#pagan ritual

[fornasedensgudar]

Glad midsommar på er alla!

#polytheism #heathen #pagan polytheism #norse polytheism #pagan #paganism #fornsed #blot #offerings #ritual #pagan ritual #heathen blot #pagan blot #heathen ritual #midsummer #midsommar #sverige #sweden.

[honeyglazedgoblin]

a healing ritual at a waterfall today 🌊🔮🌙

#hayleyisdumb #mine #witchblr #witches of tumblr #witchling #witch things #pagan ritual #pink moon #eclectic pagan #paganblr #hellenic pagan #witch tips #green witch

[sugaryewscythe]

blessed new moon from my simmerpot cauldron filled with herbal magick and healing intentions ♡

#mine #delphisorceress #green witch #cauldron #witchblr #new moon #dark moon #fire witch #cauldron magick #simmerpot #witches of tumblr #witchy aesthetic #pagan ritual #pagan witch

[ravenousnightwind]

I believe that religion and spirituality can be both simple and complex. While I hold complex beliefs, my expression and practice of those beliefs are incredibly casual, but also respectful. Everyday is reverence by acknowledging the gods of the day I've chosen for a particular group. (I have a lot of gods I honor and each I do so on a specific day of the week.) I don't have time constraints or specific things I do. Only that I speak to them on that day and acknowledge the help or ask for guidance upon that day and thank them, even if they've never given me anything I'm asking for.

I also honor gods who I believe bring the harvest, like Freyr. I always ask him that I continue to receive his bounties of the Land, and his father as well, Njord, his blessing of pure filtered water.

Some gods and goddesses I only say a few words to, while others it's very drawn out. I never expect, but I always give in good faith, because I believe that the gods are with and around me, even in times of great strife. They don't suddenly make things better, but they remind me of what's important and help me to realise I can go on in life. They help me in subtle and seemingly mundane ways, and I appreciate their presence and what they do in nature and their interaction in my life.

Honor or worship doesn't have to be intense, it can be relaxed without ritual or specific things. While I will at times use more formal addressing or even sing their praises in song, or call upon the gods around me by using galdr, it is generally a very relaxed method of interaction.

I don't wear special clothes, I wear everyday things, I mostly don't use tools, I just use myself, my altar, and the statues that help me in representing them. I speak to the statues more as something to look at, so I can see a face, but the gods aren't within those, merely a tool used or in some way a connection through the statue with the depiction of lore.

But this is a luxury. One doesn't need statues or tools, or anything. You can do all that without anything but yourself. The gods are always participating within the world. It's just a matter of listening, looking. Their actions are all around us. Not for some woo meaningful reason, but because they are what makes nature work. So to honor those actions, Hels influence in the decay, Freyrs in the harvest and growth, Idunn in beauty and nutrition, Odin within and out of us, Thor the movement of clouds and Placer of storms, Njord the waters themselves and their currents. The Norns the circumstances of life and its randomness and our luck.

The gods are within these things. They aren't those things in the entirety, but the existence of those things, in my own belief, are their interaction with the world. It is that which I mostly honor and acknowledge and any wisdom or help I feel they've relayed to me in some fashion or another.

#heathen #pagan #magick #norse paganism #heathenry #paganism #norse polytheism #odin #freyr #hel #hela #thor #njord #idunn #pagan ritual #pagan rites #pagan witch #galdr #norse pagan #norse gods #norse witch #norse deities #norse magick #norse pagan witch #norse pagan rites #pagan practice #norse pagan practice #worship #honoring gods #reverence

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

The Black Stone, praying five times a day, praying in the direction of the Kaaba, circumambulating the Kaaba (tawaf), circumambulating between Safa and Marwa...

The rituals and traditions of Islam are well known to be pagan.

Except to the believers themselves. They think that Abraham introduced them, but somehow the Jews and Xians never wrote them down and never did them, despite knowing the “truth.”

https://quranx.com/2.125

And [mention] when We made the House a place of return for the people and [a place of] security. And take, [O believers], from the standing place of Abraham a place of prayer. And We charged Abraham and Ishmael, [saying], "Purify My House for those who perform Tawaf and those who are staying [there] for worship and those who bow and prostrate [in prayer]."

But literally nobody cared about Mecca, least of all the Jews or Xians.

#islam #kaaba #qibla #hajj #black stone #mecca #islamic logic #religion #pagan ritual #paganism #muhammad #prophet muhammad #religion is a mental illness

[heythereitsace]

Offering to Hera

My sister's just had a baby, and the birth was a little complicated, so while she was in labour I asked my beach druid partner if they would just put a word in with Hera and ask her to look out for my sister and her kid while they were going through a tough time. And now that baby is here, and happy and healthy, and my sister and her partner are back home safe, it seemed only right to thank the Queen of the Gods and celebrate the birth.

I didn't take pics because that didn't feel like the right thing to do at all, but I wanted to share in case it gives other people inspiration for their own rituals. Ours was very simple, and we used what we had, and what had meaning for us:

Two little bottles of champagne that had been given to us at the baby shower. We anointed them with patchouli oil and dedicated them in thanks to Hera before pouring them out at our respective altars (the beach and my hearth)

I also burnt patchouli incense and lit a blue candle in honour of the Queen, and then realised I had water, fire and air represented, but not earth, so...

I got a white quartz out from my set and dedicated that to Hera too.

I laid out the whole thing with declarations of praise and thanks from the heart, letting Hera know the name of the baby, and let the patchouli and candle burn down. I'll be pouring out the libation and leaving the quartz out under open sky later.

#pagan #witchcraft #pagan ritual #pagan birth celebration #goddess worship #hera #hera queen of the gods #book of shadows #spell work

[neurosismancer]

Left an offering for the Goddess Hecate at the crossroads for the New Moon. I hope she likes it!

#paganism #pagan #neopaganism #hecate #he Kate #new moon #pagan ritual

[lokabrenna13]

Saturday Sunwait - Uruz

Uruz – In the second of sunwait we light

The candle of Uruz so bright

With all that has passed and ahead of us lies

May the passing of time in it rise

This evening's rune pulled is Kenaz.

Kenaz - torch/fire, illumination, inspiration, knowledge, creativity, art, cunning

#sunwaitcandles #sunwait #uruz #yule #pagan #northerntradition #northerntraditionpagan #loki #lucifer #godspouse #kenaz #saturdaysunwait #runes

#pagan #northern tradition #lokabrenna #northern tradition pagan #sunwait candles #sunwait #saturday sunwait #uruz #runes #yule #pagan ritual #kenaz #loki #lucifer #godspouse

[bramblywitch]

My Loki devotee ritual I did on September 14th, 2018!

#norse pagan #loki devotee #devotee ritual #pagan ritual #norse paganism

[robdtsmith]

#podcast #the blindboy podcast #valentines cards #valentines day #pagans #pagan ritual #audio #history #Spotify

[honeyglazedgoblin]

healing ritual ✨🔮

things used:

a bowl of water from a waterfall

dried roses

rosemary oil

sage oil

crystals

floating candles

#hayleyisdumb #witchblr #hellenic pagan #paganblr #baby witch #witches of tumblr #witchcraft #pagan ritual #witch tips #witchy diy

[arcusxx]

photography by natalia drepina

#photography #dark #nature #sky #moon #occult #magic #witch #pagan #folk #dark nature #ritual #atmosphere #mood #night #dark photography #landscape

[honoringthor]

The Goddess Hel and Heathen Ritual

#youtube #hel #wolf the red #ancestors #devotional #hela #pagan ritual #ritual #norse pagan #heathen

[instant-ramen]

How to Stay Connected to the Gods | A Small Pagan Ritual for When Life G...

Jacob always manages to bring peace and serenity into everyday chaos  🙏

#youtube #Jacob #the Wisdom of Odinn #Norse Pagan #Norse Paganism #Pagan ritual

[broomsick]

My favorite simple wards to guard the home

Hanging rosemary above the doorstep, and/or above doors of the house for protection.

Sprinkling a line of dried red pepper on a windowsill, to counter a curse.

Placing a mix of dried & ground eggshells and black pepper in every corner of a room to keep out unwanted spirits.

Placing a decoration representing a witch in the kitchen, to keep away illness and to favor health.

Crafting an effigie (no matter how crude!) and make it into the guardian of your home by charging it with your intent of protection and placing it near the front door.

Crafting small witch ladders to hang around the house.

#witchcraft #paganism #spirituality #wards #spells #folklore #folk witchcraft #polytheism #rituals #magic #witchy tips #witch

[deja-vu-esoterica]

A photo of a candle being lit on our recent Aphrodite Altar for Valentine's Day

#aphrodite #witch altar #witch #altar setup #altar #alt art #witchcraft #love magick #love spells #witch coven #texas witch #witch shop #texas witch shop #rose altar #venus #love altar #candles #romantic #aesthetic #veneration #offerings #ritual #magick #witchblr #beauty #paganism #chaos magick #love witch #san antonio #satx