#All About Paganism

[servantofthefates]

Achieve Success & Happiness by Embodying Your Divine Parent 

I remember being an outwardly Catholic but privately atheistic young girl, and asking my would-be elders, “How do you know you’re being a good child of your god, deserving of rewards? For Christians, it’s easy. Be kind and turn the other cheek. What about you?” This was their answer: “It depends on our divine ruler.”

APOLLO

Be generous. To yourself and to others. By giving yourself praise; by always having the utmost faith in yourself and in your abilities. Also by giving those who deserve it a share in your resources and a lot of inspiration.

DIANA

Be nurturing. To yourself and to others. By caring for yourself at all times, never falling into self-blame or self-doubt. Also by teaching those who deserve it how to do the same even in their darkest moments.

MERCURY

Be clever. For your own and others’ benefit. Find strategic and cunning ways to get out of difficulty, especially unfair ones. Manipulate, if you have to. Do the same to help victims who deserve your kindness. 

VENUS

Be beautiful. Take great care of your physical vessel. Take the time to always be at your most presentable. Make your home a sanctuary for beauty. Inspire others to do the same. Find, create and share beauty wherever you go.

MARS

Be brave. Always choose the courageous path, never the cowardly one. Stand up for yourself, for your principles or for your people when winning seems impossible. In such moments, he will turn the impossible into guaranteed.

JUPITER

Be positive. Delusionally so. Believe in miracles. Smile in the face of tragedy. Laugh in the face of agony. And teach those who deserve it how to do the same. Your insane optimism will make him notice and reward you.

SATURN

Be indefatigable. He designed your life as a marathon, not a sprint. Never let temporary losses discourage you. Never pity yourself. Believe you are the hero of the story — who first needs to survive before he can thrive.

URANUS

Be a contrarian. Never follow crowds — lead them. Never follow trends — break them. Be a chaotic good for the benefit of society at large or of your own little community. Dare to disrupt, and victory shall await you.

NEPTUNE

Be a romantic. Towards yourself and your reality. Romanticize your mistakes as necessary lessons. Romanticize enemies as keys to your growth. Romanticize the saddest parts of life, and life will become romantic towards you too.

PLUTO

Become karma. Be the avenger of the helpless. Speak up for the voiceless. Defend the weak. Never let anyone — friend or foe — hurt you and get away with it. See yourself as an instrument of cosmic justice, and power shall be granted to you.

#Old gods #Paganism #Astrology #Witch tips #servantofthefates #Witchblr #All About Astrology #All About Paganism

[transbutchbluess]

The Gods are not trans allies.

The Gods are not trans-friendly.

The Gods do not ‘support’ queer people.

The Gods ARE trans. The Gods ARE queer.

The Gods are transgender, They are transsexual. ‘Trans’ means ‘beyond, across’.

The Gods are beyond gender. Beyond sex. Beyond flesh. Beyond normality and norms— thus, They are queer. They are trans. They are on the other side of gender, of sex— on the side we cannot even begin to understand.

The Gods are transsexual and transgender and queer not (only) within our human understanding of transness— They are not trans in the way we humans are trans.

But They are still trans. They are the original transness. The ultimate transsexuality.

Transness as a transition from a state to another state, from a form to another form— from Their divine form to one we humans can behold without being consumed by Their inherent queerness. From Their divinity to words we humans can attempt to understand and think of without being utterly lost in the enormity and infinity of the divine.

Transness as a journey, a constant state of evolution within the world— evolution of the world itself, for the Gods are the world, are beyond time, beyond space, yet constantly changing.

The Gods do not love trans worshippers despite their transness, despite their queerness. The Gods love trans worshippers for their transness. They love us because we are trans. Because we are queer.

As we defy norms, we become closer to Them— trans people are humans, mortals, but I firmly believe that there is something inherently holy in transition. To change yourself, to think the limits of the body and to alter your own flesh is to create, is to destroy. To understand how limitless the world is— how flesh and sex and gender are human things, social things, that are made by us and can be expended and transgressed— is to take a step towards the Gods.

The Gods love you. You are made in Their image. Or maybe— you make yourself in Their image. And that is beautiful.

(reminder that this is my vision of divinity, not a definite fact, even if i think there are a lot of things (in multiple cultures/religions) that point to the divine being beyond gender)

#this is primarily about the Theoi #so the greek pantheon #BUT it can be about anything and anyone #i firmly believe it applies to all deities i ever heard of #the gods are queer they have always been queer #hellenic polytheism #helpol #queer #queer holiness #queerness #lgbt #lgbti #queer and religious #religion & queerness #trans gods #paganism #polytheism #devotion #transsexualism #transsexuality #transgenderism #religion #faith #queer faith

[genericpuff]

I wonder why christian misrepresentation are rarely talked about if compared to other religion misrepresentation. Like, I've seen people really vocal about Greek myths misrepresentation in LO and such (and it's valid because it's a culture and religion) but I rarely saw the same thing with christian even though there are many media who use christian religion innacurately, to the point where it comes off as using it as an aesthetic and not a proper religion.

Is it because of rampant religious trauma especially in western world? No ulterior motives on this question. I'm not a christian and yet I'm curious about this. I apologize if this sounds harsh.

I obviously don't have The Answer(tm) to this but personally speaking (and I'm about to get VERY personal here so take this with MOUNTAINS OF SALT), I think it's just the obvious - Christian mythology is one of the most well-documented and strongly protected out of virtually any other religion on the planet. Especially here in the West, it's commonplace for kids to go to Sunday school, for couples to have Christian weddings even if they're not practising Christians themselves, even the American anthem references the Christian God. It's simply not as easy to 'misrepresent' it because the representation is written into our very fabric of society. Even Greece itself is primarily made up of Orthodox Christians.

So anyone that does 'misrepresent' it are either completely mislead hardcore Christians, or people who are doing it intentionally, such as with the intent to make a parody of it or to deconstruct it through a different context or whatever have you. And of course, people will still get mad at those things, if you're implying that people aren't vocal about Christian misrepresentation then frankly IDK what to tell you there LOL If you want a contextual example in the realm of webtoons, Religiously Gay was dragged to hell and back during its launch for having a very crude and insulting depiction of St. Michael, and frankly, yeah I don't disagree because what the fuck is this-

(like at best it's just terrible character design lmao that said, there's also plenty else to criticize Religiously Gay for, including its fetishy representation of gay relationships and the fact that it's still just the "naive person who looks and acts like a child hooks up with mean person in a position of power" trope, blech, but the character design is definitely the first thing you notice)

There are even plenty of hardcore Christians who will deadass claim "misrepresentation" over things that ARE factually correct but they just haven't read the actual Bible and simply cherry pick what works for their own agenda. And of course those people are routinely called out by people like myself who know for a fact that Jesus wouldn't have promoted the war crimes that many modern day Christians are committing and justifying today. So it really depends on the definition of "misrepresentation" here.

The issue specifically with LO and Rachel that I personally call her out for (and many others) is that she's called herself a "folklorist" and claimed she's so much more knowledgeable on Greek myth than anyone else, while making a complete mockery of the original mythologies while not being honest about her intent as to whether LO is actually supposed to be a legitimate retelling OR a parody (because it sure acts like the latter more than the former, but she still seems to expect us to take it seriously and consider her knowledge of Greek myth superior?) Which leads to a lot of her teenage audience claiming shit like "Persephone went down to the underworld willingly" and "Apollo did assault Persephone in the original myths actually" and the classic "why would Lore Olympus lie or make up fake myths?"

You just can't pull off this extent of erasure with Christian mythology because we have a whole ass book of it that's been preserved, sold on shelves, and systematically integrated into society for thousands of years. Of course, there are people who will still try their damned best to twist the Bible to match their own bigotry with the whole "Jesus hates gays" bullshit (he would never), but it's met with equal amounts of 'misrepresentation' that are actually fully well-read and are intentionally subverting and changing things to either critique, parody, or restore the original intent of a lot of stories in the Bible without all the manufactured right-wing crap.

Greek myth, on the other hand, has some stories that are well preserved, and others, not so much. And in the modern day outside of the poems and hymns, you'll also rarely, if ever, see anyone use stories from Greek myth to ostracize, torture, and murder other people. "Misrepresenting Christianity" is more often done by actual Christians who are using the Bible to commit hate crimes than the people who have actually read the Bible and are just taking creative liberties with it for the sake of deconstructing / parodying / analyzing / subverting it. Veggie Tales "misrepresents" Christian stories because obviously Moses wasn't a fucking cucumber lmao but it still accomplishes its goal by retelling Christian stories in a way that's fun and educational for children.

By comparison (on the whole, I'm not comparing LO to Veggie Tales LMAO) LO just isn't clear in its intentions beyond Rachel's initial statements that she was trying to "deconstruct" the myths, while labelling herself as a folklorist. Therefore, I'm going to criticize how she does it because the way she's done it up until now has been very mishandled and has resulted in a lot of misinterpretations of the myths simply for the sake of fandom. And yes, these people exist in Christian media as well - they're called TV evangelists.

And that's my (very heavy) two cents.

#here's your reminder that missionaries are colonizers #find me the Hellenistic pagans knocking on people's doors asking them if they want to hear about the glory of Aphrodite lmao #honestly it also depends on what you're surrounding yourself with #obv if you take part in the LO fandom and avoid what's going on in the christian world then what you experience and see will seem skewed #like even i could be very wrong in my opinion based on my own experiences as someone who lives in the west- #maybe there ARE pagans knocking on doors and using greek myth to commit hate crimes #so yeah we all gotta try not to fall for survorship bias #there are plenty of stories of people getting mad about christian mythology and its misrepresentations on BOTH sides #lo critical #lore olympus critical #anti lore olympus #webtoon critical #ama #ask me anything #anon ama #anon ask me anything

[wis-art]

Hoppas ni får en glad påsk!

#wiki #lucy #lesbian #bunny suit #they're wearing bunny ears and bunny suit for easter #also yeah it's salem's ears #art #my art #oc #what can i say the girls are having fun #i love bunny suits #they are very cool #hi did you know #that the reason why we have an easter bunny #is because it is a symbol of fertility and sex in pagan religions #and did you know christians took what was native to european people and then made it all sexless and about jesus! #haha! #im not pagan but all im saying is in the spirit of the og meaning of the holiday put on a bunny suit and just look hot over the weekend #also very traditional for slavic pagans is to clean your room to get the evil of the world out of your dusty corners and such #very cool i will do that tomorrow #and painting eggs #that's fun too

[patron-saint-of-lesbeans]

When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a Communist.

- Hélder Câmara, Brazilian archbishop and Servant of God, as quoted in Peace Behind Bars: A Peacemaking Priest's Journal from Jail (1995) by John Dear.

#catholic #tower of babble #quote #helder camara #Hélder Câmara #Hélder Câmara my beloved. I need to read more of his writing. #sorry I saw some Catholic Blogs being very….petty about politics. #I’m no communist myself but if your faith in god doesn’t transcend political structures then you need more faith. #I’m no hardcore capitalist either but that doesn’t stop me from sympathizing with the suffering of people who are capitalists and believe #in the supremacy of that power structure. the same way our faith should extend to pagans and heretics and nonbelievers. #they are all your family in Christ made in God’s divine image whether you like it or not. agree with them or not. #stop finding superiority over others in what you perceive to be their weaknesses and naivety. it’s not a good look even IF you’re right.

[sephospaganplace]

There are so so so many ways to experience the gods.

There is no right or wrong way. There is no blunt way. Its all feeling and ephemeral.

If you've felt warmth, if you've had a dream, if you've seen a crow that stares at you for too long, if something inexplicable happens and you're lucky suddenly, if you've caught eyes with a stranger and felt like you knew each other. If the candle flickers a certain way, if one time when you're singing your voice sounds gorgeous in a way you weren't expecting, these are all the presence of a god.

God phoning is popular on witchtok but half the time what they're saying is bullshit. I've very very rarely heard a voice and every single time it was my own voice, just suffused with something, saying something I normally wouldn’t say. Or maybe I would. I've never heard a clear, distinct, audible voice. Its an invisible world we're connecting with, its a different plain. We cannot experience it the same way we experience every day life.

We'll never sit down at a coffee table across from the physical manifestation of our god, and know that its them, not until after. And even then we can never be sure. That’s the nature of it. There are no absolutes, there cannot be. That’s what makes it beautiful. That’s where belief comes in. It isn't about being good enough or worthy enough or devout enough, that doesn't exist. That isn’t what its about at all. You are worthy even if the divine doesn’t manifest in a way we've been told is the only real way, and you are connecting even if you cant see it now. My most intense spiritual experiences are never something I realize are happening in the moment, its always only after that I can see it clearly.

The gods are all around us.

#Hellenism #Paganism #deity communication #my posts #I will never forgive witchtok for making an entire generation of pagans feel inadequate #You are good enough your practice is enough your experiences with the gods are good and normal #You don't have to have a godphone or intense dreams or whatever the hell they're claiming they're doing for clout #Even if what they're saying is true one of the Delphic Maxims is literally 'Do not boast about power' #Don't tear yourself to shreds #we all want to feel like this is real #to KNOW that this is real #but there is no way of knowing and having proof isnt the point #it isn't #it's about you and your soul and your spiritual journey and connecting with the magic in you #repeat after me #you are good enough. #the gods are with you in ways you cannot see #in ways you aren't meant to see #live your life #keep going keep building something in yourself take CARE of yourself #thats them guiding you too #ok to reblog

[khaire-traveler]

Since I haven't made an official post saying this (I don't think), I want to make it clear that I support godspousing.

People are allowed to have whatever kind of relationships with their deities that they want to have. It's not up to us, as outside observers, to dictate what people can and cannot do within their PERSONAL deity relationships.

Seriously, some of y'all need to, like, chill. Eat a Snickers. Drink some water. Stop worrying about what other people are doing within their PERSONAL practice.

#helpol #hellenic polytheism #hellenic pagan #godspousing #godspousery #paganblr #the discourse over this shit is ridiculous #literally nuns exist #and no one in the pagan community seems to bat a damn eye about the “brides of christ” #what if we all just chilled out #and were respectful of each other's practices #especially since godspousing has been historically proven #just an idea ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ #sorry for the venting in tags lol

[bisexualjohnseed]

YOU want to FUCK the Far Cry villains, *I* want to PSYCHOANALYZE them and maybe also make out a little bit. We are not the same

#far cry #this post is about john seed and pagan min specifically but also it applies to basically all of them. al #also i made this post in the bathroom at work 4 months ago and then forgot about it until now #far cry 5 #far cry 4 #far cry 3

[thedansemacabres]

thinking of Artemis, I do not think that seeing her as fully untouched wilderness, far from man, is correct—even in her mythology, she has followers that are wild in their rejection of society’s beholding. Rather, Artemis gives us a way to be in the wilderness as a caretaker of it, as fellow wild hunters, as nature has it. Nature thrives in our care, but it is imperialism that makes nature appear to be something conquered instead of the foundation of our lives—and also as something idealised in environmentalism, in which can fail due to cultural assumptions of nature.

#maybe this is my indigenous heritage speaking #and my older brother’s teachings (he is Lakota) #but I was thinking about her and “wilderness” #The usa tends to view wilderness as other whether in good or bad #but perhaps the modern Artemis rather should be that of the mutualism of land and human #we are the caretakers after all #dragonis.txt #artemis deity #hellenic polytheism #helpol #hellenic polytheist #hellenic pagan #hellenic deities #pagan #paganblr #paganism

[bloominskyline]

maybe i just didn't pay that much attention to it before, but the amount of super-ultra-extra christian god-honoring and most of all, god-fearing romanians truly, genuinely believe that Halloween is a holiday for worshipping the devil is fucking astounding. was this always this way or is this just a new fad brought on by the extreme right or whoever else associated with it?? And they teach this shit to kids as well so when you want to make a lesson abt it cause it's such a huge thing in the english speaking parts of the world they get all offended and try to lecture me about how it's a satanic holiday or whatever

#they're all about condamning pagan holidays and practices #but they call the birth of john the baptist sânziene and lock their doors tight on the ev of st andrew's #give me a fucking break #they cheered in 2015 when all those people got burnt alive in colectiv club to state tolerated and even sanctioned negligence #because those were ''bloody satanist metalheads'' #and they cheered last year as well when the same thing happened in south korea #and they have the audacity to claim they love their fellow human beings

[incorporeal-altar]

Happy Lughnasadh :)

#lughnasadh #lughnasadh 2023 #feast #altar #my altar #lughnasadh altar #oltár #pagan #hungarian pagan #I'm thinking about making a pdf of all my wheel of the year rituals and sharing it... #I put my “harvest” in a little basket and the tools and symbols of the harvest all around it but you can't see it on the picture:P #not the greatest picture of my life XD

[servantofthefates]

Any god, spirit or entity can speak through tarot.

Think of tarot as an iPhone. A device for communication.

Phone, Messages & WhatsApp connect you to somebody else. Notes, Calendar & Voice Memos allow you to speak to your past, future, higher self. Instagram, TikTok & YouTube allow you to observe others. Netflix, Apple TV+ & Prime Video show you the depths of your own and others’ consciousness.

And your tarot deck is Siri. She exists in herself and speaks with her own voice. But she draws all the information she provides from your own input and from that of others.

That is why you need to invoke the higher power you believe in before a reading.

Because just as Siri will automatically search a database for the answer to your question, tarot will automatically search for a source who can respond to your query.

And sometimes, the one that is around is not so kindly.

Mischievous spirits love to lie. Whether to scare you with a tragedy that will never actually happen, or to give you promises about blessings that are not really destined.

There are also those who mean well but know nothing. For fear of disappointing you, they make things up, resulting in readings that are not resonating.

Gods and goddesses are unlike any lurking spirits or lost souls. They are divine royalty. They come only by invitation. And they do not grace everyone with their presence.

The Fates heed my call because I have been introduced to them by my elders. They recognize my bloodline and sense my faith in them.

Who do you believe in? Who do you think made you? Who do you deem to be the one helping you?

Call upon that power. Forget the others.

#Tarot #Tarot tips #Witch tips #servantofthefates #Witchblr #Paganism #All About Tarot #All About Paganism

[hyacinthuspetals]

*me stomping around with my silly one-man-band instrument making oh so much noise* YOU DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT A PERSON'S PRACTICE JUST FROM THEIR TUMBLR!!! *blows into my harmonica* THEIR SILLY POSTS ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE GODS DO NOT REFLECT THEIR ACTUAL PRACTICE! *banging on my bass drum* SPEND MORE TIME FOCUSING ON YOURSELF AND DON'T WASTE ENERGY WORRYING WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING!

#this is all in good fun #i just hate being worried that i'll scoffed at for sharing memes about the deities i'm close to #even though i literally have their permission to #hyatt.txt #hellenism #hellenic paganism #hellenic polytheism #paganim #norse paganism #polytheism #realized there’s a typo in this I am devastated

[djsherriff-responses]

I'm curious what the opinions of people who played the crew, watch dogs and/or far cry are regarding Captain Laserhawk because I think almost every fan in the laserhawk tags is exclusively a Rayman fan with some knowing what assassins creed is

#Far cry #The crew #Watch dogs #pagan min #Alex Taylor #rambles #I'm especially curious about crew players because how do you all feel about Alex being 1) gay and 2) being gay with a much younger twunk

[minafeu]

Lucinda and Hyria as pagans/witches draw from the vibes of the Norse send post

#as a norse pagan witch myself it feels right ok #all the foresty fantastical vibes from the whole serise it just makes since that a lot of what i see them as is drawn from my own experience #not to mention almost all of the divine warriors werent immortal completely which lines with the idunns orchard and such #idk if someone wants me to draw all the lines that makes sense to me(and will probably fit into my rewrite when i actually feel like it-) #i do kinda want to rant about this so if someone asks i will go decently indepth probably mostly rambling #lucinda aphmau #aphmau lucinda #aphmau minecraft diaries #aphmau mcd #minecraft diaries #mcd

[floreuce]

this is going to be a weird post mutuals look away i just really need an answer on something and am too embarrassed to ask anywhere else 😭 sorry this is so long.

i have a very complicated relationship with religion. as much as i would love to believe it, my brain just refuses to let me. i’m not opposed to believing in something if my mind does change someday, but as for right now, i just can’t. the only strong beliefs i hold are superstitions like luck and gut instincts and all that, leading me to do research into pagan stuff because it’s the only thing i even sort of find myself believing in.

i’ve always felt a strong pull to hellenic polytheism, and while i guess i do sort of “practice” it, i also just believe that everything i’m doing is for fun and just because i can. i don’t think i truly believe any of it is real. a few years ago, i had two little altars, one to hera and one to persephone. i truly did view these purely as room decor. i wrote little notes that i would give as “offerings” to the altars but it was just a game to me. i stopped after a while because i got bored.

which brings me to the present. i recently started feeling a “connection” to aphrodite if you can even call it that. i randomly started thinking about religion again and aphrodite just stood out to me all of a sudden. for the past few weeks i’ve been “praying” to her but still i viewed even that as just talking to myself or organizing my thoughts. then about a week ago i was in the middle of cleaning my room and i noticed i had a lot of aphrodite-like items. seashells, fake (fake is important) pearls, heart shaped things, dried roses, etc. i had a free spot on my shelf so i put all the stuff together to make a little aphrodite altar. i had a heart shaped jewelry dish that i put at the center in case i ever wanted to put any offerings but i didn’t think i was going to.

then today, maybe two or three hours ago, i was tidying up again and i absentmindedly placed two things on the offering dish. the first was a bracelet from an ex boyfriend that i had had in my main jewelry box and didn’t want there anymore. the second was a five leaf clover (i have a million of them because i’m crazy good at finding them but that’s an entirely different story) because i thought it was cute and lucky. i didn’t think anything of these items, i barely considered them offerings. up until this point all of this was still just for fun. after i finished cleaning, i took a shower. i feel like it’s also worth noting that this was an extreme everything shower like i was really spoiling myself. i read somewhere that acts of self care can also be seen as offerings to aphrodite but that wasn’t my intention.

so finally here’s the reason i’m making this post. i need help. after my shower i was sitting on my bedroom floor brushing my hair. i wasn’t near anything else, it was just me and my hairbrush and open space around me. as i’m finishing braiding my hair, i brush a stray piece to the side with my hand and onto the floor rolls a pearl. a real genuine pearl. it came out of my hair ???? i literally don’t own any real pearl jewelry, and even if i did this pearl couldn’t have come from it because it doesn’t have a hole, it’s not a bead. genuinely how did a real authentic pearl get into my hair. im completely at a loss for words. i feel like it might have been from aphrodite???? i can’t see any other logical explanation. which is what im looking for, a logical explanation. please help me make sense of this 😭🙏🙏

#im dead serious about all of this and i really do want some advice #pagan #paganism #pagan witch #helenic polytheism #hellenism #hellenic polytheism #hellenistic #greek mythology #aphrodite #religion #witch altar