Pagan Pride

Collaborators include authors Eric Westacote, Brian Smith, and Robin Artisan.

She has also created promotional art for Central New York's Early Pagan Pride Day event since 2015.

Jessica lives in Scriba, New York, with her husband, musician Brian Waters of Green Mistletoe, and their cat, Buddy.

She maintains a vegetable garden and habitat beds of native flowers.

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It fell through.

Something I discovered was when there's something I want very much, if I dance to the drums at the Pagan Pride Day event with strong intention...

it will always seem to produce something.

I mean, I do think that we have outreach in the pagan community.

This is the season of Pagan Pride Day events.

I think in your local area, you're going to have one or something equivalent to very, very soon.

October

And if you listening out there are somebody that I met, thank you so much for making this lady feel right at home.

Let's just say that Pagan Pride Day in New Orleans 2026 was a huge success.

And if we're gonna start spooky season anywhere, why not start someplace where the dead have always seemed to have a little trouble staying quiet? And also, when you think New Orleans, you think Marie Laveau.

Now, you probably heard the name Marie Laveau, the voodoo queen of New Orleans, and immediately Hollywood wants to throw a black veil over her head, put a snake around her neck, light approximately 600 candles, and have her curse somebody.

And over the years, her spiritual path has grown into a deep connection with community, tradition, writing, and creating spaces for others to explore their own spirituality.

We'll also talk about her work with the Pagan Community Retreat and Pagan Pride, and some of the challenges and joys that come with being part of a spiritual community.

Ocean, welcome to the podcast.

I'm so happy to have you here, and even happier that I get to have this conversation with a friend.

But-

Uh, putting on public ritual is something really special to us.

We always perform at Pagan Pride Day, Los Angeles, which is, uh, happening on, uh, October 4th at Rainbow Lagoon Park.

It's an all-day event.

So let the listeners in on how we spent a good old day on Saturday.

We had an absolutely amazing time at Central New York Pagan Pride Day up at Lafayette Park near Syracuse, New York.

And holy cow, this year was even better than last year.

We again had a tent, a community tent with Crystal City Circle, which is our local pagan community, and I cannot tell you how many listeners and wonderful, amazing new people that we met that came up to us at our booth.

We love the stickers.

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What are you talking about? And fret not, friends, because yes, we had our stickers available at CNY Pagan Pride Day, but our stickers will soon be available to everyone, so keep an eye out for that.

And I wanna say a huge, huge hello and thank you to one of our very beloved friends, Danielle, who managed to spend the day with us, which was great fun.