In today's PaganNewsBeagle, we have our Watery Wednesday community news. A watery festival in New Orleans; Paganism and depression; Jewitch ancestors; remembering Margot Adler; a new CSI episode features Wicca.

Bridging the Element of Water and magickal communities, last weekend's Anba Dlo Halloween festival in New Orleans combined environmental issues with Voudon ceremony.

Sable Aradia is writing a new series on Paganism and mental illness (specifically, depression) at Patheos. You can find the first post of this important series (Pagans are, for a variety of reasons, more vulnerable to these issues) here.

Asa the Jewish Witch blogs about encountering her Jewish ancestors in this post at her blog on Patheos Pagan.

Goddess author and priestess Elizabeth Cunningham remembers the late Margot Adler.

The Wild Hunt's Heather Greene reviews Sunday night's CSI episode "Book of Shadows."