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I'm gonna keep this quick as its just 2 question but is there a normal amount of deities you worship? And say i'm sick or want to thank a god or goddess for food do i have to thank a god or goddess for food, or do i have to pray and offer to a god or goddess of wellness to help my illnesses?

I'm gathering fairy tales and folk tales for an anthology of stories to be read to a child. I have an entire section on Paganism, but it's mostly centered on the Goddess (Sabbat stories, Gospel of Witches, etc.), with one that includes the God. Does anyone know of any stories featuring the God?

Thank you!

I (31 genderfluid Utah) am a baby pagan. I have my disability hearing tomorrow. I'd like to pray and make an offering before the hearing

I don't know who would be relevant here or how to work with them

Any advice?

Well, if votive offerings aren't supposed to be moved, what stops them from piling up?

So I have been having some spiritual feelings lately but I still have important values linked to atheism.

I’m not sure if these feelings are real but I want to explore them… for one I still don’t have faith or trust in gods, not that they are 100% not true, more like there are so many other possibilities out there that picking one or even five is just not me. I understand many people have connections to gods and so they place faith in them above all else but I don’t think that’s my path. Honestly the spirituality I feel is closer to fey, imps, or well, you know, spirits.

I also really don’t jive with the concept of gods or magic of the gaps… a big part of my beliefs or philosophy is that being comfortable with the unknown is important. Another thing that I don’t think I could let go is agency or chance… I don’t think I could prey or meditate on these spirits and ask for favors or luck.

It’s weird… like these spiritual feelings are there, like seeing friends in everyday things. But… I can’t even bring myself to believe in ghosts, like I don’t deny the possibility of something I can’t see, but I’m not going to assume it’s real because I can’t see it. You can’t prove a negative.

I want to clarify once again I’m not trying to attack anyone’s spiritual beliefs. Everyone approaches the world differently, and as long as the beliefs aren’t bringing hate or violence into your life. they should be celebrated. Basically I’m asking if there are any exercises, you guys could recommend to help me learn more about these feelings. And advice on how my values can coexist. Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone, I hope such a question would be welcome here. Bascially, I'd say I'm definitely spiritual about nature, I feel connected to it, and the music and art which has naturalist or pagan undertones speaks to me. I feel interested in living a life in some form reverent towards nature and it's creatures, and have explored different branches of paganism, as well as participated in rituals. However, I can't see myself believing in any sort of really "supernatural" stuff, like gods or spirits or energies or whatnot being real, and I don't want to larp as a pagan either because I think that's insincere and disrespectful. Still, being grateful towards nature and feeling at home there, being inspired, is an experience I can relate to definitely. I was wondering if there are any people here who share my beliefs and could offer advice or guidance? I know paganism is a very umbrella term and a personal experience. Coming in good faith, I respect all forms of belief as long as they don't encroach upon the moral boundaries of mine. Thanks!

Hi!! I've been doing pagan practices for years, but not much regarding deity work so please forgive the long post as I'm a little new.

Recently, I've been getting incessant signs pointing to Anubis.

First as something directly mentioning him as a god, then later imagery of jackals in art, names of teams, tv shows, even a casual game I was playing, all of which had no relation to pagan lore at all. I don't usually get those signs, I'm weirdly grounded when it comes to things of the sort, but these feel insistent, so I finally did a reading in which I essentially got the message that working with him has the potential to open doors I've been looking for.

Because of that, I wanted to hear a bit about people's experiences with Anubis and maybe advice on how to start working with him.

Thanks for the attention to anyone that interacts!

Ok so I started getting serious about paganism a few months ago because I felt that Aphrodite was reaching out to me, and I have been worshipping her ever since. There are sooo many things that I’ve discovered since then that connect me to Her (and have for my whole life), so worshipping Her feels incredibly easy and right for me.

However, I know that most ppl worship multiple deities, especially when they primarily worship the Theoi/Hellenic Gods, but since I haven’t ever chosen and reached out to a deity, I’m not really sure how to make that kind of decision and how to reach out. 

Does anyone have advice on worshipping multiple deities when you have a much stronger connection with one? I respect and believe in all the Hellenic deities, but I just haven’t felt particularly drawn to any of them other than Aphrodite. 

There are a couple situational things that have made me consider reaching out to another deity, but I’m not sure if it is respectful to reach out only once to ask for something, because that feels like it might be going against everything I’ve seen about building kharis? The first one is when I was struggling in college, and I considered reaching out to Athena to ask for guidance and support, and the second is that I am adopting a dog soon, but she is going to be with a foster family for another month or so until I move into my new apartment, and I am thinking about praying to Artemis to ask Her to keep her safe and healthy until I am able to bring her home. Are those things appropriate to reach out for support with?

This ended up being wayyy longer than I thought it would and I’m not even sure it makes sense lol so sorry about that!! To be completely honest, I’m new to religion in general, not just paganism/helpol, so I’m definitely feeling a little out of my depth here, but I am open to any advice you can give me!! 

Hey! I'm wanting to use pendulums for divination and I already have a board and the pendulum, but no clue where to start and how. I don't really have money to buy a book for it either so I'd like to hear some advice from others! Thank you in advance :3

I wanna carry my deck with me around the house bc I feel like I'd bond with it better, but idk how to hide it from them. do you guys have any ideas on how I could do this? or maybe other methods I could bond with my deck?

I know its a bad idea asking people on reddit but might help point me in the direction of helpful books since been hard time finding legit books that work with the Fair Folk mostly with the flood of AI books or ones that have Tinkerbell or Elizabethan Shakespeare in it.

If it helps, I live in the US so not that close to most Fair folk activity like England or Ireland.

Been reading Morgan Dalmier which also lists some good books as well at the end but I like to have a collection of books to read so I always crave for more.

Been reading for a while but don't plan on messing or dealing with the Fair Folk anytime soon until I have proper protection and methods on dealing with them. So for now I just like to read any legit information on them since I find it very interesting.

Thank you for reading and hope you can recommend some good books or articles!

Feel free to take this down if it's in violation of any rules.

Anyone else out here struggling with this? I feel like no one talks about this. Intrusive thoughts and fears about my deity/our work together are gonna be the death of me I swear. My diagnosis drove me away from my work in the past and I recently got back into it and it's still insane over here despite my best efforts at giving myself grace and understanding. I just wanted to know if anyone else in this sub experiences this and/or could offer some words of reassurance or encouragement. Best case scenario I can hope for is Loki finding humor/pity in my episodes 🫠

A few years after looking into it, I want to get into Paganism. I recently went to a UU church and met a few Pagans there, which resparked my interest in Paganism. I did look into Wicca for a while, but I decided I want to get into Paganism as a whole. The problem is, I don't know which type of Paganism I want to choose.

Hi everyone! I admit that I do not know a lot about paganism. However, I was raised Christian, and then went full atheist, and am now feeling a connection to the divine due to some reflection and spiritual experiences.

In a way, I do not want Christianity as we know it to be true. I don't want to live that way if I do not have to.

There seems to be a decent amount of evidence towards Jesus both existing and potentially being more than a normal human, which if so, would point to the bible being the word of God.

I want to explore paganism more, but I'm scared of going to hell? Also, I'd love to learn more about the history of paganism.

I know this is a vague post, but I was hoping someone could share their experience/point me in a direction? Thanks!

I'm interested in Wicca.

I've been practicing witchcraft for years but I want to learn about wicca too.

Do you have book recommendations on Wicca?

What book did you read when you became a Wiccan?

Hey I'm new to this and I was wondering if gods/goddesses still appear in dream for if you don't really dream?

Do you need a friend too? If you do, we are along the right path. I'm very animal like and I need my pack and have none, befriend me, I want to find people to befriend and ideally along my angle of life?

I might rant about faith, changing and adapting and all in the idea of improvement. If you are more experienced in nature worship, I need you in my life.

Any of this points hit you right, then please, PLEASE! DM!
Plants = More!
Removing plants = Evil.
Evil = Not having plants.

Cooking = Heavenly.
Cooking goes wrong = Cry.

Complain because you feel useless and your patron didn't carry you thought the most simple task in life = The right of being a worshipper.

All that is kinda a joke. (Actually not.)

Things I don't want:
Being told what to do.
Advice.
Complaining about real important things, I have anxiety and problems that I could give a problem to each living being and maybe, I could give two to a few and had one left for me.
We all know life got on the painful part, but I can't handle being around troubles, I have a lot of empathy and it literally hurt me to hear you are not doing well. What if we ignore any problem or pain together for a moment and let it build up until it doom us?

Hey everyone.

Due to budget and availability, our children are having to go to a summer camp that is hosted at a church (we live in the Bible Belt). The website for the summer camp originally did not mention Christian based themes. Then upon the confirmation email after paying it mentioned it being faith-based. I asked for context. It would be 30min a day with “simple Bible stories and songs” .

I am pagan
Spouse is atheist

We try to be religion/ belief-neutral with our children (all 3 under the age of 7).

I do educate them on
-being respectful of peoples beliefs
-respecting nature and other people
-asking my spouse and I questions when they get approached about beliefs at school
-other religions/beliefs on their indoctrination of children and how to look out for signs of it.

We do not push our own spiritual opinions on them.

I want to prepare my kids to be respectful but to not buy into whatever the stories are that are shared during this 30min a day at this camp.

How would y’all prepare your children for this scenario?

I live in the Bible belt area of the US and I am always surrounded by nothing but Christians. Now I dont really have a problem with them but I just feel jealous I guess of them having such a great and active community. I have met only a few people that were Pagan since I became one myself and none live anywhere near me. I want to be able to have a community around that I can make plans with and celebrate our holidays together instead of me having to just keep quite and go to family Christian events.