So I went to Chattanooga for a girls trip.
Three days of fun with my cousins for our collective 30th birthday.

One of the stops we took was to McKays, and while I’m looking through the shelves of the witchcraft and occult books, I happen to notice a couple at the end of the isle.
The young man wearing a shirt with Hecate’s wheel on it.

I happened to find a book on Hecate and had it in my hand (I believe it was Hecate’s Cave or something of the sort)
I struck up conversation, asking if they were also practitioners.

We had a nice chat, they both admitted that they were new to the practice and wanted to learn more.
Living in Alabama, they struggled finding information and other people who believed in witchcraft.

I just smiled, and handed him the Hecate book, pointing out that she may already be on his side.
I also ended up finding them a copy of Cunningham’s book on Wicca (explaining that while Wicca has its own set of beliefs, the book is a great reference point for beginners)
As well as a book on Celtic mythology and folk magic, as I had a feeling that one of them might appreciate it.
His girlfriend was part Irish

I finished my little guide by telling them that Magic is personal and that it ultimately will be entirely unique to them.
That they don’t need the fancy crystals and wands and all the things people associate with a “real witch”

“Use what you have. That’s ultimately up to what you feel will guide your magic.”

And then I left with my own haul and they stayed in that isle to see what else called to them.

I hope they’ll be ok.
I hope their journey will be fruitful

Just the title. I’m a beginner so apologies if this is not an appropriate question (or is wrong).

I have Russian and Danish ancestry, I've always wanted to get pagan tattoos to express it. I've already gotten some Elder Futhark runes for the danish side, but Im lost on what I can use for the Slavic side.

I can't use Cyrillic writing as that was soley created under Christianity, but I dont trust any online claims for what was 100% slavic pagan runes or symbols , plus some of the traditional ones could look very ..... problematic. Are there any proven Slavic Pagan symbols that dont look similar to a swastika?

I understand that I shouldn't care what people think but I feel like even though its not a nazi swastika , anything that looks similar would raise some eyebrows.

I feel like we don’t have a one set word

It’s either European Folk Beliefs, Ancient Religions that Predate Christianity, Non-Abrahamic Religions, or Worshipping the Devil.

But what is the true Meaning?

I’m channeling Mother Earth this year as my pregnancy lines up well with Lammas. I’ll be 38 weeks and some change. There’s no local festivals unfortunately, but I’m looking for a way to connect. My baby boy’s middle name will be Lugh btw.

Norwegian here. I read in the news that a rock containing petroglyphs (inscriptions rougly 3000 years old) had been painted over with various new messages.

As a ancestor venerator, this is a tradgedy. Not only because this might have had some semi-religious function in the past, but merely because it is an artifact linking us to the experiences of our ancestors. It is holy.

No one has any idea who or why. What where they trying to get out of this?

Could this be one of us? (As in; a pagan?)

I do not glorify paganism and belove there totally could be someobe pagan out there dumb enoug to do this. Text from the photos was unclear, but says something about "love everyone". (A message I do not contentd)

The runes say F BOGT VHZRS I S A

This is all quite absurd and I cant wrap my head around it

Hey guys We are starting a new project because I noticed that there is a huge lack of materials for Tweens (pre-teens) in Pagan spaces. There's a decent amount of young kids stuff but nothing for that phase and media and things for this phase have been disappearing in general so I'd love suggestions for things that you enjoyed at that age (duct tape wallets, magazine quizzes, etc...).

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To make a long story short, I was very close with Lord Loki and Lord Apollon. I’ve been fighting cancer for three years, and for the first half of that, I was very spiritual and had faith that along with the help of modern medicine, they (primarily Apollon) would keep me safe. Then, my cancer relapsed, bringing my chance of survival down to about 15% I believe. I had never felt so abandoned. I took a break from my practice and picked it up again recently. I’m in remission now, but my anxiety about it coming back is at an all time high, because if it comes back again, I will die.

I want to have that connection to the gods that I used to have. I miss it so much. I’m just on here to ask for some advice. Thank you.

hi, I used to be a hellenic polytheist. I was a worshipper of lady Athena.

But, I quit worshipping her. I cleaned up my altar without telling her btw. I still don't know why I did it exactly, probably because of my ego, I guess(I tend to throw away everything about X once I quit or lose interest in X.).

SO I DENIED the deities like a DUMBASS. I shouldn't do that even if I quit... I don't know If it's okay to worship her again 😭😭 BC I've heard it's a big sin that deny or mocking god(s) in most religions. I'm most worried about 'Will lady Athena accept(or forgive) me again?'.

Please&Thank you for your answer/opinion

real question for the future, would any deities actually be interested in rocks? I got some real pretty ones, I’m tryn to work with Hypnos rn but idk if he’d like any of em, I thought they were pretty either way

They are everywhere on in Versailles. In fact, I don’t think God had a prominent influence other than the Chapel in Versailles. Specifically, Apollo got a lot of attention.

I am a devoted hindu, so recently i got to know we have so much similarities with european and persian polytheism. We hindu have so much religious text that we can have a library only for our holy text.

So what are the religious books or text of polytheist pagan religions?

So I'm curious on working with goddesses in witchcraft like Athena and Aphrodite even Hekate. First, is it okay if I respectfully work with them asking for guidance giving them offerings and such and if so does it learn towards a religion or can I just be a loving curious devotee? Secondly is it okay with work with them at the same time, not for the same reason or anything but if I worship Aphrodite does that mean Athena won't want to work with me? Lastly will this clash with my practices already? I'm a Pantheist witch I consider to see nature and everything in the universe as one in the same divine creation and that mother nature/the universe is God, does this in any way clash and contradict?

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I heard Mahayana was a good option but I would like to heard alternatives.

So I recently moved to a new place and currently unpacking things and what not and I have come to face a problem:

I don’t know how I’m going to set up my altars for the gods.

In my previous place, I had my altars on my shelves, but I would very much want to use those shelves for books cus I have lots of them and less shelving now compared to the previous apartment.

I was even debating if I should have them up at all to save space but with how important the gods are to me, it felt wrong to have them away.

So .. any recommendations or advice on this??

Since like, the dawn of literacy, the writren word has been used as a magic tool. Egyptian magic scrolls, bible amulets, cursw tablets, the like. What's your view? Do the script and language matter? Do you use the written word for ritual?

Hi there! I'm an eclectic folk witch looking for advice on symbolism, iconography as I'm making my own logography / symbet

I'm here because a lot of my region grew in traditional paganism and a mix of folk magicks, so source a lot of my knowledge

I was hoping if anyone could help me figure out how I would sigilise concepts like materials, as I use traditional pagan element sigils

Things like; wood, metal, crystal or states of matter like liquid, gas (>~) and solid (□/■)

As a large part of my system is used to record spells, recipes or acts through combined patterns

If anyone has, uses or is otherwise inspired, please, let me know or discuss below any suggestions or reading 😊

Hoping to find a nice balance where the material connects with elements, my current description works best with earthly material like metal and wood, using a dividing line to describe if found above or below the element and a curve to show it's interaction with others (wood; earth, line up from grounding line, curve connecting water & air but avoiding fire peak etc) but its not a foolproof system so I'd like other opinions please!) 😇 many thanks to all!

I'm starting the process of planning a full-back magical seal that acts not only as a complex, personal art piece but also as a protection seal against malicious magic, to amplify and send it back to its original caster. Does anyone have access to resources outlining specific symbols, spell/circle geometry, etc.? I predominantly have worked within the universalist Norse tradition, but am looking to educate myself of other sigils & glyphs of power.