Extraterrestrial wiccans, pagans and the like

[kengr]

Dunno if I'd actually, use this in a story, but I figure that it's an interesting question in its own right.

What affect would being on another planet have on pagan/wiccan practices?

Both other places in the solar system, Mars, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn , etc and colonies on earth-like worlds around other stars.

Lack of the moon, *being* a moon, and in the casae of extra-solar colonies, the very constellations being different would be the merest beginning.

so, anybody have ideas?

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[kengr]

On early space habs, those first fruits may be something like some algae and a guinea pig. :-)

Ok, algae isn't likely to be more than an intermediate stage. but it could be *very* symbolic.

Ooo! a "feast" celebrating survival of major damage to life support. Eating algae and rats or guinea pigs or the like in remembrance of what people had to eat while waiting for the new crops and animals to reach harvestable age.

Ceremonies for establishing a new habitat or colony. Bringing in "starter" plants and animals, placed in a special "greenhouse". They wouldn't be the actual "starters", but a symbolic thing. For the nature types, that would be a holy place.

Hmm. some special plants and animals traceable clear back to Earth that are mostly for ceremonial use. Mistletoe? Doves?

And sometimes new ones get added from planets that had compatible planets.