I was just thinking up when/where would be a good place to set up- my school is pretty green so it’s an ideal location. She just revealed her presence- it was so, concentrated? Cold was running through my entire body, I felt like I was back in Cork- I HEARD the little blackberry bushes rubbing against the nettles. It was the most intense presence I had ever felt, and it was incredible.

I felt the hand of the maiden, the queen, the crone’s hand on my shoulder, almost guiding.

Just, honestly I’m still in shock a bit.

For those of you who work with or have worked with Venus in the past, what were your experiences like? How do you generally see her or feel her vibe? I've been feeling like approaching her recently, and wanted to ask for some insight into what kind of goddess she is and what kind of presence she is in the lives of her followers.

I'm new to paganism, about a month-ish in, and will say, signs are often times really subtle. Sure you might get a big sign, but that is really rare. Sometimes a sign is you feeling happiness when drawing a god. Or feeling a pull to worship a god that you just read a hymn about. Or just even gaining knowledge from journaling.

You?

I’m currently working on an alter for Ares and I want to make sure I’m doing this right. How do you tell if he accepts offerings, wants to work with you, etc?

I'm in highschool and I recently won a scholarship to live for a whole year in Turkey. I'm really excited, especially because I'll live with a turkish family, go to a Turkish school ecc. The problem Is, I really don't know how to work with my deity Dionysus during that time. I'm a witch too, and even though I'll be limited to glamour magick, tarots and some minor type of spells, I'd also like to keep working with him.

Therefore, if there's anyone that is in the same situation or Is a pagan living with a monotheist family (especially if muslim) I'd love some advices

I've been practicing for under a year, so maybe the issue is needing patience.

I don't receive any communications from my gods during meditation or dreams. I can divine (Tarot, pendulum) all I want and they do answer me well, but I long to be able to hear or see messages from them.

Is this a skill that can be developed? Or should I be more patient?

Thank you for any help.

How Do You Guys Celebrate The Wheel Of The Year (Samhain, Yule, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane, Litha, Lughnasadh And Mabon)

Does anyone know any good English folk magic resources. I am trying to learn and really don’t know where to look. Would there be any subreddits?

So I am working on a fiction story/game involving a few Egyptian deities. Once I'm done, I want to try and make more works involving other deities too from other regions (Norse, Greek, etc.). With the current work I'm doing, I consider it as an offering to Anubis and the other Egyptian deities, since Anubis is who I follow. Would the other deities be okay with making fiction works about them even if you don't necessarily follow them? The goal of my works is not just to play a fun game: it is also informational in a way and can help lessen the fear/spread more knowledge of different deities to those who are unfamiliar to them, since not everyone is pagan.

Thoughts? All games are made with tons of research involved and having the deities in the game in a respectable and honorable way. Of course since it's a game, there are creative differences or changes, but for the most part I try to stay true to the myths or culture aspects from where the deities are from.

Thank you!

Before I say anything else let me say I do not usually work with dark magic nor do I want to physically harm this man.

I am a sex worker and there is a man who is plaguing my community. He basically books girls for privates then reverses transactions or gives them fraudulent checks. Many girls are out thousands because of this man, on top of being assaulted. For the record SW (stripping, escorting etc) is fully legal where I live so he is committing blatant crimes. In a state where escorting is legal, reversing a transaction after the act is assault as money is the basis of consent. Yes we are all pursuing legal recourse but lawyers are expensive and legal action is very slow. In the meantime, I am getting new stories every week of him preying on new girls (he targets girls new to the industry who don’t know how to spot red flag clients although he is a master manipulator and has conned many highly intelligent veteran workers). I am putting warnings out in local networks buts it’s a big city and many vulnerable workers don’t have access to information.

If you don’t respect my profession or see us as victims I kindly request you don’t comment. Otherwise, can anyone suggest any deities who would be most likely to help protect girls from him and tip the scales of justice in our favour. If it ruins his life and outs him to his wife I wouldn’t be mad either :)

I've been drafting up plans to start a pagan/spiritualist organization on my university campus to provide a safe space for anyone interested in paganism of any kind to get together and enjoy each others' company, especially since we've had not one but two fundamentalist Christian "youth organizations" pop up and try to preach to me every time I step into the dining hall. I have a bunch of folks already interested, which is awesome.

I need ideas for activities and events (besides syncretized holiday celebrations) that could bring engagement to such a group. Preferably, I'm trying to think of things that don't directly proselytize (something I disapprove of personally) and would be something everyone (or at the very least most people) in attendance would be able to comfortably participate in.

Below are some things I've already thought of. Feel free to cash in on any of them too!

1. Instrument "workshop" - I produce world music as a hobby and as a result I have tons of folk instruments that I think people would love to try and are something that could be fun as a group.
2. Organizing hikes and walks in nature - self-explanatory, it's hard to go wrong with being outdoors.
3. Art workshops/exchanges - A lot of our potential members are artists in various mediums.
4. General discussion meetings to talk about happenings in our community and the world as a whole.

So I really want to make an outdoor altar on a large oak stump in my backyard, but I'm not sure where to start, I've taken notes with ideas on what I can do but I'd like ideas from the community too. The stump came from a very large tree that was dead, we sadly had to cut it down after a large dead branch nearly crushed our house. The inside of the stump is a little hollow so I'll have to clean it, if that helps with ideas its kind of like a bowl in the center because of the rot! Thanks so much!

Has anyone used these as Witches Bells?! I’m looking for a good way to have Witches Bells but keep them from my cats lol.

So I'm practicing Hellenism and Kemetism and was wondering about something. I'm not particularly drawn to Zeus or Amun-Ra, but I was wondering if I should make spaces for them on my altar and pray to them too. Is it disrespectful to pray to them in this way? I don't want them to feel like I'm doing it half-heartedly, I'm more so doing it out of respect.

Are there any birthday Rituals you have?

I’ve been trying to find books about geto-thracians practices (I am Romanian) because I’ve been really curious about the Cult of sun. In school the information we did learn about our ancestors was just a hand,the basic names of the gods they worked with and that was it. Are there any books where I can find more? At some point I found one in the local occult shop and didn’t buy it because I thought I will find it later,but when I went they didn’t had it anymore and I even lost the title. On the other hand about the romans I always found what I needed and it’s more accesibile which is great but still. Thank you in advance!

So the Wheel of the Year made with season, weather of Britain in mind. I know some people in the Southern Hemisphere advance it 6 months. I am from Toronto and wondering if anyone has seen one for Toronto/New York or surrounding areas. I know some things wouldn't really change, just wanted to see if there is one.

Long story short, I had some negative experiences coming out of the broom closet and wanting to connect with my tribe when I was younger. I wanted to meet other people with deep spiritual experiences and who saw the gods and spirits are real and active in our world. Unfortunately, I ended up feeling really othered for being an Asian polytheist with mediumship powers (deity mediums are fairly common in Southeast Asia) and had a tough time finding elders who could help me control my condition so that it wasn’t debilitating. I felt like our magic and gods weren’t seen as being as worthy of recognition as other traditions (I’ve heard the stereotype of the nerdy, hyper logical, emotionally repressed Asian translates to us being seen as spiritually neutered and not capable of spiritual ecstasy, that with Orientalist myth of Buddhism and Taoism being purely philosophical in practice). Overall, it felt very isolating.

Thankfully I’ve found resources now and a community that is very supportive. However, a recurring theme in my meditations is this resentment I have from my formative years when I was still very lost and in need of guidance. And reading articles and speaking with other pagans, I realized that other people have run into a plethora issues such as group drama, immaturity, sexual harassment, the blind leading the blind, and organizer burnout, to name a few, when they also try to get involved with the broader community. I know my own situation is rather unique, but I’m curious about how y’all have resolved your own community based traumas, because I know these feelings are unhealthy and holding me back.

Does my altar have to be tied down to a specific deity or can it just be a place of worship to give offerings to any dieties?

If yes is there a specific way to give offerings to multiple deities like is it any different than just having one deity at your altar?

Is there a book devoted to social Justice, the equivalent t of the sayings of Jesus talking about the poor and hungry?

Fellow Heathens Which Deities Do You Guys Pray To The Most (I Pray To Odin, Thor And Freyr The Most)

I think this is silly and prolly doesn’t count as an offering

But whenever we had to throw away bread my dad always told us to throw it to the birds, not the trash, so thats what little kid me did

And then it moved on to me thanking mother nature anytime I did that. Just a quick “thank you mother nature! Here you go”

Anytime I made eggs, I’d toss the egg shells at my plants outside my grandma left me because I know plants like egg shells

And I do that with tea and and any dead or trimmed plants from inside

So does that count as an offering? Cuz if so I have many stories of little kid me leaving offerings to spirits without realizing haha

Maybe that’s why my plants be thriving (joke)

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