Pagan Community Notes for Mar 27, 2025:

We remember Mary Stuart. Everglades Moon Local Council releases a statement regarding the recent events in Orlando. Two events highlight the weekend: Heathens Against Hate hosts a Trans Visibility Rally, and Perilous Passages, a virtual symposium on Pagan thought and practice, invites deep reflection. We also feature Star’s Tarot of the Week—& yes, the Sharktopus makes an appearance

https://wildhunt.org/2025/03/pagan-community-notes-week-of-march-27-2025.html

#witchcraft #pagan #marystuart #orlando #tarot

Pagan Community Notes: Week of March 27, 2025

In this week's Pagan Community Notes, we remember Mary Stuart. Everglades Moon Local Council releases a statement regarding the recent events in Orlando. Two events highlight the weekend: Heathens Against Hate hosts a Trans Visibility Rally, and Perilous Passages, a virtual symposium on Pagan thought and practice, invites deep reflection. We also feature Star’s Tarot of the Week—and yes, the Sharktopus makes an appearance.

The Wild Hunt
This pattern, titled Tapestries of Secrecy, draws inspiration from Mary, Queen of Scots, and the hidden messages she skillfully wove into her needlework during her imprisonment. #Tudors #MaryQueenofScots #MaryStuart #16thcentury #England #Renaissance
#Scotland
#Spoonflower #SpoonflowerDesign #mastoart #redbubble #pattern #Patterndesigner
#HistoricalInspiration #TextileArt #PatternDesign #NeedleworkStories #InteriorDesign #SurfacePatternDesign #ArtHistoryInspired #CreativeDecor
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Deciphering Mary Stuart’s lost letters from 1578-1584
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677
Discussion [useless as of 2023-09-08]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37415356

* Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587) left extensive corpus of letters held in various archives
* secret correspondence w. her associates & allies

#MaryStuart #history #cryptography

Deciphering Mary Stuart’s lost letters from 1578-1584

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), has left an extensive corpus of letters held in various archive collections. There is evidence, however that other letters from Mary Stuart are missing from...

Taylor & Francis

G. Lasry et al., "Deciphering Mary Stuart’s lost letters from 1578-1584"¹

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), has left an extensive corpus of letters held in various archive collections. There is evidence, however that other letters from Mary Stuart are missing from those collections, such as letters referenced in other sources but not found elsewhere. In Under the Molehill – an Elizabethan Spy Story, John Bossy writes that a secret correspondence with her associates and allies, prior to its compromise in mid-1583, was “kept so secure that none of it has survived, and we don’t know what was in it.” We have found over 55 letters fully in cipher in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, which, after we broke the code and deciphered the letters, unexpectedly turned out to be letters from Mary Stuart, addressed mostly to Michel de Castelnau Mauvissière, the French ambassador to England. Written between 1578 and 1584, those newly deciphered letters are most likely part of the aforementioned secret correspondence considered to have been lost, and they constitute a voluminous body of new primary material on Mary Stuart – about 50,000 words in total, shedding new light on some of her years of captivity in England.

#Cryptologia #ResearchPapers #Codebreaking #FrenchCiphers #HomophonicCiphers #MaryStuart
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¹ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677

Deciphering Mary Stuart’s lost letters from 1578-1584

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), has left an extensive corpus of letters held in various archive collections. There is evidence, however that other letters from Mary Stuart are missing from...

Taylor & Francis

Today in 1986 — #SearchForTomorrow ended its run after more than 9,000 episodes!

The iconic #SoapOpera starred #MaryStuart and #LarryHaines for 35 years — and gave early work to future stars #KevinBacon, #MorganFairchild and #JaneKrakowski!

#ClassicTV #ClassicSoaps
cc: @morgfair