#pagan ish

[vifetoile]

Hogswatch self-care idea inspired by Hogfather—and it is that time of year— Follow Mustrum Ridcully’s example and take a long hot shower, real indulgent, while singing your favorite pagan ish holiday carols. Just don’t use a bath by B. S. Johnson….

[cunning-pope]

Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie makes use of the Triple Goddess archetype, and though I can't prove Gerwig did it on purpose, it does make for some interesting reading. The Oscars are right around the corner, now might be a good time to read it.

[cunning-pope]

Peer reviewed tags from @gatekeeper-of-witchcraft

i'm gonna make my painful contribution to The Discourse and say i do not see the harm in women reclaiming female centric spirituality.

i am not a religious person nor do i want to become one but spirituality is also about culture, community and celebration. i would much rather women celebrate nature, the female form, and "divine femininity" than patriarchal phallocentric religions. that "divine femininity" is used pejoratively has always tickled me considering we live in a world hooked on divine masculinity. the old matricentric religions are really the only form of female culture devoid of male-centric worship we can grasp at, since men have dominated our belief systems for thousands of years. and women learning about the old religions is the best way to unravel the myth of the male creator, and realise it is really women who are the closest thing to a "god" on Earth.

there's also an element here, which i think is deeply capitalist, patriarchal, and a little racist, of people considering the connection to & celebration of nature as somehow primitive. i think that the lifestyles most of us live now, with none of us knowing anything about the land around us is actually very infantile and regressive for humanity as a whole. the ways of life we consider "primitive" (primitive communism, matrilineal societies) are really what we need to find ways to return to post-capitalism. they were in tune to nature, sustainable, and much more communal & equal. how can nature be primitive or ascientific when science *is* in nature, and the practices of these old societies were early scientific discoveries & practices. as a Black person, my community is often trying to reclaim our lost practices. it makes sense to me that women would try to do so too.

[sleep-deprived-person]

A shitty meme me and my brother talked into existence

[adhd-merlin]

Christian iconography? in my Merlin??

[sleepnowmychild]

I wish I was in the underworld, in Erebus In that calm darkness with no responsibilities or stress. Quiet, no overstimulation, no need to eat or drink for survival, no need to follow societal rules that make no sense. Just a shade, milling about. Watching the gods go about their days, napping in the poppies outside of Hypnos’ cave.

I’m having the worst years on my life in the transition from child to adult, all because I’m stuck in a world that’s not built for the neurodivergent, traumatised, fatigued people that inhabit it. No fiends, no job, no aspirations, no direction. I need money for top surgery but no fucker will hire me because I’m very clearly autistic and I can’t hide it. But I’m not considered autistic ‘enough’ for support. I can walk, I can take short trips out and about so I’m not considered disabled ‘enough’ for support, but when I come close to fainting and have days I can’t leave my room I’m just seen as ‘being dramatic and lazy’

If I was a shade, lying in the poppies with Hypnos in that calm darkness of Erebus, I’d be so much happier. But I know I can’t do that, I have to die to reach the underworld. And I’m too young, I can’t die yet. I need to live a full life, the gods WANT me to live a full life. But it’s so hard, it’s so endlessly hard to live a full life when you simply aren’t made for the world you’ve been placed in.

I’m tired, I’m so so tired. The only escape is the comfort of Hypnos’ domain. The vanisher of woes, they call him that for a reason. Sleep is the only time I’m not stressed out of my mind just trying to live.

I want to be a shade in the darkness of the underworld under the watch of Hypnos. But I can’t go there yet, it’s not my time. Thanatos won’t take me yet.

Hypnos give me fucking strength.

[vifetoile]

#alternate herstory where we rose up during the burning times and worshiped our fallen ancestors for dying to inspire our anger (takes via @subaruseventhsister)

alternate history where instead of a cross, the Christian symbol is some other form of execution, or even all of them

tried to stylize and reduce each as much as possible, but it’s genuinely difficult to do that with the stake

[monochromatic14u2]

Do you ever feel like your soul is divine, but not in a god way?

Like, you are powerful and all that, but you best think of it as being a herald or something akin to an angel? Just something lower than a god but cthronic? As a Hellenic pagan, its heavily disrespectful to claim to be a god, and I am heavily not so. By no means am I identifying as a god or something anywhere close to their power and divine holiness.

But I feel like some part of me is divinely cthonic in nature, immortal to some degree. Am I just delusional or something? Does anyone else feel this way? Or do I just need to touch grass and get help?

[fiasramblings]

I’ve been very sick and tired for the past week and before that I was so busy that I hadn’t had time or energy to even pray, but I finally did and I see a spark in myself that wasn’t there before when I opened my eyes. thank you, Lady Aphrodite 💗

[mandarinaenjoyer]

RELIGIOUS PEOPLE🫵

I'm writing a Star wars-ish story, and for reasons I will not explain humanity leaves earth behind and migrates through the entirety of the galaxy. My problem is, as an agnostic who's not had a religious upbringing, that I can't phantom how any religion would evolve in case of galactic expansion.

Here comes the hard part: I need people to try to explain both the good and the bad things their respective religions could evolve into in case aliens and humans co-habitated. (As in, do they go to heaven? Are they also creations of god? Are their gods also your gods? Etc.) I'd love to know how you think your religion could re-shape with the appearance of such different creatures.

I ask with absolute respect, I'm just interested and in need of help, and prefer to get answers from you than to make them up myself.

⭐It doesn't matter what your religion is, I'm interested in your point of view⭐

Thank you so much 🫶🫶

🍊

[sarcastic-salem]

So I’ve been thinking.

The Celts may have had some sort of cultural impact on the Norse during their interactions with each other and there are similarities between the fae and the vaettr. So if we consider that vaettr are, essentially, the same as the fae and Loki was originally a vaettr before he achieved Godhood status……..

I feel like that could explain a lot.

[vifetoile]

Because this generation is serving as the midwife for the rebirth of the Shechinah, we will have to be familiar with the ancient knowledge and traditional prayers which invoke her, at the same time that we are creating new forms. In this ancient/future subculture we will need poets and prophets, rebels and rabbis, musicians and mothers.

What is clear is that we have the beginnings of a movement without a hierarchy, a central leader, or a single organization.

This Goddess who shines on us as we study sacred texts is found in redwood groves and apple orchards. She is coming to us in the wind and the water, in the ocean and the mountains. Like the underground Goddess herself, this movement comes from the subterranean parts of the human psyche. It emerges from a place of discovery and awe, from a place of wonder and worship.

Rabbi Léah Novik, collected from The Goddess Re-Awakening collection by Shirley Nicholson

Note that "Shechinah" means, literally, "the presence of God" and it is a multifaceted concept in the Talmud, in Midrash, and in the Mishnah. Rabbi Novik's points are, I think, applicable to a lot of Goddess-oriented activities, but the words "Shechinah" and "Goddess" are not interchangeable.

[wannabeskald]

I may be pagan, but sometimes the only way to get my emotions across is with a good ol' "my brother in christ" or a "in the year of our lord 20--?"

Those phrases are just peak language, idk

[general-kalani]

Joseph, John, Pagan, do yall like legend of zelda (specifically botw) cause like Link, yall are consistently serving cunt and it is fantabulous

"... Serving what."

"Well... I've only heard of it, never actually played these games. But of course I'm serving cunt, I'm the horniest man alive~"

"I can't say that I have. I don't like doing games when I'm trying to run an Empire after all!.. Thank you for the compliment darling, as always."

[vampire-rodeo]

i have a rlly unique name for my frankly boring real name, but honestly it’s SO unique that i don’t even use my name online. but anyway a good equivalent to my name/nickname is my real name being (the equivalent to) Marcus and a nickname of Mars or something like that? if that makes sense. idk if that’s the best equivalent tho.

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[lil-smolpubby]

It’s been a few years since I’ve changed how I do my practice and worship and I have come across a heavy feeling of envy when I see others

Some seem so fantastical and wonderful and touch and yet sometimes when comparing I feel so mundane

I want and crave so much go do what others even though I know I cannot

I don’t have the energy to set up elaborate spells and rituals. It takes so many spoons just to do a simple one without feeling super tired after and taking the rest of the day or night easy

I may have the money now but so many materials commonly used in stuff is expensive. Candles are lovely but get expensive over time, and they take up room for things I’m not guaranteed to use. A lotta different herbs n flowers aren’t easily available where I leave in variety other than basic cooking stuff that I wouldn’t have to order online

I live in what is basicallr a sburb like area. There’s not many easy stuff in nature to get, and frankly I’m not educated on identifying wild plants

Hell, I hardly have room for any more materials other than my altars I have set up

I try to channel things into a way that is realistic for me and more involved in interests I know I engage it. I still regularly talk to my deities and spirits I’m involved with and such, maintain altars, give offerings when I can

I know everyone’s practice is different but sometimes I feel so much lesser compared to others or like I’m not doing enough.