As we come again to Winter Eve, the end of the harvest season, the time when the Veil between the mundane and spiritual worlds thins, we have an opportunity to turn inward, celebrating our heritage, remembering our beloved dead, and recognizing our own mortality as the cold and dark close in around us.

Here at PaganRenewal.org, we are taking this opportunity to recognize our Pagan forebears and the many blessings of inestimable value we have received from them. To the first humans who looked upon the world with wonder and awe, to the philosophers and mystics of ancient and classical times who imparted timeless wisdom that we need today more than ever, to the occultists, magicians, and new scientists of the Middle Ages and early modern era who maintained and nurtured the eternal stele of the Great Tree of Paganism under various forms and guises, and to the visionaries of more-recent times who have reintroduced Paganism as a world religion and the original, natural expression of human spirituality, we owe an eternal debt of gratitude. May their spirits live on forever within the Paganism of today and tomorrow!

In Nature, death is also the source of new life, and many Neopagans celebrate this time as the start of a new turn of the Wheel of the Year; accordingly, this season is one not only of death, finality, and endings but also of new life and new beginnings. Even as we remember and honor our forebears and beloved dead, therefore, Reform Pagans regard Winter Eve as an occasion for looking forward to the future. And we believe that, however dark and cold the world around us, the future of the Paganism that we have inherited—humanity’s once and future faith—is very bright indeed.

With much love and many blessings always,
And particularly in the coming season of winter,
Your kindred spirits at ReformPagan.org and PaganRenewal.org