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I've been trying to write about my experience with Hades for at least 5 times, but, somehow, I cannot fully explain it yet, so I'll keep it to myself for now. However, I can share what I have learned in the 3 weeks since I was called to make a connection with him.

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He is nothing as I've imagined.

He makes me feel protected, accepted and he constantly appears in my dreams giving me the best hugs.

Now, what I want to say about my experience so far with a deity is:

1. What other witches experience with the same deity, is their own experience. Some might have similar experiences, but, if you don't that doesn't means you're on the wrong way. So, do your research, but don't expect it to happen to you as it did to others. It's ok, you got this.

2. A deity sees and knows what you need and want, and if they accept you, they will make their presence known to you in a way that you will understand.

3. The way you choose/ get chosen, connect, communicate, worship, pray, learn, feel your deity depends solely on you, your background, your beliefs, and from what you have to learn from them.

4. Be honest with them, however your communication ways are (some prefer friendly talk, others use prayers to convey messages). Just be honest.

5. Be patient. A deity might know better when and what should be happen as per what your request/target was. Also, a deity might not understand why you need something at a certain moment, so make sure you ask for reasons and give enough information to get a certain situation to the result that is best.

6. Listen to your intuition, the signs, the dreams, the recurring words or numbers, the feelings and emotions, the thoughts. Be aware that deities send us vital signs in different ways just because, for example, they know/we asked that we need to develop a sense.

7. Create a connection and a relationship with a deity in a way that makes you, at the same time, feel comfortable and open to the best way of communicating with them.

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I'm just going to blurt it out because even though instagram is a public platform, recently I've been using it more of a inner out world journal. So, here it goes...

This is personal, and has deeply affected me, on the down low for quite some time, and that is comparison.

See, I grew up in the mormon Church (yawn, I hear you... she mentions this again booring... but hear me out...) and within the mormon church it is drilled into the youth from a very young age, even primary school children that they need to be married to a returned missionary, they need to be chaste and virtuous (no seriously this is what we would say multiple times a week as part of a young women vow, maybe one day I'll post that). Girls expected to be married mid-20s atleast, even mormon speed dating was a thing.

I came away from the church fairly early on, it was never a fit for me and I knew that pretty much from the get go, but it didn't stop me from trying, or allowing it to make me feel negatively about my life as it was.

I felt continously bad for making my own decisions about my body and who I shared that with and how I dressed, what I ate and what I drank.

What was and sometimes still is the biggest kicker for me, is seeing the girls I grew up with within the church married already, established with their own families.

I felt like I was so far behind, and I felt like hope had been lost for me. I wouldn't be worth what those women now have.

It has been a fairly detrimental factor in my life on how I have seen myself reach these goals, and not just because of how I was raised, but because there are still people in my life that believe that I will come to my senses and go back to the church, that this moment in my life is a blip.

Its still a process I'm going through feeling like my path, though totally different to what was expected of me, and totally different to the girls I grew up with, is still just as valid and fulfilling to me.

I have found pockets of genuine happiness, love, success, laughter.

My life is valid.

My choices are valid.

I, am valid.

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