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𝔞 𝔴𝔞𝔩𝔨 𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔬𝔬𝔡𝔰

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Sometimes the best offering you can give your deities is survival, and I mean that. The days clawed through? The nights wept into?

Keep going: it's enough

You are enough

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'Peter Pan' illustrated by Flora White, (1878 - 1953)

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outcast of the village

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Kleifarvatn Lake, Iceland

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birds of a feather by aaron jasinski

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Fjaðrárgljúfur, Iceland

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You know how a bunch of us put Halloween decorations up in August and Christmas goes out in stores halfway through October? We're allowed to do similar things with Pagan holidays too.

I used to feel like I had to do my celebrations on the exact date of a Pagan holiday and if I couldn't do something that day, then I didn't get to celebrate it. In retrospect, that's not very helpful. Do I believe that some moments in time have magical significance? Yes. Do I think being unavailable at that moment means I shouldn't celebrate at all? No.

Most of us don't get time off work for our religious holidays and have to squeeze the celebrations in amongst the rest of our lives. This means that seeing the holidays as more of a season than a single day can be really freeing. You won't get in trouble for honoring the sun three days after the Solstice. It's totally okay to give an offering to your ancestors half a week before Samhain. Don't let wanting a perfect practice stop you from having a good one.