Hey, I'm Red, 23, I've been a pagan since I was like 11 and a witch since I was 13, and I've been devoted to Inanna for about 6yrs. I'm also punk, and a huge DIY person.
"Charm" is used to mean a million different things in this community, as is a number of different words. I'm using Charm to mean a spell that you can wear, an object that has a certain energy.
First, a Charm can be anything.
You don't have to make your charm from scratch. I have a big chunky ring of Medusa's head that I got off etsy for like $25 that serves as an everyday protection charm. You can also use whatever you have and make charms to go on your bag, your shoes, keys, car mirror, window, whatever. Hell, spell your water bottle for extra hydration. I'll go through a couple different options of charm making.
Option 1
Pre-made object
Think my Medusa ring. It can be heirloom jewelry, a ring, necklace, anklet, bracelet, whatever.
Cleanse - know the material your object is made from, some usual methods of cleansing may damage it. Submerge the object in salt, water, pass through incense smoke, play music around or wipe it off or whatever.
Set your intention - what do you want the charm to do? Protection, good luck, safety, confidence.
Hold the object in your hand and imagine your energy surrounding the object.
Optional: surround the object with crystals that have the same property as what you're charging the object with. (Obsidian/black tourmaline for protection, etc)
Optional: sit object in view of the sun or full moon to charge and "lock in" the energy you imbued in it. If using crystals, have the crystals charge with it.
Upkeep
Your charm will need cleansed and recharged fairly often, I do it once a month, ish.
If I feel like the charm has been doing some heavy-lifting (I've had a string of good luck, I was in a dangerous situation and got through safely, whatever) then I cleanse it and repeat the whole process to redo it. If it's just "routine maintenance" I do kinda the bare minimum. Toss it around in some salt for like 10seconds, put it on the windowsill to charge overnight.
Option 2
Fully hand-made
Keychain edition
Materials:
Key ring
Thin wire
Beads, dangly charms, buttons, etc
Instructions:
Cleanse the materials
Focus your mind and set the mood (turn on a playlist with the vibes you want the charm for)
Wrap the wire around the key ring a couple times to secure it
Start putting shit on it. There are a million tutorials on how to do a certain design or whatever, so follow one of those or just wing it.
As you assemble, focus on the intention. Imagine the energy of that intention flowing from your hands and into the individual objects (the beads or charms or whatever), fusing them together into a singular charm
Make sure you knot it good, add a little hot glue or smth if you want to make it secure.
Optional: sit it in the sun or full moon to lock in the intention with crystals or whatever
Tada you're done
That same basic idea can be applied to almost anything.
Fully hand-made
Car mirror hanging edition
Materials:
Length of yarn/string, twice the size of the hanging you want
Beads, dangling charms, buttons, whatever
Instructions:
Cleanse materials
Set your intention
Start putting the beads and shit on the string
Focus on the intention, imagine the energy flowing into the individual objects and fusing them together
Tie the two ends of the string together
Optional: sit in the sun/full moon to charge
Hang on your car's rear view mirror
Tada
Again, there are a million in-depth tutorials on how to make these look a specific way, look up tutorials on whatever you want to make and follow them, and the basic idea of the energy flowing from you and into the crafted object and you're good to go.
People overuse terms like “Helpol” and “Hellenic Polytheism” which are labels to describe a specific religion focused on making burnt sacrifices to the Olympian gods in ritual with one’s entire household. The people who sit in their rooms alone claiming the gods talk to them through tarot are just doing Wicca lite, not Hellenic Polytheism.
It's my minecraft temple for lady Persephone 😔 I feel like i've neglect her I feel so sorry (˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ ) I migth create a server for online temple idk
in my practice, i have this "swinging-door" policy, where different entities can just drop by (i have a servitor up as a make-shift bouncer), when the door is open, and everyone's shut out when the door is shut. when i sit and meditate i'll often open the door, and different deities just pop up, from all sorts of pantheons (the most common being greek, and then norse & roman respectively). the deities i talk to the most often swing in, but sometimes if i'm venting about a specific topic that piques a specific deities interest they'll appear (i was once talking about how nervous I was to go to a houseparty and dionysus walked in, for example).
i also get deities closely related to each other appearing (i work with hera, so zeus sometimes appears to check in on us) which is pretty interesting, and it leads to me interacting with deities i wouldn't of, because of the idea that you need to be "called to".
i'm super interested if anyone else practices in this way? it seems a little ad-hoc, and i know a lot of people in the deity work community are more traditional and structured than i am, so i haven't seen much on casual relationships. i think the alternative to that structure is often a deeper relationship (often friendship/romantic/familial in nature), rather than a kind of casual but still distant relationship.
to me, my deities are my deities, and have a very specific role that isn't friendship or a lover or a family member, nor is it a being that i revere and respect so much i fear they'll smite me if i don't use the correct epithet (a little hyperbolic, but hopefully you get my point).
idk. i just don't see much of people who practice in this way.
