My Pagan Path – Page 2 – Amethyst’s Archive

I feel awe of the gods, I love, I revere, I venerate them, and in short have precisely the same feelings towards them as one would have towards kind masters or teachers or fathers or guardians or any beings of that sort. Julian the Philosopher, in “To the Cynic Heracleios" (via honorthegods) Source: honorthegods

Things I’ve Learned About Gods

tinyrosemarysparrows: Sometimes They introduce Themselves and explain why They are there. Sometimes They give you no answers and expect you to figure it out yourself. It can take years to start seeing the big picture. Gods can come for a specific reason. They can come for no reason. Sometimes you click really well with oneContinue reading “Things I’ve Learned About Gods”

penofswords: dismantle the idea of spiritual practice as something you’re “Good At” (as if there’s a meditation olympics with a panel of judges scoring offerings out of 10) and turning it into yet another metric of comparison and competition spiritual practice is a process – a collaboration between you and the gods it’s not anContinue reading

And at 23, I found that mountaintops often made for better altars and whiskey for more honest communion. (via alexandersattler) Source: alexandersattler

Religious expectations: Bowing before the gods and gracefully receiving Their wisdom and attaining total peace. Religious experiences: Staring wide eyed up at a goddess and then immediately bursting into tears and apologizing for being such a mess in front of Her and it’s only after She’s waited for you to finish crying about literally everythingContinue reading

aldamirie: I had to learn this today and I felt like typing this as a reminder and for perhaps anyone else that needs this : Often times, you won’t have a dialogue with your gods every day, and sometimes they can even be silent for weeks or months. And that’s okay – part of thatContinue reading

Don’t ask your God(s) to do something for you, ask your God(s) to give you the strength to do it yourself. enchanting-knowledge (via whiterosepagan) Source: the-arcanes-mystic

Mountains are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. Anatoli Boukreev (via glorfinn ) And the forests are my temples. (via eredion) Source: glorfinn

Call it a cult. Call it an experience. Call it madness. I call it religion. Stamp stamp stamp your feet, let Tartarus shake beneath you. Let the earth tremble at your power. Scream scream scream at the sky, let the stars hear you and echo back with light. Do not fall silent, you must burnContinue reading

thequietpagan: I’m going to write a longer post about this later, but it is really strange coming from pretty much zero religious background whatsoever and realizing only years later that you’ve fallen so in love with a religion you chose for yourself that you can’t imagine your life without it.