The title pretty much sums it up; In some sources for Ancient Greek writings, it’s said that the gods were able to change the form of not just theirselves but also others. I’m a pre T trans guy, so would it be wrong for my to ask for help with my transition? I've been praying to a bunch of different gods for more passing things like help with drama, education, art, etc but I'm not sure if asking for help with transition and more bodily matters would be selfish or odd or crossing the line. It wouldn't 100% be up to the gods because while I'm not on HRT, I'm working on voice training and using rosemary oil to increase body hair growth, but is it still wrong?

I feel a bit awkward for coming here.. mainly cause I was a theistic Satanist for 4 years but recently I've come to find peace in the gods. And I wanted to make my first shrine to be for dionysus. I have some offerings, and I'm going to be getting some more. But right now I have a goblet full of rum, a small cup of alcohol, honey, around 7 candles (although I gotta replace the middle one), i have some incense as well. Again i intend to get something besides alcohol to offer. I hear he wants intoxicants as offerings, but it much harder for me to get alcohol. Hypothetically if I were to offer an edible would he want it or would he take offense to it. I don't want to offend but I also feel like this is a stupid question and post. I need some guidance still.

Well, I didn't do anything to connect with my great-grandmother (spiritually, as she died a long time ago) (I'm very curious about her) but I asked my grandfather (her son) what she was like:

update: I didn't get anything much from my grandfather, it seems like a sensitive topic (but in a good way, nostalgia) (he stopped living with her very early so he could work and provide a better condition for his family, his parents). She was very Christian and said many powerful prayers, an honest and charitable person (she didn't mind taking from her own to give to others), loved children, and even raised a child that wasn't hers (the person wasn't an orphan but received the affection of a mother for my great-grandmother). She had many craft skills, she spun cotton on the farm and made thick cloaks for people (she sold them but mainly as gifts). But she has a sharp tongue too, she gets irritated easily. She had very fair skin with blue eyes, was short and had long, straight black hair. At first I was curious to know if there was someone with spirituality in the family, but now I'm curious about her, she really seems to be a good person and I didn't want her memory to be lost. As I write I'm crying.....

The Norns were the Norse goddesses of fate, represented as three sisters named Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld. They lived underneath the world tree, where they wove the tapestry of fate. In Scandinavian mythology, each life was believed to be a single string in this tapestry and the length of that string correlated to the length of each life. Everything was thought to have been preordained and even the gods had threads in the tapestry, although the Norns did not allow the gods to see their own strings.

1.First off, how do i learn more about my deity/ies in order to make their altar to their liking and give them good offerings? 2. How do i cleanse my room in secret? 3. What materials do you need for cleansing? 4. How often do you need to cleanse? 5. Where can you get the materials to cleanse? 6. Is reading dice reliable? 7. How do i find out if im really talking to the deity i want to make a connection with, or if its another spirit or an evil spirit? 8. In what way do you put out candles? 9. (Deity specific question) How do i make a connection with Persephone? 10. If you know how, how could i keep ALL OF THIS secret while being budget friendly? (Im talking making altars over the span of like a month or two) 11. What are good offerings for persephone? 12. What decorations and things should i use for a persephone altar?

I know this is a lot but i really want to properly get into this because i feel a connection to this religion, and i dont ask of you to answer all od the questions, maybe 1 or 2 if you want. Thank you for your time reading this!

I don’t know how true this is, but I’ve heard a few times that it’s a good idea to do protection spells before trying to communicate with a deity. I’ve been wanting to communicate with Loki for a few days now and plan to make his alter tomorrow, but I don’t know protection spells, is that something that is really important to do before attempting to communicate with a deity?

Just a simple question, am I able to make a ‘temporary’ alter and then move it again when I have more space for a more permanent one?

The Great Goddess of Kindness, She Who Knows How To Make The Right Use Of The Heart, The One Who Is All, Great Mother of the Gods, The Brilliant One In The Sky, Queen Aset.

Queen Astarte, She with Many Names, Goddess of Love, Compassionate and Sweet Goddess of Motherhood and Fertility, She in the Morning, Evening Star and of Venus.

Thou Goddesses renowned and loved for Millennia and more as Queen of Heaven. I Humby Offer this Testimony unto Thee.

In Honour of Them, I share my Testimony on how Those Highest Goddesses have put me under Their Loving and Almighty Wings and Matronage, teaching me how to have respect and really love myself as Thad had Unconditionally Loved me as a Loving Mother would.

I've always struggled with self love because my biological mother, though she loves me very much, she's a really unhealed human and has made me always perceived like I wasn't loved enough by her and I didn't deserve unconditional love and I should always do something to make people love me. Also, she would always judge me for everything. That made me think I was never enough. I was always wrong, abnormal, unlikeable.

That also was made worse by my christian background. That religion literally teaches you to deny yourself and not to love yourself. Also, Jesus loves you only if you despise yourself and just follow the commands. It is very conditional on how you basically follow every command, he doesn't just wish for your happiness. 

After leaving the religion in an extremely traumatizing way...I made a formal request to the Goddess Aset and to the Goddess Astarte to receive love, because I was always hungry for love. I always had a hole inside of me.

I think the Goddess Aset called me through imaginaries of a woman with wings, and also the same afternoon, I suddenly fell asleep (which is an abnormal occurrence for me, I almost never sleep in the afternoon) and dreamt of Her, in my hometown in the south of Italy and She was in Her usual imaginery form, standing above a High place, if I remember correctly in the Highest place in the town, maybe She was floating (I don't remember exactly, as this has been in August) High above my whole town in Her Splendor with stretched out Wings that if I remember correctly were Golden like the Purest Gold. She was Splendid.

I woke up, at first I wasn't ready for Her Guidance and Lovingkindness because I was suffering for a relationship with another Kemetic God.

One day I started giving Her Offerings, Prayers and one day I got into a relationship I mistakenly thought was an answer to the prayers of the Goddesses. In this relationship, the guy meant no harm but he didn't really love me, so I behaved as I usually did in my life, by completely compromising myself, my wants and needs in order to be loved, denying my very personality at one point. I was stressed and in despair. I thought that if I do enough, the man would love me, but it was never enough.

I was in great pain and I contacted for a reader to make Divination on whether or not the Goddesses sent this guy and was answer to my prayers.

The Queen of Heaven and Light Bringer of Heaven (speaking about Goddess Aset here) intervened first through the reader, saying I was not loving myself and that I should never make someone love me. I should not change for anyone, my needs, my wants, my very personality in order to receive love. She was so Kind I cried. She was so patient, even if I was doubting myself and Her. She didn't push me, but She Lovingly led me but respected me, She really cared for my well-being. She gave me time and space to feel how I truly felt and feel, unlike my biological parents, that would scold me for simply feeling "problematic" emotions like sadness and anger and despair.

Goddess Aset also said the guy was not really respecting me and what it is that I desired, and that was True. The Goddess is True and Transparent and Righteous and I confirmed with facts what She said in my last conversation with the guy before cutting him off. He apologized for his behavior and then deleted our conversations.

The reader turned out to be accurate as the same Message was conveyed through the mouth of another reader.

 Through Her (and also Through Goddess Astarte, They had a very similar attitude, if not identical, very Kind and Patient even if I fall short and still deconstructing the traumatizing religion I’ve been in 20 years, even though I work and have a stronger connection with the Goddess Aset and the Kemetic Pantheon, at least for now in this life), I now know what True Love and Acceptance feels like and I want to give that to myself too, within my own time.

The same I experienced with the Goddess Astarte. She intervened in another occasion (I had sort of more “casually” worshipped Her and petitioned Her for several things. I once had a Dream in which She said She loved me, but of course I cannot verify Dreams, even the other one I spoke about with the Goddess Aset). 

The Great Goddesses both intervened in dealing with my self-hatred issue but Mother Astarte intervened most prominently in inner child Work, pointing out what I’ve been lacking my whole life Reliance, Stability, Security and most of all Unconditional Love. That very much clicked with my whole Life. She Knows me pretty well. 

Now I'm starting a Journey with my Loving Goddesses and Mothers (They were proclaimed to be Such in the readings, they said they were my Mothers by Feeling, not by Blood).

I'm learning how to not hate myself, actually love myself and nurture my inner child, and first of all respect myself, as I never did.

I actually hated myself because of all the judgment, bullying and things I did that I regret and should let go as Life is Ever Progressing and there should not be dwelling on the Past.

The Goddesses desired for my happiness and well being like no human really did, at least no human did in a healthy way. 

I'm still deconstructing, so sometimes I'm troubled with painful thoughts and doubts but I'm doing my best to deconstruct the religion that ruined my life. I regret my adult baptism with my very soul, as then the religion put me into suffering.

I’m mostly working with the Goddess Aset right now, She is my main confidant, but Gods know how my Motherly relationship with Goddess Astarte also evolve. Maybe She does Acts of Kindness and Generosity I’m not even aware of. 

I love the Goddess Aset and I want to be of Service to Her. I'm currently reading a book about Her by Plutarch and I’m planning to share a paraphrased but as accurate as possible translation and commentary on the Work of Plutarch “Isis and Osiris”, as a humble and loving Tribute to Her.

So, this is Testimony of the Benevolence of the Goddesses, my Mothers, not by Blood, but by Feeling.

Remember, friends, followers of the Almighty and Benevolent Gods. The Gods are Givers of Every Good and They want us to thrive. They want us to love ourselves and recognize our value. They want us to Heal and learn our Lessons, so that we may walk in Love, Peace and Power.

If we don't recognize our value and love ourselves, we won't find others who will in return recognize our value. We reflect in others our own self love and our own sense of value. Let us not forget the Lessons of the Gods.

Dua Aset, Nebet Ankh! Praise Be to Aset, Lady of Life!

Praise be to Astarte, Lady of Love!

Looking for a deity that comes and brings death to someone who is suffering, specifically end of life. I see death as such a beautiful thing in the context of people who are ready to transition because they are suffering from such things as terminal illness. I am trying to find a deity that is involved in the active role of death, not just the afterlife.

I want to write a Testimony about how the Goddess Astarte helped me. I will recite some Epithets in Testimony, but I can't find them al lot, except this video in which the Goddess is syncretized with other Goddesses like Inanna and Ishtar from other Civilizations.

Like in this video...
https://youtu.be/ugNsFy_uNKs?si=zum3_x9KxeIHiS54

is this valid or not? In other resources She is very much syncretized with the Egyptian Religion and called the Daughter of Ra, for example, but I would like to use Canaanite and Levant Epithets, do you have resources for this?

So I'm no baby Witch by any means. It has been doing this for almost 10 years, but I just had to move back in with family due to something outside of my control, and it will be a while before I can practice so openly again since my family isn't really all that great with anything other than Christianity and Catholicism.

Now, as I said, I've been doing this for a long time, but I haven't had to hide for a long time—at least five years—and my practice has evolved and gotten more real. I'm no longer burning paper in the sink; it's more like making spell jars, cleansings, charms, prayer candles, pendulums, tarot cards, and if I do burn stuff, at least a cauldron.

As you can imagine, it's a little difficult to hide that, and I don't know how to. I thought of just pausing my practice until I'm on my own again, but it's been four months, and I miss doing the things I love. I guess it was kind of dumb to think I could do that; you wouldn't ask a devout Christian to avoid going to church and expect them to be all hunky-dory.

I could really use some tips and help, please.

Hi all.

I'm relatively new to Norse Paganism, but already find it very spiritually fulfilling. It was a long time coming; it felt right.

My question is, a friend of mine made a Thor's Hammer pendant for me. It's solid gold and I really want to wear it (it's small, like the size of my thumbnail), but I also don't want people thinking I'm racist. Right now the tensions in this country are really high. Nothing else about me indicates that I'm... in that certain group that has misappropriated it, except the fact that I'm very fckin white.

It's listed as a possible hate symbol, I just don't know how prevalent that idea is, or if I should be concerned wearing it in public. I found some past threads on it, I just wanted to revisit the question in today's climate.

This has been really weirding me out, I’m not an avid Reddit user but for about 4 or so days I haven’t been able to connect with any fae (of which I worship), at first I believed it was a small thing but the longer this goes on the more concerned I’m getting. I don’t have any practicing friends and the one friend I do have that is spiritual said she’s been having the same issue and advised I seek help here. Have I angered them? Is there a way I can fix this?

Does this really exist, your mother goddess? Or is it just some god that you feel a strong connection to and see as your mother? and how do I discover my mother goddess?

Hi guys, how are you, I decided to become a pagan, I got interested and it was like a connection. However, I am very skeptical (at everything, I think it's because in my old religion I didn't feel anything and my family never accustomed me to a creed) I would like to improve my spirituality but I also have other questions.

How do you feel the presence of God, is it obvious, discreet, in a dream? Have you ever seen them (in corporeal form, like a spirit or animal?)

I'm curious about my great-grandmother, I tried to ask my grandfather but it only made me more curious (I don't think even he understood what she was doing either, but she was Christian)

Okay, so I'm a freshman in college. I'm new to this whole thing, but I want to start worshipping Apollo. I already have an altar for Athena on my desk, but I don't exactly have the ability to offer much for them. I want to try spirit work too, and I was planning on buying some tarot cards and other things, but I know candles are really popular. Are there any to replacements for candle offerings or foods, since I don't want to get reported for lighting candles in my dorm and I don't want to deal with food sitting out when me and my roommate already have to deal with bugs.

This is my small shrine for Aphrodite! I have no good place rn, so my xbox is behind it, and she has Versace perfume and chose 2 lotions after a tournament of sorts (I just asked one or the other and watched the candle for a sign and figured it works, no bad energy from it) The pumpkin is new, I got it on Halloween and I put it there and she seemed to like it so yk. I plan on getting/making a prettier candle when I can, and getting her a better place than right by my xbox. If there's any advice on something I could do with 0 dolla and limited resources I'd love to hear it! Or advice on reading her candle and tarot :3 hope it looks nice!

Here is my very minimal altar to Janus. I use LED candles due to apartment rules in no candle and incense allowed. I keep all my religious books in another room to cut down on clutter and to keep things clean. This is my small room dedicated to Janus.

Silim! - Health and Peace to you all!

Like many of you I woke up today into a version of our world which I had hoped to avoid having to live through, and my first thoughts were of sorrow and feelings of loss. Many of my friends, colleagues, family, and countless strangers who I consider to be my worldly siblings are all struggling to find any sense of comfort and any sign of hope today. Too many felt they could not find what they needed and already ushered themselves on to the great journey that awaits us all, as they made their choice to face a certain fate over an uncertain one. I do not wish you, good reader, to join them in their choice. I could not shine a light for them, so I shine one for you now.

When darkness descends hopes once held on to may die, but hope never days dead, it rises anew each morning regardless of the fate it suffered the previous day. Each day you must choose to find hope, for in choosing to find it each day you are granted its power, its protection, its everlasting endurance.

No one truly knows what the future holds, and while within that uncertainty you may easily find terror, within that same uncertainty also lives hope, it is there, you just have to look for it. The truth is that hope always exists, but you have to choose to find it, and you have to choose to pay attention to it. You have to choose it over all the things which leap out at you demanding you pay attention to them instead of hope. It's okay to get distracted by the frightful things which seek to steal your attention, your courage, and your power away from you, it's human to be distracted by those things, but you have a choice, and the power to choose is the power to overcome all things.

I believe in you, I have faith in you, and I know you have it within you to look upon each new day and find the new hope that is reborn within it - no matter how dark the day seems or what terrors clamor for your focus!

If my words do not soothe your heart or calm your mind that's okay, I'm just a human priestess, I can't reach out and pull you out of despair all on my own, all I can do is shine a light to help you find your way. I know that on dark days like today where all of our efforts, both mundane and magical, have failed to avert disaster it's easy to feel like sometimes there's nothing that we can do at all and that there's no point in trying, but that simply isn't true. You are a Pagan! You are beloved by all that is eternal! You have the power within you to access the help of countless Deities, ancestors, and spirits! They may not have been able to avert the darkness we now find ourselves in, but they most certainly can help you find your way through it! Your Deity(s), whoever they are, has seen countless days of darkness like this before, and they have without fail led their beloved worshipers out of times of turmoil and into days of celebration. It is in our hearts and in our minds that our Deities have the most power over this world, especially in times of great suffering, so do not make the mistake of thinking that you are alone or forsaken.

Take some time and open your heart to the Deity of your choosing in prayer or ritual or spell, let the contents of your heart pour out to them - tell them exactly how you feel, what fills your mind, what burdens your brows and your shoulders, and keep your heart and your mind open to them and theirs!

They have not forsaken you, they await your call!
They hold their hands out to grasp yours, ready to pull you out of despair!
Their arms are open wide, ready to comfort you in loving embrace!
Their hearts await to be welcomed by yours, eager to fill you with their strength!

In the darkest of days the eternal stars shine brightest, you are not alone, and you are loved!

Odin has always been the passive dad. He’s been firm with me. But hasn’t taken much of a front seat with me like Hades. Is there when I need to have a down to earth talk.

Yet today I woke up to the feeling of dread and fear. He thrusted a spear in my hand, told me to be a warrior and keep walking. He said it’s okay to be afraid, but you can’t afford to let it paralyze you.

Loki is calm yet simmers in his rage.

Hades is upset but not as much as his wife. But they told me the same. I can’t afford to let myself sit still. Get up. Keep moving. You have too.

Too stubborn to die. To afraid to live. Yet I have too. Ain’t that a bitch?

I am a very expressive person and I wanna integrate Apollon and Artemis more in my day to day life. I do have an altar, I love altars, but I mean with like my clothing or maybe even hairstyles. I just need some ideas, it doesn't need to be subtle but I am also a big fan of tiny details. Thank you in advance! <3

Wondering if there is an observable-with the naked eye-way to tell what sign the moon is in, without checking online or in an almanac?

Merry meet fellow Pagans - I'm turning 30 in less than a week and in the spirit of change and renewal, I'm desperate to update my altar space.

My relationship with Paganism and specifically my connection to the Norse pantheon has waned over the years and my cluttered, messy altar space is a visible reminder of my absence. I'd really like to strip back and return to basics and my faith, so I wanted to ask;

What are your altar essentials? How do you construct a space that feels authentic to your beliefs?

Looking for a hypoallergetic and tarnish proof metal pentacle necklace, I work with alot of christians who wear crosses and constantly try to convert me so I want to have a pentacle necklace to represent my faith and hopefully get them to leave me alone about it. Anyone know of any good ones?

Sorry for the kind political post but i want to pray to someone and i can’t figure out who

Hope there are some Finnish pagans here too :,) would appriciate advice on this.

Hei jeesatkaa likkaa vähä

tldr prayed Tapio to take my fever away, i think it worked, i promised a offering in excange.

I need to make offering to our forest god, but I have no idea where to bury it as uhrikivi (stone with a dent, used in old religion to give offerings to gods) is not an option I have on my hands.

Any other pagan with ideas how to proseed?

I'm trying to see what gods i want to worship because i am a new pagan and well it's hard.

Whether it's my aesthetics or my beliefs or my own personal life

Like with trying to find a deity of love for example. It's hard for me to connect to one

I'll use Aphrodite for a example here. It's hard for me to connect to her

1.) I'm on the darker side of aesthetics, the dark gothic night vampire aesthetics. And well Aphrodite is anything but that. So i can't really connect with her just by aesthetics already.

2.) I can't really connect with her sea side. I live in Arizona and well yyyeeaaahhh. It's a desert and there are no seas here. Can't truly connect to anything you haven't seen or experienced

3.) Her associations are hard for me to connect to as well. Like her animal association. Kinda hard to connect to her if you haven't seen dove or swan before.

I know this a tad bit too late for Halloween, but do you believe ghosts or haunted things are real?

Personally, I don't think so because I've been collecting antiques and fossils since I was a kid, including some helmets and bayonets from both world wars and never had any negative experiences with them.

Dear fellow pagans,

what do you think about gods being used in pop culture, like the movies about Thor or Disney's Hercules? In Ghostbusters (cough, yes I'm old) there were Zuul and Gozer, but they were, according to all information I could find, only created for the movie and never actually worshipped, so “no one got hurt”.