My Pagan Path – Amethyst’s Archive

Auntie, how do you worship a god when you have practically no information on them? I’ve been doing research to find the god that has been hanging around for a while and I eventually ran across a half-forgotten minor god and felt a sort of zing of rightness. “Impossible!” I said. “This can’t be you! Nobody knows anything much about you!” But apparently it IS him and he thinks his mysteriousness is terribly funny and won’t give me any hints on how to do the worshiping properly. Can you advise?

upyrica: systlin: Wing that shit. Seriously. Go with your gut and intuition, and find out through trial and error what they like and what they don’t. Ask them! They’ll teach you. Ask them, and pay attention. Divination helps, done by yourself or a trusted reader, but it is an aid – look at the reflectionsContinue reading “Auntie, how do you worship a god when you have practically no information on them? I’ve been doing research to find the god that has been hanging around for a while and I eventually ran across a half-forgotten minor god and felt a sort of zing of rightness. “Impossible!” I said. “This can’t be you! Nobody knows anything much about you!” But apparently it IS him and he thinks his mysteriousness is terribly funny and won’t give me any hints on how to do the worshiping properly. Can you advise?”

cryptophelia: if you think nature and the natural world is all ferociousness and teeth and claws and survival of the fittest, you must be really…..how you say….fucking boring, and you are guilty of the exact same reduction your boring ass is trying to call other people out on just because ugliness and cruelty exist doesContinue reading

Respecting the Gods

will-o-the-witch: Don’t… treat them as tools. Deities aren’t obligated to help you, even if you do everything “correctly” to ask. They’re not vending machines, or a list of correspondences that only gets value from how they best serve you. They’re gods! Instead… treat them like people. (Really high-status people.) Build a relationship before asking big favors. CompensateContinue reading “Respecting the Gods”

People say that Dark Gods are harsh when crossed or offended –are the other Gods less so? Doesn’t mythology show us that any deity when offended is likely to react badly? People say that Dark Gods are the teachers of hard lessons –but are the other Gods’ lessons any easier? Or isn’t it just thatContinue reading

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

crow-the-hermit: —G. K. Chesterton

Ways to Get Messages From Deities

naryamirie: flamebeater: dionysusworship: stitchwitchy: witchcraftings: hellboundwitch: aro–aphrodite: Gut feeling Shivers down your back See a flash of an image in your mind Hear a positive voice with a brief message Smell something An earth angel directly delivers the information to you You find yourself giving advice to another person, and realize that is the adviceContinue reading “Ways to Get Messages From Deities”

“Don’t Work with Death!”

havencraft: “Don’t work with death, because then you invite it into your house.” Death is already in my house. Death is everywhere. Death is what decays the plant matter that feeds my garden. Death is what feeds the herbs I use in my spells, for each grows from what died before it. Death is whatContinue reading ““Don’t Work with Death!””

max-swell: speakingwhentheworldsleeps: You can never explain to your former faith that the water is fine. That you went past the forbidden gate, and entered the forbidden water, and it is good, and healing, and refreshing. They have been told the water is not fine. The water is poison. The water will make you sick, makeContinue reading

edderkopper: thesmoldragoness: rad-magick: I see a lot of people talking about making oaths to certain deities and paths, but it took me awhile to figure out why that it makes me uncomfortable. There are people that need to be reminded that when you take any oath, that it isn’t temporary, it is for life, itContinue reading

hereticalapothecary: *gestures to my religious beliefs* Welcome to whatever the fuck this is