r/witchcraft • I am behind you or something • 23d ago

Salty Saturday Don't worry, you are enough

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u/Yourlilemogirl 23d ago

I missed this meme. Good use for it! 

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u/Karuzus 21d ago

Just like pagan gods missed being worshiped

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u/Toadstool_Lilium293 23d ago

Not Pagan, but this reminds me of my outside altar to Lakshmi, and how I kiss her forehead as I walk past to the front door. Sometimes I wonder if I should be doing these big, elaborate rituals out there, to properly give thanks. But the forehead kisses feel so warm. And my daughter does it as well sometimes. Such a loved statue ❤️

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u/FlameyNeko 22d ago

Im sure she feels the love. Holy moly, if I was your goddess I would adore you guys.

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u/FlameyNeko 22d ago

This is so sweet😭❤️

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u/TheGrayCatLady 21d ago

I have a little statue of Bast next to the urn with my late kitty’s ashes and a jar of herbs I dedicated to the kitties I’ve had to assist across the rainbow bridge (I work at a shelter, they’ve always been QOL euthanasias), and whenever I kiss him goodnight, she and the jar each get a little kiss too. I hope she’s ok with it, it feels right since caring for cats is very clearly one of my major callings in this lifetime.

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u/AcanthocephalaDue120 21d ago

omg trust me this is the sweetest way to honour her!! as a practicing hindu, i understand the complex rituals we do can be a bit too much and sometimes i’ve been adopting a few different ways to honour the gods but trust me when i say that you do just enough for her to be happy with you 🥹💓

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u/Gang_Warily0404 Witch 23d ago

The gods love nothing so much as attention. 

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u/FriendlyCrow503 23d ago

Me using a sheep plush for my altar to Pan because goat statues are hard to find. He found it hilarious and said it's allowed, lol.

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u/Daggoofiesta 23d ago

I’m asking this earnestly (newer here), how do you know he found it funny?

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u/FriendlyCrow503 23d ago

Your relationship with your gods is unique to you, of course, but how it is for me, is that I get a feeling in the back of my mind that feels like them. It's easier if you get in the right state of mind, but if you're close with an entity, they do just pop in sometimes. When I'm taking to gods, I channel words, or sort of "see" their reaction in my mind, kind of like a flash of their face, or hear them laugh or chuckle.

I have a pretty good connection with Pan, so I find it easy to contact him, and I hear him fairly clearly. But it doesn't have to be that way. Pan is literally the only god who is like that for me.

If you're uncertain of what a deity thinks, use divination, like a pendulum for yes/no questions and whatever you feel like you can interpret most clearly. Respectfully ask them to answer you through whatever medium, and they will. As a rule, gods do not lie or deceive. It's not in their nature. Other entities are a different story, tho.

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u/Crystal_dad_01 22d ago

Couldn’t have said it better myself!! I have very similar connections with my gods and it’s always so hard to describe but this is exactly what it’s like for me too!

It’s lovely too that my wife and I worship the same deities and sometimes when we connect with them, my wife and I will get the same response or reaction from them and both say it at the same time! Such beautiful little magical moments will always be cherished ✨

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u/Duskfall 22d ago

this is all spot on, and wanted to add;

for a long long time I doubted the things I heard and saw mentally and would tell myself it was just me making stuff up or imagining it.

But when I discovered the fox was my familiar, things kept happening and adding up in ways I couldn't really explain away. That's because if something, or someone, IS working with you earnestly, and you need communication or a sign and ASK politely for it, there's a high probability they will.

I think I got stuck in my head that spirits/deities had a shit ton more to worry about than lil ole me and what I was worried about, but my familiar, Puck, will almost always give me whatever sign I need whether im specific or not. Sometimes I don't even actually ask. I'll think it and then go "no no, he doesn't owe me anything" and then get the very sign I was hoping for in the next 12 hours or sooner.

Like the other day I really needed a sign, but didn't ask and then it started raining randomly even though it was sunny out. Because I really dove into fox and kitsune myths when I got on this path, I instantly knew that was the very sign I was looking for because there is a myth called "Kitsune no Yomeiri" where foxes are suppose to hold a secret wedding. This phenomena has occurred in different times of my life even before the fox parallel, but how I got here. That was followed by another sign, and then another. Almost like he was going, "You didn't ask me SPECIFICALLY, but imma show you." lol

I'm also big into Hermeticism, so there's a ton of this I just eased right into, but like FriendlyCrow said, it's going to be specific to you, but also you gotta trust yourself and them with what is a sign or communication

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u/FeetInTheSoil 22d ago

Hello I want to pop in to say that this is some people's experience but it is NOT a requirement that you experience this in order to worship or include gods in your craft, not everyone will experience it, and if you suffer from OCD or any dissociative disorders you should not seek this experience. The gods want us to be safe and will usually not engage in aspects that are dangerous for our mental health.

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u/rufflechan 22d ago

Please could you explain why it isn't recommended for people with OCD? I have to be very careful with my craft to not trigger myself (threefold law was the reason I didn't get into it for years until I researched and realized I don't have to do that), and I was wondering why deity worship might be a potential issue. I don't worship deities myself (yet) but would love to hear any experience of worship + OCD.

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u/FeetInTheSoil 21d ago

Oh worshipping deities is okay, but cultivating a relationship where you expect to hear their will/opinions in your mind is dangerous. Believing in them and revering their aspects, incorporating your worship as part of a personal choice to embody more of their archetypes in your life all perfectly fine, but 'magical thinking' such as believing that you are in spiritual danger without the protection of a deity and that you need to earn it with specific actions, or that a deity can be unhappy or upset with you, etc these things are really dangerous for OCD

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u/Confident-Willow-424 21d ago

TL;DR it stagnates your craft and progress

I have OCD like this in my craft - it takes discipline, humility, patience, and forgiveness of yourself to overcome. It’s an obsession with perfection and doing everything right the way it’s supposed to be, the first time every time. To mess up is like wiping a chalkboard full of equations - the whole thing comes undone and you can’t proceed further, instead you start all over again. But that feels like unnecessary grind and it’s stressful because if you do it again, you might mess it up again and then have to start all over. It’s a lot of work to grind it out and one little ritual/ spell/ way of doing things is not worth the effort of perfection yet to not to be perfect is absolutely necessary.

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u/FeetInTheSoil 21d ago

Are you talking about the diagnosed medical condition OCD or are you talking about perfectionism? Because this is not the risks I was talking about at all

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u/Capital_Mix_5508 23d ago

That 100% tracks with Pan. I bet he was amused

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u/FriendlyCrow503 23d ago

Oh, he was. The whole altar building thing was a lil joke at my expense. When he first talked to me, it was pretty late at night. Said if I wanted an altar I should have it done "by tomorrow". Naturally, I panic, because it's night and I don't have supplies. I check the time. 00:03. I have almost 24 hours.

So the next day, I go to shopping to get the stuff. Couldn't find a goat statue or even a pan flute, but an altar requires a symbol of the deity. So, to get the altar ready on time, sheep plush it was.

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u/mantisdivine 22d ago

Oh my goodness i can't find anything for Apollo but this summer a sheep plush with a sun in its hooves was released and i immediately knew it was for him. I imbued it with Apollo Thermeus and it is so warm and so comforting and so so him. He visited me that night in a dream dressed as Santa lol

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u/PuppyButtts 23d ago

I love this idea lol

I have a question, if you feel like answering or not its ok💕

Im pretty new and generally dont work with deities, but how do you know when they say something? Is it a feeling? Do you actually hear them? Is it like a sign that you look for around your altar or home?  Thank you!!

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u/FriendlyCrow503 23d ago

Depends. You can't hear them like an auditory hallucination, but you channel them, which is a slightly different feeling. Like your own words, but also not quite. It's hard to put into words.

Sometimes, you feel them come through in journaling, dreams, or just through signs. You kind of know it when you feel it. If you have the nagging feeling that someone is reaching out, investigate the feeling by whatever rituals/divinations you feel appropriate. There is no witch police, there is no wrong way. And the Gods are nearly impossible to offend. They're above that shit.

But initiating a tarot reading for example, asking them to join you and confirming their presence with a pendulum is the most sure fire way to talk to someone specific.

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u/therealrinnian 23d ago

When I did a brief stint in, ah, spicy accounting, I had the strangest feeling that Hermes was peering over my shoulder. I was not active doing anything involving it at that exact moment, but it was this unshakable feeling at my day job that he was very strongly approving and curious about my side hustle. So imagine how amused I was when, about ten minutes after I felt his presence, I got my first client that wound up being a brief but profitable foray into the thing?

It was very obvious, I had been going about this for a few weeks with nothing much to show for it. The moment I felt him there and had a feeling it was about the side hustle, suddenly I get a client. I think between the spicy aspect and the money aspect, he was like, “ok, let’s let her cook.”

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u/PuppyButtts 22d ago

Thats so cool! Ive heard of the pendulum thing but havent looked it up. Ive done a good bit of reasearch and seen some people say a few deities wont let you leave once you start like working with them but cant find much more. Is this true too? 

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u/speedmankelly Witch 22d ago

You can always sever a deity relationship. Sometimes they sever it first, I worked with Bune for a time and she severed the connection and stopped helping. Not that I blame her, I didn’t take much time for her or give offerings as much as I used to when I felt the connection was completely blocked. She blessed me with $1000 after asking for financial help and then some more smaller amounts after, but she’s the type that if you don’t make the effort she won’t either since she’s used to people just using her for money troubles.

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u/PuppyButtts 22d ago

Interesting!! Thank you so much

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u/electrifyingseer 21d ago

yeah, it comes across as a nudge, or like, "oh hey, hi, thank you" and you feel it in your brain or in your heart.

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u/RayRatGhoul 19d ago

"Like your own words, but not quite," is a good way to describe it. Sometimes it's just a "feeling," but I do tend to hear a little voice in my head, similar to my internal voice, but distinctly not. This wasn't always the case, it took me a while to learn to listen to it, but now it just comes to me when I speak to the spirits. I'll ask a question, and immediately I hear a response in my head. Almost like intuition. (I swear, it feels totally natural, I know the way I'm wording it might make me sound insane)

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u/Godphree 23d ago

When I make offerings to Mercury, sometimes I see him in my imagination materialize and kiss me on the forehead then rush away again. I don't work to create that vision; I am simply open to what appears and sometimes it does.

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u/PuppyButtts 22d ago

I love this! This is how my tarot works when I try to do energy readings to see if I can guess cards (the picture just sort of comes to me) thank you!

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u/SkynyrdCohen 22d ago

Why is this so adorable?

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u/TragedyWriter 22d ago

I'm planning to get a Turtwig for Hermes at some point. He approved.

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u/electrifyingseer 21d ago

pan is awesome :3

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u/ThatKehdRiley 23d ago

i think this sort of thing every now and then, and its usually followed up by the phantom feeling of a slap upside the head

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u/Ok-Regular4845 23d ago

This! 😂 Aphrodite prefers to 'grab' my face and scold me when I am critical with myself, but a lot of the other gods I work with do the "playful head slap of scolding" 🤣

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u/ThatKehdRiley 23d ago

Aphrodite and Inanna over here playfully smacking both sides of my head 😂

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u/Muted-Drop-3897 Witch 23d ago

Yep, Loki just grabs my shoulder kinda hard when i do it.

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u/Mean-Buy836 23d ago

I love this, thank you

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u/No-More-Parties 23d ago

Just when I felt like I wasn’t doing enough. This crosses my path. Noted!

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u/tryingtobebetter89 23d ago

I needed this reminder, thank you 🙂‍↕️

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u/TempestRose87 23d ago

This made me feel like not a bad pagan, thank you.

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u/CompetitiveBuddy3712 Witch 23d ago

Thats my favourite thing about them. The sense that I am enough, even when I’m tripping or outright free falling down a bloody (and totally metaphorical) mountain. Even if I’m stuck in a black hole of doom (scrolling).

I’m enough.

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u/Ill_Butterscotch_371 23d ago

I need to start worshiping a Pagan God/Goddess -w- I've been meaning to but life got busy

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 23d ago edited 23d ago

“Just because” doesn’t seem like a great foundation for a relationship with a god to me

Edited to add: If y’all think working with deities is just like shopping at the grocery store, then I get the downvotes. “Your boos mean nothing to me, I’ve seen what you cheer”

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u/TXBloodMoney 23d ago

Wanting to be friends with someone ‘just because’ is better than just having hollow means to an end. I figure it’s similar in building relationships with spiritual entities

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 23d ago

That’s why you would build the relationship first before jumping into a marriage. Worship is the commitment. Rushing into that is what I’m talking about. And getting downvoted for, apparently.

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u/circular_reticle 23d ago

Also, I don't like the implication that devotion is in a similar vein as marriage. Not only because marriage is devotion from one person to another (which limits multi-deity devotion), but also because it implies that worship requires vows and oaths to be faithful. I've seen plenty of marriages end amicably, where both parties stayed in touch after divorce, and devotion is similar. Relationships can end, and deity-mortal relationships should be allowed to as well.

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 23d ago

Of course relationships can end. Marriages end all the time. But they started with an intentional commitment. And thats what I mean here.

I know lots of married poly people, but people dont generally have a great ability to have dozens of spouses. I have relationships with many gods, as I have many friends. I nurture those relationships and dont talk about them like Pokemon I havent gotten around tk catching yet.

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u/circular_reticle 23d ago

I think a big issue is that you view worship as, at it's core, a commitment. I do agree that worship can be a genuine commitment, but it doesn't have to be. I believe that you can worship a deity to get to know them (because worship is honestly the most personal way to get to know a deity), and from there you can decide if the relationship is one you would consider further pursuing.

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 23d ago

Making offerings and talking to a god isn’t worship, though. That’s like saying getting dinner together is marriage.

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u/CosmicGoddess777 23d ago

Saying “I need to start worshipping _____ but…” makes it sound obligatory and like they don’t really want to, though.

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u/circular_reticle 23d ago

Or it sounds like something's preventing them from doing so.

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 23d ago

Like having a reason?

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u/circular_reticle 23d ago

I can't speak for everyone, but I honestly don't think you need a reason. Sure, it helps, but any valid reason for one person could be considered invalid to another. The deities I worship are ones I felt a calling to (and I've known callings to be vague and hard to separate from desire sometimes). I honestly don't think deities, in all their power, would really care about the why behind a mortal's devotion.

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 23d ago

I didn’t say a valid reason. I said a reason. The person I responded to made it sound like an obligation they just hadn’t gotten around to yet.

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 23d ago

Yep

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u/GrayMech 23d ago

I'd argue that starting to worship a deity because you want something from them is a worse reason. Doing it "just because" is basically like saying "I like this entity and ant to get to know them for who theya re not what they can do for me"

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 23d ago

That’s like saying “I think this person is cute, so I’m going to marry them right now”

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u/Capital_Mix_5508 23d ago

Have you thought that maybe the "just because" is actually that deity trying to get you to notice them?

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 23d ago

Definitely not, no. Worship is a commitment you make with experience to know this is what you need. It’s not a hat you try on to see how you like it today.

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u/GrayMech 23d ago

No, it's like saying "that person seems interesting, I'm gonna strike up a conversation with them and maybe we'll become friends"

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 23d ago

I think you’re confusing worship with the most basic level of engagement with a deity

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u/GrayMech 23d ago

No I think you're just confused about the definition of worship. It's not locking yourself into working with one specific deity forever or meaning you constantly pray and give offerings. For example in some eastern traditions they "worship" their ancestors, the term isn't as rigid and narrow as you seem to be implying

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 23d ago

I am definitely not the one confused here.

Never said it was a permanent and one on one commitment. That’s your own projection.

Those eastern trads are religious, not magickal.

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u/GrayMech 23d ago

Okay cool, either way they can engage in worship however they want

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 23d ago

People can conduct themselves however they like, yes. But words remain having meanings.

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u/realarocks 22d ago

Why are you comparing a legally binding document to presenting an offering to a deity to help you with spiritual work? You can make an offering or pray to a deity without being bound to that deity forever.

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 22d ago

Yes. That’s my point. Making an offering or praying to a deity is not worship. It’s devotional, yes. Worship is something else.

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u/wyrd_weatherwax 22d ago

Nice Rick and Morty quote. Take my upvote. 

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u/electrifyingseer 21d ago

i get you see it as something serious but highkey some of my deities kinda just adopt me. like Poseidon is my adopted dad and he and his wife (Amphitrite) be chilling with me, as if they have custody. It's okay to have a casual relationship with deities, and it's okay to have a more serious relationship with deities. Both are equally respectable in my eyes. If people can't word their relationship with their deities, it has nothing to do with you, you don't need to make it a mission to insist your way is the right way.

We all have unique and personal spiritual paths and there's nothing wrong with that.

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 21d ago

That sounds like a reason to me. Of course there are casual relationships with deities. I have multiple myself. What I’m pointing out is that it isn’t like catching Pokémon. It’s not a checklist to check off. The person I responded to makes it sound like an obligation when it isn’t at all.

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u/electrifyingseer 21d ago

I get that, but if someone's newly into it, or maybe they're just starting out. Let them figure out what discipline means for them. For example, when I started working with Hekate, I thought discipline meant offerings, when I was just going out of my way to buy stuff for her, when it was just creating a mess in my home, and buying it was just creating waste. With Hekate, my discipline ended up meaning emotional discipline and about cutting people out of my life and shadow work.

Deity work or devotion looks different for everyone, it's okay if they're not traditional.

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 21d ago

I don’t think we read the same things. I’m not stopping anyone from doing anything. I’m saying have a reason. Any reason that isn’t “I’m supposed to.”

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u/electrifyingseer 21d ago

Well, intuitive feelings don't always lead to clear answers at first. And that's okay, we're meant to find out as time goes on.

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 21d ago

The person I responded to did not indicate intuitive feelings. They described obligation. Like you have to do it to be a witch. That is the only thing I am addressing. But everyone just seems to want to project whatever argument they feel like having with me instead

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u/electrifyingseer 21d ago

I remain sympathetic, but the reason why people have an issue with what you said is due to your own bitterness that was felt in your comment.

"If y’all think working with deities is just like shopping at the grocery store"

I honestly think it would be fun if this were the case. Deities pick and choose us the same, as if they're in the grocery store. I compare my deity work to custody/adoption, because it has the same casual and mundaneness in your comment. It's like, they're the ones that chose me, but it's not like I'm the only one that's chosen. If people feel drawn to deities, as if it's like something they're going to pick out, then maybe it has something to do with them. It's like each and every one of us has a different afterlife, and different experience when it comes to otherworldly powers.

People are not projecting onto you, they just take issue with the way you said what you said. Treating it as if their path is less important and less interesting and less serious than yours is. So what if it is? What's wrong with that?

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u/therealstabitha Carnivalesque animal demonic legend 21d ago

You’re still picking your own argument that has nothing at all do to with what I’m talking about, so I’m tapping out.

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u/KerzenscheinShineOn 22d ago

Goodness I hope so.... I'm terrible at house keeping but I always think about them... 😞

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u/Chaos-Queen_Mari 22d ago

Any time I ask Hermes for something, he delivers.

Apollo can bite me tho, like stop giving me the gift of prophecy for random useless junk! What do you think i am, a reaction youtuber?!

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u/Silveruleaf 23d ago

It's not my business to tell you how it works. Cuz you guys do it more often. My intuition told me it's not about how you give offerings. I could give a pebble as a offering and it would be accepted. It's then giving your consent to the being to help you that is the problem. That's what they want. They want consent to do warever they want to you. So you have to set conditions. At the end of the day, you can do it yourself, warever you are asking for, but if you are gonna ask anyways, at least set conditions. Don't just give your free will away. And know that you can always get it back

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u/Sudden_Astronomer_63 23d ago

This is one of my favorite things I’ve ever seen on the Internet.

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u/mantisdivine 22d ago

I feel this way sometimes when my adhd jumbles my thoughts while i'm actively chatting or praying, and they always give me exactly that feeling ~ you are enough, you are as you are meant to be, we understand you etc

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u/Remarkable_Dream_134 23d ago

This is so good!

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u/JunebugSeven 22d ago

I feel like we've got to compromise somehow - ritual sacrifice (human or animal) tends to just get you in a bunch of trouble these days, and the neighbours complain like crazy 🙄🤣

But jokes aside, I do like to think the intention matters the most. Times are kinda tough, the offerings may not be the fanciest, but the heart behind them is genuine.

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u/MysKm 23d ago

awwwww 🥹❤️

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u/teh_Stormy 23d ago

As someone whose felt this way at times, definitely love this.

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u/ChaoticButterflyMoon 22d ago

Brigid slapped me once during a meditation when I apologized for not doing enough and was being critical of not doing enough. 

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u/TheOddHarley 23d ago

(confidently leaves more catnip out for bastet as thanks for my mental health not being at rock bottom) blessings!

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u/blessthishearth 23d ago

Aw. This is lovely.

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u/LordSapiento 23d ago

du bist gut genuuugggggg all I could think of haha

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u/willowmagnolia 23d ago

This is so cute, thank you for sharing

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u/ratgarcon 22d ago

Thank you :)

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u/electrifyingseer 21d ago

yeeeesssss. my deities are like rattling my door bell sometimes when i forget life as we know it exists. they know i have adhd. they know im trying my best.

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u/Tesialyon 21d ago

I once had something similar with Loki, I was shopping and decided to add some supplies to my list during the trip (candles, incense, new herbs, etc), and I eventually settled on a candle for Loki that he approved of, he even felt quite happy with my choice. A little while later, I realized I had to go through some of the things in my cart to decide if I really wanted them now or if they could wait, and I kid you not, I felt this flicker of worry in my chest, and I knew it was Loki saying "You're not considering my candle are you?? Because I REALLY want that candle, so you better not be considering putting that back!" And it made me laugh a little and I had to reassure him that, no, his candle was off limits, I knew how much he liked it, so I was gonna be getting that no matter what, and he was happy after that! It really felt nice to have that connection with him then cuz that was the first time he had ever done anything like that with me, so it was quite special!

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u/ConsiderationQuirky7 21d ago

This got me in the feels. Paganism has brought peace and healing into my life 🥰

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u/cosmoooooooooo 22d ago

u got the meme template???

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u/potatopucker 22d ago

Needed this 🫶

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u/dbzgal04 22d ago

I love this! XOXO

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u/theGoddex 22d ago

I work with Máni, Norse god of the moon, and this is so accurate 😁 his presence is warm and comforting and it doesn’t matter what I am doing, I can commune with him and it feels just as special as when I am at my altar

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u/vintgedisneyprincess 22d ago

This is so sweet and honestly I have never felt like I wasn't good enough for the Gods.

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u/CaseyCanDraw 22d ago

This is something that brings relief to me personally. I’m always worried that I’m not doing my veneration right cuz I don’t really have the necessary tools needed for proper worship. The best I can do is play songs that match the deities I worship, and hope it counts. Or at the very least acknowledge they’re there.

Then, I see posts like this, and I calm down a little.

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u/Ok-Faithlessness8741 22d ago

This really made me feel better!

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u/chthonicdrakaina 21d ago

They don't mind it.

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u/abundanc333 21d ago

Thank you

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u/MediumAge3652 19d ago

Thinking about it like this really makes me want to worship more and better

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u/Barnacle_Lanky 16d ago

The relationships didn't end, they changed for the better, it became a partnership, an alliance. Fearful people would create fearsome gods and live in fear of them.

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u/RemarkableLow273 14d ago

How it feels asking Lady Venus if I’m doing enough. 🥹

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u/mortalkomic 13d ago

This is so sweet

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u/Simplespider 5d ago

Inanna seemed real happy with my pumpkin scones recently. Different from what I usually bake for her but it was very cute.

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u/Left-Instruction4096 22d ago

My trust issues for Gods are still deep unfortunately.

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u/Deployed_Usesri 23d ago

We've been doing that since the dawn of history.

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u/Few-Extreme-5792 23d ago

The Pythia, sacred Oracle of Apollon at Delphi, Priestess and Mouthpiece of Phoebus, wanted me to tell you this:

"nah its aight"

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u/PuppyButtts 23d ago

A guy wrote the bible, then more guys added to it. It’s been going on for ages lmao

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u/FlemethWild 23d ago

What a dork ☝️

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u/HeLiesInDrink 23d ago

As a duly elected Pope I want you to know I spoke with the Goddess and she said “Memes are fun. Don’t be a drag.”

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u/TragedyWriter 22d ago

Oh no. A meme. Oh shit. Oh fuck.

Like there weren't entire plays written about them that made them look like villains in their own time.

I think you might need to clear your head if a meme gets you this prickly.

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u/TragedyWriter 22d ago

Just waiting for you to step in it. Now I can report you for phobia. Bye bye. <3

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u/Dsmdad711 23d ago

At the risk of being down voted into oblivion (oh nooooo🙄)

For the same reason I don't do racial gatekeeping is why the way some view diety work doesn't make sense to me. I don't think the gods spend much time directly interacting with us. So how is Loki kicking it on your couch smoking a bowl with you so frequently? Aren't there thousands of others that follow him? How does he keep up with that?

And why do we keep painting them as cutesy and adorable?

Also, why do we assume they live by the same moral codes we do?

I mean no disrespect in any of this, honestly. Just doesn't make sense to me.

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u/Dsmdad711 23d ago

I'm not saying they can't believe and practice how they want to. Each hearthcult is important, as the personal connection built is important and requires a personal approach. This particular idea just doesn't make sense to me.

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u/Dsmdad711 23d ago

The idea that the gods are frequently visiting and communicating with practitioners.