Eu jogo o oraculo das árvores,queria trazer para ca meu trabalho com o ogham

Voces acham que tem viabilidade?

How do you act, feel, think and live in a specifically 'pagan' way? (rather than an atheist, Christian, or someone on any other faith path would)

Context: I am a Welsh/Brythonic neo-pagan/technopagan adult of many years (since I was a teen). Recently I was in a friendly debate with a relative and casual friends of mine, Christians and a Muslim, and they challenged me to articulate and define and delineate how my pagan beliefs & culture differ significantly from theirs.

I know the differences in my heart from an emotional standpoint; however, on the spot I really had trouble laying it out. I also had to tire myself out and pre-explain that all pagan branches differ in this regard. So I've decided to ask the community for insight.

Any one or several answers are welcome, as little or as much as you feel guided to share✨

→ Death and birth?

→ Love?

→ Time?

→ Ecology/The natural world?

→ Hospitality?

→ Charity?

→ Sexuality?

→ Justice?

→ Power?

→ Technology?

→ Literacy/media?

→ Work/labour?

→ Family/parenting?

→ Hygiene?

→ Adornment/clothes?

→ Food?

→ Sayings?

→ Private & household vs public life/conduct?

→ Education?

→ Language?

→ Superstition?

→ Unspoken rules?

→ Insults/shame?

→ Honour?

→ Collective traumas/memories?

→ Taboos?

Drawing Danu rn.. why does she look like McKenna grace… like the girl from the fnaf 2 movie. Anyways If anyone has any tips / references of Danu (no ai pls) that would be so appreciated, it’s so hard to find one that isn’t a drawing of that one sculpture XD (Danu devotees know what I’m talking abt)

Dia doaibh! I've only been practicing Irish paganism since April and have tried to celebrate the holidays as best as I could. However, I don't know much about the Irish Wheel of the Year or the symbolism/practices of the holidays. I know Lúnasa is coming up and would like to know more about the holiday and all of them in general. Anything would be gradly appreciated. Go raibh maith agat agus slán go fóill!

Hi everyone,

I am a 42-year-old solitary practitioner from Central Europe (Czech Republic), and I am currently navigating a deep existential crisis, heavy depression, and a sense of profound emptiness. I have no family and no children of my own, and my living ancestral line feels like a black hole due to deep-seated family trauma and dislocation.

I am a lifelong introvert and a highly sensitive person. Since I was a young boy, I felt like a complete misfit in the human world. My only sanctuary was escaping into the deep forests and mountains, sitting on cliffs, staring into tiny fires for hours, and instinctively praying without knowing what a ritual even was. As a child, I also used to endlessly draw interconnected, flowing circular patterns until they filled the whole paper—something I only much later recognized as ancient knotwork.

Recently, the land called me back. I bought a ruined house with an old garden full of tall, old-growth apple trees. It immediately felt like finding a portal to a broken Avalon that I am meant to rebuild. I feel a powerful, roaring inner call toward Cernunnos—as the lord of the wild spaces and a protector of misfits and solitary souls—but also toward the Slavic god Veles, the lord of the underworld, the roots, and the ancestors, who helps me navigate the darkness of my depression and family trauma. I find myself standing right between the Celtic and Slavic currents of my land.

I strictly want to avoid any New Age, Wicca, or shallow esoteric fluff, which is unfortunately dominant in my country. I need an intellectually honest, historically grounded, and strict Reconstructionist (CR) framework.

Can you please give me practical advice on how to build a solid daily and seasonal ritual structure on my ruined property? How do I study and practice properly as a solitary practitioner when I feel completely disconnected from my living bloodline, but deeply connected to the ancient spirits of the soil, the trees, and the storms?

Thank you for your guidance and brotherhood.

So I am looking to find more CR community and was wondering if anyone knew of any more up to date online communities. I have looked at the wiki and the suggestions on the FAQ but all of them are from 2006 with the most recent being 2014... Are there more groups that are more frequently updating?

How do I find a mentor who serves the same Tuatha Dé Danann that I do?? Some things have shifted for me lately and I would really love to talk through some of it with someone further along this path. Any suggestions, advice, guidance, wisdom you may be willing to share, please??

I’m a fairly new Irish pagan and I recently got into sport archery as a hobby. In my research I haven’t really found a deity that is connected tobit (mainly because it wasn’t preferred by the Celts iirc).

Is there a deity that I could worship/pray to that maybe aids me on my way of practicing this sport? In Norse paganism there is Ullr, but I’m no Norse pagan and I don’t want to mix pantheons

When I’ve been researching “Celtic paganism“ I realizing that I’m getting all these Scottish names, but I follow the Irish pantheon so right now I am a bit confused on who is who? I pray to mostly Danu, Lugus (Also anyone knows to pronounce that can you please put it down?) & Aengus Óg (as well as the main ones as well, like Brigid and the Morrigan) just a general list of importance days in the Irish would be nice

I finally decided to commit to making these. It's something I've been meaning to do since I find a lot of the statues/icons out there to be grossly inaccurate to the sources and they often times barely look Gaelic/Celtic in origin. These are still a WIP since I want feed back on what I should add/change and I'm taking suggestions on who do as well. I will eventually get around to the goddesses too. I also plan on making more anatomically correct versions of these too at some point. The images next to my art are the Irish and Gaulish stone work I based these designs off.

Btw the ogham script it literally gibberish, still trying to decide what I actually write on it

I do this little thing every March 25th in honor of the Caileach, as I bring her Holly staff and stone from the woods, and place it under the Holly tree in my yard. I do the sunwise turn three times, and say: Sleep well old woman under the Holly tree, by staff and stone, the storm abated. it's my own little tradition you know.

Everything is included. The stickers haven’t even been used!

Hi! I'm a beginner to celtic paganism and I really dont know where to start to be honest, I've always felt drawn to the natural elements of nature and the world, and I've always wanted to worship them for the life they bring to us.

Always felt drawn specially to the sun and its figure, and I've always wanted to build altars to deities around it, so I really want to get started on celtic paganism due to it being one of the oldest pagan religions, and I am really eager to learn about it and its practices!

Please, any sort of help is welcome!! (books are also good, but if you are gonna tell me the title of a book, please provide a site where to read it!)

Hi, I wondered if anyone worshipped any of the less popular Gods still? I never hear of any working with Dagda or Cailleach so just wondered if anyone here does. It would be nice to be able to appreciate the not as popular ones with someone ☺️ xx

Here shows depictions of a musical instrument consisting of multiple parts fashioned from bronze. This was found as a four-part hoard from Maigh Fhearta, (anglicized: Moyarta) County Clare. It is dated to be from the Bronze Age, approximately between 2200BC to 800BC. The artifacts themselves are shown to have holes and pits throughout as well as evidence of repair by molten metal.

This instrument is of similar build as the trumpets of the Dowris Hoard, consisting of three parts that are able to be put together. The three sections consist of the bell end, a midsection, and the top part being the narrow end. Throughout the sections are blunt cone-shaped spikes added to the horn, possibly as decorative additions. All components were recovered from a bog approx. 3 miles from Kilkee, possibly placed there as part of a ritual or ceremony which is not uncommon as many archeological finds in Ireland have been found in rivers and bogs.

It is said that when the gods of Ireland arrived, sometimes called the Fairy Folk or the Tuatha Dé Danann, they brought with them four treasures that they collected: a spear, a standing stone, a cauldron and a sword, all magical objects that aided in their lives and conquest.

The Lia Fáil, the Stone of Destiny, belonged to Inis Fáil, known today as Ireland, and was the coronation site for many High Kings of Ireland which is located today in Teamhair (Tara) in Co. Meath. Magically, it would make a loud sound when the chosen High King would stand beside it, when a furious Cú Chulainn struck the stone, it has never made a sound since.

The Gáe Assail, the Spear of Assail, otherwise known as the Spear of Lugh, was a deadly force, enchanted with "Ibar" that made the spear always hit its target, and "Athibar" which caused the spear to return to the one who wielded it.

Once belonging to the sea god Manannán Mac Lir, the Fragarach was known as the Sword of Light or Nuada's Torch, it was famously yielded by the first King of the Gods, Nuada Airgetlám. Once it was pulled from the sheath it was as deadly as can be.

The great god of the Tuatha Dé, the Dagda, carried with him many magical objects, none so helpful as his cauldron, Coire Ansic. It brought satisfaction to those who ate from it and it never ran dry. 

Over on the CR FAQ I saw the list of various proposed names for different branches and ideas in the Celtic Recon sphere. For as long as I can remember I've called myself a Gaelic Reconstructionist Polytheist but it's so thick on the tongue and I've noticed it seems to confuse people a lot despite quite literally explaining itself. They also seem to take me less seriously, though that may be a more overarching view of Pagans and Polytheists. More than anything I wanted to know if I should avoid the use of any particular group because of dangerous/bigoted behavior, specific practices associated I wouldn't use, or a more neopagan framework? Alternatively, is there a way to fashion my own if nothing really works or would that be frowned upon?

A warm Imbolc to all, by the way!

- Rory

I upgraded my shrine for Brig and baked a new kind bread in honor of her. Have a blessed Imbolc everyone