Collecting and collating the memories and experiences of Pagans from all paths, traditions and identities
For the past five years now I have been the official TDN rep for the Interfaith Network UK. Recently that has involved me attending several meetings a year in London which, when you consider I live in Glasgow, is no small undertaking. This usually involves me booking return flights from Glasgow to Heathrow and then travelling …
THE KEY TO THE DOOR I don’t know who writes the rulebook on exactly when a middle-aged witch gets to advance or graduate to cronehood, but I am in my last few months of my 40’s, and for some reason, I feel like 50, should I be lucky enough to make it there, might be …
There was a moment before I could talk that my parents popped their heads around the door to see me babble….pause and babble some more to a particular spot of unseen in the Victorian mid-terraced. I look back on their story-telling and conjure up a red-headed man sporting a simple moustache wearing a tweed suit. …
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 …
A Day for Patricia Crowther: Sunday 6th April 2014 It would be true to say that I have left my own Wiccan Roots behind and yes; there is a pun in that comment. Although Gardnerian Witchcraft influenced Paganism is where I began my journey and although I have changed to reach a point some twenty …
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 …