if wise be he who wields it

a pagan sideblog. introspection will appear here now and again.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

this will be the year I finally convince everyone to abandon New Year's resolutions in favour of Yule Boasting, the clearly superior tradition

[dragon-in-a-fez]

allow me to explain. Yule boasting is an old Norse tradition of getting shitfaced at the winter solstice feast and standing up to proclaim all the great, infamous, and wildly improbable deeds you will perform in the coming year. can range from an unlikely but technically possible claim, like "I'm going to rob 300 banks", to something you'd have to bend the laws of the universe to actually accomplish, like "I'm going to punch a god in the dick and steal his horse". these are not plans. they're not even goals. they're the things you'd do in a self-insert superhero fanfic. and honestly all I want this holiday season is for a bunch of friends to go all in on this nonsense with me and hype ourselves up in ways previously unimaginable

[itisisunbeam]

WHY EATING SEASONALLY IS IMPORTANT

•save money - food is at it’s highest supply

•food is better - it is grown closer to home so less likely to rot

•support local, sustainable farmers

•more environmentally friendly

[mxmoonwitch]

[lemon--glow]

@minimalistgrufti

[minimalistgrufti]

oh you’re a blessing omg thank you

[jupiterwonderland]

Reblogging again because I said I’ll eat this way for the remainder of the year and forgot!

[stainedglassgardens]

“But why should we have to be useful and for what reason? Who divided the world into useless and useful, and by what right? Does a thistle have no right to life, or a Mouse that eats the grain in a warehouse? What about Bees and Drones, weeds and roses? Whose intellect can have had the audacity to judge who is better, and who worse? A large tree, crooked and full of holes, survives for centuries without being cut down, because nothing could possibly be made out of it. This example should raise the spirits of people like us. Everyone knows the profit to be reaped from the useful, but nobody knows the benefit to be gained from the useless.”

— Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (transl. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[xxcosmicaura]

remember kids

Artist 🎨: @vhsdogs

[sewerhawk]

[churieq]

- Týr - A rune card for a deck inspired by Scandinavian mythology💫

[whiskeyterrafoxtrot1]

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[caringcoffeechats]

controversial opinion but unfortunately you are your actions and what you say. if you are mean to people, it doesn’t matter if you sometimes have secret kind thoughts. fortunately you are your actions and what you say. if you are kind in your actions and your words, it doesn’t matter if you sometimes have mean thoughts. the power is in working against inner negative thoughts and being a better person despite it. you have the ability to cultivate the person you want to be.

[kaiasky]

becoming a reverse-gnostic where i believe in a transcendant world of muck and protons and shit. but we are fallen creatures trapped by the demiurge in the flawed world of ideas and concepts, cursed to only touch falsehoods like "sphere" or "apple" instead of the divine truth "a bunch of stuff in a big lump"

[auxon]

okay so the thing is that “sphere” and “apple” aren’t mere “falsehoods” they’re living memetic parasites feeding off our consciousnesses in the literal hellscape of our collective experiences and communications

[weiszklee]

It's one of them Faustian bargains. You sell your soul to the concepts for a chance of understanding the world, but in turn they forever separate you from the world. Eve and the tree of knowledge.

[str-ngeloop]

this is really it lads

[creature-wizard]

General reminder to the pagans out there:

Making a supreme goddess figure part of your spirituality? Great! Worshiping a mother goddess? Wonderful! If that brings joy and meaning into your life, excellent!

"Once upon a time long ago, people all worshiped a great goddess until THE PATRIARCHY conspired to overthrow her and replace her with a CRUEL PATRIARCHAL GOD" - that's pseudohistory and conspiracism; there's literally no evidence for it whatsoever, and it can and does drag people down the new age to alt right pipeline.

[scandinaviansky]

Bergen, Norway

Photo: Andrew M Butler

[resoluteryshimmerings]

[nomorerealitys-blog]

Art of Brenda Lyons https://www.facebook.com/falconmoonstudio/

[the-gwynedd-chronicals]

[holy-ring]

sometimes deity work is a feeling of warmth and love and everything good. mutual support and hugs and kisses and tenderness unlike any other

and sometimes deity work is them patting you on the back after you spilled their whole fucking offering and then saying "congrats lil buddy that's the worst anyone's ever done it"

[citrineandrosmarin]

Question for my fellow pagans, something I've been thinking a bit about while looking at what may linger for me personally from my Christian background - I see a lot of people in various communities saying things like "deities love you all the time, unconditionally" but... is that really true? How do we know? Are there no deities or similar entities that don't? Idk it just seems very Christian to think this way of all-loving all-good deities. I mean it's fine, it just seems a bit... too good to be true? Unbalanced? Idk

[aurhia]

Yeah no. This is definitely a combination of New Agey BS and a holdover from certain types of Christian thought we're all steeped in growing up in the west.

This depends entirely on which gods you're talking about and how you approach them.

I'm sure there are gods out there who love humanity unconditionally (or at least so long as you don't go out of your way to affront them), but for the most part, you should take into consideration how they are viewed in their original context.

That said, you shouldn't assume the opposite either. They don't automatically dislike you or have to be won over from disdain either. People with anxiety or similar issues can have this sense that everyone hates them or that they're a bother to everyone, and assume the same thing about the gods. Don't.

It's best to think of them the same way you would approach a stranger. You don't know what their reaction or feeling toward you will be until you interact with them. Some of them you'll hit it off with immediately, others won't care about you at all.

[kaalbela]

Owen Gent. An unkindness, 2023.