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Tonight we did our Samhain ritual. This was the last in our set of creation myth sabbats, featuring the story of the Tohono O'odham people. We called quarters with mythic figures; I called Coyote. :D We read the myth aloud. For cakes and ale, we had prickly pear honey on crackers and cherry-apple cider.

We also discussed themes for the next year. Well, I suggested pageantry and interactive things, since we just did a year of mostly reading myths, then everyone latched onto that instead of suggesting different themes. Music, geometrical circle casting, using some of the figurines and other props we already own, etc. It should be fun.

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Revisit those who have passed during the year. These entries from my "Moment of Silence" tag highlight those who have died recently. Some of my posts have a "Carry on the Work" section regarding the person's accomplishments in case anyone else wants to explore those.

Browse ways to celebrate Dia de los Muertos.

Here are some things to do for Samhain. See the Greenhaven Coven page for Samhain and its recipes.

Does anyone else have names to remember?

Current Mood: busy

ysabetwordsmith

Today we enjoyed two full moon activities.

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mdehners

A couple of weeks ago I found my old leather pouch I used as my EDC(Every Day Carry) at festivals and moots. I hadn't used it since the early Aughts. It was, like most leather left in a cupboard for a couple of decades in rough shape. Got it cleaned up and rejuvenated. Then I thought about what to do with it. That's whe I thought of an actual EDC.
It's not very large, about big enough for a standard Tarot deck so I started thinking about what I wished I'd had on hand when just about.
1st thing, unsurprisingly for a Heathen was a Hammer. I decided to use my Partner's Handfasting Hammer. It's available and it's like carrying a bit of him with me always.
The 2nd was a set of Elder Futhark. Like most of us, I tend to "Magpie" tools and while I don't have the size of my old Tarot collection, I still had a plethora of choices. I chose one of my Favs, a handcrafted set hammered out of Copper that I've had since 96.
Slipping out of my Heathen materials, I added 2 Conjure items from the local Majical culture; a Protection oil and New Salt.
With those materials I can pretty much deal with 80% of the shite that comes my way.
Every Path and every person will have their own choices of what tools they need, These are just some that I use more often....
Cheers,
Pat

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: Lenoir City(Nevermore;>!)
Current Music: Heilung Radio

dray

Hi all, I'm an on-again, off-again practitioner, mostly because I flit from one thing to another so often that I find it tough to hold to rituals rooted in proper timing.

Still, I keep coming back and I'd like to chat with more pagans!

Name you would like to go by:
-Please call me 'Dray'; in the vein of 'strong horse-drawn wagon' rather than 'like the rapper'.

Present path or tradition:
- Mainlining Insight-based traditions of Buddhism (focusing primarily on nurturing the four wise abodes of universal love, joy for others' success, compassion, and equanimity), with support from some divination work, work with unseen companions, and journaling shadow work. If I have any particular fondness for deities, I'd say that Kwan Yin is currently my favourite. She's mainly a Buddhist bodhisattva of compassion, and (at least in the queer sitting group I attend) is widely considered in the LGBTQ+ community as a transfemme icon.
- My path leans almost unilaterally towards healing, learning about how to become embodied, and how to bring succour for a busy mind and aching heart-space. I like to cultivate a joyful space!

Interests:
- With regards to spirituality, I value community and an almost fandom-like space of sharing ideas. I quite love the in-person meditation sits I've found in town and would adore more in-person pagan exchanges, but I just haven't found my people, locally, yet. I'm looking forward to learning more about how these two modes of belief can support one another.

Age (not mandatory):
- Currently in my early 40's!

Brief Bio:
- I'm a dabbler without a lineage or tradition, and in my day-to-day life I'm in the animation and VFX industry doing production work, and I've a degree in character design and illustration. I like to incorporate art and craft into my practice, since working with my hands fuels all the things I value in the arcane. I also like working with "coincidence", which is a conglomerate of those useful spirits that like to get involved and like to be given gratitude. My matrilineal line dabbled in pagan things in ways that I don't think they really wanted to cop to, so I feel like I've got a hodgepodge of 'witchy' things that have defined how I approach my own faith.

mdehners

If you haven't heard, last week the Dept of War removed 70% of "accepted" religions; from 211 to 32. More than half are simply Christian denominations. The Mormons are NOT listed as such, which will tick off the Utah contingent of Project 2025. Needless to say, any Pagan, Heathen or 1st Nations religions are not on the list.
As of the latest I've seen they haven't decided what Servicefolk of removed religions will have on their dogtags and headstones; either blank or no religion are the present choices. Since they DO have religions, the slightly less offensive would just be blank.
If I'd known what the world would be post 2000 I would have refused my aids meds. At least I'd have died believing the things I fought and marched for wouldn't be "Temporary Sanity".
Troth,
Patrick T. Duffy

Current Mood: depressed
Current Location: Lenoir City(Nevermore;>!)
Current Music: Pentangle Radio

mdehners

Got an odd question for the group. Does anyone know a source for Pagan Chants/Music for Tongue drum? Esp the 15 tab one.
ThanX in advance.
Cheers,
Pat

Current Mood: artistic
Current Location: Lenoir City(Nevermore;>!)
Current Music: Spiral Dance Radio

ysabetwordsmith

The next full moon will be Tuesday, March 3. But there is also the Festival of Owls on March 6-8. I'm toying with doing an owl themed esbat during that waning moon phase. We have great horned owls around here, which is cool.

Has anyone else done an owl esbat?

Current Mood: busy

taevachi

As I've been reading pagan oral tradition, songs, prayers, myths... etc. I am of course an individual who is able to make my own interpretations of things. Because I know Finnish, I've read a lot of Finnish oral poetry or runosongs. They utilize epithets and alternate names A LOT. And reading through all of that, it's like I've opened a third eye or something and started seeing connections between things I could've never imagined. Deep cosmology feels like something that is reserved for "proper" religions and I am so incredibly excited whenever I find something like that from the poems. It's like I've discovered some massive, exciting thing I would like share with everyone, but nobody around me really cares.

What I've come to notice is that my interpretations can differ quite a lot from the ones that exist in commercial and popular culture, which are often based on something that was decided in the 19th century. The pop culture info you can learn quite easily about is so surface level too. It's a whole different deal when you start understanding the "mythic language", like which kind of symbolism refers to what.

Not sure if anyone here can relate. I don't have any already existing template to go by, so the fact that any day I can find some exciting line that reveals something new about how people used to think in an archive of over 100,000 runosongs... It's kind of intoxicating? I finally stopped resisting and started ranting about something publically (which might interest you if you're interested in Freyr), I really just feel like I need an outlet for... any of this :D

Any relatable experiences, tips or other discussion?

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Käärijä - People's Champion

verdelet

Per request:
Name you would like to go by: Verdelet

-Present path or tradition: Traditionalist Witchcraft, NECTW flavor, mainly, been simmering in that Cauldron for half a century or so.

-Interests: easier to point you to my user info.

-Age (not mandatory): old enough to no longer give a damn?

-Brief Bio: Green Vine, daughter of Qayin. Bearer of Lantern and Keys. Fifty years in the cauldron and still simmering. Tradition-rooted, bullshit-resistant, and usually correct.

“Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.” – Terry Pratchett.

Current Location: Yon Bonny, Bonny road
Current Music: Thomas the rhymer

taevachi

Hi! Around 13th of July has been the "middle of summer" in Finland and Estonia at least historically (because it's the warmest time of summer, not related to sun's movements) and in Estonia it's also been called the Bear's Day. That's why I wanted to share a little bear related runosong (traditional Finnic oral poetry) if that's okay by the rules! With my clumsy translation. It is a spell or chant or prayer so a bear wouldn't attack cattle :]

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airic

These last few years it seems all this astrology and, as the kids say, "woo-woo", have become ever more popular. People seem to be practicing more and more. That's cool so long as people don't turn their backs on science and reason.

( Do you really wanna know more about me...? )

Currently, I'm focusing on walking The Red Road, delving back into the occult, green magick, and my own mix of Indigenous spirituality and Satanism.

thefreaksclub Sibling Community

the_magick_circle is where I talk about that. I also help run a few others.

ethical_society_of_satan which is about society, ethics, philosophy, humanism, non-theological satanism, and other such related things.

veg_life which is about vegetarian and vegan lifestyles, animal rights, the environment, and all that.

first_nations_freaks for all Native American news, culture, discussions, and whatnot.

openhearts_openminds ...polytheism? Maybe! Polyamory? Definitely. All about your less commonly discussed relationship types and other topics relating to relationships.

X-Posted in

the_magick_circle (dark theme!)

krakathewitch

I'm Kraka, I've been on Dreamwidth before under a different account that was mostly for fandom, but created a new account to journal and share about myself and my path. I'm past mid-40s and used to be on LiveJournal until they sold. I've been a pagan of some stripe for nearly 3 decades. Also am disillusioned with the Book of Faces and other more recent social media.

I'm currently solitary, but I worship mainly Greek and Norse (I know, no relation at all between the religions) with some French-Canadian folk magic and practices thrown in and a heavy dose of animism. I will be studying with a group, starting in September. I used to be part of an Eclectic Wiccan "tradition", had my elevation to 2nd Degree and was teaching, but left due to realizing how toxic a group it really was. Funny how experience makes you realize people aren't what they seem to be on the surface. I've been sort of adrift since, and trying to find my footing again.

I love reading, writing, drawing and painting, learning new things, hiking and camping. I am obsessed with fountain pens and the inks for them, but don't have that extensive a collection because those things are not exactly cheap. I'm nostalgic for the 90s and early 2000s.

I am queer, happily married to my wife since 2017. We have a jenday conure who is almost 3 years old and is named Freyja (she is DNA tested female, since that species of parrots is not sexually dimorphic). She is a veritable toddler with wings.

I don't have icons yet, since I have just set up my account, but I intend to have some soon.

taevachi

My name is taevachi.
Present path or tradition: My own (Finnish with Northern Finnish (Kainuu and North Ostrobothnia) focus)

Interests: Fandoms, history

Brief Bio: Hi! I am completely new to all of this. I had a bit of a religious crisis recently when I understood that "Hell" doesn't exist and it's kind of turned my everything upside down! But I think that how I feel now is less of a ~religion~ and more of a philosophy. I want to respect nature, live in harmony with nature. Sometimes we have to take, but we shouldn't take too much so that it would hurt the ecosystem. I am very interested in local tradition, myths attached to places etc. I am compiling a collection of poetic form Finnish myths and spells with heavy Northern Finnish focus. It's how I interpret the myths. I think it's all tradition worthy of remembering. I don't have deities or so, so tell me if this doesn't exactly belong etc. I guess what I believe is that there is such a thing as "Sacred" and "Holy", and usually if I feel it, it's out there in the forest.

But I don't know anyone like this nor have anyone to talk to with these topics

mzwyndi

I can't remember if I posted an intro, but I'll do it just so I know it was done:

Most people call me Mz. Wyndi. Pronounced like the redheaded hamburger lady. I answer to it. That's good enough for what a name is for.

Brief bio: I'm a middle-aged, middle American who went from suburban upbringing, to urban lifestyle, to running a family farm. I've been to four continents, but I haven't travelled this century. I learned to play D&D and read tarot cards in the middle of the Satanic Panics. I believe in privacy, keep my oaths, and still have managed to be a moderator of largish pagan groups off and on in decades past. IYKYK

craftyhobbit

Greetings. I've just rejoined Dreamwidth after being away for a while, and decided to join dreamwidth pagans because there doesn't seem to be an active heathen community on here in the hopes that I'll find people with similar interests. I am a member of the Heathen Women's United group on facebook, and follow a few other groups on there, but facebook has become flooded with spammy memes and my feed on there seems to be more full of pages and posts from things I've no interest in than what I've chosen to follow these days, making it practically unuseable.

I have an interest in Nordic Animism, obscure Germanic goddesses like Frigg's handmaidans and Nehalennia, and academic research into pagan subjects. I like to do needlework and art.

My other interests are zoology and science fiction and fantasy books.

sacredmound

Hi. I'm a refugee from Facebook.

20 years ago I was a young man and just getting into paganism when LiveJournal was a thing. I had 3 or 4 good years on LJ and its pagan communities. Then everyone started going to Facebook (which I never liked), and not long afterward LJ was sold to the Russians which accelerated the abandoning-LJ-for Facebook trend, making LJ a veritable ghost town.

So I am kind of excited to get back to an LJ-like journal.

Anyway, I am a Norse pagan of sorts. Read my bio and if you like what you see, feel free to add me.

ashareem

A short list of Pagan/Witchcraft servers. There are many more, these just happen to be ones I’m on.

British Traditional Wicca Discord server - https://discord.gg/cQuXfC5DgX
Mandragora Magika Discord server - https://discord.gg/UHgDzK3YAP
Witchcraft, Paganism, etc. Discord server - https://discord.gg/r35tmNgYch
Georgian Tradition Discord - https://discord.gg/EhPvsj2Aj4
Our Lady of the Earth and Sky Discord server - https://discord.gg/CJKsksmDED

Current Location: Dreamwidth!

ashareem

Hi everyone.
I'm hoping that with the current dissatisfaction with the Book of Faces, we may see some new life over here.

haptalaon

I currently run a webring for pagans, polytheists and occultists on the small web.

What is a webring? Before social media algorithms fed you a steady stream of new content, webmasters invented ways to get their website in front of other people. When you join a webring, you put a link on your site showing you are a member, and people can surf from it through all the members of the ring.

Please help support the independent writers & webmasters there by visiting their sites. Let me know if you have a site that fits; and if there is an independent pagan website you enjoy, ask them if they would like to join the ring!

Current Music: Radio Astercote

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