are horrified, others despondent, and most of us are looking for ways to protect ourselves and those we love in the next few years. Can love and compassion offer us some of that protection?...
Empowerment of Magic through Music
Numbers Equal Strength. This quarter’s blog has turned out very different than I intended. This part of the winter holiday season calls for Gratitude for what we each have in our lives, wherever, however, and whatever the conditions are that we are living. I don’t know how many of you...
A Tragic Tale: When Choice is Gone
“She’s getting no rest, she just failed her pregnancy test. How’s she gonna care for a little child? She can barely feed herself, no food’s left on the shelf. Frustration makes her rage and scream and cry.” I wrote Nothing Holy but the Blood for The Red Album: Pagan Voices for...
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