Springdale, AK - “This is the time of spring’s return — the joyful time, the seed time, when life bursts forth from the earth and the chains of winter are broken. Light and dark are equal. It is a time of balance, when all the elements within us can be brought into a new harmony. …
“This time of year is pregnant with new beginnings. Life emerges from the cocoon of winter. We open ourselves to balance and joy.” (more…)
A witch who worked in a school told pupils she could teach them spells, an employment tribunal heard today.
Sommer De La Rosa, 34, a practising white witch of the Wiccan faith, is claiming unfair dismissal after being sacked from the Dorothy Stringer school in Brighton, East Sussex. (more…)
After a rocket-propelled grenade struck Army Sgt. Patrick Dana Stewart’s helicopter Sept. 25, 2005, in Afghanistan, his widow, Roberta, faced religious prejudice.
Roberta applied to have the symbol of her husband’s faith placed on his grave marker in Nevada, but the Department of Veterans Affairs refused. The VA does not recognize Stewart’s religion, Wicca, often called witchcraft. (more…)
Dover, DE - Books, gemstones, candles and jewelry are what draw customers to Dover’s Bell, Book, & Candle, which bills itself as “your one-stop shop for metaphysical needs.”
But retailing isn’t really what concerns Ivo Dominguez Jr., who became co-owner of the West Loockerman Street shop last August. (more…)
A woman who was sacked from her job as a teaching assistant claimed today that she was given the boot because she is a witch.
Sommer De La Rosa, 35, told an employment tribunal that she had been unfairly dismissed from her job after school chiefs raised fears that she would indoctrinate students with her pagan religion. (more…)
When my youngest stepdaughter was ten, she was warned by her mother not to be too open, in school, about the fact that she comes from a Wiccan family. About ten minutes later she came running in, waving a dollar bill, and pointing at the words, “In God We Trust”.
“How come they get to put their God on the money, and we can’t even talk about ours?” she asked, outraged. (more…)
Detroit, MI - An Oakland County judge threw out Thursday portions of a man’s statement implicating himself in the death of a 19-year-old woman whose nude body was found floating in the Huron River at Proud Lake State Recreation Area in April.
Judge Nanci Grant said police should have stopped interrogating John J. Anderson, a 24-year-old Wixom man who is accused of murdering Natalie Miller and dumping her body in the river, after he tried to stop the interrogation after several hours. The ruling means that many details — including information police say they have on why he would have killed Miller — will be lost to a jury. (more…)
With the lights turned down low, Fox Valley Pagan Unity Council member Penny Goody led a group of people seated in a large circle through a guided meditation filled with imagery of nature. Some of the participants were sitting up and some of them were lying on their backs, but they all had their eyes closed as they listened intently to Goody’s words. When the meditation concluded, hand drummers provided music for the participants to dance to as the ceremony closed.
The ceremony celebrated the coming of Ostara, a pagan holiday recognizing the spring equinox, when the energies of the world shift to spring. (more…)
