Do you visualize magical circle for rituals?
Over time I switched from standard Wicca circle based on Pentacle, to circle based on 4-point star. Four animals as symbols of 4 classic Elements (Fire - Firebird, Water - Fish or Rusalka, Air - Falcon, and Earth - Bear) and dance of Sun and Moon at center as Spirit.
I am not best at drawing, but able to create approximate look of it in my grimoire. Just too shy to show it.
A very interesting video in Ukrainian
It is about Ukrainian traditional paganism, legends, creatures and overall worldview.
Interesting video especially basically it claims that Ukrainian worldview was closer to pantheism , like it is in Hinduism or Shintoism, than to Greek pantheon (or of course monotheism).
Is there a reliable historical accurate information about Ukrainian paganism and pagan folk traditions, legends and songs, collected somewhere?
Especially regarding Veles?
I specially point to Ukraine and to folk paganism, to avoid bump into pan-Slavism when search for such information mentioning "Slavic" term?
English and Ukrainian sources prefferred.
That spiritual path which does not honour the divine feminine principle is a skewed path, inclining by design away from the very source of all that is. It is a path for the willfully orphaned.
#pagan #paganism #norsepagan #goddess #heathen #writer #writing #divinefeminine #oldgods #spirituality #spiritualjourney
What surprises me is that I have this many decks. Somehow tarot has still worked its way into the fabric of my Witchcraft, and I can’t deny how much value these decks have brought to my magickal life – whether as tools, as sources of inspiration, or as objects I have infused with sentimental power.
https://wildhunt.org/2025/03/where-a-witch-moves-tarot-decks-are-soon-to-follow.html
Hail Freya-Frigg on Freya-Frigg‘s Day!
Many have viewed the Goddess as benign, a sickly-sweet tinkerbell viewed through a patriarchal lens. The error is detrimentally ignorant. She is no passive wraith. She is beauty & fury, love & hate, blessing & blood, birth & destruction.
#pagan #paganism #norsepagan #goddess #freya #frigg #writer #writing #spirituality #heathen #druid #patriarchy
This article shows that not every popular method in the witch/occult/magic/pagan community is for everyone in the community - and that this is okay.
"I Promise You Don’t Have to Read Tarot to Be a Witch"
by Thumper Forge:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/fivefoldlaw/2025/03/07/i-promise-you-dont-have-to-read-tarot-to-be-a-witch/
Fresh yew and heather offered on the sacred space this evening for the approaching Freya-Frigg‘s Day.
#pagan #paganism #norsepagan #freya #frigg #goddess #altar #sacredspace #writer #writing #spirituality
Media românească se fereste tot mai mult să vorbească de sărbătorile creștine Nu se face astfel decât o diluare a creștinismului, practic o repagânizare a omului și astfel îndepărtarea încet, încet de adevarul lui Hristos pt a crea omul nou fără Dumnezeu. Nu ăsta era oare și visul comunismului? 
https://c.aparatorul.md/d5adn 
#crestinism #media #Paganism #Presa #SărbătoriCreştine
Hail the Allfather on Odin’s Day!
Run through with his spear on Yggdrasil, Odin shows the necessity of slaying the ego in order to realise our connectedness with the created order. To cut down the view that seeks domination and yield to one’s place within the web of being.
#pagan #paganism #norsepagan #heathen #druid #odin #woden #writer #writing #spirituality #spiritualjourney
SpellCraft: Ephemeral Essence
https://lydiavvinters.com/2025/03/03/spellcraft-ephemeral-essence/
**Why Ancient Christians Destroyed Greek Statues**
ReligionForBreakfast
_"In Late Antiquity, Christian leaders condemned paganism, sometimes leading to violent attacks on divine statues. What do these attacks teach us about Christianization of the Roman Empire?"_
#Video length: twenty-seven minutes and forty seconds.
Some thoughts about candle magic
For years, my daily practice has looked like this:
Lighting two different candles or tea lights for two different causes and saying respective prayers. Then, after 15 to 20 minutes, I extinguish the flames because I cannot afford to let candles (or tea lights) burn completely down on a daily basis.
Also, I am a spoonie witch, so I cannot sit down each day and meditate for one hour or things like that. But even with low energy, I manage to light those candles and say a prayer. (And when I am not a home, I say those prayers in my mind, silently.)
These days, in an increasingly dystopian world, I started to light two more candles daily, for more causes and saying prayers. Along with that, I also light an incense stick (only one per day).
Today, the thought came to my mind that I could basically also light one large candle each day for a while, instead of all those small ones. And then say all those different prayers over that single candle.
I could also put the candle in a big glass container and glue or paint respective symbols or sigils on it, for all those causes.
One of these is a rather personal one, all the others are about or for other people, in support of them (for instance, a social justice topic).
So I guess it would make sense to have two candles: One for the personal matter, the other one combined for the other causes.
Every time I see an announcement for yet another fantasy novel (or trilogy etc.) playing with Greek, Celtic, Roman or Norse mythology (or other mythologies from all over the world, but I am not that familiar with those), I wonder how well the author has researched this mythology and how much they keep from that original material for their novel.
Because I am tired of novels that toss around mythology so much that it is barely recognizable anymore. I also find that kind of disrepectful towards the source material (and also towards modern pagans to whom mythologies can be sacred).
Reports indicate that a Christian church allegedly harassed a Wiccan vendor, sparking community backlash in support of both the vendor and the market. The church now frames this response as an act of Christian persecution.
#paganism #witchcraft #witchesofinstagram #wiccan
https://wildhunt.org/2025/02/concerns-over-targeting-of-pagan-community-in-pickens-sc.html
The Old Gods have not returned. They never left. They were simply waiting for those whose blood and bones resonates with their voice heard in the forests and groves, rivers and standing stones, in the moon and stars and the rising and setting sun. Waiting for us to hear and return to them.
#pagan #paganism #norsepagan #spirituality #heathen #writer #writing #OldWays #oldgods #nature #animism
SpellCraft/Ethereal Writing: Elysium Shores https://lydiavvinters.com/2025/02/23/spellcraft-ethereal-writing-elysium-shores/
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Nice idea, but there’s already an overlap of paganism with these racist assholes, specifically some white supremacists being into the Teutonic pantheon.
Which is a shame b/c it’s an idea with merit. I especially feel voodoo or Santeria would be an excellent fit for our social needs. #paganism #voodoo #santeria #StateReligion #USPolitics
Pagans do not believe in mythic literalism, meaning we don't think that the stories in the myths actually happened. It's the reason we're able to practice together under one umbrella, even though we have wildly different beliefs. We recognize that no single set of myths is the "right" one. Or rather, they are *all* right.
Our myths are lessons about our collective experience told through words and symbols. They tell us what being human is like, what kind of situations we might be in, feelings we might feel, and what kinds of consequences are produced when we interact with the world. It is through those lessons that we can reach through time and space to recognize the formulas and forces that connect us all.
