#pagan thoughts

[vlovann]

I wish tourism didn’t take over temples of ancient worship so that the people who still believe in the gods can use it for its intended purpose and work with restoration and unbiased historians to help maintain and rebuild it.

[ramapani-blog]

Lo Saturnalia!

17th December

[zmiyina]

Hot take: most "witchy discourse" (or "witchcourse" if you will) doesn't matter there are marginalized witches who don't feel safe and you're all busy arguing about whether it's okay to be besties with your deity of choice? Maybe as I've gotten older I've just realized that most of what I thought was important really....isn't important.

Something along these lines has been on my mind lately.

I am not saying that paganism is play pretend, obviously, but it often feels like spirituality becomes a way to escape mundanity for people. And once you invest enough into this (or any) part of your life, any small aspect of it can become incredibly, obsessively important.

Most of us have also been raised on a very particular model of religion: one where whether you believe and act according to the in-group’s rule book can be so defining that we do not consider those with a slightly different rule book to be fellow believers at all.

Not to mention, pagans and witches have long been working, for better or worse, in the tension between transgression and presentability, and that is a journey both societal and personal for each who walks any of these paths.

Overall, it would do us good to remember that each of us is going through a similar journey, and that ultimately feeling disturbed does not mean any harm will come to us.

[writtenbybcjr]

if you feel stuck in your religious practices:

make anything you do a part of your worship

washing my hair? worshipping aphrodite

smoking? worshipping dionysus

going outside? worshipping demeter

make anything you do into appreciation of the gods. say a quiet sentence in reverence when you do something like that or even just think it.

i also tried to find facebook groups for pagan groups in my area that meet up for different things so i can try to actually have people nearby.

if you have any local metaphysical shops, they may know or run a group. some may even be willing to host a group if they could get business from it!

one thing that you can always remember is that you don't need any sort of physical altar to the gods if you can't have one. if you can't do a big ritual every day/week/month for them, do something small.

you can pick a flower you see at a park and give it to persephone. you can take pictures of things that you want to give to a god and keep a digital offering book.

even if you can't manage anything else, try to do a basic prayer at night or when you wake up.

[pnwdruid]

We cannot fulfill our sacred role as Stewards of the Earth if we sit idly inside, enraptured by the scrying mirrors no one seems able to live without anymore. The human body was designed to move and create, and it is only in this manner that we can tend to Creation.

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[astridthewitch]

note to self :

i think it's important to remember that your religion and your traditions, the holidays you celebrate and the daily/weekly/monthly/yearly rituals you decide to do, should all add serenity and balance to your life.

it's important to remember that you make your traditions and your beliefs, you choose your traditions and you have the right to see a common tradition/belief/holiday celebration and decide "nope that's not for me."

[echosblanketfort]

sometimes I laugh at myself for being anxious that my gods are mad at me for dropping out of my practice for months or even years.

Their relationship to time has got to be so much different than ours. To think they'd be mad that I needed a break.

What feels like a long break to me is probably feels like I took a week-long staycation to them

[tiggithewillful]

So yesterday was very intense. This is only a short post, but a few things happened that gave me pause.

I don’t think the gods are very happy with me. For some odd reason, my offering bowl fell off my alter and smashed to bits.

Then my cereal bowl tipped and spilled all over me! Then my dinner spilled on me too.

It seems to me, the gods must be pissed off. Do you think I’ve done something wrong in my worship?