I asked my kids if they wanted to do an egg hunt this year for the Spring Equinox, and they excitedly agreed.
They're both in their 20s.
I had fun setting it up because I could hide the eggs really well in silly places all over the house to make it difficult. They had a great time, turning it into a competition, laughing and shouting when they found one. My husband even joined in while I gloated about my egg-hiding skills.

Anyway, egg hunts aren't just for little kids, let the adults have fun too! I feel like a lot of old pagan celebratory customs are a relaxing of the rules of social behavior. It's permission, for a day, to act like a kid, to be silly, to eat candy for breakfast. I think it's especially important for those of us under our puritan capitalist system, to specifically set aside time to act like a goof and be a bit irresponsible.

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I have finished the temperature blanket panel for 2025! This is a decade-long project. Each stripe represents the local daily high temperature in farenheit: red is 90s, orange is 80s, yellow is 70s, and so on.

To capture the entire winter and summer seasons, the first bottom row actually starts on November 1st of the previous year, and the numbers are placed on January 1st of the labeled year, and it continues up from there.

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I am a very religious person; I pray and leave offerings to my gods nearly every day. I truly believe, with the utmost certainty, that the gods exist.

But I was a practicing pagan for nearly a decade before I actually believed in it.

I see this quite a bit in paganism and occultism. Many of us started as teens after watching movies about witchcraft, and it was just for fun, nothing serious.

Then, the more you practice and build experiences, shit starts to get real. A game becomes a hobby, which becomes a persuit of knowledge, which becomes part of one's identity.

That's not to say that everyone who practices paganism will end up believing in gods and magick. Faith in paganism takes many forms: faith that we are part of nature, that all nature is connected, that we can influence the world around us.

But unlike some other religious traditions, the faith doesn't come first, its built by experiential evidence. Ironically, believing in paganism is not a requirement of paganism. We don't have to try and convince anyone of its efficacy, because we recognize that if someone puts the time in, they'll get there on their own.

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I have finished this past year's temperature blanket piece. This is a continuing project that will encompass a decade in my village here at the 45th parallel. Each row represents the daily high temperature. 60s are green, 70s yellow, 80s red, and so on.

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