I’ve been worshipping Dionysus for about 2 years now and we mostly communicate through signs feelings and offerings but I’ve wanted to start getting more involved and communicate more regularly and directly. Curious if anyone has any preferred tarot decks for him. I’ve seen people use the cannabis tarot which I already own and could offer as his main tool for communication but I was curious if anyone had any suggestions they also enjoy! I plan to do something similar for Aphrodite so feel free to leave some suggestions for her too. Blessed be~

We're stronger together

We'll keep thriving forever

We are the maenads of Dionysus

Fighters of King Pentheus

We won't give up here

We won't show them fear

We are Dionysians

and we're stronger together

Hello my fellow Dionysus worshipers. The title pretty much says it. I went through a breakup and I'm still heartbroken about it. What stinging me is they're the ones having fun seemingly. They did a drug we promised each other we'd do together after and it just feels like I'll never get the opportunity to. I know life is chaos and to go with the flow but I just feel lost after trying to be devout in my ways. Any advice would help, cheers.

okay, so, earlier today i made a post on wanting to reach out and work with Dionysus. upon doing so, i had already cleared off a space for his alter, and put a candle there. when i lit the candle, the flames were dancing like crazy. i kind of thought this was normal, at first, because it was a freshly lit candle but i took a video and sent it to my partner anyway, who also practices worships the Greek gods. They said the candle looked joyous, almost dancing, and gave me advice to grab a coin and ask yes or no questions with heads or tails.

i asked a LOT of yes or no questions. i made sure to be respectful the entire time, but i asked things like, "are you Dionysus?" to which the coin responded yes, and such things like that just sort of confirming i wasn't going crazy.

i don't know if i'm over thinking this, or if it's a coincidence, or if this was Dionysus really communicating with me. thoughts?

im a baby witch/pagan, just now recently getting into paganism and ive been looking to reach out to dionysus to see if he'd want to work with me.

does anyone have any advice for how to reach out to him? like does he prefer tarot, or pendulum, etc? any advice for an alter would be great too.

thanks! :3

So with recent things happening in the US, my partner and I are considering marriage again.

Keep in mind, my partner wasn't as big on marriage as an institutional thing, but was willing to consider later on after we're both in our late 20s/early 30s due to a family curse about getting married too young lol

Anyway, with us realizing that marriage would be incredibly important, especially if we have to leave the country so quickly due to our backgrounds, I've been thinking of some ideas for our wedding. He's fine with a courthouse marriage, but I wanted it to be slightly special. It'll likely be a smaller wedding with the venue being the only pricy, non-DIYed thing.

I'll likely find ways to incorporate traditions from both our ancestry, him being indigenous and me being of Irish heritage, but when discussing themes, I was able to get him to compromise on the theme slightly. He suggested a Greek theme, and even though I'm still hesitant because I just wanna stick with a nature-based/hobbit inspired theme, I do like the idea of a Dionysian wedding.

Not necessarily traditions, but I would like to hear from yall what yall think should be included! Even with a cheaper budget, I wanna grab as much inspiration as I can, considering this may end up being a time sensitive thing and the sooner I have it planned, the better.

Some ideas I already have:

• Sticking with a more nature-based decor, of course
• Offering a variety of wine and for those who choose to get drunk, have a system set up so people can get a ride home safely
• Grape vines and ivy leaves of course!
• Our cats will be honored guests with a special area for them to chill and interact with people
• My best friend already agreed a long time ago that if we ever got married, she'd be my officiant and she'd be more than willing to incorporate different traditions besides general "witchy" ones
• I want thyrsus' to be involved somehow, but I'm not sure where...

As I said, all suggestions and ideas are welcome, even song suggestions!

Edit: Also, as someone who follows Dionysus religiously, I'd be down to have an altar or have stuff set up in veneration of him. Even though I figured that'd be assumed, just wanted to clarify

I'm using the art of life tarot by Charlene Livingstone and it has quotes with each card. With the general message part of the spread the quotes flowed together nicely this is what it says all in one.

"A man should never be ashamed to own what he had been in the wrong which is but saying...that he is wiser than yesterday. Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am carried on great winds across the sky. Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad. Resolve to be thyself. And know that he who finds himself loses his misery. A happy life is one in accordance to its own nature."

I felt like sharing these words since I'm probably not the only one who needs them. I wish the best for everyone as we face these dark times.

I'm new to worshiping Dionysis, I'm looking forward to the experiences and wisdom he has to share.

One post someone was talking about being a register religion. I was thinking if we have a temple it would make it easier. There's land for sale where I live. Also on old masonic temple as well. I wanted to hear your guys opinion on ithttps://m.yelp.com/biz/masonic-temple-youngstown

Did you tell someone about worshipping Dionysus? I'm thinking about talking to my partner but I'm not sure how to even start. Do you have any advices?

I've heard that a bunch of peoples altar candles and like incense are going crazy about the results and I just wanted to see what's happening with you guys

today the candle that i’ve been lighting for Dionysus burned completely down, but the flame is still there. i’m very new to all of this, so i was just wondering if that could be considered some sort of sign, or if it’s simply just since there’s still some wick left

I started working with Dionysus for almost a month and I would really appreciate some feedback on the altar because I'm worried that it's not good

(Sorry for any mistakes in this, I did make sure to read over it several times but I'm dyslexic)

I grew up Christian, and in my (old) denomination of christianity we are told to just talk to God as if he's our best friend, and to only speak to him as an authority figure in serious circumstances or when we want to but that it's not really necessary. Is this the same for working with Dionysus? Can I just chill and talk to him, or do I need to watch my words and make sure I'm speaking to him with the utmost respect? Also, I tend to take things too literally when people tell me things, but people often say that Dionysus/other Gods & Godesses are talking to them. Is he supposed to ACTUALLY be talking to me? Like am I supposed to hear his responses as a voice telling me something or do they just mean he is giving them signs? Because I've always used candles to speak to Gods/Godesses.

Not related but just gonna throw it out there that I'm pretty new to working with Dionysus, so if anyone has any links to websites or resources I can use to learn more about him that would be great! :)

The 41st Episode of the Third Eye Bind podcast on pleasure magic(k) discusses short term/long term "conditions for pleasure". As both a maenad and as someone with internalized Puritanical shame I am trying to heal, I find this helpful.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1fOVnCwHUTRawb94QeyB8X?si=p4z29hXPQsS08OdnQnqDGA&t=1701

Your privacy and safety are not assured. Your religious freedoms and rights are not assured. Your country has elected a wannabe fascist with Christian nationalists backing him, and he has already threatened turning the military on American citizens among other statements of intent that should be taken seriously.

Now, all that is deeply and profoundly terrifying and I am sorry to have reminded any of y’all who had dissociated away from those facts that this is the world you are living in. But I have a recommendation for you for something you can do to make things a bit easier for finding community and staying safe: form local, in person, members only cults* that reduce vulnerability to discovery by communications and internet monitoring, help you and your local community keep in touch, and give each member a support network to help them through the hard times to come.

Find out if there are people in your area, get in touch, get people together, exchange contact information, form a group of you who are willing to work together and put in the work, and move to a members only model so you can make sure that the identities of the members are hard to hunt down for outsiders in case the Christian nationalists go rabid, and so you can help each other with things like accessing medical care etc. even if they try to legislate against it.

As for advice on structuring, staying safe, and avoiding becoming toxic: have a committee in charge where you can, not a single person. Form a loose set of cult specific practices and myths that are the orthodoxy within your group to foster identity. Minimise afterlife promises or even eschew an afterlife as doctrine and embrace uncertainty, this removes a tool for getting people to throw their lives away or suffer in this life gladly from any prospective corrupt leadership down the road. Don’t demand belief in Dionysus as a literal personal god, let people believe in the ideal of liberty and ecstasy if they are willing to believe that the myths for your cult have value as stories and they are willing to engage in the cult specific ritual practices and (most importantly) they are willing to be a member of the group and support their fellow members and help out where they can. Don’t keep records digitally or where they can be easily stolen, keep your membership secretive. Use gaming clubs or drinking clubs or park maintenance volunteer groups as covers if needed, and if possible plan your meetings in person and keep information offline. Emphasise liberation and Dionysus as a god of freedom and the oppressed, a god of women and outsiders and wild places, a god of mental health and madness and intoxication and sobriety, but especially of freedom and liberation because it is challenging to twist a theology grounded in liberty in the now, freedom against societal constraints in this life, to serve a high-control agenda. Book clubs devoted to ancient classics are also a possible solid cover, if meeting in someone’s home.

It’s easy to feel isolated when your only connection to your fellows is through a screen, build local groups and you have a better chance of helping each other and feeling better connected and less alone.

*I am using “cult” deliberately here, to refer to the ancient organisations of Dionysians and other pagans who worshipped a specific god, to identify a religious organisation focussed on the worship of a figure of religious veneration, and also to emphasise that these groups always carry the risk of becoming toxic and “high-control” and we need to put in real work to avoid that when forming them, trusting in the good will and best intentions of everyone involved is how you have to pick up the pieces after something goes wrong rather than having headed it off before people got hurt.

I'm Brazilian, and I would really like to recommend you to check out a staging of the Bacantes de Euripides, produced by the Oficyna Theater and directed by the great Master Zé Celso Martinez Corrêa, for me a piece of Dionisio's strength that passed through this land!!!

Part 1: https://youtu.be/g0lWzRxWH6w?feature=shared

Part 2: https://youtu.be/H1UwI2Evez0?feature=shared

Part 3: https://youtu.be/PlbUBGIIBFg?feature=shared https://youtu.be/G0EXfv_Qi7s?feature=shared

Hello , Sorry if my english is terrible , its not my first language but i hope it can be understandible. I do theater for a very long time , i have a theater degree and i do study to becoming a theater teacher . I discover the greek myth recently and since i heard about Dionysus i been absolutly passionate about him . The problem is that im à terrible learner in myth because i have difficulty with the many informations here . I have the feeling that all is a mess because everyone seem to understand much more than me . Do you have any YouTube channel that can guide a beginer ? I dont understand how to pray , what to give , how to interact with him . Some people think that you need signs from the god to work with him and im a little scarred that my interest is only in one side . Do you think that too ? What kind a sign ? How can i begin ? Im sorry if its look like a mess , that seem a mess for me . Thank you so much in advance if you can help me . If its possible i would like to know if i can post thing here , even messy , for feeling valid or for knowing whats wrong . Have a nice day/night . <3

For those looking for a pick me up:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5P0USbVMLvxV3xyDwPHYBS?si=PLMCjNFxQyyx-8-mIOs5xQ&pt=d1ff77906e583f28de3b93a5896c2a90&pi=Qf-gQY6oSX2Or

Feel free to add songs!

Hello! I made a lot of research lately but I want to hear your voices, especially if there is anyone that comes from Greece I'm a polish artist and performer. I mainly perform burlesque or drag and I want to make a performance with burlesque elements about Dio. I'm a Dionysian, maybe not a very experienced one, but I do believe. The problem is I'm still not sure if it's ethically right. Can I do this as non-Greek?

As Dionysians, we believe that we are of Dionysus. Within us we contain Dionysus. We are called to liberate this part of us within ourselves, and to liberate this part of others within themselves. This means we must be allowed to be free, to have bodily autonomy and to respect the bodily autonomy of others. This also calls us to dismantle systems of oppression and establish systems of safety.

List of Dionysian Religious Rights (non-exhaustive):

• The Dionysian Right to an Abortion
• The Dionysian Right to Drag
• The Dionysian Right to Hair
• The Dionysian Right to Mental Healthcare
• The Dionysian Right to a Plant-based Diet
• The Dionysian Right to Tattoo
• Dionysus, Lord of Peace
• r/Dionysus stands against Antisemitism
• r/Dionysus stands against Orientalism

There's a lot of folks dealing with fear, anxiety, worry, and other emotions in the wake of the past 24 hours.

I am going to quote u/TemporaryMagician who offered some excellent advice in r/WitchesVsPatriarchy, a sub that has been there for our sub when we were the target of Queerphobic harassment.

I know this was not the outcome that we hoped for. Patriarchy fucking struck back last night in the US, and I know a lot of us are not ok this morning. We are hurt, disappointed, and lost.

Here’s what we do: take a few minutes and feel our feelings, maybe listen to a sad song or two, and cry it out. 

Then, we go to work. Literally, we go to our jobs and make some money. We go to the gym. Lift weights. Get in our walk or run. Eat nourishing food. Plant a seed or water a houseplant.  Check on our friends and loved ones, especially if they’re queer or not white. Give our pets an extra treat today. Reach out to our friends and loved ones if we are struggling. 

Because we need to survive. We have to be strong for the next few years. I don’t know what those will look like, but what I do know is that we all have people depending on us. We need to be healthy, and we need to have funds. Take your anger, and let it fuel you to be someone who can endure, and shelter others who need it, for the next four years. Our trans friends need us. Our black friends need us. Our queer friends, our young friends, our international friends, they need us to have their backs.

Remember, we are witches. We are the poison ivy that you thought you uprooted last year but pops back up in the summertime. We are the blackberry brambles that cover the burned ground and grow thorns to protect their young fruit. We are the oaks that the lightning split once, but we still shade the ground and shelter the outcasts at the edge of the forest.

We are stubborn and we endure.

Please feel free to share your thoughts, worries, hopes and concerns in this thread.

Dionysus is a god of literature: be it theatre, poetry, or sacred texts, his myths and cult often involve using the written word. Dionysus himself enjoys reading, as he says in Aristophanes' Frogs: he was reading Euripides' Andromache while at sea. So, Dionysians, what have y'all been reading?

I'M SO HAPPY. This was planned months ago, and I finally got it.

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