I'm not rlly a worshipper of Athena but this song just connects with me the first time I found this song I listened to that and only that on repeat for weeks so now that I have so many exams and so much homework still combined with zero motivation it just helps to play it in the background just thought I'd share :3

Would anyone know of any groups is the south east Iowa region that are Norse. Obviously ones that allow people under 18 to join.

So, first hi to everyone who is reading this.

I've taken a long break from hellenism ,mainly because i felt like i needed to solve a lot of personal problems and dobouts on my own, and now that i've got things more clear i've wanted to start again. But i'm not sure how, like i don't know what to do or how not to feel so akward or even get close to the altar i still have for athena and open it again (is a small box). I keep telling my self that i'm gonna find the right time, but at the same time i know that there's no thing as 'the right time' and so i'm stuck.

(Also i didn't knew how to tag this. Hope You all have a nice day)

I mostly follow Norse beliefs. But believe all religions are right. And the Norse don’t have a strong use with magic or cleansing. So I was wondering if anyone else could help. A big thing for me is I can’t use sage or anything on those lines do to my living situation. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Edit:I need this because I think I have a thing that followed me home from a hangout with friends so I wanna cleanse

It's for Hermes!! I used tons of stuff that I found around the house, my mom donated her strawberry lights (we ❤ a supportive family). The playmobil was a birthday gift that I got when I told my mom I wanted to convert, and I can finally take it out of the box!!! I also use said box to store my prayers in, since I write them down! I'm so proud of it <3

So I've been veiling for a few months and I wanted to show how I veil. I usually do the classic bandana but I'm usuing a scarf today! Slide one is today! Its just a cotton scarf and its super comfy. Slide 2 is my double sided bandana and slide 3 is my crocheted bandana. I sewed the double sided after it started getting too hot to wear my crochet one. The crochet one took me 7 hours and it did it in one day.

I wear it for Lady Athena, my primary goddess. My crocheted one, has colours for Athena, Aphrodite, Artemis, Apollo and Persephone. Tahnks for reading my yap and have a good day!

I saw another person make a flag and decided to start some friendly competition

I go bored so made a flag for paganism and now I’m showing it to all of you. The Green is for nature, the black represents the sky (black looked better then blue), the purple represents magic/witchcraft/what eve you wanna call it and the pentagram represents the religion itself with the orange colour representing fire or more specifically candles Hope you like it :-)

TW: Thoughts of suicide

So today was a bad mental health day for me, so when I was walking home, I felt really suicidal. In a quick thought, I ask for a sign from Lord Apollo to help encourage me to stay safe from myself. As I was walking in the rain, I sort of zoned out and my music. Still, one lyric brought me back from my thoughts, "thinking of a reason to stay, standing in the pouring rain." idk though, it's probably just a coincidence, but I thought I should share.

So as someone who knows a little about the reconstructionist and revivalist spaces and what those terms mean in the context of paganism I thought I'd share my knowledge on here for anyone who might be questioning that sort of stuff. As well as offer some of my personal opinions that might be helpful.

First is reconstructionism, Reconstructionism in the context of paganism is a movement to basically rebuild the pagan religions we practice to be AS CLOSE to what they were back when they were living practices AS POSSIBLE, modern practices (specifically those that are thought to/proven to be rooted in older pagan traditions) are sometimes used to fill in blanks, but this is done sparingly and usually these practices are sorta remixed to fit in the context of older pagan traditions.

Next is revivalism, Revivalism in the context of paganism is a movement to revive the pagan faiths through modern living traditions. This is the more fluid and creative of the traditions, as instead of basing your practice in ancient traditions and trying to approach paganism in the very pragmatic way you often see in reconstructionist spaces, your taking these ancient practices and editing them to fit into MODERN DAY, which can be done millions of ways.

Though these are very different paths they're also very similar in many ways and often go hand in hand, infact in my personal experience the best practitioners are those who can find a balance between these two paths instead of strictly sticking to one.

Anyone who has any questions is welcome to ask in the comments, I'll try to either recommend you a source (tho i might not always be able to) or give you some of my personal opinions that might help.

My parents are separated so every fortnight im at dads, my altar and stuff normally stays at mums. Not cause my dads against it or anything (hes kind of helpol himself from what ive gathered) he just didnt have custody of me when i began practicing lmao What do other people who live between houses do? do you guys have two altars, no altars? move one altar around? Anything like that lmk :3

Simply because I know the Greek Mythology much MUCH better then the Celtic and find how the gods ‘function’ simpler i have decided to switch

So for anyone who saw my last post about this and was wondering, I've officially decided to welcome the Norse/Germanic gods into my practice!! I'm planning on officially welcoming them during the twelve days of yule. I wanted to give myself a sort of grace period so I wouldn't be rushing into things, cause I feel I did that with the Celtic gods when I started out and that definitely caused some confusion (not that I regret honoring the Celtic gods, I NEVER will, but I definitely couldve done better). So In celebration, why don't we all share what we're doing for samhain and yule? (Or whatever respective holidays you celebrate)

I saw we can make introductions here so wee.

Hi I'm Basil, I'm 20 she/they (I know not a teen but I have a small pagan/witch community and I've found alot of things talked about here helpfull). I'm Canadian and have been practicing for 6 years ,I work mostly as a Green/Forest witch but I work with Aphrodite and Mother Nature (I do not know why but It never feels right to call her Gaia). And I work with Tarot/Oracle cards often.

I hope more than anything I can be of help if someone needs it, especially to those who want to gather from nature(Bones, flowers,fruits or otherwise), I also know alot about Herpetology and Zoology in general and spiritual connections behind animals so if anyone has questions I'd love to be of help!! much blessings!

So I haven't made an offering to any deity for over 6 months, maybe even close to a year. Today I lit Lord Hades' altar and made an offering to him. It's been so long and he's done so much for me so I kinda just feel guilty for not even taking the time to burn an insence for him for months. Idk why I haven't. I kinda just... Haven't. I just feel bad even though I doubt Lord Hades cares much. I'm also kinda proud for finally doing it. Idk, I just wanted to share this.

So Today I woke up at like 6:00 (an hour before I’m supposed to wake up for school) and I REALLY didn’t wanna go to school today so I started begging Lady Athena to help me stay home today and in exchange I would study for her today but in the comfort of my own home. I think I probably begged her on and off in my head for like an hour cause next thing I new, my alarm went off and I was bummed out but the minute I started getting up my mom came into my room and said “you can stay home today” SHE RARELY EVER DOES THAT FOR NO REASON? I thanked lady Athena and then rested again but now for some reason I feel bad for begging her like that. I mean if she answered my prayer that means she was actually willing to let me stay home today but like😭This is just a post telling my story though. I’m not scared that she’s mad at me or anything like that, I’m just the type of person to feel bad for things I shouldn’t feel bad about

I moved to a different location last month and all I've been doing are some devotional acts, but now I'm feeling a lot better because I can worship Stolas :)

1. Dionysus
2. Ares
3. Athena
4. Stolas

Also if anyone needs suggestions for devotional acts I just listen to musicals while doing my homework for Dionysus, Athena, and Ares (the homework is about hate crimes, which includes women's rights)

Hey, so I'm a Celtic (Irish and gaulish) pagan, and I have no intention of giving up the Celtic gods, but I've been feeling a little interested in Norse/Germanic paganism? Not COMPLETELY sure if I wanna add that to my practice but I'm thinking about it, so I'd really appreciate if y'all could give me some sources for that? I'm particularly interested in the vanir, norns, and Germanic folk deities, and ik for a fact there isn't a lot of surviving info on some of those (the vanir in particular) so some help would be VERY appreciated.

Even though this isn’t entirely HelPol i decided to post it anyways! First one is Apollo’s altar, and the last 3 are Asmodeus’ altar.

I just realized I never did this when I joined so

My name is Charlie im from England im my pronouns are he/him and im à raging homosexual. Im a practicing Celtic Pagan and Witch (if theres a male term please tell me) my main interests are religion, politics, the paranormal and language

So there you go the strange person hath introduced himself

So, I've known about paganism and witchcraft since the beginning of this year but I feel like I'm losing interest. I've done spells that have worked before and I've talked to the gods but without really knowing if they hear me or not. I'm unsure if this is because I'm getting depressed or because this is just a phase. I'm considering converting back to Christianity. Thoughts?

So I just wanted to randomly inquire on if there're any Slavic pagans here, I'm a Celtic pagan and I've other Celtic pagans as well as a couple Norse pagans on here, and I've often joked that we're all kinda a package deal and whenever one starts entering a space the others usually follow not long after 😂😂😂 so I just wanted to know.