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Author Jane Raeburn

Legislature remembers Rita

This is from the Maine House record for April 11, 2022. It’s not only a tribute Rita would have cherished, but a reminder of how far we’ve come as a public part of Maine’s religious landscape.

In Memoriam: Rita Moran

Rita Moran, a co-founder of EarthTides Pagan Network and a guiding spirit of Pagan community for many years, died Monday, March 14, 2022, after a brief illness. In her long life (she was often shy of revealing her actual age),… Continue Reading →

A Word or 1,742 About Honor…

Let me first begin this missive by telling you what this post is not about.  It is not about honor in the sense of violent reprisal or warrior spirit.  It is not about the honor of taking offense the way a Klingon… Continue Reading →

Adaptive Mythology

It is pointed out frequently and with a great deal of enthusiasm on social media just how many “Pagan Holidays” have been absorbed and re-purposed by what now passes for mainstream religion.  Christmas, Yule, Easter, Ostara, the list can be… Continue Reading →

History Written by High Schoolers

In an age of standardized testing and centralization of education it is not hard to imagine why Americans are falling behind the rest of the world’s students.  Teachers are more often pressured to produce tangible results than real ones at… Continue Reading →

Visiting With the Gods

I know many Pagans for whom a relationship with the gods is an intimate connection full of wisdom and guidance. In my own life, I have never felt the pull of a particular god or goddess, I am merely interested… Continue Reading →

Poetry and Musings

The following is a collection of poems and musings that landed on me beginning in May and up through the present.  I want to spend more of my time crafting poetry, even really bad poetry, because it allows me the… Continue Reading →

A Druid Order for Maine

I’ve been wondering lately, what exactly is Maine?  In the strictest sense, Maine is lines on a map that define its political boundaries, to the West with New Hampshire and to the North and Northeast with Canada.  However, within the arbitrary… Continue Reading →

Maine Pagan Traditions

As I look up at the crescent of the Moon slowly climbing over the sentinel pines in the Eastern sky I am reminded of what a magical place we live.  Maine is not without its eyesores, something that can be… Continue Reading →

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