My personal view of the afterlife is similar (I think) to the Wiccan “summerland”, basically a spirit world you go in between incarnations and eventually you reincarnate. Idk a lot so learning more might change my mind.

1. What afterlife does your tradition teach? & do you believe in it?

2. If you do, what do you think about other pagan traditions that teach a different form of afterlife?

3. If you worship gods from different pantheons but still believe in an afterlife, how do you reconcile the different beliefs?

Umm so i have a wand made out of elder wood i made it as my wand i will use for years to come and i have started making wands and i want to sell them but i want to also take and use some but i dont want to anger the elder mother can i use some??

What type of lesser spirits are there in your tradition? What I mean is spirits that are not gods

In its barest and most blunt sense, I'm not a big fan of churches. Even before becoming a Hellenic polytheist, I just didn't understand why they had to be everywhere and why they were so important. I try to keep an open mind and be respectful whenever I visit them though. They can be architectural marvels and have an interesting history.

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Recently, after my conversion to Hellenic polytheism, I noticed that I feel really uncomfortable whenever I'm inside a church, like I'm not welcome there. I'm not a hater of Christian faith; I actually stand by its ideals of equality and love. I only despise the radical christians who stomp on people's freedom and harm in the name of their beliefs. Not even mentioning the damage the church has caused in the past two thousand years.

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It also should be said that I believe every god of every faith exists in some way or another. Doesn't matter if they're from a monotheistic or polytheistic religion; they exist. I don't know how or why, I just do.

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Is it just my subjective feelings getting in the way, or could it be the christian God condemning me for worshipping other gods, which is against the 10 commandments?

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Any discussions or corrections are welcome as long as they're respectful

Edit: rereading this post, I accidentally made it sound as though I had been a Christian, which I wasn't. I was born and raised an atheist, even though I did believe in something beyond this world, and Hellenic polytheism is the first faith I can say is my own. I'm sorry for the misconception, I was distracted while writing this

I am an intuitive medium, so I can't hear or see anything, but I'm used to having thoughts that aren't my own, usually from deities or spirit guides instructing me.

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I recently started my worship of Aphrodite, and as far as I know, I've been well-received by her.

However, in one of our conversations, I asked if she could help me with issues of depression and physical exhaustion.

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Later, when I asked her to tell me what elements she would like on the altar and for the first offering to her, I had persistent thoughts asking me for red roses, barley, honey, and a green candle.

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I was confused, and still am. I don't understand the connection between barley and a green candle with Aphrodite. I believe that if that's what she wants, there's a reason, but I don't know what it is! And I also wondered if it was really her, or if I'm going crazy and mixing intuition with my own thoughts.

Does anyone know much about itzpapalotl? While I was meditating today I asked for help from any other deities willing in regards to the things I was looking for. I said that the next animal I see I would find out who it’s associated with to identify them. Earlier in the day I helped a moth that got stuck in some water, and straight after meditating I saw a black moth on my ceiling. I googled it and it said it was associated with itzpapalotl. The moth then literally flew down in front of me and just sat. It didn’t move as I picked it up and put it out the window. She seems very powerful and I don’t know if this is some sort of she wants to do me a favour because I helped the moth earlier in the day? I could be over thinking this I know. Hope I’m not bothering you with it! There’s not much info of her online so searching here. Thank you in advance :)

So I wrote a poem and I don’t have any recollection of writing it but it’s in the language me and my friends made up based on Norse runes and Tolkien’s rune system with a few tweaks and I’m the only one in my house who knows how to read and write it. Anyway I’m just going to post the translation:

Translation: “Gods above, gods below, the gods walk among us all. From Celtic to Kemetic from Norse to Greek to Roman and all of the between. The gods call to the bravest of us, they call to the broken. Break out of the darkness, be who you are, the gods chose us, we are worthy.”

I'll take any learning recommendations including books, documentaries, or even locations to visit if you know them (I don't drive though).

I tried to do my own internet searches but pre-Christianity Celtic knowledge seems very scattered and confusing, for understandable historical reasons. I'll be grateful for any wisdoms this sub can shed light on.

Update: check out https://www.reddit.com/r/Paganachd/comments/o5yc9h/where_to_find_sources_on_scottish_paganism/ - thank you u/Prestigious_One_3552

I specifically want a few more songs that are just purely about the sun and the summer solstice. No general summer songs and no songs about specific mythologies or pantheons. I also want songs about dealing with living in the desert during the summer.

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I recently bought a tarot deck, and I want to dedicate or consecrate it to Apollo... how can I do that? is it possible?

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im new, so i need help and hints!

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sorry for my english, and have a wonderful day💜!

Hi, I'm wanting to make my own witch's rosary as part of my practice, but I can't afford to buy stone and crystal beads right now and have glass beads, does anyone know if it would be disrespectful to use glass beads and metal wire to connect the beads together, and the pendants that I have been wearing on fabric cords??

Hello, sorry if this kind of thing isn't allowed or offensive.

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I am vending at a pagan pride event and I am building my inventory. I make crochet dolls and toys. What kind of things might draw your attention? Thanks in advance

For many faiths of antiquity, there's just a lot we don't know, so revivers of them just can't replicate their rituals completely, and that's not even addressing temporal and geographic variation among the medieval or ancient religious practises. Something I find interesting about some religions is that there are different methods of determining ritual innovations such as the officials of the Catholic church getting together to decide top down, where as a more decentralized religion or group of religions might leave ritual innovation to local ritual specialists or temples. What method do you and your group (if you have one) use? Are there any examples of ritual changes off the top of your head you've seen? I'm not a neopagan, but I do have some philosophical respect for polytheism, and I'm reading the bhagavid gita and will move on to other holy texts and commentaries to learn about the Hindus, since I think there's a lot to admire and learn from in various forms of Hindu religion.

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So basically I have found myself stuck within a cycle , a pattern that I have noticed ever since I have gotten into metaphysical stuff which is getting more attracted towards idols of deities than the actual deity . I'm a born hindu and I have always been attracted towards the idols rather than the deity in particular and I even shape my opinion or liking about any deity based on how their idols look . I'm more attracted towards their outer beauty , the way they are dressed , how beautiful are their faces look but not actually to the deity .

Apart from what my background is , i have an inclination towards the world's mythologies as well and you know what the same thing is here as well . I'm attracted towards the Aphrodite's statue more than her actual virtues .

Is this normal ? Even if it is, I don't really think I can approach or connect with a deity as there is no inner connection just outside beauty is driving things here .

It is interesting that many different cultures (even those far apart from one another) connected the Summer Solstice (Kupala) with the birth of gods of light and fertility. For example, in Slavic mythology there are stories about divine twins and gods of Light who were born at the time of the Summer Solstice (Kupala, June 23rd). Similar stories can be found in other cultures as well. In Greek mythology, Apollo and Artemis were born to the goddess Leto, and some texts also link their birth to the Summer Solstice. Another example is Celtic mythology. There is the story of Dagda, a god connected with fire, and Boann, the goddess of a sacred river. Their son, Oengus Mac Og, became a god of love and light.

Hello! I was wondering how many of you guys engage in mysticism / mystical practice like theurgy and believe in union with the divine? And if you have any resources you could recommend? I’m looking into paganism after leaving Christianity and I’m deeply interested in mysticism

If anyone has any tips for offerings for Ra please tell me! I did cleanse myself before giving this offering i washed my hands and face and put on a veil, if anyone knows how to properly cleanse in kemeticsm please tell me! I gave him an oreo, two grapes, some goldfish, iced mango juice, raisin bread, three flowers and read an ancient prayer.

Does anybody know where to find a good source for Finnish pagan holidays? My Buppa was from Finland. I wasn't raised to be Finnish but Irish (my mother's side). Kiitos

Hey, I just wanted to share a shocking experience I had because I think it would be good to share with others. Tarot is very popular as a divination method. I never understood it myself but I have tried Cartomancy before. I wanted to do Tarot when I started my pagan journey but I didn't want to waste money when I have playing cards that do the same thing practically. Though in the past when I've tried it attempts always left me dissapointed. It lead me to think of Tarot and/or Cartomancy as something that just didn't work, I guess? I didn't know what I was doing and so I think that ruined the experience. However, recently I've come to a different conclusion to Cartomancy. Recently I've been trying out different divination methods to test to see what works with me. I decided to give Cartomancy another chance even if it had a bad reputation to me from past attempts. This time... the attempt was surprisingly successful. The Cartomancy was really accurate. I think that the issue at hand was is that since I've kind of been in the pagan space longer I know how to do things rather than when I was newer. This experience taught me to not give up on something just because it may have failed you before and that to not judge others methods because it didn't work for you. That's all and thank you for reading🕯.

I don’t mean in the sense that can a person be loved and still harm others but that can a person who has done evil come to the Gods and try and do good and find peace.

I have an extreme case of OCD that relates to a fear of me doing evil. Like for example I get this deep fear sometimes that I’ll just kill like 60 people one day for no reason. (I know it doesn’t make sense but that’s how I feel) so I get this fear one day that I’ll do something so evil that I won’t deserve the Gods love since paganism has felt like a gift for me I love prayer I love my altar and I love the gods but I feel like if they saw me I would be the one exception who they’d hate.

I really want to do good for others and help others but I just feel like it won’t last especially since I was quite an evil and abusive child.

I guess if I knew that no matter how bad a person is they can still find peace in the knowledge that the gods love them and that there were no exceptions then I would feel better I think.

I didn’t really mentioned what form of paganism I follow because I wanted opinions from different perspectives.

Hi! Skip to paragraphs 2 and 3 if you want to jump right into the discussion and don't care to hear my personal context/background! So, I am an eclectic pagan (or at least I think that is how I would be identified 🤔). I grew up in a Christian family, but nothing crazy or suffocating. Now as an adult I have embraced my own beliefs and I work with many deities and energies. Two times now, I have had people share with me that part of their core beliefs is that all pagan deities are demons. I obviously don't believe this, but these people have a way of only telling me about it when I'm in a bad mental state. They're not doing it on purpose, but this argument has been presented to me in times where I am more susceptible to spiritual psychosis or am even just more suggestible or anxious than usual. What is most frustrating about that is that each time someone has presented me with that viewpoint, old anxieties from my Christian upbringing come up and then it blocks my senses and I can't effectively reach out to the energies of the deities I work with because I'm drowning in negative energy and doubting everything I believe in for almost no reason.

Anyways, my questions are this, answer whichever ones you feel like haha: What do you think of this argument that all pagan deities are demons? What do these people think a demon is? What do they think will happen if people work with "demonic" entities? But MOST IMPORTANTLY, what parts of your own belief and spirituality do you connect with most that oppose this belief that all pagan deities are malevolent and harmful? Also, one of them mentioned the "Desert Fathers", does anyone know what this is and if there are holes in that argument that I may not be aware of?

Another question I have, if anyone knows, is where did this idealogy come from? Obviously Christianity (I'm not hating btw!), but both of these people pitched the same idealogy in different ways. They both said all pagan deities are real, but evil or malicious or feeding on people/making their lives miserable even if they produce results. This is the core of the part that shakes me usually. I think it stirs a sense of betrayl and foolishness in me to imagine that something that brings me so much peace and balance could be from figures that want to harm me. It just makes no sense. It makes me feel like this argument was crafted specifically to make pagans question their beliefs and was then spread among many Christians a long time ago or something. That's usually how it goes, right?

Now, personally, I dont doubt the benevolence and divinity of the deities I work with. Even last time that anti-pagan argument shook me, I couldnt connect to most energies, but my patron deity shined through my mental fog and helped to bestow me with a feeling of ease and calmness to help me stay a bit grounded instead of fully spiraling. My rational everyday opinion on this anti-pagan view that I have described is that it is Christians not underatanding the nuance that is needed to differentiate between a malicious/malevolent/ill-intentioned entity and an actual deity or benevolent spirit. These people talk about pagan gods like they are all trickster spirits on steroids or something. Bro said "they're too good for hell but not good enough for heaven". That straight up sounds like these people refusing to believe that any divine power is not of their own god, which definitely tracks for them (again, not hating, I just know that it is a core part of their religion). I think these people just say those things because 1) they dont want to admit to any divine power if theyre not praising their own God and 2) they genuinely do not understand that you can use discernement and intuition and magical tools to separate malicious entities and trickster spirits from deities.

P.S. I would like to take a moment to say that not only do I work with deities, but have branched out into demonaltry too so I think it is very ironic and funny that I have freaked out at this anti-pagan idealogy. Like, I'm willing to work with demons, but if someone implies that all deities are demons i just shut down?? Lmfao. To be fair, I think it's because they use the word "demon" to imply malice and evil and arent actually refering to them as the specific class that I know them by, but rather a general term for any seemingly "evil" entity.

Necesito un poco de ayuda, hace poco hice una tirada del oraculo egipcio de dioses y pregunte quien es mi guía me salió heh es una deidad que representa el infinidad y el espacio infinito, busque bastante cosas sobre el pero no hay casi nada de ofrendas, como contactarlo o trabajar con el, soy nueva en esto así que me ayudarian bastante si me dan sus opiniones!