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Jasper | 22 | Lesbian/Demi/Nonbinary | Ze/Zem | Blind | Devotee of Loki and Hödr | Polytheist and Witch | DNI if you are TERF/queerphobic/ a Nazi/ etc.

[medium-rare-polytheist]

The Cozy Pagan Server

After a lot of clean up, I have decided to revamp my old Pagan Discord Server.

Rules:

1. Be Respectful: Please treat others kindly. This includes respecting pronouns, faiths, and magical practices.

2. No Bigotry: You know what this means. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, etc

3. No NSFW on Main: We have a NSFW chat, please use it. You must be 18 years old to see that chat.

4. Respect Staff: If a Staff member tells you to do something, just do it. If you have an issue with one of our staff, take it up with me (the owner).

5. Please Make an Intro: Doesn't have to be fancy, just so we can get to know you a bit.

6. Please leave your politics at the door. This is a pagan server, nothing more.

7. You must be 16+ to be a member.

8. Do not share screenshots of this server to people not in it.

HERE IS THE LINK!!

[avalonprincess13]

Viking Rune Good Fortune Candle 🍀

Made to bring prosperity, good fortune, good health and success ☀️

Etsy

[medium-rare-polytheist]

Good morning, I'm crying about Apollo while listening to sadboi music again...

[medium-rare-polytheist]

Feel Cold?

That's just Hodr giving you a hug!

[purringbookworm97]

Prayer I wrote to Dionysus to gain courage and reduce stress:

“Bloody hands in my chest buried to the forearm, Nails sharp like madness, the same red as your wrath, Teeth like pearls of moonlight, gold of the sun splattered, Drops gleaming down your chin, warmth of my blood given. Your deep eyes are mirrors to all mortal terrors, Dionysus you are the great liberator, And to my given heart, with the song and fenzy, Pour strength and bravery, from all fear set me free.”

[pagan-sanctum]

Today’s Pagan Chats Prompt

If you think about a myth that has multiple different versions, do you have a favorite among those versions?

[medium-rare-polytheist]

For me, this is the basis of upg. The idea of having a personal interpretation is is a major aspect of Unverified Personal Gnosis. Not all if it obviously but still definitely worth mentioning when talking about this sort of thing.

[skaldish]

Properties of Norse Paganism

Decentralized - Norse Paganism is practiced in many different ways, with no way being more correct than another. It doesn’t have holy books, scriptures, or key religious figures that guide practices and beliefs, nor does it have doctrines, creeds, or dogmas. This spirituality is dynamic and can be made to suit a practitioner’s needs.

Animistic - In Norse Paganism, all things are thought to have a unique spiritual essence to them, without separation between the sacred and the mundane. The divine is viewed as a property of existence, rather than a condition to achieve or a presence to earn. Because of this, there’s no such thing as “sin” in Norse Paganism.

Pluralist - Norse Paganism acknowledges that things can hold many truths and that there are many dynamic forces in nature. This is different from a dualist approach (the view that things are either a product of good or evil / one thing or another) or a monist approach (the belief that all things are an expression of one thing).

Polytheistic - Norse pagans acknowledge multiple deities and regularly interact with these deities in many ways, without a need for a mediator.

Orthopraxic - The focus of Norse Paganism centers upon the cultivation of practice and spiritual experience, as opposed to orthodoxy, or rules about what to believe and the intensity of one’s faith.

Life-Affirming - Norse pagans live their lives to feel fulfilled in this lifetime. Their practices are done to feel as home in the world, rather than reasons concerning the afterlife. While Norse pagans have many different views about the afterlife, good ones are already guaranteed.

[thewitchofwhitfield]

apollo, greek god of the sun

apollo is the son of sky god zeus and the titaness leto, he is the god of the sun, poetry, medicine, music, prophecy, and oracles

[softapollo]

some lesser known things Apollo relates to/has been called:

he has been called ‘the helper in distress’

connected to this, ‘lord of feeling, lord of sensations’. not only does he feel openly and all, he is also master of his feelings. (he has helped me getting my emotions under control a lot so…)

people would call upon him to ask for a safe return home - also he who conducts men on board of a ship.

he was also known as he who blesses those who embark on journeys.

guardian of the streets and roadways.

founder cities and towns, also the protector of meeting halls or public places.

nurturer of children

he who brings joy, and another favorite, he who rules with sweetness (:

he who blesses those who farm and pasture. will address him with ‘howdy’ and ‘cowboy’ from now on.

“he who wields a golden sword”, he’s not just an archer.

he who fills our souls with bliss

Patír, meaning father, though you can go for daddy these days

the fact he is the god of music is well-known, but keep in mind this also means he’s good at singing

not only sing, but dance too. Some Renaissance ballet theaters have statues of him on their buildings because of this.

the wanderer

the unshorn—his hair was never cut or shorn (so do make art of rapunzel apollo please), representing his forever youth.

both dragon-slayer and mouse-killer

of boundaries. (don’t know about you but that makes a lot of sense to me.)

he makes everything bloom.

connected to this he was also seen as increasing fertility, sometimes adressed as ‘of semen’. Do with that what you like.

‘producing animals’

friendly, amicable, affectionate.

swift, patronage of the races

he who holds together the world

[medium-rare-polytheist]

Will also be opening up tarot readings again soon!

[medium-rare-polytheist]

About My Faith And Path

So lately I've been exploring my faith more and more and have come to the conclusion that I'm not a Norse pagan exclusively. I still work with Norse gods of course, but lately I've found myself drawn to Greek gods (shout outs to Apollo and Aphrodite).

This overall means very little for this blog other than you'll be seeing some more Hellenic polytheism sprinkled in.

[medium-rare-polytheist]

It's think about Hodr time folks...

[crazymiraclecat]

Norse Mythology Aesthetic - Baldr god of light

[the-god-of-illusion]

Norse mythology from A to Z:

[H] - Höðr a blind god; misled by Loki, he kills his brother Balder by throwing a shaft of mistletoe.

[thewinedarksea]

mythology moodboards | höðr

blind norse god who shot the mistletoe arrow that killed baldr

requested by anon

[lindentea]

Loki Laufeyjarson for Nokot by ~Hellanim

[chaos-comes-knocking]

Walk With Me

He is free fall The weightless space The stillness of lungs before the breath The smile between spark and blast “Walk with me,” he says

We walk together in the pregnant silence before applause

He, who is wave crest and comma and caesura, all Guides me through the glorious haze between dream and waking One hand in mine The other holding a torch, a key, groggy Time on a leash

He has no map. He needs no map  What’s a trailblazer without a match?

“Walk with me,” he says, On this trail of ashes And broken things Remnants of smiles gone stale and tears long dried Of half-finished poems and fragments of laughter that managed to escape containment

Our footsteps leave deep prints in the dust I leave worry in the dust He turns each yesterday to dust

I walk with him Of course I do For I must walk the liminal too