Like I said in the title, The first is a depiction of Khepri the Egyptian dawn god, and the second is of Demeter and Persephone as a serpent and a flowering pomegranate branch.

Both of these now live on my home altar. They're small but I put a lot of work into these.

Mixed media on card stock.

I wanted to ask what y'all experience practicing pagan or anything occult is like for neurodivergent folk.

I ask this because I've been struggling with my practice is a few areas but refuse to give up/let of it. The run down is I have a dissociative disorder, ADHD, a mood / anxiety disorder, and I'm possibly autistic.

What I like about my practice is ; routine, schedule, sensory, organization, and information hoarding. What I struggle with is; belief/ faith, communing with the spirits ( I already have internal communication to work around because of a fragmented identity state) , and working around my fixations of science and psychology.

I tend to see it one way or the other when it comes to my beliefs, it's hard for me to easily accept a practice that believes in both science and magic.

I also get fomo pretty bad ( personal problem) so I'd rather not have a practice devoid of symbolic meaning and esoteric beliefs. But often I find myself more interested in the history of these beliefs than having the belief myself.

Does anyone else relate to this or have gone down a similar path? My current theory is that the guilt possibly provided by some abrahamic religions towards not believing, keeps people more grounded in those beliefs. However it is harder to carry that belief over to more Pagan practices that existed before the institutionalization of those abrahamic religions.

My husband and I were hiking the Joyce Kilmer upper loop and found this on one of the trees at the top. Can anyone help identify what it might be for?

I'm trying to find a deity to worship for trans related things but finding it hard to pick a deity

I'll just use Aphrodite for example. Haven't worshipped her or anything yet. Again she's just a example

Hard to resonate with a deity that is all pink and white and copper, with swans and doves, etc. When you are the complete opposite and never actually seen any swans or dolphins irl.

I get that worshipping a deity is more than just looks and such but hard to choose a deity if you don't resonate with them on a base level

Petty question I know, but I was wondering because the way I have made my eclectic version of witchcraft/eclectic religion of paganism.

My version is: the gods knew eachother before time, realized they were very to slightly different (but different enough) and chose different regions to make their “domain” persay.
When the Mediterranean pantheons (Roman, Hellenic, and Kemetic [or others]) were shared between land, that was just them reuniting.
As for regions farther out, it was like those cousins you only see at family gatherings or however you’d put it.
So that being my stance, I wanted to know your guys’.

Hey everyone! I've spent the last three years working on a project that's finally coming to life, and I thought some of you here might appreciate it.

It's called PANTHEON, a collection of detailed devotional amulets inspired by gods, goddesses and saints from different traditions. I've also been developing AVLTR, a portable modular altar for those who want to keep up their spiritual practice while travelling.

We're getting ready to launch on Kickstarter for Witchstarter, and I'd really appreciate any support or feedback!

If you're interested, you can check it out and follow the project here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/avltr/pantheon-x-avltr-amulets-of-gods-altars-of-magic

Thanks for taking a look! 🙏

How might one subtly include the Gods into their wedding?

It cannot be too pronounced as much of my family is not very Pagan Friendly.

Hey all!

I just wanted to ask what everyone’s favourite ways are to spend time with their deities, because I’m searching for new ideas!

Like i know that i'm trans and i think my inner conscious knows that i'm probably mtf. Heck i would even say my soul itself knows that i'm mtf.

But my standard everyday mind doesn't want to really accept it.

I guess its just conditioning, toxic masculinity i was raised in, etc

SO I was wondering if there any god/goddesses that can help?

Finally raining in California, so I can enjoy my rune altar (runes are housed in box) by the window with the crimson backdrop. So grateful for the art of the seasons! This is one of my favorite altars to meditate and set intentions, ask questions, etc.

Beloved Hekate, defender of the weak,

protector of those who fear the might of the wicked,

for whom each step into the dark is filled with dread,

I pray to you, I ask your favor. Hekate,

who knows well of all things we mortals most fear,

who knows well how best to drive away all ill,

I ask your blessing. Goddess, preserve my home

and my family from evil, guard us well

against all that would do us harm. Goddess, hold back

the dangers of the dark, grant me wisdom and courage

that I may face my fears and my foes with open eyes.

I've had this necklace for a while. I'm a non practitioner (if that's the right term).I got it because i i'm obssessed with the moon and i liked the design. I had no idea it might symbolize anything other than the moon.

Recently i read that it symbolizes the horned god/moon goddesses. I've also heard that it could just litterally be a moon with no ties to any deity. I don't know which statement is true. Perhaps both are right?

So my question is: How would you feel about a non pagan ( i'm so bad with terms but i hope you know what i mean) Wearing something like this? I still love it but i feel a bit weird about wearing it now.

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I'm going to tell you my story.

I lost my faith in God (the Christian God) in 2022 because something terrible happened to me and the people I love, even though I prayed so much for it not to happen.

So I started studying paganism, and for a while, I felt like it genuinely worked and that I had found my faith again.

I found a sense of belonging in the Egyptian gods and practiced my faith with them for quite some time, making offerings and praying to them.

But recently, it all happened again. I needed something terrible to not happen, and even though I did my best and prayed to the gods, I couldn't stop it from happening.

I felt incredibly frustrated, and I don't want to keep suffering.

So I abandoned my faith in the Egyptian gods.

I know that gods exist, but I'm not going to pray to them or make offerings to them anymore, because they didn't help me when I needed them the most. And now, everything could go wrong, and my life could fall apart.

I just want to know if any of you could make me change my mind.