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By folklore entities I mean like any being or possible place important in local myth or folklore big example would be cryptids but I would also consider famous local ghosts (including the ones who may not have existed in the first place) and even places that are important and have stories surrounding them.

I’m approaching this from a mainly research point of view. Im wndering if I would get similar feeling from or any results if I prayed to beings in folklore. My personal belief is that there is an original pantheon of gods and every culture or religions gods or god is just a different interpretation of the same gods. I also belive that if you reach out to something that hasn’t been worshiped before and you call it a god and worship it as such another god just comes in and takes on the role. And this would be basically an experiment to see if I’m right and also possibly expand my ideas. But this could also take the point of hero worship if I choose to take it that way.

But how would I even go about doing this? Obviously I’d pray like I usually do and just pray to whatever I’m reaching out to. But I would like to possibly set up some protection for myself, just incase I accidentally attract something bad so I’d like guidance on how I would do that.

TLDR: I want to pray to folklore beings as an experiment to test my beliefs, but also to expand them. But I would like some guidance on protecting myself incase I attract something I don’t want.

For context: I am a hellenist. This question specifically applies to the greek pantheon but anyone can answer! Would it be ok, or plausible, to have altars and to work with many many of the gods, but only truly worship a few of them? Like I’ve been an apollo devotee for years now and he has quite a big altar, but what if i also had a altar for aphrodite even though i wasn’t an Aphrodite devotee but I appreciated her and wanted some of her energy of self love in my life? Or how I worship and pray to Selene every night and give her a TON of crystals, but what if I also had small altars for deities like zeus and athena that i asked for confidence from or help studying with? (of course with offerings too) The more I research into hellenism the more it seems like a give and take kind of situation, where you give to deities and they offer guidance or small gifts here and there. Eros, ya know? Would that apply to giving the deities i’ve devoted myself to more than the deities I rather appreciate and care for? Since I’m not close to them like that but still want to offer them grace? Am i flawed in thinking like this? Any thoughts are strongly appreciated?

ok, so up until early last year when i went to jail for 6 months, i had never been big into spiritual things. if you had asked me what my beliefs were i wouldve either told you i was an atheist or agnostic.

one night while i was in jail i started praying, asking what ever could hear me to just give me some peace. and by some miracle i actually found inner peace for the time. i threw myself head first into christianity, but once i left jail i bounced around and finally ended up in a half-way house where i first got introduced to paganism through some books on the subject. so i started practicing paganism, im now living with my older sister, and ive found myself enamored with theistic satanism, and ive been practicing and studying it for a couple weeks now. but recently ive found myself being called back to paganism.

i have autism and a few other mental issues.

i honestly feel like im being...i dont know, disrespectful towards the gods by switching my faith around so many times? and its honestly really messing with me mentally and emotionally.

any advice would be appreciated.

This is a general question, but in my specific case i want to ensure my work with Loki and want advice on how to go about it. I’ve realized I never really was very connected to him and jumped into work with him wayyyy too fast, as well as while his chaotic energy allured me and i believed it would be good for me, it’s not what I need in my practice. I mean him absolutely zero disrespect and he’s done absolutely nothing wrong, my journey requires me to go down a different path. How can I do this as respectfully as possible?

Since i’m of lithuanian descent i thought it would be a great idea to honor one of their most important deities with this post 😄👍

TW - mentions of SA trauma, and EDs

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hi! Im going to talk a bit about what my experience as an Aphrodite Devotee is like <3

im a 20 year old trans woman, and I live in the rural southern United States for context. I grew up southern Baptist, so very very Christian.

Aphrodite came into my life when I was about 15. I had been drawn to the ocean more and more, and begging my parents to take me since it’s only an hour away from my home. I had also started decorating my room with lots of pearls, rose quartz, carnelian. All of my perfumes were becoming rose, sea salt, or vanilla scented, and I had begun listening to a lot of love songs. I also had found myself going on walks and often feel compelled to go to two separate streets - one named Venus street, another being Pearl Boulevard.

I remember the first time I felt her presence was when I was 15, with my parents, at the beach at around 5 AM. I felt so calm, so loved, and almost euphoric. That was when I realized the song I was listening to was literally chanting Aphrodites name. I had also started buying books about her, and listening to podcasts on her.

My first altar was a tiny spot on my desk, with a couple rose quartz crystals, a bbw rose vanilla candle, and some plastic shells from dollar tree.

I wasn’t consistent with her for years, but I always lit her candles and had her in the background as I began to get older. She was always with me, her altar always cleaned, her candle always changed if it was getting too burnt down. I started adding real shells, more rose quartz, rose and myrrh incense, and developed a perfume addiction that she didn’t mind at all.

Everything was normal, and she was just sort of there for me, never really leaving. She was an older sister sort of figure, this sort of stern feminine spirit who made it very clear when I was messing something up and needed correction for it. She sent me hard lessons, and through gritted teeth and sometimes tears, I learned and got better.

When I was 17, I came to terms with the fact that I was a transgender woman. It was extremely difficult, and i realized that for years I had denied myself the truth out of sheer terror. But Aphrodite wasn’t about that, and she certainly wasn’t about to let me live my life in denial if I was to worship her. I devoted myself to her then.

I realized I was extremely feminine and felt the best when I was allowed to be feminine. I started doing deeper research on her, and a year after, I started researching her archaeological and historical roots and setting out another candle for Inanna/Ishtar. I embraced her war epithets.

Around this time I started to very deeply process things in my life that had been very dark, very evil, and had affected my brain in ways I still struggled to cope with. She helped me realize I had been assaulted a few months before lighting her first candle. She made me realize I was struggling heavily with an ED and if I didn’t do anything about it, I was going to die.

I have spoken with a lot of other devotees. We all have this experience upon delving very deep with her, when she almost skins us in a way. Bit by bit, she peels away things hindering us from being our true selves. She will not hesitate to strip you down to the bone and then remake you in her image, if she believes you can handle such a process. I had nights where I sobbed in pain over memories long forgotten, that came back to me in dreams.

Do not get me wrong. I needed to address this to evolve as a human being, spiritually, physically, and mentally. I also combined this with monthly psychiatrist and therapist visits. I had very dark nights, and only felt comfort with her presence.

I had learned that I put too much of my identity, my womanhood, on how I could please men. I had learned I was a lesbian, not bisexual, and that there was a difference between genuine attraction and love, and craving male validation. I had learned that my femininity was nothing to be ashamed of, that it was sacred and something to be venerated. My body became a temple to my spirit.

I began to delve so much deeper into her. I started incorporating her into my diet to combat my restrictive eating disorder, and using ingredients native to her homeland of Cyprus in my every day life - cooking, and self care. Olive oil, almond oil, almond milk, rose water, cinnamon, semolina, figs, rose oils, apples, dill, oregano, rosemary, sage. My perfumes became dominated with notes of jasmine, rose, apple, myrrh, cedarwood, sea salt, and figs.

I read her stories over and over again. I started gardening jasmine and basil (hopefully roses soon too!) and began to ask for her guidance whenever I could. I blessed all my perfumes, skincare, hair care, everything.

I worship her a bit differently I think from a lot of folks. I see her as this goddess of love, war, transformation, beauty, the ocean, femininity, fertility, beauty, dichotomies, and violence. She is this balance and embodiment of two things originally thought to be impossible to be linked - love and war, male and female, life and death, creation and destruction, chaos and order. She was born from the severed genitals of the primordial sky, cast into the foaming wrath of the sea. She was born and coagulated out of these chaotic forces — she embodies both order and disorder.

I still struggle with my mental health, but she has gotten me better. She has helped me in so many ways. I don’t think I will ever not worship her in some aspect or form.

Thank you Aphrodite, Queen of Heaven.

I'm Wiccan but it seems a lot of people in the Pagan community dislike Wicca or even outright hate it and it's starting to make me feel bad for even being wiccan because of all the hate it gets I'm new to Wicca so im still learning about it but in all honestly i dont really know what other pagan path i could choose they say Wicca is cultural appropriation but any other Pagan path I chose I feel like would also be cultural appropriation because I'm just some white guy who doesn't really have any certain Pagan roots in my ancestry so I'm confused I want to be Pagan because I love paganism and nature and everything but I'm just confused

So, ultimately, im a bit new to this goddess.

I’ve been worshipping Aphrodite for about 5 years, and a devotee to her for about 2-2.5. I’ve also extended my worship into Ishtar-Inanna. Im not beginner level to worship at all, but with Hekate, im a bit nervous I suppose.

For starters, she kind of bursted into my life and has refused to leave. I originally tried to worship the Morrigan, due to having Scottish, welsh and minor irish ancestry. She was always almost unresponsive - never showing up in my readings or dreams. I had started feeling called to this sort of imagery of the triple goddess, the moon.

Im also very deeply into genealogy and learning about my ancestry, and id found around this time that both sides of my family had a lot of Romani ancestry. For those who don’t know, Romani people are an ethnic group native to northwestern South Asia (Modern day Rajasthan and Pakistan i believe), that also have deep roots in Iran, Armenia, Turkey, Afghanistan, and the southern balkans (Bulgaria, Greece, Romania). The Romani people entered into Europe through what was known at one point as Thrace from Anatolia.

I bring this up because i had, around this time period, found it interesting, due to realizing that i had a lot of ancestors who would have worshipped goddesses like Hekate, due to a lot of archaeologists and historians believing she has some roots in modern day Thrace and Turkey.

I was still setting out an altar for the Morrigan at this time, and found myself subconsciously putting things on there that really had no connection to her: they just felt right. Labradorite. Lavender. Amethyst. Three sticks, three black walnuts. Keys. An obsidian slab. An old oil lamp. Lavender incense.

Anyways, i had begun to find myself delving in deep into researching Hekate. Looking for her stories, what areas her worship was in, her different epithets and names. I’ve always been fascinated by her but sort of watched from afar, directing a lot of attention onto my worship of Aphrodite, who sort of is like a matron for me in a way. She is my main goddess and I can’t see a point in my life where she is not with me.

I started seeing physical signs and signs in dreams. I walk my neighborhood daily, and I had gotten chased by a pack of black dogs that I had never seen before. I had found myself at the crossroads of my neighborhood, where they eventually backed up and ran home.

I would see black snakes around my house more often, although these ones are quite docile and friendly to me. They’re adorable, honestly. They’re non venomous and I’ve been able to pet them and pick them up without getting bit.

I would start having dreams of getting chased and attacked by three black dogs, and hearing the jingling of keys as it was happening. I would hear barking everywhere I walked in real life through my neighborhood, when usually the dogs are fairly docile and don’t get riled up too often.

Eventually, I decided to do three separate deity confirmations. Wouldn’t you know it: Hecate in all three. I kept pulling the tower card every time I did my daily personal readings, and eventually I sat down, looked at my life and my altar, and I realized that my altar for the Morrigan had transformed into Hecates. I’d misinterpreted who was there.

Around this time, id also started to go to therapy much more often and learn the roots of my issues. I had relapsed one night and had felt this strong urge to go to my tarot cards, light her candle, and talk with her.

She was persistent as hell. I was going to be her devotee, I was going to bring her offerings, and research her. She wasn’t going to take no for an answer.

So, it comes to today. Im wanting to delve deeper into my devotion to her, but I don’t know much on how to actually do that. What do yall do? What day do you set time aside and worship her (if you do that: I do, Fridays are for Aphrodite and Inanna)? What offerings do you like giving to her?

Just looking for some support here. I've been out of work for a while now, and a practicing eclectic pagan for about the same time. I was a very staunch atheist before this- militant even.

I just got a job offer for something that sounds okay- but I get a very strong "this ain't it dude" message from Lady Skaði.

How do you guys, I dunno... just trust? Have faith?

I dunno, the thought of taking advice from a non human entity is just still so odd to me, but what is the point of having spirit guides if you don't listen?

Greeting Pagans! I am in desperate need of advice. Ive been aware of my sensitivity for a long time. From premenition dreams to being able to tap into a connection with a presence enough to solve the mystery of how they way and why there were claw marks in bricks only acceptable with a ladder ( there was a massive flood in the area around the 30's and had become trapped only to drown like many neighbors ) I've never had guidance in this and now I'm dealing with something I actually need help with. I accidentally let something into my house.. I've had a mimic following me around most of my damn life and I opened the door twice after my boyfriend left it open, it called to me in his voice to reopen it and somehow I fell for it twice. I figured out tonight it has been chilling in my stairwell and appears to actually be trying to drive my boyfriend mad. I'm hearing taps but he's hearing deep voices from up stairs. What do I do here? In the past my pure rage and yelling at activity that actually pissed me off always worked but,, this thing actually gives me pause.. I actually had my boyfriend come up to the bathroom with me tonight not because I want to face it alone though it is making me nervous. I'm more worried about what it may do while we are apart.. I need to know how to get rid of it. Also knowing if it's my mimic still or something else I let in would be cool bc I really thought we had been getting along but maybe I've been wrong and it's truly just a trickster. I'm sure you can probably tell my knowledge is lacking, I've tried to learn as much as I could about the spiritual realm growing up bc my extremely Christian grandma at least warned me I was sensitive but she was scared of it. I would appreciate literally anything you guys can tell me because I really need the help

Any tips on making time and having motivation for your practice, I pray every night but when it comes to things like rituals or divination, I find that I have not a lot of motivation, even writing in my book of shadows feels a little bit of a task. Any recommendations?

Good morning all,

I've recently started a journey exploring Greco-Roman Paganism, more on the Roman side but with an interest in both, and I feel very drawn to two figures. Venus and Aurora, who seem to have a decent amount of overlap in some areas.

This got me curious about the idea of combined gods, or multiple gods being worshipped as a single deity. I know there's a precedent for this, but I don't know exactly how this works. Would it be perfectly valid to combine aspects of both and then call upon Venus Aurora as a single deity? Or should I search for an established precedent for a deity's combination/epithet first?

I'm not really sure what the "rules" are on creating epithets and combining deities, if there are any. Any advice for someone experienced in pagan concepts but new to Hellenic-Roman paganism would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

I'm 25 and today got a giant wakeup call. I need to grow up or go homeless. This means i need to defeat my addiction. I will need to learn to drive. Need to manage my stress so i don't get pseudo seizures or at least very little seizures. Find out what career i want to do instead of going all over the place. Find a job (this one i'm trying, just finding no luck, not even part time). Etc.

I know i have to do this all by myself but if a deity can help me keep going during this MAJOR transition it would be nice.

Have any of you ever invoked more then one god during a ritual, spell, or prayer? If so, what kind of results did you get? Is this a good idea to do or is it biting off more then one can chew? I'm also interested if any of you have ever invoked gods from different pantheons at once.

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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.