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I think one thing in my practice that I value more than even theological content is just what fruit it bears. Does it make me a kinder person? Does it make me more just, does it treat others how I would want to be treated? Does it make me more peaceful and patient?

To me, that’s what I value out of any religion tbh. If it helps you bear those good fruits so to speak, how is it anything but holy?

animentality

alfgifu

this reads like it was submitted to a local newspaper in the early 1900s

Do you invoke Jesus for all your spells or only some or none at all? Trying to feel out my own preferences for this

I do invoke him in some spells and for others I invoke other gods tbh. (Am Christopagan so ymmv). I often try to invoke Jesus for more justice oriented spells or spells to benefit myself and/or others. Especially if I know that the person in question is of Christian faith of some kind, that usually feels right to me.

I personally tend to do more tarot with him than spellwork but a lot of it does boil down to what you do in your practice and what you’re comfortable with.

Good luck, I hope this helps!

#Christian witchcraft

Also I’m bored at the laundromat, ask box is open! (No tarot reads rn tho unless you wanna do a trade)

New icon who dis

poeticnorth

Pagan writers when talking about female deities: "They're a mother goddess"

Pagan writers when talking about male deities: "Well, their role and function is a lot more complicated and important than just just being a father god, and here's a 10k word essay discussing why they're more than just a father god"

homewardskies

OOOOO I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS

This is what originally turned me away from Wicca (among other reasons). So many books, blogs, and other resources seem to have so much built-in misogyny that it boggles my mind.

It's part of why I hate the invention of the "Mother-Maiden-Crone" archetype so much.

No, Hekate is not MMC. She is a powerful force of sorcery and liminality. No, the Morrigan is not MMC. She is a Goddess of bloodshed, mercy, and power.

Reducing such multi-faceted entities, such influential spirits, down to the box that patriarchal systems tried to fit them in is so disrespectful.

Freya, Frigg, Aphrodite, Hekate, Athena, etc. Do many Goddesses have aspects of fertility, nurturing, parenthood? Yeah, they do, just like Zeus, Ares, and Njordr. Is that all they are? Is that even the core of what they influence? Not always.

Immediate red flag if any book you're reading only has Goddesses in the footnotes, as mothers.

ashleysjourney

Very well said 🙏

ruusverd

I will start taking Maiden-Mother-Crone seriously when male deities start being assigned Boy-Father-Geezer.

many-sparrows

They hate me for my punk sensibilities and Christ-centered devotion

many-sparrows

Anyone who calls any god “Sky Daddy” immediately gets my suspicion of being an asshole. Like sorry faith is important to some people?? You don’t get to disrespect that.

So here's my response to the Matthew Vines article, if anyone is interested!

In related news, I now have a substack!

#lgbt #queer christian #progressive christianity #lgbt christian #matthew vines

madame-of-fact

the pope being a chicago white sox fan really speaks to how strong his spirit is because he watched them lose 121 games last year and maintained his faith in god

vitterdotter

it's important to note that not every post about witchcraft is for you, about you, or even relevant to you. kinda a byproduct of us all being different people with different practices or something

bolaires-mask

Ended up making a substack today respond to that terrible Matthew Vines op-ed oops

carpe-astrae

"To Zeus of the Thunderstorm"

O Ombrios, O Skotitas, O Keraunios, O Hypatos! Brilliant light in the heavens! Trumpet of thundering might! O great storm!

You who inspire equal parts fear and awe in the hearts of men,

As your great dark-clouded chariot rears on the horizon.

O roaring, luminous king, brightening the darkness with an incomparable gleam,

The sharp bolts of light that are yours alone to weild!

For no other among gods or mortals could bear such force and majesty.

Those flashing spears you throw with perfect aim, piercing through obscured skies,

And the fearsome rolling tremors that echo your great voice,

Herald your passing overhead, O holy Olympian Lord!

How blessed are we to be in the presence of your vigor, the just strength that sows life-giving rain upon the fields of the good,

And strikes down with fiery bolts the crude ambitions of the wicked!

Yours is the mercy to allow judgement to pass over us, and the right to let it pour down.

The storm is your greatest incarnation, O Zeus on High, for in it is your might, your glory, your justice and generosity, your venerable and unconquerable reign!