#litus maponi

[poeticnorth]

Remembered to actually write a ritual for Litus Maponi at the end of the month

Litus Maponi — Annual Ritual To Maponos For Creativity and Inspiration

This ritual is intended to be done annually on or around Litus Maponi, which is on 31st August, and calls upon Maponos to gift one with crea

[poeticnorth]

For the ask game! 🎉 - Do you celebrate any festivals? If so, which ones? 🧭 - What led you to your practice? ⭐ - What is something you wish people outside your practice knew more about?

Festivals, it's primarily Winter Nights and Sigrblót, along with my own created ones such as Ránarblót and Eirarblót — Ránarblót has significance for me on a local level, and Eirarblót has personal meaning because that falls on the anniversary of when I started my proverbial fight against testicular cancer. On the Brittonic side of my practice, there's Brigantica/Iwos Brigantia, Boudiwaris (another one of my own making to mark the coming of spring), and Litus Maponi (one I created with Drunertos of Albionandbeyond.com).

What brought me to my practice? I'd always been fascinated by the Norse myths since I was a kid, as well as the history of the Viking Age. I dabbled in Wicca and Witchcraft when I was about 18 for a brief period, then sort of strayed off the path a bit, so to speak, and ended up being a Mormon for a brief stint (I was in a dark place at the time). Once I realised Mormonism wasn't for me and there were things that other members said that made me uncomfortable, I started looking back into paganism and landed on Heathenry. A few years back, I started exploring Brittonic Polytheism as well, due to what I interpretated to be a sign from Brigantia during in a period where I was in what essentially became a legal battle with my former employer.

Something I wish more people outside of my practice knew about would probably be... That there's more to the Celtic deities than just the ones found within Irish Mythology