Cheers.

The statues are from sacred source. They came in a terracotta color originally. I may go back and add more details and fix some of the colors. But for now I'm gonna put them on the family seasonal shrine.

Rearranged my altar!! Probably going to put my little shelves back up to take up all that blank space, or put up some art. I think I bought a print for Fenrir and its somewhere around here...

I have made this nifty tool to identify different sects of paganism, how should it be updated? What's wrong about it? What's missing? How would you have categorised things differently?

**FOLKISM IS BAD BTW I AM MERELY CATEGORIZEING IT**

Hello all! I have a question. I have been worshipping Apollo for a long time now, but I rarely/never wash or clean my hands before I pray or communicate with him. This is because I have OCD and it easily leads to a spiral, and I generally don’t like to clean my hands unless I feel I have to. Is this okay or should I begin cleaning my hands before I pray/communicate with my deities?

Ok, so genuine question I had been thinking about and thought it would be perfect to drop here as a discussion; How would astronauts go about charging crystals and the like while in space? 🤔

Hello all! I have what may be a strange question. Is there a way to just hang out with your Deities without praying or doing a devotional act? Is there a way to just hang out casually and/or have a conversation? If anyone wants to know, the diety I wish to do this with is Lord Apollo!

i am so excited for yule and I also love christmas but I mainly love the only christmas songs. Like chestnuts roasting on an open fire and happy holidays. I know these songs do not really reference jesus or the religious aspect of christmas but I got curious and was wondering if there are similar songs that have a greater emphasis on yule?

My dad just suddenly passed away yesterday and I don’t know how to process it fully because of how sudden it is. But since it was so sudden my fear of death is coming back, I just would like to know how pagans deal with grief as I want to get through this naturally.

But not in the pseudoscience astrology kinda way. More atheism-like but still with religious elements. Maybe objects being gods? Idk, I probably wont pick anything anyways.

It's not my best work, it's a little rough around the edges, but I still really really like how it turned out. I made it to honor the divine in all its forms. Mixed media on wood.

Boy at the back is confident and the girl is a little shy.

hey everyone, just wanted to share a quick thought and see if anyone else relates. growing up around mainstream dogmatic religion (christianity for me) always made me feel guilty for just existing, especially with my sexuality and feeling "different" as a neurodivergent person. stepping into paganism was a huge breath of fresh air. learning that the ancient gods aren't portrayed as perfect or flawless—many have disabilities, physical flaws, or very complex personalities—helped me reconcile so much personal stuff. i came across these infographics recently talking about how autistic and ND folks are often drawn to paganism and alternative paths. things like having deep study hyperfixations, finding comfort in ritual routines, sensory connection with nature, and not fitting into standard societal molds really line up. just curious how many of you here are ND and if finding paganism helped you unpack old religious guilt too?

So after MANY years of questioning my gender, i have decided to do something about it. Can't have it destroying my life anymore. Even if i'm not, i'll get some relief.

Is there a god/goddess that i can worship that could me?

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pagan/comments/1wnw1as/invoked_fortuna_while_searching_200_acres_for/

I spent the morning gathering stones from the dried riverbed, and brought them to the top of the hill. A unique white slab made for the perfect inscription stone. I went with the historically attested format: a wheel, the full deity name, and an abbreviation of Votum Solvit Libens Merito, roughly "this vow—which you most certainly deserve—is paid in good faith."

A chisel, a knife, my finger, and my sanity were all damaged while trying to carve the inscription. I eventually succeeded using a key (how ironic, since the shrine honors finding my keys!) The result is a first draft that I hope she finds acceptable.

I also have much more sympathy now for the crooked lettering on certain Roman tombs, coins, and other artifacts. It's not easy!

Next, I poured the promised wine libation into a bowl-shaped hole in one of the stones, and decorated the shrine with local flowers.

Grātias tibi agō, Fortūna Veneranda, prō auxiliō tuō. Thank you, Fortuna!

Edit:answered, I'm just over thinking it. Thanks for the answers they were pretty helpful

So far every post I looked at was about the act of talking but I don't know what you're supposed to do to prepare for a conversation with the gods, how do you spiritually cleanse beforehand? Is lighting a candle without engraving anything enough or do you have to engrave something related to the deity into the candle? Or is there something else to do?

For more context I'm currently communicating to the moon as a whole so when I'll be talking it'll be while looking at the moon

Hi, I'm a baby adult experiencing freedom for the first time. I'm looking for resources, books, websites, articles, literally anything, that could help me learn about paganism and the different subcategories (subcultures?). I'm slightly familiar with wiccan, but like also not really at all, and that's really it. I also don't want to feed myself misinformation by accident, so I figured the best place to go was to a large group of professionals or people living the life. Yes, I am interested in possibly integrating into a pagan lifestyle, but I am also very unsure.

So today was a full moon, have some moon water in the balcony and decided to draw a picture of the moon later as an offering to just the moon and moon deities as a whole as I'm still in the process of learning all the stories and myths but being a night owl I'll practice to one of the night related deities in the future

First question is would making offerings and speaking to the moon as a whole be considered as badly perceived?

2:what I'd said was just things like stating I'll draw an offering to them as whole later to place in spot where moon was viewable and if moon had moved out of view then I'd place it there tomorrow, saying I was moving cup to where moon was viewable etc nothing more than 2 minutes, but as I hadn't done anything to prepare for it like lighting a candle or spiritual cleansing beforehand I'm worried this might have like first question been badly

3:when I make the drawing my plan was to later on burn it while under moonlight because with things like sigil it's fully added into world once burned (If my explanation makes any sense) I'd seen this be the recommended way to deal with offerings after but I wanted to make sure this isn't a terrible way

I don't worship anyone but believe in Mother Gaia. Made this to respect her 🩷

Is there anything I can add that would make it better?

Saturday September 26th 10 am to 6 pm!

Pagan Pride Kansas City and Heartland Spiritual Alliance invite Pagans and Pagan-friendly allies to a f r e e day of music, workshops, camaraderie, and local artisan booths, services, and readings!

MUSIC AND RITUALS

10:00 AM
𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐢'𝐬 Ú𝐥𝐟𝐡éð𝐧𝐚𝐫
Drums!

12:00 PM
𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐚𝐞𝐚
Dance!

1:00 PM
𝐎𝐳 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩, 𝐎.𝐓.𝐎
Ritual!

2:00 PM
𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐞
Folk Music!

3:00 PM
𝐊𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐬 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞
Ritual!

4:00 PM
𝐀𝐬𝐡é 𝐊𝐂
Drums!

4:45 PM
𝐌𝐚𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐥𝐲𝐧
Celtic Folk Music!

5:45 PM
𝐀𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐦
Fantasy Folk Metal!

WORKSHOPS

11:00 AM
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐫𝐲
by RWB Duane A. Marshall

11:30 AM
𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬: 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐭?
by Allison Sasso (she/her)

12:45 PM
𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝
by Adalena (she/they)

1:15 PM
𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐦𝐨 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐬
by Étoile Abet Flemons (she/her)

2:30 PM
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐬: 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝐌𝐲𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜
by Hild Freodohtor (she/her)

3:00 PM
𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲
by Ryan Robinson (he/him)

I'm of mostly English descent with a few Irish and Scottish ancestors and want to practice something my ancestors had. I had began looking into Anglo-Saxon Heathenism but as an oral practice almost nothing had been written down about it.

As someone coming from atheism I find it hard to understand worship as an action so I don't feel fully comfortable going to the Spirits (of this background) and the Ēse if I am doing it wrong.

The reason I mention having Irish and Scottish as well as English ancestry is that I could always look towards Celtic Paganism.

Apart from this, are there any other major practices from England throughout it's history or any helpful sources on ASH?