I'm very new to Paganism, but this post is for my younger Brother who is interested in learning more about it. He works a lot so I'm gathering information for him in an effort to help him out. He loves the ocean, to the point where he had aspirations for being an Oceanologist, and he also admires Vikings and Norse Lore. He didn't know of the god Aegir but when I described what little I knew of him, he was very intrigued. I am ignorant of there being any faiths or practices honoring Aegir, so I've come here to ask if there's anyone who knows of any, and to hear the opinions and experiences from those who happen to honor/worship/work with him. Any help is vastly appreciated; to those of you willing to help, thank you in advance. Please bear with me as I am new to this as well..

Does anyone else live in the Bible Belt with their vehicles constantly bombarted with Jesus pamphlets? Or solicitors showing up at their door asking to read some of the Bible? I want to voice that they aren’t the only believes that exist. Anyone have any suggestions or have any good pamphlets drafted I could hand out (the deities I work with are Cernnunos, Pan, and Loki)

Hello, I’m new to this subreddit and I’d like some like minded people to talk to for simplicity’s sake. So as someone that’s a part of Luciferianism, Celtic, and Norse paganism, I celebrate Yule each winter instead of Christmas like everyone else in my day to day life. I finally have a Yule log that I can safely burn candles on, I have my incense, and I think I have enough food to feast with the gods. However, it took forever to finally be able to celebrate Yule properly. Yule is my favorite holiday too. I love the idea of feasting with the gods, burning candles and incense to honor the return of the sun, if that makes sense. Unlike everyone else that’s used to being surrounded by family each year, I’m trying to get used to celebrating the holidays with just my boyfriend. My beloved is an atheist but is very fascinated by all my religious practices and beliefs. Even though I appreciate this, sometimes it’s hard to even explain to him about each religious practice I do. I usually never talk about my beliefs to those on the outside because I find it so hard to explain to others what my practices are and why I do them. I feel so alone each pagan and American holiday because of this. I feel like I don’t have family to talk to about this because it’s very unlikely they’ll understand. Every time I think I’m used to the isolation I get for being different in all my ways, the desolation seems to have another way of kicking my ass. At least I have my boyfriend to be weird with though, LMFAO. I’m so greatful to whoever read to this point. Lastly, my bad for rambling so much. I just needed to talk to people who’d mostly likely understand my faith and how I carry it out.

I am not Pagan, but my friend is it is her first time celebrating Yule is there anything I could make or get for her alter or something?

For any Norse pagans who would be interested in this

I was at a liquor store and saw a box that caught my eye! I loved the bottle, so I looked up if eBay or Mercari was selling just that and have found a few listings. Thought I'd share for anyone interested. It could be a great container for moon water or whatever you want as an offering for the gods! https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m74308927985?sv=0

So my family and I have been having conversations recently and some of us are realizing that we have more years behind us than in front of us at this point. With that, we're starting to take a solid look at our futures to see where we want to end up and spend the last days of our lives. Basically, create our own little mini Pagan Retirement Community.

Is this something that other people have had conversations about? If you have, what sort of stuff came up in the conversations? If you've actually done it, what sort of stuff did you run into?

Does anyone else struggle with aphantasia whilst meditating? I have always experienced this, where, instead of being able to visualize things in my mind, there is almost a white smoke blocking my view. I don’t know how to get around it. How do other people struggling with this manage to successfully meditate and channel energy? I would love some tips! Please tell me I’m not alone and something can be done, because it feeds my imposter syndrome. 😔

How are you all celebrating the solstice?

For our friends in the northern hemisphere, how are you warding off the cold? How are you resting? What are you dreaming? How do you celebrate the returning of sun?

For our friends in the southern hemisphere, how are you celebrating the summer? What has grown for you this year? How do you celebrate the height of the sun in the horizon?

May this time of the year find you in joy and comfort.

I was wondering if anyone had inspiration for a smaller set up?

I’ve had an altar for years. However, I’m currently pregnant, so I’ve had to pack up a lot of my pieces for safe keeping while making room for my son. My altar set ups have been very personal to me over the years and not having one set up has been a bit hard for me. Especially as I had to take my deity ones down as they had lots of small pieces/offerings I didn’t want to risk my son getting once he’s moving on his own. I still have everything from my divination cards and books to my crystals and candles, but just have more limited space. I also had bones, but I’m preferring to have them packed away until I have a spot where I won’t be worrying about them getting broken.

Hey folks, just wanted to know how you all offer gifts to the water spirits? I was going to offer libations. But pouring it in the stream seems disrespectful. And I don't want to leave pollution on the banks. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone!

(It's at a creek BTW)

Hello everyone, I’m new to Paganism and I was wondering if, as someone who identifies as a Romuva Baltic Pagan, I can use statues from the Slavic Rodnovery faith. For example, in Romuva, we have a god named Perkūnas, and in Rodnovery, there is Perun, who represents almost the same being. So, I was wondering if I could use a statue of Perun but pray to him as if he were Perkūnas? Similarly, could I do the same with Dievas as Rod and Velnias as Veles?

Hey all, I’m interested in paganism and I’m thinking about making an altar for myself to worship my own self-image. I want a statue of myself to be at the center of the altar eventually. If anyone else has made a custom statue for their altar or can give me an idea for the price range, I would greatly appreciate it.

I’ve been in contact with my deity for a bit over a week now. How do I receive what she wants me to know? Or rather, how can I make myself more perceptible to visions and messages? She is yet to say much to me in meditations other than her name.

Hello. I hope that I am not disrespectful and seriously need advice.

I am in a very hard situation and I am certain that the only way to move forward is to ask for guidance from a deity. Problem is, I read conflicting information online, for example one of the sites states that Goddess Isis is actually dead because she lost all her worshippers in the past.

Because of this I considered addressing multiple deities because I don't know which (if any of them) would help me and also if they are even able to.

Also I am not a follower or a worshipper of any of the deities I am about to ask about. According to chatgpt, Goddess Isis, Goddess Hestia, Goddess Tara (Tibetian) and God Krishna offers help even without active worship or affiliation.

Thanks for any answers.

I have been into pagan and witchcraft for over 5 years yet still can’t decide the one that I feel most connected to is eclectic paganism as I love to incorporate deities from difrent pagan culture but my main question is how do you work with difrent deities from difrent pagan paths And what does it mean to be an eclectic paganism to you guys?

I'm very very new to any kind of theology let alone one so "old-school". So l, like I imagine most, had my, doubts about the whole thing but that all changed after making a short (not so introductory) prayer to the gods whom called to me loudest; Hephaistos (for my crafts), Aphrodite (for my love life), and Hestia (for my home).

I let these three know that from henceforth every aspect of my life will be devoted to any combination of one of these three at any time depending on the activity. An example of all three affecting me being today I was doing the dishes. Doing the dishes tidies the home, makes my girlfriend happy, and gives me time later on in the day to do some woodworking.

l've also dedicated parts of my home to Hephaistos, Aphrodite, Hestia, and also Dionysus. My workshop being for Hephaistos, my bed for Aphrodite, my kitchen for Hestia, and my gaming/weed station to Dionysus

Since doing all of this l've been very motivated to do literally everything. I was able to hold up an hour long conversation today for the first time in my entire life, and I honestly think it's thanks to the Gods. I genuinely do devote my life to all of them I think. Especially the ones that have shared beliefs so we may form a relationship that benefits the both of us.

Also, I'm building my first workbench right now and I plan on carving a donkey into it because I think Hephaistos would like that. I will update when I'm finished : )

Love ya!

Any gods with septum and nose piercings?

I've just been told a Christmas present I asked my mother for has arrived safely: a bog oak wand all the way from Scotland, certified to be around 7,000 years old. I'm SO excited to meet it and work with it!

Does anyone have any recommendations on what kind of rituals/spellwork it would be most suited to? I've seen suggestions for ancestor work, but not much else specific to bog oak. Or does it largely fall under what more youthful oak is useful for? My all-purpose wand I already use is Shagbark Hickory.

dec 21st is on saturday this year!!! do any of yall have any plans that day?

I know you can really devote really anything to a deity but I do really like devoting dances and singing songs to my deity’s that I worship. Even if it’s something like cleaning my room I will most likely devote it. Most of my days I devote most things to my deity’s. What do you do for devotion I would genuinely love to hear it :)

Does anyone else use devotional jewelry in their practice/as a way to worship? I have this charm necklace with symbols of my deities on them that I wear everyday. It helps me feel connected and comfortable with my deities since I haven’t started divination yet. If so, I’d love to see your jewelry too!

First of all, sorry for writing such an extended post, but I really have no clue upon whom to bring up these matters, so I decided to just upload it here.

I come from a mountanous region in Northern Spain, most of my family has lived in this general area for a really long time -some branches reach back to, at least, the 16th century that we have written record of-. This land was inhabited in ancient times by the peoples known as Astures and Cantabrians, a sort of celtic or celticized tribes that valiantly fought against the Romans in the latter first century CE. If anyone wants to learn more about these tribes, I'd love to expand on it further, but suffice to say they were REALLY against the concept of assimilation into Rome.

In the end, the land was conquered and they we massacred and forced to leave behind their way of living in order to become more roman-like. We have plenty of evidence of votive altars, and even some idols in the region, some to known roman deities, some to syncretized gods and some local ones from which we know nothing about (apart from, maybe, some guesses based on ethymology or morphology).

There are also a few gods that could be derived, with more or less accuracy, from theonyms of mountain peaks, villages, rivers and such, and this substrate is mostly (i.e. almost completely) pre-roman celtic.

A few months back I started learning about the celtic pagan tradition, specially the Gaullish one, as it is the closest match with regards to theonymy, cultural and historical sources, but I became rather distraught by the lack of none-roman sources on the matter. Thus I put an end to my search on that front, as I just didn't feel comfortable with the level of personal interpretation I'd had to make to try and create something of a workable worldview, system of ethics and/or rites & traditions (I'm a very neurotic individual, and highly obsessive). Although, I have to say that there are some local pagan traditions that have survived to this day in some places.

Therefore, I started to study the roman system as an alternative, as it has at least some written references I can draw from to then adapt into a sort of roman-asturcantabrian ecclectic mixture/syncretization but now I have another set of issues:

- First of all, any sort of ancient-asturcantabrian ancestors I may have would be utterly disgraced by this.

- Second of all, my recent ancestors and my parents would be abhorred at the fact that their progeny has rejected christianity (my mother is a super devout roman catholic, we are talking ex-Opus Dei level)

-Furthermore, these two aspects would have to fall in line with roman ancestry worship, which I simply don't see a way of reconciling.

Additionally, I know people here aren't big fans of only praying to deities based on ethnicity or where you are from, but in my case it does feel kind of right to try to stick to these gods... But I still can't find the gall to believe that it would be authentic in the sense that even though I am from this place and so is my family, I am not one of those ancient people and I can't hope to fathom a single speck of their knowledge on the matter of spiritual believe.

Finally, I guess it's stupid to try to have the approval of every single one of your ancestors, and me being an agnostic is probably just as bad or maybe even worse to some of them, but I'm always preocupied with this kind of matter, with doing what "is right" or at least what truthfully "feels right" (even though there is probably no objetive right or wrong)

howdy! i’ve got some kind of little critter or something that hides my stuff. it could always be forgetfulness, but i’d have to be real stupid to misplace things like this. they disappear, i ask for them back, and they reappear somewhere that i already checked a hundred times. (i choose to believe it’s a critter, especially since a request to return it tends to work)

i’m curious if there are any resources or insight to figure out what it is and how to coexist with it. i like the little guy and i don’t want to get rid of it, even if it is an asshole. i’ve grown fond of the little rascal. can we be friends? where could i have picked it up from?

edit: it took my work device to the bathroom but i haven’t even gone in there today >:( how does that happen?? unless someone else took it in there, but i can’t imagine anyone picked it up, brought it back there, left it, and then someone else brought it to me??(

If this isn’t allowed I totally understand and feel free to delete it.

I’ve been a practitioner for a few years now. Of what I can’t necessarily say. I’ve always dabbled in different areas but typically in Kitchen Witchery and Green Witchery. A year or two ago I began working with The Green Man. If you prefer a different moniker feel free to interject it. I was always happy in my work. However I moved into a new home about 6 months ago, and ever since, nothing. No call. No connection to what I refer to as the Source. Nor to The Green Man. I feel so lost.

I’ve read that Blue Vervain can help find yourself. To help reconnect. But I’m still struggling so hard to feel anything at all. Does anyone have any advice at all as to how I can reconnect or about Blue Vervain? Should I search for another connection or new… deity I guess is the right word?

Edited to ask an additional question.