Spells and Druidry

Nature, witchcraft, spells, druidry and paganism

[maureen2musings]

Ardennes forest

Paul Beguine

[spaceshiprocket]

Art by Jeffrey Catherine Jones

[lazarus-lazuli]

i have no comment this is just the funniest fucking thing i’ve seen all day

[breelandwalker]

YOU MUST NOT READ FROM THE BATHROOM STALL.

[offeringstohel]

Portrait de Hel by SOWI

[rherlotshadow]

Oak

[cunningqueer]

Btw it's okay to believe magic is real. You don't need to try to logic your way through or obscure science and "spicy psychology" the magic into "rational" things.

I'm 30 years old, I believe in magic and I believe it is **magical**

[templeofmercury]

This is also true of religion. You don't have to justify it in materialist terms, an ardent materialist won't respect what you're doing no matter how you frame it. It's perfectly fine to have beliefs based in subjective experience that you can't prove to anyone else.

[michaelnordeman]

Roe deer/rådjur (pregnant and about to shed her winter coat) and Mountain hare/skogshare (also with some winter coat left). Värmland, Sweden (13 May 2021).

[enchantedbook]

"Singing Over the Bones" by Lucy Campbell

[broomsick]

Yes the Gods are loving, but they are also mighty. They are flawed, but they’re also giving and kind. They don’t need to be one or the other. All of their countless opposing facets can coexist at once.

[broomsick]

Prose for Freyr

Rain is giving by your will, and poured with your blessing, golden King, from the meadows of Yggdrasil, where among the hidden people, you were enthroned.

Burn at the deepest reaches of the earth, along the webs of roots, under every flower. Draw life from decay, blooms from the ice, music from the hours of dawn, unspoken and true.

Trees and rushing rivers, in their might, flow with your pulse like blood. Glorious peace, by your grace, is bestowed upon grief-stricken souls, the gift of harmony beyond conflicts and strife.

Daily trials cloud the mind like fog, in the endless cycle of resting and waking, the tidal force of doubt where your hand reaches, to grasp mine and leave your mark.

Hope, the world’s undying truth, goes to dust with each sunset, and with each sunrise, is reborn again. Hear me, King of Kings, fragrant and luminous, ruling from the high seat of golden Álfheimr:

I thank you for your countless gifts, the welcome rain and sun, the moments of perfect bliss, which you give freely. I praise you for your loving presence, your grounding power, your steady guidance.

Hail to the Son on of the sea, the Brother of Freyja, the God of the World. Hail to the boar-rider, the joy-giver, the bestower of wealth-gifts and peace.

[hoepera]

Moss posting

[matchagirl]

[rherlotshadow]

Bluebells and birdsong

[petaltexturedskies]

Ada Limón, from “Instructions on Not Giving Up” in The Carrying: Poems (originally published in 2017)

[ladybrythwensinclair]

Hail Freyja

Hail to the Hero's sister Hail to the tamer of cats Hail to the beautiful one Bless and walk with us this day

[aleck-le-mec]

“Paganism is dead”

No man it’s just not organized and that’s the way it should be, creating a monoculture for paganism is potentially extremely dangerous to its themes of individualism and personal practices . Yeah we don’t have temples or pilgrimages but that’s because the grace of the natural world/ our deities can be found anywhere and everywhere we don’t need temples our own bodies are pagan temples. Our own flesh and bones are structures of divinity to us, we make altars in our houses and make those our blessed places. Most of paganism is heavily private of course you think it’s dead that and anytime western culture is faced with a polytheistic system it has an absolute hissy fit.

[fataldusk]