Orion Magazine

01/13/2026

It’s HERE! Introducing our 2025/2026 Winter issue: CRYPTIDS: ON THE TRAIL OF BIGFOOT AND OTHER IMPROBABLE BEASTS. It’s creepy. It’s crawly. It’s steeped in myth and mystery. And, even better, our writers and editors have pulled together a magazine this season that celebrates the truly fantastic: the legendary reality of nature as we know it—and what it tells us about ourselves. Curl up, dive in, and, if you’re one of the sorry souls that doesn’t have a copy, subscribe right here: https://orionmagazine.org/product/subscribe/

01/05/2026

How do we build the future on a deep—yes, a deep—longing for what we want?

adrienne maree brown and Grist's Tory Stephens point us in the right direction in this conversation about imagination, trust, and conflict.

A conversation about imagination, trust, and conflict with adrienne maree brown

01/04/2026

From the poem 'Before' by Tanaya Winder, in Orion's Autumn 2025 issue. https://orionmagazine.org/article/before/

01/03/2026

During the winter at Orion, we think a lot about cycles and seasons. And who better to help us contemplate that than a shepherd?

A conversation about raising family, tending sheep, and truly inhabiting place

01/02/2026

"Collective Black self-recovery takes place when we begin to renew our relationship to the earth, when we remember the way of our ancestors. When the earth is sacred to us, our bodies can also be sacred to us."

Online for the first time ever, this 1996 essay from bell hooks reminds us about the crucial relationship between body and soil. Read: https://orionmagazine.org/article/touching-the-earth/

01/01/2026

What's the first bird you saw today? Take it as a sign for the New Year.

From Tove Danovich: "People have been using birds to divine the future for centuries... The origin of the word auspicious—auspicium—means to 'look at birds.'"

Making meaning in the New Year

12/31/2025

Words of hope as you head into the New Year from Nickole Brown:

"Make yourself the eye of all that’s rushing past—you can be your own eye of the storm, each of us a single eye in these many, many storms."

Read: https://orionmagazine.org/article/one-hundred-reasons-not-to-die/

Paintings (!) by Dennis Wojtkiewicz.

12/30/2025

"December can hurt more than other months. Repeated rituals permit a magical thinking. We say, last (or last, last, last) year, at this time, our dead were still here."

Samantha Hunt on the memories we revive each December, and the ghosts that come alive with them. Read: https://orionmagazine.org/article/ghosts-of-december/

12/29/2025

Have you ever seen an otter in winter? Join us on this miraculous sighting in Wales...

Read: https://orionmagazine.org/article/otters-in-winter/

Art: The River Ballet by Meg T. Justice. Linocut, 2022

12/24/2025

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12/23/2025

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12/23/2025

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