Pagan Community Notes for Mar 19, 2026

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Ostara and Mabon blessings across the hemispheres. We sadly mark the passing of KIVA founder and lead singer Ariana Lightningstorm. A young champion of Indigenous rights prompts Cornell to reverse course. Star shares her Tarot of the Week, and we offer songs for the season.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/03/pagan-community-notes-march-19-2026.html

#pagan #witchcraft #ostara #mabon #springequinox #vernalequinox #olelohawaii #kaylatoves #arianalightningstorm #tarot

Pagan Community Notes: March 19, 2026

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Ostara and Mabon blessings across the hemispheres. We sadly mark the passing of KIVA founder and lead singer Ariana Lightningstorm. A young champion of Indigenous rights prompts Cornell to reverse course. Star shares her Tarot of the Week, and we offer songs for the season.

The Wild Hunt
I haven’t finished the first episode of #chiefOfWar yet. For the first 10 minutes there was narration and dialogue in #oleloHawaii, and no #subtitles! I thought it was a very bold move to leave non-Hawaiian speakers in the dust. (I was also left in the dust, because my comprehension isn’t that good…). It was only much later that I realized this was just the #AppleTV app acting up on my very very old smart TV. There is actually supposed to be subtitles throughout. 
2025 Festival Live Stream – ‘Ōlelo | Merrie Monarch

ʻO kēia ka lā hānau o Mary Kawena Pukui!
Today is the birthday of Mary Kawena Pukui, b. April 20, 1895 #olelonoeau #maryKawenaPukui #adage #wiseSaying #hawaiianLanguage #olelo #OleloHawaii

Excerpt From
‘Ōlelo No‘eau
Mary Kawena Pukui & Dietrich Varez
https://books.apple.com/us/book/%C5%8Dlelo-no-eau/id514150999
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‎‘Ōlelo No‘eau

‎Fiction & Literature · 1983

Apple Books

We all learn the word “kahakō” meaning “macron,” the bar over the long vowel (as in its own final letter). But it also means “steep, sheer” as in this ʻŌlelo Nōʻeau:

“1527  Ka pali kahakō lele a koa‘e.

Sheer cliff reached only by the tropic bird.

A tall, inaccessible cliff.”

#olelonoeau #maryKawenaPukui #adage #wiseSaying #hawaiianLanguage #olelo #OleloHawaii #cliff #sheer #steep

Maui County budget proposal written in ʻOlelo Hawaiʻi for the first time in 100 years

Maui County's $1.5 billion proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 focuses on recovery, resilience and investments across the county. For the first time in 100 years, the budget will be delivered in both English and ‘Olelo Hawai’i.

HAWAII
In the Fall 2024 Audubon magazine is an interesting article about a bird researcher who’s cataloging and photographing specimens of Hawaiian birds which are in non-Hawaiian museums. The reference to an ʻōlelo noʻeau caught my eye. Interesting! #olelonoeau #maryKawenaPukui #adage #wiseSaying #hawaiianLanguage #olelo #OleloHawaii #audubon #extinction
U.S. Mint's new $1 coin features Native Hawaiian scholar Mary Kawena Pukui

A new $1 coin will feature a Native Hawaiian scholar that many credit for preserving and protecting ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. The U.S. Mint’s 2025 Native American coin features Mary Kawena Pukui — a scholar, author, composer, hula expert and educator.

HAWAII

#HawaiianPublicRadio didn’t post today’s #hawaiianWordOfTheDay so instead of sharing that, I’ll share my new favorite ʻŌlelo Noʻeau!

I kāhi ‘e no ke kumu mokihana, paoa ‘e no ‘one‘i i ke ‘ala.
Although the mokihana tree is at a distance, its fragrance reaches here.
Although a person is far away, the tales of his good deeds come to us.

#olelonoeau #maryKawenaPukui #adage #wiseSaying #hawaiianLanguage #olelo #OleloHawaii #reputation #mokihana #1177