#pagan convert

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I can not be fucked to set up fancy spells and rituals at 3am. Whoever tells you that spell work needs fancy items and herbs is lying. I've spent the last 5 hours screaming and ranting to my house spirits about my lost airpods. They'll show up.

Find me my shit, Wiliam. I NEED MY MUSIC.

[c4rdkingd0m]

i love converting my friends to my culture like when you met me you were a cis catholic singlet and now we are both genderfluid pagan systems

(This is very directed)

(If you see this i know what you are)

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Gods, the TERFs and zionists on this gay-ass app aren't even worth hexing. Just start throwing the crystals at them.

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3 maybe-controversial but not surprising things about my pagan practice:

1. My queerness and politics are integral parts of my practice. They can not be separated from me and, therefore, will always be part of my practise. Plus, I converted because pagan ideals are antifacist and anticolonial by nature. My religion will always reflect me as a person, and I genuinely don't think you can be pagan while denying its roots. Nazis can't be pagan. White supremacists can't be pagan. Zionists can't be pagan. Transphobes can't be pagan. These are all colonist political world views and I can't see how you could claim to worship the Earth while killing its life.

2. There is no "divine feminine" or "divine masculine." There is only the Divine. These concepts were made up. What is Masc and Femme is subjective to people and cultures.

3. I don't celebrate Ostara. It was never a true pagan holiday and was made up by Nazis. I celebrate the solstices. When the moon is in my zodiac and sometimes Yule, Mabon, Imbloc, Beltane, and Samhain.

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Becoming religious again after religious trauma is such a weird experience.

I spent years saying I was an atheist because I lived through religious trauma that taught me that religion meant isolation and distrust in yourself. Obedience and submission.

And then I became Pagan and everything changed. I was suddenly praying again. I felt uplifted and confident in myself. I felt heard when I prayed and started reading sermons weekly on online temples. I brought prayer beads and used them. I made a pocket altar and used it multiple times a week.

I felt connected to myself again.

I feel loved and free.

Sometimes religion isn't the problem, but what religion you choose to follow.

Religion can be beautiful. ♡