At 40, the Spring Mysteries Festival remains a distinctive Pagan gathering, offering an intense, immersive ritual experience that challenges participants to move beyond observation and inhabit the sacred story of Persephone’s transformation through devotion, embodiment, and sustained communal engagement.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/04/spring-mysteries-festival-marks-40-years-of-ecstatic-immersive-ritual.html

#pagan #springmysteries #festivalreview #aquariantabernaclechurch #immersion #pagangatherings #persephone #demeter

A proposal to weaken protections around Chaco Canyon has sparked alarm among tribal nations, who describe the region as a sacred living landscape. Tribal leaders warn the proposal threatens a sacred living landscape, urging public response before the comment period closes tomorrow on this contested decision. With the public comment period ending tomorrow, advocates are urging immediate action to defend the site.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/04/tribal-nations-warn-chaco-canyons-sacred-landscape-at-risk-as-comment-period-closes.html

#pagan #bureauoflandmanagement #chaccocanyon

Last year thieves stole a Dacian helmet and three golden bracelets, national treasures from Romania, from a Dutch museum. Last week the accused returned most of the artifacts as part of a plea deal.

Click the link below for more by Eric O. Scott!

https://wildhunt.org/2026/04/2500-year-old-dacian-helmet-and-bracelets-recovered-after-theft-from-dutch-musuem.html

#pagan #archaelogy #museum #artifacts #ancientgreece #arttheft #thracians

Just when we think that the world can’t get crazier, we get a reminder that life can surprise us. April is a curious month, filled at times with rain, snow, or sunshine. The current full moon in Libra asks us to consider balance. February’s Saturn conjunction with Neptune at zero degrees Aries was the wave of the green flag, letting us know that we could and should accelerate to full speed as we begin this part of our journey.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/04/rest-seriously-rest.html

#pagan #witch #rest #april #sleep

Lyonel Perabo reviews four recent titles of interest to Pagan readers: Fröja’s Apples by Sara Bonadea George, The Dead of Winter by Sarah Clegg, Backwards into the Future by Eirik Storesund, and the new volume of the journal Heathenry by Asatru UK.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/04/great-pagan-reads-of-2025.html

#pagan #BookReview #frojasapples #thedeadofwinter #backwardsintothefuture #heathenry

A federal judge dismissed a high-profile challenge to the Johnson Amendment, rejecting a proposed settlement that could have allowed political endorsements in churches. The ruling preserves current law while leaving unresolved questions about enforcement and religious political speech.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/04/court-dismisses-effort-to-loosen-restrictions-on-church-political-speech-and-endorsements.html

#pagan #politics #scotus #johnsonamendment #FreeSpeech #IRS #taxcode #politicalspeech #SeparationOfChurchAndState

The Supreme Court sided with a Christian counselor challenging Colorado’s conversion therapy ban, ruling it raises First Amendment concerns and must be reconsidered, highlighting tensions between free speech protections and regulation of licensed mental health practices.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/03/supreme-court-backs-christian-counselor-in-challenge-to-ban-on-conversion-therapy-for-lgbtq-minors.html

#pagan #ConversionTherapy #SCOTUS #lgbtqia #firstamendment

Pagans joined millions in nationwide “No Kings” protests on March 28, bringing spiritual perspectives into a broad movement opposing President Donald Trump’s policies, while emphasizing community solidarity, religious diversity, and shared commitments to civil rights and collective action.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/03/no-kings-pagans-nationwide-attend-protests.html

#pagan #witch #nokings #protests #politics #donaldtrump

“A story set in Near becomes a mirror,” writes Beatrix Kondo, exploring folklore, fear, and the familiar stranger in V.E. Schwab’s novel “The Near Witch.” “What the mirror reflects is a community organized around the strategic management of its own fear.”

https://wildhunt.org/2026/03/the-witch-who-was-always-near.html

#pagan #witchcraft #bookreview #thenearwitch #fiction #artandculture

Over the course of the 2010s, it felt as though Heathens in the U.S. military made steady, if slow, progress on their religious rights. Pete Hegseth claims to have reversed all those gains in a matter of weeks. Karl E.H. Seigfried considers where Heathens go from here.

https://wildhunt.org/2026/03/pete-hegseth-breaks-teeth-for-jesus.html

#pagan #jesus #petehegseth #departmentofdefense #asatru #heathenry #heathensinthemilitary #chaplains #christiannationalism