#queer pagans

[raven-runes]

[bowldrips]

Happy Ýlir!

A tender, Wintery kiss for the Goddess Iðunn from the Goddess Skaði. Inspired by an apple tree in our yard that is usually one of the last trees in its area to lose its leaves when the killing frosts and freezes come.

Read more about it on my Ko-Fi~

Prayer cards and prints available!

[little-witchys-garden]

[thatpinkkwitch]

my husband did his first ever ritual with me tonight!! we did a protection spell for the both of us and it was so nice and intimate, i’ve truly never felt so happy as sitting with my husband and our cats and practicing this craft that i love

[samwisethewitch]

Our rose bush is in full bloom and Bealtaine/the Floralia is right around the corner and you all know what that means! Time to toss some in a Mason jar with fresh strawberries and wine.

Honestly infusions like this are such an easy way to make a cheap wine feel fancy and I absolutely 100% recommend trying it if you haven't.

[nordic-trails]

Hail Njord, god of commerce and the sea, father of Freyr and Freyja.

[immersivepaganryblog]

Lots of love to all my enby friends!

You are valid. 💛🤍💜🖤

Let's all take a moment today to remember that pre-Christian cultures around the world celebrated and revered the fluidity of gender expression!

We stand with our LGBTQIA2S+ communities. Bigotry will always be met with a ban.

[houndofchivalry]

a rare personal update: after years of study and service to my community, I'm being ordinated as a priestex of Sylvan Hearth (our temple's tradition) soon, and am considered one already for the majority of technical purposes like leading classes and general clergy tasks (getting enough of the temple together for an ordination ceremony is even more challenging than a sabbat; gathering pagans is like herding cats!)

it's an exciting development for me!! I led our last Yule sabbat, complete with updating our ritual to eliminate the gender binary assignments, and it went over extremely well. folks were invited to choose a role (firestarter or firekeeper) based on archetypes, rather than the "men make fire! women tend fire!" of the past. everyone was happy to align to one or the other, and folks of all genders ended up on both sides. it felt like a much more comfortable metaphor 🔥

[elhoimleafar]

See the world from beyond the veil, not from the earthly world itself 👁️ One of the fundamental pillars of my individual practice as an Urban Spiritual Worker (sorcerer, witch, or whatever) consists on questioning absolutely everything, not questioning to make others angry from my ego, but questioning from my individuality, from my daily practice, questioning what tools and knowledge are useful to my practice and my pantheon, and which tools, knowledge and old thought patterns are no longer useful, neither to my practice nor to those who learn from my work.

One of the greatest pieces of advice I have ever received came from the great master Ara Arnamis during a short trip to the Amazon when I was 25 years old.

She said: You are gifted with the vision that others do not have, it is your job not to look at the world like them, but, with humility and compassion, teach your own vision of the world, teach them to look with more than eyes, teach them to look from the soul, and to look beyond, that part of you that does not need eyes or any other organs to observe the world and interact with it.

Don't look at the world from the eyes, look at the world from its energetic pattern, from its transforming energy, look at the world through the spirit of things. Look beyond colors and shapes, look at the world from deep and ancient wisdom.

Ask yourself, if that object or person in front of me did not have those colors and those shapes, what would it look like? How would your presence feel? How would it feel to the touch? Once you stop looking at the world around you with your physical eyes, you start looking at the world with your spirit, as spirits look at it, with more than just eyes.

Question your beliefs and the source of those, not questioning from ego, not question to have the reason, but question from an inner place of compassion and understanding.

~ Elhoim Leafar.

[nyxt333]

first handmade grimoire. covered in rabbit hide. cannot wait to put this beauty to work.

[raven-runes]

Witchcraft happens when you add intention to simple every day actions. Having a shower, preparing a meal, making a cup of tea, planting a seed in a flower pot.

[bowldrips]

Happy Pride ya Heathens~ 🌈

This came to me while sleeping sick in bed and it makes me very cheesily happy.

Now to go catch up on bindrune requests 😅.

[little-witchys-garden]

Rules for the Woods

Always carry something for trade, something for protection and something for offering.

[thatpinkkwitch]

doing my makeup while stoned out of my mind is one of my favorite ways of practicing self care 🩷🍃

[thesocialjusticewitch]

So, so proud to be part of the incredible team bringing "The Secret of the Sunken Temple" by Rebecca Buchanan to bookstores! It's like Indiana Jones in a m/m romance hunting for a lost temple of Apollo, and I'm definitely biased but IT'S AMAZING. https://sigilhouseproductions.com/2022/10/23/the-secret-of-the-sunken-temple-now-available-for-pre-order/

[whereserpentswalk]

The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.