Collecting and collating the memories and experiences of Pagans from all paths, traditions and identities
Suzanne Read As a student of Traditional Craft I have long been an advocate for completing our workings and Rituals out in the woods at night, and also that to celebrate certain Rites at some of the more special places – sites of the Ancients and places of power – is something that enables us …
THOUGHTS ON MY RETIREMENT As many reading this will know, I retired from all official roles within the East Midlands Pagan Federation on the 30th of September 2013. Looking back now at some twenty years of membership, with the last ten as an officer and representative, I can see lows and highs, successes and failures. …
Pagan Pride Farewell (2017 & 2018) Sadly in May of 2019 it was announced that the ninth Pagan Pride had been the last. This is a sad but understandable move. The organisational work and expense involved in the creation of such an initiative, had increased every year. Both had reached levels beyond the comprehension of …
Pagan Pride a Community Asserts its Identity This year, Sunday the 4th of August (2013) will see another Pagan Pride event in Nottingham. Pagan Pride is a localised event with a national importance and an attendance that continues to grow each year. The organisation’s website will tell you that contrary to the generalised perception, Pagan …
PAGAN PRIDE 2013 In August 2013 I performed one of my last official functions as East Midlands Pagan Federation Deputy District Manager, prior to my retirement from the organisation. I like to think I went out on something of a high note, delivering a talk entitled ‘In defence of Interfaith’ in which I addressed briefly, …
Pagan Pride (Nottingham UK) 2nd August 2015 Pagan Pride UK cannot be described in one word, it is organic and exists with many appendages, in is a cellular entity whose sum is greater than its parts. It combines a protest march or perhaps a celebratory parade, a music festival and an open air market, with …
THE ELVASTON CASTLE PAGAN PICNIC IN THE PARK – Looking Back Over Ten Years of a Free Community Event From the point of view of recreational open space, Derbyshire is able to claim three important firsts. The Derby Arboretum opened in 1840 as the first publicly owned, landscaped and urban recreational park in England, the …
Silverhill gained its name from the silver birch forest which at one time, grew abundantly in the location. Now known as Silverhill Country Park – I am glad it retained its original name, despite not many silver birch remaining, sadly. Silverhill sits on the edge of Teversal Village on the border between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. …
My journey started a long time ago. In many ways, it’s all I can remember truly believing in. I feel that Paganism, to me, is a celebration of the old ways before organised religion was introduced. I felt as a child that religion was about population control. I also feel it is about honouring the …
I would describe myself as a hedge witch, a solitary practitioner, definitely in my crone stage. I work with essential oils and herbs and candles. I pick up hag stones and fossils and twigs. To reach this point has taken probably near on 50 years and until the last 10 to 15 of those years …