#deity interaction

[sword-in-the-sea]

✷ some silly interactions i've had with local gods & spirits ✷

//blue texts in a conversation are their words

lighting incenses for them, or sharing my kretek cigarette when i smoke with them. the scent of burnt spices and herbs feels like home

an javanese god who looks like a 40-yrs-old javanese man with leathery skin and calloused working hands, responding "bapakmu, le." (it's like a your mom joke, but to express disbelief and irritation. literally translates to "your dad, son (derogatory)".) to a dumb rethoric i made

"what are you doing?" "hiding." "in my bathroom??"

in response to seeing an incorporeal lady dressed in all white while going to the bathroom, my first reflex is to grab the bug spray

seeing a pair of child's feet behind my own and having a momentary cardiac arrest before i realised what's happening. looking to the side to the incorporeal children with a frown as i said, "...can you not."

"(in distress) please give my ring back, i'm rather attached to it." (sudden silence before my ring fell out of thin air right beside my feet) "...thank you."

bodyslamming a monkey-like creature who was sent as a santet (curse) to my house at 1 am

"can someone please get that ghostly child away from the stairs, i nearly had a heart attack seeing him crawling up and down."

giving a non-human home intruder bombastic side eye until they left

additionally, staring contest with them until they left

"le (son), it's 3 am which is the time where humans go to sleep. some even call it the demon (witching) hour and would avoid being awake at this hour." "..your point?" "why are you awake cooking instant noodles?"

"le, that tree can't survive here. the sun doesn't hit it well."

the goddess lady whom guarded the forest where i had a summer camp in; who wore a kebaya and apologised to me because her children possessed a camp counselor out of fear and defense response. the strange feeling of acknowledgement as we both nodded to eachother before parting ways

the old gods in kerep, ambarawa who never failed to greet me whenever i made a trip back to ambarawa

the stoic silence of the jogjakartan court of old gods. yet even in their stillness, there's a comfortable acceptance of me amongst them whenever i visited

"you can return whenever you need to. this is your Home, you are Ours. no matter how far you've voyaged, you can always return. this is your Home and no one can take that away from you."

the two tigers who followed me all the way to dublin and back home as i studied abroad

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[screeching-0wl]

Hi. Ive never worked with spirits/entities myself, but I love your blog. But the other day I was talking about correspondence between the holy spirit and venus & mercury, using the Kabbalah. And suddenly I felt the distinct feeling of feathers around the back of my right (mercury's side) ankle. I obviously immediately took this as being a sign from Hermes. It stayed around for almost an hour, and was especially noticable while walking. I tried to ask what was up but only got a vauge "idk u seem cool" so 🤷 Truly one of the most remarkable signs I've ever experienced. But my question now is, what the heck do I do?! 😂 How to get started communicating if I havent really done it but someone tried to contact me? Thanks so much 4 your help 💕💕💕

Hi there! Thank you for your patience and I'm sorry it took me a while to answer.

The easiest way to communicate would probably be simply talking to the deity. This also helps to form a bond with them. You could tell him about your day, your struggles or anything else, really.

Another, and quite a popular way to communicate would be divination. You don't need extra fancy tools for this. There are plenty of different types of divination to choose from and often there are ways to 'substitute' for something. I personally use Tarot the most but using playing cards works just as well.

My other go-to are:

dice (astragalomancy)

pendulum; any necklace works + if you want to you could make a simple pendulum board out of anything, you could draw it on a piece of paper, for example

cinnamon sticks for yes/no questions (like throwing bones in osteomancy)

Psephoi - also relatively easy to DIY

Sortes Homericae & bibliomancy - divination using books and the works of Homer (mostly the Iliad)

Here's an example of DIY pendulum with a pendulum board and Psephoi

But in case you don't want to/can't practice divination with tools there are other ways to communicate:

Divination without tools: e.g. nephomancy (clouds), oneiromancy (dreams), cledonomancy (overheard words, chance events/encounters)

Asking for signs (the way I do it explained here: LINK)

Meditation - you can invite the deity to assist you and ask for any messages

Prayer is also good to connect with the deity as well as ask them for something, e.g. any favour, or thank them (more about prayer in HelPol here: LINK)

On a side note, doing research about the deity is another good way to connect and get to know them.

Experiment, see what works for you and what doesn't and what you feel most comfortable with. Keep in mind that it's alright if something just doesn't work out or you make mistakes - use those experiences to learn.

Inform the deity about your preferred method/methods of communication and remember that perfectly fine to set boundaries.

Hope this helps!

[sunflowerwitchjourney]

Writing to Asmodeus and Lucifer

So I decided to write a letter to Lucifer and Asmodeus to discuss my manifestations and where I really want to go in my life. This also included my path in witchcraft.

Recently looking into darkness, mysteries, and the unknown in the Universe and myself have been brought up multiple times by my team. So as I wrote the letter, I focused on how I would start this. And how the shadow work I've been doing can be beneficial to this path.

From there, I started to look at my life. Sure right now I am not at the job I wanted nor have my own place. But we discussed what do I really want. And in all honesty, I just wanted a comfortable career where I am in a town that I am comfortable. I learned where I had my masters that I preferred smaller towns or smaller cities to large ones. I did feel more anxious in large cities as well as not really myself.

So part of the letter we worked on manifestations. How to believe that I deserved these manifestations when I write them. Because there are times where I began to worry or delve into negative self talk.

And using tarot to identify what I should talk about, with whom, or why I should talk about it was very helpful in understanding some deeper things.

A/n So here's a little blip of my letter to Lucifer and Asmodeus. I felt a lot better writing to them the next day and realized how I can write my manifestations. ~HeatherTheSunflowerWitch 🌻❤️

[sunflowerwitchjourney]

Me: I'm ready for my next job. Let's go. Come on i graduated.

My spirit guides, deities I work with, and entities: Patience my child. Trust in the Universe and the Divine timing. It will come. Just relax. 🦇🐈‍⬛🔮

[screeching-0wl]

I had a rough couple of days (I'm well now). Ares and Apollo have been really helpful and yesterday I just let myself be really vulnerable with Ares. I talked with him and I felt so much better afterwards.

Today I woke up and could feel Ares' presence. Sometimes deities just "put" songs into my head as messages and when I woke up I could "hear" everything I wanted by Billie Eilish play in my head, mind you I hadn't listened to this song in months. I was still half asleep but I finally recalled what this song was about. It was also kinda like him saying "Hey, I'm here. You're safe. It's gonna be alright."

And damn, I think I needed that.

I know I said it countless times but imma say it again louder, for the people in the back; I freaking love Ares and I appreciate him so much!

[starsambrosia]

Calliope burnned me again...again???

I blacked out and all i remember what Dionysus setting me back in my body and i just heard in his stern almost enraged calm voice like comd anger "Calliope."

She dosnt like how close i am to him she dosnt like that he holds me she dosnt care that we love eachorher its more of a time attention thing...idk why.

But i got burnned and it hurts and hes pissed

Ouch. As for the star goo thats more on @henasse he uses my blog some times if hes gotta make a quick note

[finding-my-paths-blog]

Strange Encounter

Last night I was meditating and I let my inner eye wander through a reddish woodland. There, a woman approached me; she wore a black dress and later I noticed a long, shimmering green cape... but what struck me most was the large crown of branches on her head that resembled antlers. She spoke very little. It was mostly prolonged over-the-shoulder looks and curiously beckoning body language that drew me after her through the woods.

At one point she was far ahead of me and I tried to run after her, but her distance remained. I expected that to be the end of it but, oddly enough, my “vision” went black and I was indeed thinking the experience was over. But then my vision returned. I was lying flat on the ground in a cave, where I saw she was standing over a cauldron, stirring herbs. I asked her what she was doing and, unfortunately, I could feel she named off some herbs... but I couldn’t hear her correctly. I asked her to repeat and again she did and again I could feel she was telling me what they where, but the information itself was muffled and couldn’t reach me.

Then she started to walk away, where I guessed the exit of the cave was. I begged her to let me visit her again and, maybe, she could teach me more. She smiled in a strange way, then left. I felt assured I would see her again.

The experience was about to end. Before it did, I felt a second presence. I looked around and noticed a man... of sorts... sitting on a chair made of branches. His skin was green and seemed to have the texture of leaves. There was a large red leaf hanging over his head and forehead. Then I opened my eyes, and it was over.

Can anyone identify these two figures, maybe? I thought about it before I went to sleep and after I woke up... maybe Ceridwen interacted with me? And Green Man, an aspect of Cernunnos? If there is anyone who can tell me who they may think these figures are I would greatly appreciate it!

[lust-bucket]

How is it possible to have conflict with a deity? I really do not understand this...

I’m gonna answer possible from my personal experience, which may or may not be the way other people view deity conflict. I hope this helps. If I’m unclear in any way, just let me know and I’ll try again~

 I don’t mean conflict in the sense that I’ve had a verbal fight with a deity. This might be an experience that some people have had, but I personally wouldn’t be comfortable engaging one of my gods in this way. Any conflict I’ve had with a deity (Loki included) has been largely internal, and stems from the following:

Regardless of how much I like to fawn over my gods and how close I feel to them, the fact remains that they are gods. They aren’t human, and that means a lot of things. It means they aren’t obligated to be pleasant or act in ways that humans find tasteful, and that they don’t owe people (even their followers) anything whatsoever. If you take myths into consideration (which I do), there are a lot of things that deities do that make me highly uncomfortable. They kill, destroy shit, instigate wars, and in some cases are highly violent and commit rape. This doesn’t speak for every deity, obviously. Some do none of these things, some do all of them. The point is, it is up devotees to take these things into consideration and somehow reconcile them with their personal understanding and relationship with their gods. For me, this is sometimes difficult. It’s resulted in a lot of weird feelings on my end with some of my deities, and I’ve brought these feelings before them in prayer/other ways that I engage my gods.

This is the experience that I consider conflict. I bring feelings that I consider confrontational into their space, but it’s not really a standard issue conflict, I guess.

I don’t know. I hope that makes sense. I feel like I ramble sometimes. Let me know if that was unclear, dear.