By Aequitas
Sept. 24, 2011
MIAMI – Piercings, tattoos, and other forms of body modification have been part of the human experience for millennia. The motivations our distant ancestors embellished their skins were similar to what compels us today. Read more
By Cosette Paneque
Sept. 5, 2011
Labor Day belongs to the working men and women of America. At the Pagan Newswire Collective, we honor all the men, women, and children who worked to build our great nation. Read more
By Cosette Paneque and Pax
January 18, 2011
FT. LAUDERDALE – The December podcast from CUUPS features two well-known South Florida Witches. CUUPS President David Pollard interviews Spelcastor and Sophialinus of the MoonPath CUUPS chapter of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft. Lauderdale.
MoonPath CUUPS is over 20 years old and has served hundreds of Pagans in South Florida. Listen to Spelcastor and Sophia talk about how they got involved with it and how they’re carrying MoonPath CUUPS into the future.
By Aequitas
November 21, 2010
FLORIDA–Years and many a day past, when Paganism was but a vague inkling in my young mind, many evenings were accentuated with late night trips to the bookstore and rambling voyages across search engines. Sifting through the jumbled myriad of writings and prose, neophytes are often beset with information overload combined with daunting intrigue about this mysterious “new” phenomenon, known by many names but known by all as the Craft.
Marizel of The Witch's Garden.
By Aequitas
October 13, 2010
MIAMI–Like the seedling that first pierces its husk, pushes against the death-grip of the heavy earth, and labors to become a young sprout, Marizel’s journey on the spiritual path was fraught with trial. “I remember back when I was four years old, I started to see spirits,” Marizel recollects in the Healing Room at her Hialeah shop The Witch’s Garden, co-run with her husband Armando. “No one in my family believed me. They thought I had an overactive childhood imagination–or worse, that I was crazy.” Years of bewilderment troubled the young girl. It wasn’t until the passing of her great-grandfather at age 12 when clarity and yet more mysteries unraveled. “I had a vision just before he passed away. He handed me, well, like a ball, it’s hard to describe, like an orb. I reached out to accept his offering.” When Marizel told this to her mother, their reaction was worry and invalidation. “She flat out told me, ‘You’ve become too distraught, you shouldn’t even come to the funeral.’ I kept telling her that I could still see tatarabuelo, I could see his spirit, and he had an offering for me.”
Photo credit: http://www.circleofisisrising.org
By Cosette Paneque
Sept. 17, 2010
MIAMI – Sandra Cheryl Richardson has been a formidable force in Miami’s Pagan community for two decades. She garners admiration from her students, friends, and peers for her skills as a psychic, a tarot reader, and Grand Elder High Priestess of The Religious Order of the Circle of Isis Rising, and eye-rolls from critics who question whether it’s just a cult of personality Richardson has developed.
Richardson always had a strong interest in the occult and witchcraft, but these were not subjects she could easily explore in the Southern Baptist town in Georgia where she grew up. Miami was better, but it was in California where she discovered Scott Cunningham’s book The Truth About Witchcraft Today.
“I thought, this is it,” says Richardson. “This is what I’ve been searching for. These are the ideas I naturally had. I returned to Miami and thought, now what do I do?”
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