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It's Freyasday, here's your #FridayPaganPoll:

The concept of a "year and a day" study to convert to paganism was started by the Wiccans as a way for initiates to experience each holiday in the Wheel of the Year before becoming official. Now, many other pagans do the same thing to build experience with the lunar and solar cycles, either on their own or in a group.

Did you undertake a "year and a day" or similar study?

#Pagan #Witch #Druid #Heathen

Hi! I just joined, and while I figure this out, let me tell you a bit about me.

I'm a maker of dolls inspired by nature, folklore, labyrints of myth, mind and magic. My dolls are mostly witches, and when they leave my home, they often become altar dolls. It's been a weird and interesting journey of doll making for the past 7 years, 600+ dolls now live in homes and collections around the world.

Besides crafting dolls I'm into permaculture, paganism, self-sufficiency, foraging and neverending self-development. I'm a forest dweller, mushroom hunter, food grower and herb lover deep in the countryside in Latvia (North-Eastern Europe). All of that I might occasionally share here. I would love to connect with like-minded people, so, if you're here, say 'hi'! I hope you are somewhere here...

#introduction #permaculture #dollmaker #crafter #pagan #folklore #mythology #forest #herbs #mushrooms #countryside

Thank Goddess, it's Friday! Here's the #FridayPaganPoll this week:

Was memorizing lists of correspondences part of your initial pagan learning?

(For clarification, I'm talking about lists of candle color meanings, herb uses, gemstones, etc.)

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#dailyhandwriting 23, Are you a cat person or a dog person?

I am a familiar person, and adore it when kindred spirits transcend species designation, regardless of fur, scales, or feathers.

So, I've written a little ode to familiars instead.

#witch #fedicoven #handwriting #pagan #fountainpen #poetry #spellcraft

It's Freyasday! Here's your #FridayPaganPoll for this week:

Do you pray?

(For the purposes of this poll, a prayer is a spoken/thought plea or expression of gratitude toward a diety.)

#Pagan #Witch #Polytheist

Hail Freya, it's Friday! Time for a #FridayPaganPoll:

Where did you first hear about Paganism as an actual modern religion?

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The first Hellenic Polytheist Temple in 1700 Years opens last week in Greece and was met with both religious and governmental pushback.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/03/first-hellenic-polytheist-temple-in-1700-years-is-open-and-encounters-aggressions.html

#hellenic #polytheisttemple #polytheist #kalliani #greece #manolisheliotis #pan #ReligiousDiscrimination #supremenecouncilofethnichellenes #ysee #zeus #pagan

Witches & that sort,
You're invited to a social justice hexing discord server.
If adding pictures, please add descriptions. I generally write out the description in the post body.
There is no three fold law, karma, & that sort in this discord so please note, it might not be the place for you & your practice. Everyone is welcome. No trash talk, no criticizing practices, don't claim to be something you aren't.

Read the rules & leave an emoji.
#Witch #Witchcraft #pagan
https://discord.gg/sZtdFh9QBq

Today in Labor History March 9, 1902: Actor Will Geer was born. Best known for his role as Grandpa Walton in the long-running series, “The Waltons,” Geer also appeared in the groundbreaking film, “Salt of the Earth,” which portrayed the struggle of Mexican American workers at the Empire Zinc Mine. Because of his activism on labor and political issues, he was blacklisted in Hollywood for many years. In 1934, he became a member of the Communist Party. He also met LGBTQ activist Harry Hay that year and they became lovers. Together, they supported the 1934 San Francisco General Strike and demonstrated against fascism and for workers’ rights. Hay was a co-founder of the Mattachine Society, the first major gay rights group in the United States, and the Radical Faeries, an anarcho-pagan queer spiritual-political movement.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #communism #lgbtq #sanfrancisco #generalstrike #antifascism #blacklist #radicalfaeries #anarchism #pagan #mattachine

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/

#pagan #paganism #witch #witchcraft #Tarot #divination

#TomCox #pagan #Britain #future #prediction

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).

#paganism #pagan #mythology #fantasy

13 Now the same videos, on #Spectra #Peertube
6 Winter Sun-Waiting for Spring- Halfway to Equinox #Metenis #Imbolc #Alberta #pagan #Latvian #animist #OldWays #Season

https://spectra.video/w/hJZvoByWb6Sy5wgnEbTVea

7 All links in blog in first post
last YT video, Spectra/Peertube to follow

6 Winter Sun-Waiting for Spring- Halfway to Equinox
#Metenis #Imbolc #Alberta #pagan #Latvian #CrossQuarterDay #SeasonalRhythms #GoOutsideForMe
https://youtube.com/shorts/ktwTVim_udI?feature=share

Hail Freya! Here's my 89th #FridayPaganPoll!

I consider there to be 4 broad categories of Pagans:

*Witch- Eclectic, Wicca, Wheel of the Year, folk magick, god-worship is optional.
*Polytheist- Devotional, religious studies, deity and pantheon worship, prayers and offerings, magick is optional.
*Occultist- Thelema, alchemy, ceremonial magick, trances, summonings, experiments.
*Animist- Nature-worship, seasonal celebration, meditation, spending time outdoors, minimal magick or god-worship.

For this poll, I'm asking, which do you lean most towards? I know, I know, it's difficult, but if you had to pick just one?

#Pagan #Witch #Polytheist #Occultist #Animist

In Norse mythology, the father of the Jötunn, Ymir, was taken apart by the gods, and his body was used to make Midgard. His teeth became mountains, and his head became the dome of the sky.

There are many comparative myths throughout the world where a primordial being is defeated, broken apart, and the universe becomes ordered.

I think even our modern day creation myth, the Big Bang, has echoes of these long-held human truths. An initial high-density entity existing in a void breaks up into pieces, and then the pieces become ordered. We are all made of the resulting star stuff.

#Pagan #Polytheism

Out in the woods this afternoon. Such a peace here, eloquent with the lore that cannot be expressed in words.
#pagan #paganism #norsepagan #heathen #druid #woods #nature #outdoors #trees #peace #writer #writing #germany #europe #countryside

Thank Goddess, it's Freyasday! Here's your #FridayPaganPoll:

You do not need money to practice paganism. There is no virtue in spending less or more on your practice in relation to your means.

That being said, how much have you spent on your current setup?

Take a look at your main working altar, or if you don't have an altar, the main objects you use in your practice, and give a rough estimate of how much you personally paid for all of it. (In your local currency, and gifts don't count)

#Pagan #Witch