#witchcraft practices

[crazycatsiren]

Festivals and holidays I observe as a Hellenic pagan witch

Monthly:

Noumenia - The first day of the lunar month, when the new moon is just visible. It's a day for planning, progress, fresh starts, and new beginnings. It's also a day to honor Hestia and make fresh offerings to her at her altar.

Agathos Daimon - The second day of the new lunar month, a day to honor and make offerings to the agathos daimon, the [snake] spirit of the household.

The 6th day of the lunar month - Artemis's sacred day. It's a day to honor Artemis and make fresh offerings to her at her altar. As Artemis's oathbound devotee, it's a very special day for me.

Dikhomenia - The day of the full moon/the middle of the lunar month. A day of power, gratitude, charging, manifestation, invocation and fulfillment. A day to honor the moon as well as the moon goddesses (Artemis, Hecate, and Selene).

Hecate's Deipnon - The dark moon/day before the new moon. The day marks the end of the lunar month. It's a day for cleansing, decluttering, catching up, and finishing up. It's also a day to honor Melinoe and make fresh offerings to her at her altar, as well as a good day to seek the guidance of Hecate for my witchcraft practice.

Yearly:

Anthesphoria - Spring Equinox. A flower festival to celebrate the coming of spring and marking Persephone's farewell to Hades and departure from the Underworld.

May Day - the height of spring and a day to look forward to summer.

Thargelia - the 6th of Thargelion, Artemis's birthday.

Summer Solstice - the longest day of the year.

Attic New Year - the 1st of Hekatombaion

Aphrodisia - the 4th of Hekatombaion, a festival in honor of Aphrodite.

Panathenaea - the 28th of Hekatombaion, Athena's birthday.

Koris Katagogi - Autumn Equinox. The arrival of autumn, when Persephone returns to her husband and her place as Queen of the Underworld.

Halloween - a day to honor the ancestors, the earthbound spirits, and the souls of the loved ones who have departed the mortal world. A day to honor Melinoe, and for one day each year, I pray to her to allow my beloved 4-legged children to visit me from the afterlife.

Winter Solstice - the shortest day of the year.

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(Art by Aeppol.)

[crazycatsiren]

Hot take: the senses of superiority complexes among modern witch communities really don't help anybody.

The burning times, natural born witches, deity work is not for beginners... personally, I think all of these (misguided) ideas stem from a place where some people would look for and grab onto anything, however misled, just to feel special and superior; to set themselves apart from others; to somehow feel like they're more powerful witches than other witches.

We are people who practice crafts. We are not better than those who don't.

There are those who are naturally more "sensitive", who do have "gifts". But they would exist with or without witchcraft. Just like there are people who are musically talented, artistically talented, or mathematically talented.

We may be witches, but we are still as mortal and human as everyone on earth.