GREEN EGGS, PAGAN WIZARDS, UNICORN GOATS, AND HAM

A love letter to Green Egg magazine, our favorite pagan journal

Oct 04, 2024

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CONVERSATION WITH GREEN EGG FOUNDER OBERON ZELL-RAVENHEART

Merry meet, Earthworms,

This installment of The Specimen features a convo that we had with Oberon Zell-Ravenheart (aka OZ)—a fellow whose Tinder credentials include: Pagan priest, wizard, shaman, metaphysician, transpersonal psychologist, ordained Priest of the Earth-Mother Gaia, theologian, author, artist, sculptor, lecturer, teacher, and “naturalist” (nudist). He’s also known for patenting a minimally invasive procedure for turning goats into unicorns. You can’t make this stuff up!

Not surprisingly, phone reception from Oberon’s cave was a bit dicey but brave on, dear seeker. The cave thou dost dread holdeth the treasures thou dost seek!

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Oberon is also the founding warlock behind Green Egg magazine—a legendary Neopagan journal/grimoire that’s been running intermittently since 1968 as the official voice of the Neopagan Church of All Worlds, the first federally recognized Pagan church in the U.S., also founded by Oberon. Yep, this guy’s a true Renaissance man—if “Renaissance man” means the beardy character in Flemish Renaissance painter David Teniers’ canvas The Alchemist.

David Teniers the Younger, *The Alchemist*, c. 1643

Oberon’s magazine has been described as a “journal for the awakening Earth,” a “journal of Gaian consciousness,” a “magazine of goddess and nature religion,” and a “catalyst for the coalescence of consciousness.” It features writings from deep ecologists, philosophers, ufologists, witches, new agers, and pagans from around the world, along with stunning original artwork—some of it crafted by Oberon himself.

The first 79 issues (79 issues!) were made in St. Louis, where Oberon was whelped. Then, after a nine-year publishing hiatus—filled with unicorn goats, mermaid expeditions, rural homesteading, and plenty of magick (all of which gets covered in this doc about Oberon)—he and his high priestess relocated to Northern California, taking Green Egg with them. As you can probably imagine, there’s far too much wizardry to unpack about Oberon in this dinky newsletter, so let the interview and documentary be your gateway. All you gotta do now is step on through.

Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, Priestess of the Church of All Worlds

And though we take issue with cosmetic surgeries performed on goats, even minimally invasive ones (a practice Oberon has long put to bed), we do so love Green Egg—enough that we would read it in a moat and on a boat.

We’d read Green Egg in the rain, in the dark, and on a train. And in a car, and in a tree. It’s so good, so good, you see! Try reading Green Egg in a box, or try reading it with a fox. You can read it in a house and even read it with a mouse. Let’s read Green Egg here and there. It’s online—read it anywhere! We looovvee the Green Egg phenomenon! Thank you Thank you, Oberon!

Never thirst, CS

TEES & OTHER STUFF

GREEN EGG TEE & HOODIE:

'Tis autumn! As skies darken and winds stir, the veil 'twixt worlds grows thin. Don thy Green Egg shroud 'neath a Green Egg hooded wizard's cowl.

I ❤️ BOGS:

You love bogs—admit it.

EARTH FIRST! HUMANS SECOND:

15% of proceeds from this tee go to support the Earth First! Journal—an anti-authoritarian environmental advocacy mag for Earth First!. Earth First! is dedicated to protecting our enchanted world by any means necessary! In their words, “Earth First!ers understand that we can never be the healthy humans we were meant to be in a world without wilderness, clean air, and the howling of wolves under the moon.” This is a reprint of an old tee that one of our ranks wore for years until threadbare. The cracked ink look is a result of scanning the original on our flatbed scanner.