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🌿Reminder for myself and other pagans 💜📿

There is no reason for anyone to tell you the way you practice is wrong. Religion evolves over time and everyone experiences it differently. It’s normal and natural to worship the gods in different ways people would have hundreds of years ago. Or even just ten years ago! As long as you are not being harmful to yourself and/or others, practice however you please!

I’ve seen some people consider only the way they worship to be valid, and it’s so hypocritical and frankly unkind. I support anyone who does not practice in ways that are considered “traditional” (again, with the intention that it is safe and respectful!) My blog is a safe-space and I never intend to shame anyone for the way they connect with the gods. 💜💜💜

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Spirits of First Snow

Oh spirits of the first snow, Whispers woven in white, Your touch softens the edges of the world, A veil of silence, pure and bright.

You descend with the breath of ancient winds, A dance of frost and fleeting light. In your stillness, the earth remembers The turning of the wheel, the endless night.

Each flake a story, a prayer, a promise, An offering to the slumbering land. You blanket the roots, cradle the seeds, Dreaming life beneath your hand.

Teach us the grace of beginnings, The courage to let all things rest, To honor the weight of what is frozen And trust in the thaw’s gentle caress.

Oh spirits of the first snow, We greet you with awe and care. May your beauty remind us of cycles, Of what must fade and what may repair.

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When you're deep down on your path, it's easy to become hyperfocused on more theoretical and philosophical things and forget about why you started in the first place. Remember that a single second spent in active prayer with the Gods can be more helpful than an hour of reading theology.

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Whether you’re a devotee or a worshipper, you’re not always gonna be at your best, and there are gonna be times - maybe lots of times - where you may not feel you can give 100% to your deities. You may not even be able to talk to them at all.

That’s why I LOVE devotional jewellery or any other kind of devotional item that you can carry with your person. Just the simple act of putting on a necklace or a ring or something similar is such an amazing way of showing your deities “hey, I’m still here. I still love you. I still carry you with me.“

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Laguz

I am waters I am oceans I am rivers I am creeks I am streams I am trickles I am floods I am downpour I am tsunamis I am life-giving rains I am the bath I am the shower I am the sauna steam I am aquifers full of potable water I am irrigation that sustains crops I am blessings of Freyr and Þórr I am gifts of Njórðr and Nerðus I am the domain of Rán and Ægir I am the flow of…

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Face Ragnarök Like Fenrir

At times like these I also take inspiration from Fenrir.

They put their hand in your mouth, bite it off.

They tie you up, break those fetters.

They may finally tie you down and put a sword in your mouth. What will fall out of your mouth is hope.

They cannot contain you.

Your fetters will break. You will be free. Vengeance will be yours.

Hail Fenrir.

Ves þú heil!

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Eihwaz

I am yew I am the mighty bow I am the staff I am the spear I am rootedness I am grounding I am centering I am the deep roots of Yggdrasil I am the heights of Mímameiðr I am the shelter of Hoddmímis Holt I am the sureness of the shield I am the grip of the sword I am the flexibility of the arrow I am adaptability I am craftsmanship I am survival I am the flame-guardian I am…

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slavic cult of the dead - complaints and curiosities

as you know, a great part of knowledge we possess about the beliefs of old slavs comes from sources much less educational in nature and more aimed at lamenting and complaining and ridiculing the pagan ways. Adam Fischer gives us a plethora of such wonderful compaints in his 1923 work Fête des morts where he gathers examples from various chronicles and sermons, regarding the slavic beliefs surrounding their dead.

Cosmas of Prague laments in his chronicles regarding old Czechia: “So they would bury their dead in forests and meadows and then organise games in accordance with pagan ways on the crossroads, seemingly to soothe the souls, but they would also play ungodly jokes and call upon the spirits, and having put on masks, they would go wild in celebration themselves: these disgusting blasphemies the young duke (Bretislav I) would have to root out.”

A sermon from Czechia from XII century mentions that people would worship their dead relatives as deities (home deities, a belief spread widely across slavic people) and “call upon angels giving them false names”

Similarly, Al-Mas'udi mentioned that Slavs would burn the bodies of their dead and then venerate them as ancestral deities.

Other Arabic source mentions that Slavs would visit the burial site of their dead on the first anniversary of their passing and offer them 20 jugs filled with honey, and then gather around the grave to have a feast before heading back home.

Sources regarding Rus lamented that people would heat up bath houses for the dead: leave them towels and bowls of food and drink, and pour ash on the ground around the bath house to see whether the dead would leave the marks of their presence in it.

The 1551 Synod laments that people in Russia would still gather at the graves and have feasts in the name of their ancestors, and the custom remained strong for years to come, as in 1634 Adam Olearius had a chance to observe it and describe in detail during his travels. 

A 1497 Polish sermon mentions that people still practiced lighting small fires for the souls of their dead in the belief that the souls would gather around the fire to warm themselves.

Another text from the XV century complains that there are sinners who not only worship some foreign false gods but also organise pagan plays and games during which they summon demons; then the text laments that there are people who, during that period, refuse to sleep underneath a roof, refure to speak to other people, or only walk barefoot. Some would leave parts of their supper as offerings to demons (most likely house spirits and ancestral deities) and some would refuse to wash the dishes after supper on Good Friday so that “souls could eat from them”

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I was studying the Norns today and came up with a cool personal interpretation I thought I would share:

Urðr (Fate) represents that which is outside of one’s control but which affects their fate regardless.

Verðandi (Happening) represents the actions one can take to change their fate, for better or worse. These are things in one’s control.

Skuld (Debt) represents the fact that every action taken in the 9 Worlds affects everyone within them. She asks us “What do we owe to each other?” She also represents the energetic debts you take on and pay off in your life (similar to the Westernized idea of Karma).

What do y’all think?

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Kyrilla's Curse

“Come to me, you who are in the earth, chthonic daemon, you who rule and bind, Abrasax; come, Hecate, three-form queen, Ereschigal; come to me, king Pluto, by your great name Yesemmigadon; come to me, chthonic Earth and chthonic Hermes and Pluto and queen Persephone. I strike and strike down and nail down the tongue, the eyes, the wrath, the ire, the anger, the procrastination, the opposition of Iennys, whom the womb bore, so that he in no way oppose, so that he say or perform nothing adverse to Kyrilla, whom the womb bore, but rather that Iennys, whom the womb bore, be subject to her. Lady Phersephoneia, fulfi ll this perfect spell.”

Kyrilla’s Curse Tablet discovered in Jerusalem. (4th century)

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Todays witchcraft is realizing that my body is a temple so taking care of it is actually sacred work✨

When I brush my teeth it’s like intention setting and cleansing of my mouth and all the bad things I’ve said about me

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Tell me, everyone: What is your experience with Freyja?

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Tell me, everyone: What is your experience with Freyja?

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Happy Vetrnætr! Verses of the Nine Worlds is now officially out!

Paperback:

Ebook:

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Nothing makes me have more faith in my community than posting something in the discord about how I'm hesitant to work with Freyja as an ace person due to her more sexual aspects and getting replies from five or six different acespec people confirming that they absolutely love Freyja and sex has never once come up in their relationship with her, then segueing into a conversation about how of course she's great at boundaries, how else would she get cats to pull her chariot

Inclusive Heathens really walk their talk when it comes to inclusivity and I'm continually fucking floored.

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I'm so sick of AI, I can't even put it into words😫 Every time I search for images of deities, I only find these fake Ai pictures and can't express how much I hate it. I miss the days when it was easy to find beautiful paintings or artwork created by talented people