#paganism — Public Fediverse posts

#FediCoven 2026 Q10: Do no harm, but take no sh*t! How pacifistic is your magic?

I love that saying! I'll be using that from now on, thank you. And I would *never* ask for harm to come to others... I'm just not that sort of person.

#Pagan #Paganism #Wicca #Witch #Wiccan #Heathen

#FediCoven Q10 Do no harm, but take no sh*t! How pacifistic is your magic?

I think it's a tricky credo. Just as the older "An ye harm none, do what ye wil" Wiccan Rede. It implies that you don't do any harm, but we're humans navigating a complex world, intentionally or not, you do harm.

It's like the "I'm a good person" argument. You can be a good person and do harm. So, such oversimplifications of your ethical decisions and boundaries leaves them unexamined, and hence you're more likely to do harm.

In general, that is a problem with having a written down, moral system. It often relinquishes you from the really rather crucial obligation to own and examine the decisions you make.

So, I'm not a pacifist, I'm vigilant of the harm I do, and will take a precisely measured, well-examined amount of sh*t, before deciding to use my magic to counter anything. And I will hex someone with itchy underpants.

#witch #pagan #paganism

#FediCoven

Just to make it clear: Pagan traditions are diverse, and I respect people’s right to practice their spirituality in different ways. But that respect does not extend to using tradition, ancestry, nature, biology, or personal belief to justify racism, ableism, misogyny, anti-feminism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, or hostility toward my LGBTQ+ fedifriends. No one’s identity, body, disability, gender, sexuality, neurospicy cognition, or way of living makes them less worthy of dignity or belonging.

#witch #paganism #pagan

#FediCoven 2026 Q9: Show something worthless but valuable to your practice.

Journaling. It's pure magic for me.

#Pagan #Paganism #Wicca #Witch #Wiccan #Heathen

#FediCoven 2026 Q8: What’s a mundane activity that becomes unexpectedly magical or spiritually significant when done attentively?

Making meals, making yourself a pretty coffee, baking, etc. Basically, anything to give yourself fuel and energy. You have to put intention into the things you do. It matters. The same could be said for showers, baths, or skincare routines.

#Pagan #Paganism #Wicca #Witch #Wiccan #Heathen

Ancient word of the day: Hedgehog

The ancient word for today is hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus. In the Middle Ages, writers didn’t make reference to hedgehogs, but to urchins. This term for the spiky diminuitive animal is still favoured in some English dialects. We still have the lingering remnants of this etymology in the form of sea urchin, which is literally a sea hedgehog.

The word urchin came to England with the Norman invasion and was derived from the Latin word ericius. Before the Norman conquest, the animal was known by the Anglo-Saxon name Igl.

Other names

Furze-pig – Devon

Hotchi-witchi – Romani

Hodmedods – Norfolk

Ouriço cacheiro – crafty pig
or porco espinho’ – spiky pig in Portuguese

”Thorns shall grow in their palaces, nettles & thistles in their strongholds … there shall the hedgehog build, dig, be there at home and bring forth his young ones.” Taverner’s Isiah 34, 1539.

The hedgehog was a symbol of Christian humility

The Speculum sapientiae, or Mirror of Wisdom is an ancient tale of beasts in Latin. In one tale, a passing goat sees its reflection in a pond and declares himself very handsome indeed. A hedgehog trundles along afterwards and reproaches the goat telling him that profound humility, not vain boasting are what makes animals truly noble.

Read more: The British Library Digitised Manusripts

Content Catnip

#TheHeirsLair #OneTakeMan #InOneTake #Review #BookReview #ARCReview #StarTrek #SidMeier #Pirates #Piracy #GoldenAgeOfPiracy #RepublicOfPirates #Gateway #GatewayEpisodes #AlternateHistory #History #RomanHistory #RomanEmpire #Christianity #Paganism #WorstToBest #Quiz #Politics

What does the Minoan Wheel of the Year look like? How can we celebrate life's passages via Minoan ritual? Discover all this and more in Ariadne's Thread! Book details, including a full list of the seasonal rituals and rites of passage and plenty of places to buy the book that aren't named after a South American river: https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/ariadnes-thread

#Minoan #books #bookstodon #Pagan #paganism

It's almost time for the Feast of Grapes! My muscadine vine is gearing up for harvest, and I'm getting ready for the Minoan celebration of Dionysus and his gift to humanity.

#pagan #paganism #Dionysus #AriadnesTribe #Minoan

An #introduction for me:
Hello! I am a Heathen (Germanic #Pagan) and am interested in discussions around #paganism , #religion , #prechristian #culture , and many other things! I will post #hávamál stanzas, though other things as well. Looking to find other #Heathen community!

Medieval Pagan Slavic villagers being 'converted' by the sword (Richard Hook)

https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2141020/medieval-pagan-slavic-villagers-being-converted-by-the-sword-richard-hook

Hexing the Bomb

Hot on the heels of my little foray into the Battle of the Beanfield I decided to dig a little deeper into another important and largely forgotten nugget of social history. This one incorporates a couple of my favourite subjects, neither of which is politics. It does, however, have women standing up together and achieving the seemingly impossible and witches.

Pull up a chair… 🙂

There are moments in history when politics, folklore and belief collide in ways that seem almost impossible to imagine. One such moment unfolded on the windswept perimeter fences of Greenham Common during the final decades of the Cold War, when thousands of women gathered to oppose the presence of American nuclear missiles on British soil. Among the banners, songs and acts of civil disobedience was something few journalists expected to find at the heart of a major political protest. Witches.

For nearly two decades, Greenham Common became one of the most significant centres of peace activism in modern British history. It was a place of arrests, demonstrations, campfires and confrontation. It was also a place where ancient symbols found new life. Women danced in circles, wove webs across military fences, invoked goddesses, cast symbolic spells and drew upon centuries of folklore to challenge one of the most powerful military alliances in the world.

To understand why, we must first return to a Britain gripped by fear.

The early 1980s were shadowed by the threat of nuclear war. Relations between East and West had deteriorated. The Soviet Union and NATO were engaged in a dangerous arms race. Television viewers watched films such as Threads and The Day After, which depicted the horrific consequences of nuclear conflict. Schoolchildren grew up with the knowledge that a single political miscalculation could end civilisation in an afternoon.

Against this backdrop, the British government agreed to host American cruise missiles at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire. To supporters, the deployment was a necessary deterrent. To opponents, it made Britain a target and increased the likelihood of nuclear confrontation.

In September 1981, a small group of Welsh women marched from Cardiff to Greenham Common. Their intention was straightforward. They wanted a public debate about nuclear weapons. When their concerns were ignored, some chose to remain.

Few could have imagined that their decision would create one of the most influential protest movements in modern British history.

The Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp became a permanent presence outside the military base. Women arrived from every corner of Britain and beyond. Some stayed for days. Others remained for years. Grandmothers camped alongside students. Teachers shared fires with artists, nurses, activists and travellers. The camp developed its own culture, traditions and rituals.

Media coverage was often hostile. Newspapers portrayed the women as scruffy, eccentric or dangerous. Politicians dismissed them as naïve. Yet Greenham continued to grow. By December 1982, around 30,000 women joined hands around the nine-mile perimeter fence in one of the largest demonstrations Britain had ever seen.

As the movement evolved, some participants began drawing upon folklore, mythology and spiritual traditions to express their opposition to nuclear weapons.

For many women involved in the peace camp, the figure of the witch held profound significance.The witch has never been simply a character from fairy tales. Across European history she has represented independence, resistance and the refusal to conform. She is the village healer, the wise woman, the outsider and the scapegoat. She embodies knowledge that exists beyond accepted authority.

Many women at Greenham recognised parallels between historical witch hunts and contemporary attempts to dismiss or marginalise female voices. The image of the witch became a powerful symbol of protest.

Some protesters identified as pagans or practitioners of modern witchcraft. Others were not religious at all but embraced the symbolism. Together they transformed folklore into a political language.

At various demonstrations, women dressed as witches, carrying besoms and wearing pointed hats. They conducted symbolic rituals outside the base gates. Circles were formed. Chants were spoken. Songs echoed through the Berkshire countryside.

Perhaps most striking were the webs.Women frequently attached ribbons, wool, photographs, toys and personal objects to the military fences. These creations resembled enormous spider webs stretching across the perimeter. They symbolised connection, community and the fragile threads linking humanity together. Military planners saw security barriers. The women transformed them into canvases for storytelling.

One protest became known as the “Embrace the Base” demonstration, during which thousands of women encircled Greenham Common. The act itself echoed ancient traditions of protective circles and boundary rituals found throughout British folklore.In many folk traditions, circles create sacred space. They mark a distinction between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Whether consciously or unconsciously, Greenham’s protesters drew upon symbolism that would have been recognised by generations of cunning folk, ceremonial magicians and village communities.

There were also reports of symbolic spell-casting directed not at individuals but at the weapons themselves.

These actions were largely theatrical and symbolic. Yet symbolism has always been one of humanity’s most powerful tools. Flags, crowns, crosses and national monuments derive their power from collective belief. Greenham’s witches understood this. They recognised that ritual could attract attention, build solidarity and create memorable images capable of travelling far beyond the camp itself.Photographs from the period remain remarkable. Women dance beneath military floodlights. Costumed protesters stand before coils of razor wire. Sacred imagery appears alongside anti-nuclear slogans. Ancient archetypes confront modern technology.

The contrast could hardly have been more dramatic.

Behind the spectacle lay a serious philosophical question. How should ordinary people respond when faced with systems that appear too vast to challenge?

For some, the answer lay in petitions or political lobbying. For others, it involved direct action. At Greenham, many women chose creativity. They responded to missiles with songs, fences with artwork and military authority with myth.

It is tempting to dismiss such actions as eccentric. Yet history suggests otherwise.Throughout the centuries, folklore has often emerged during periods of uncertainty and upheaval. Communities create stories to explain fears, express hopes and challenge power structures. Ballads mocked landlords. legends criticised rulers. Folk customs strengthened communities during times of hardship.

Greenham Common followed the same pattern.The camp generated its own folklore almost immediately. Stories circulated among protesters. Songs were composed. Rituals evolved. Shared symbols developed meaning through repetition. What began as a political protest became something resembling a living folk tradition.

Even the landscape itself absorbed these stories.

Greenham Common is now remembered not only as a military site but as a place of resistance. The fences have gone. The missiles have long since been removed. Yet the stories remain. Visitors still encounter traces of the movement in memorials, artworks and local memory.

The protest ultimately achieved far more than many observers predicted. Cruise missiles were removed from Greenham Common in 1991 following the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. The peace camp remained for several years afterwards before finally closing in 2000.

Whether Greenham alone changed government policy remains a matter of debate. Few historians would argue that it was the sole cause. Yet its influence on public discourse is undeniable. The movement helped shape conversations about nuclear weapons, gender, protest and citizenship. It inspired campaigns around the world and demonstrated the power of sustained grassroots activism.

The witches of Greenham Common occupy a particularly fascinating place within that story.

They remind us that folklore is not confined to dusty books or distant centuries. It remains a living force, capable of adapting to new circumstances and addressing modern concerns. Ancient symbols continue to resonate because they speak to enduring human experiences.

The women who danced around Greenham’s fences were not attempting to retreat into the past. They were using the past to imagine a different future.

In an age dominated by military technology, political rhetoric and the machinery of the Cold War, they answered with stories, songs, rituals and symbols that had survived for centuries.

Whether one believes in magic is ultimately beside the point.

The real magic of Greenham Common lay in its ability to transform fear into action, isolation into community and protest into legend.

More than forty years later, the image remains unforgettable. A line of women standing beneath winter skies, facing one of the most formidable military establishments on Earth armed with banners, determination and the enduring power of folklore.

History remembers the missiles.

Folklore remembers the witches.

Further Reading

Common Women, Uncommon Practices by Sasha RoseneilGreenham Women Everywhere by Rebecca Mordan

Peace Camps: A Study of Greenham Women by Lynne Jones

The archives of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace

CampRecords held by the Women’s Library at the London School of Economics

Imperial War Museum collections relating to Greenham Common

Oral history projects documenting former Greenham residents

Copyright Notice:

© 2026 Mysterious Times. All rights reserved.This article is published exclusively for Mysterious Times. No part may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form without prior written permission, except for brief quotations used for review, commentary or educational purposes with appropriate attribution.

Battle of The Beanfield

There are certain moments in modern British history that seem to sit just beyond the edge of official memory. Events that everybody vaguely remembers, yet somehow never quite make it into the comfortable national story we tell ourselves.

The Battle of Orgreave is one. The miners’ strike is another. The poll tax riots. Hillsborough. Brixton. They linger in photographs, old television footage and the memories of those who were there, carrying the uncomfortable reminder that Britain is not always as civilised, measured and orderly as it likes to imagine itself to be.

The Battle of the Beanfield belongs firmly in that category.

Forty years on, it remains one of the most controversial policing operations in modern British history. More than 1,300 police officers confronted a convoy of around 600 New Age Travellers attempting to reach Stonehenge on 1 June 1985. By the end of the day, dozens of people had been injured, hundreds had been arrested and an entire way of life had effectively been marked for destruction.

What happened in that Hampshire beanfield has never been the subject of a full public inquiry. Yet for many people who witnessed the decline of Britain’s traditional industries during the Thatcher years, the images remain painfully familiar.

I grew up in Yorkshire through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. I watched pit villages hollow out. I watched steelworks close. I watched communities that had existed for generations suddenly find themselves described as obstacles to progress. There was a language that emerged during those years. Certain groups became “the problem”. Miners. Trade unionists. Travellers. Alternative communities. Anyone who stood outside the increasingly rigid idea of what Britain was supposed to become.

That is one reason the Battle of the Beanfield still matters.

To understand the confrontation itself, we first need to understand the strange, colourful and often misunderstood world that produced it.

The Stonehenge Free Festival began in 1974. It emerged from the wider countercultural movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining music, environmentalism, spiritual exploration, political activism and communal living. Over the following decade it grew steadily, becoming one of the largest free gatherings in Britain. By the early 1980s thousands of people travelled to Stonehenge each summer to celebrate the solstice. The festival attracted an eclectic mix of punks, bikers, druids, musicians, environmental campaigners, anarchists, hippies and families living on the road.

The people who became known as the Peace Convoy were not a single organisation. They were a loose collection of travellers, festival-goers and alternative communities who spent much of the year moving between free festivals, protest camps and temporary settlements. Some were escaping unemployment. Some rejected consumer culture. Others simply wanted a different way of living. Many travelled in converted buses, coaches, ambulances and vans that doubled as homes.

To their supporters they represented freedom, creativity and resistance to conformity.

To their critics they represented disorder.

By 1984 tensions were reaching breaking point. The Stonehenge festival had become enormous. Estimates suggested attendance reached around 100,000 people. Concerns were raised about damage to the archaeological landscape, litter, unauthorised trading and open drug use. English Heritage, which had recently taken over management of the site, came under increasing pressure to act. Local authorities and police forces were equally determined that the gathering should not continue in its existing form. A High Court injunction was obtained to prevent the 1985 festival from taking place. The state had drawn a line.

On the morning of 1 June 1985, the Peace Convoy left Savernake Forest and began moving towards Stonehenge. Around 140 vehicles carried approximately 600 people. Many were families. Children were travelling alongside adults who had spent years living on the road. They knew there would be police opposition. Few appear to have anticipated what was waiting for them.

Police had prepared extensively.

The miners’ strike had ended only months earlier. During that bitter industrial conflict police forces had developed new methods of coordination, rapid deployment and large-scale public order operations. Senior officers later openly acknowledged that lessons learned during the strike had informed preparations for dealing with the travellers.

A four-mile exclusion zone had been established around Stonehenge. Roadblocks were prepared. Officers from multiple forces were assembled. Some estimates place police numbers at around 1,300. Others suggest even higher figures by the end of the operation.

The convoy encountered its first major roadblock near Shipton Bellinger, several miles from Stonehenge. According to police accounts, some traveller vehicles attempted to push through the blockade and rammed police vehicles. Travellers and independent witnesses tell a very different story. They describe a convoy seeking negotiation before finding itself trapped and surrounded.

Whatever happened during those first moments, the situation rapidly escalated.As vehicles attempted to leave the road and move into adjacent fields, police began smashing windows and making arrests. The convoy became scattered across farmland. Families were separated. Children became lost in the confusion. What followed would become one of the most infamous confrontations in modern British policing.

Television footage remains difficult to watch even now.

Officers in riot gear strike vehicle windows with truncheons. People are dragged from buses and vans. Terrified children can be seen inside shattered vehicles. Journalists and witnesses described police hitting men and women indiscriminately. Several accounts alleged pregnant women and individuals carrying babies were assaulted during the operation. Numerous vehicles that functioned as homes were systematically damaged.

The Earl of Cardigan, whose family owned Savernake Forest and who had followed the convoy on a motorcycle, later provided testimony that proved deeply damaging to official police narratives. He described officers rushing vehicles with drawn truncheons, shouting at occupants and creating scenes of intimidation and violence that contradicted many early police claims.

Journalists present that day reported similar concerns.

ITN footage captured scenes that shocked many viewers. Photographer Alan Lodge later described the event as an ambush rather than a battle. Others argued the very name “Battle of the Beanfield” created a misleading impression of two evenly matched sides. One side possessed riot shields, command structures, communications systems and overwhelming numerical superiority. The other consisted largely of civilians living in vehicles.

By the end of the operation, 537 people had been arrested. It remains one of the largest mass arrests of civilians in modern British history. Most of the charges eventually collapsed or were dismissed.

That fact alone raises uncomfortable questions.

If hundreds of supposedly dangerous lawbreakers had been lawfully apprehended while carrying out serious criminal acts, one might expect hundreds of successful prosecutions to follow. Instead, much of the legal case simply evaporated.

Years later, travellers successfully pursued civil actions against Wiltshire Police. Damages were awarded for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and property damage. One police sergeant was convicted of actual bodily harm arising from the events of that day.

Yet despite these outcomes, there has never been a full public inquiry.

Perhaps that is because the Battle of the Beanfield was about more than Stonehenge.

Looking back now, it feels impossible to separate it from the wider atmosphere of Britain in the mid-1980s. This was a country being transformed at extraordinary speed. Traditional industries were disappearing. Unemployment was soaring in many regions. Entire communities were fighting for survival. Alternative lifestyles increasingly found themselves portrayed as threats to public order rather than expressions of individual freedom.

For many people in mining and industrial areas, there is a recognisable pattern.

First comes the language.

A group is described as troublesome, outdated or undesirable.

Then comes the media narrative.

Then comes the justification.

Then comes the force.

That does not mean every traveller was a saint, any more than every miner was. Human beings are messy. Large gatherings bring problems. Some attendees at the Stonehenge festivals undoubtedly caused damage. Some individuals within the traveller movement undoubtedly committed crimes. A serious historical assessment has to acknowledge that reality. The archaeological concerns surrounding Stonehenge were genuine. Local residents had legitimate complaints. Authorities were entitled to seek solutions.

But none of that explains the scale of what happened on 1 June 1985.

The images of smashed homes, frightened children and riot police advancing across fields continue to disturb because they seem wildly disproportionate. They suggest a state determined not merely to enforce an injunction but to send a message.

And the message was received.

The traveller movement never fully recovered.

Legislation introduced during the following years increasingly restricted nomadic lifestyles and unauthorised gatherings. The Public Order Act 1986 and later the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 created new powers that made life significantly harder for travellers, free festivals and eventually the emerging rave culture.

In many ways the Beanfield became a blueprint. The same language used against travellers would later be applied to ravers, squatters, protesters and environmental activists. Alternative communities were increasingly framed not as citizens exercising freedoms but as public order problems requiring management.

Yet the legacy of the Beanfield refuses to disappear.

Songs were written about it. The Levellers turned it into a folk-punk anthem that introduced a new generation to the story. Hawkwind referenced it. Writers, filmmakers and activists kept returning to it. Every summer solstice the memory resurfaces among those who remember what happened.

Perhaps that is because the Battle of the Beanfield sits at the crossroads of so many larger questions.

Who gets to occupy public space?

Who decides what constitutes a legitimate way of living?

How much power should the state possess when dealing with communities that reject mainstream norms?

And perhaps most importantly of all, what happens when governments begin to see certain groups not as citizens but as enemies?

Forty years later those questions feel remarkably current.

The travellers who set out for Stonehenge in 1985 were not trying to overthrow the government. They were trying to reach a festival. They were trying to celebrate a solstice. They were trying, in their own eccentric and imperfect way, to live differently.

Many paid a heavy price for that.

For those of us who grew up watching pits close, furnaces go cold and communities written off as inconvenient relics of the past, the Beanfield feels like part of the same story. Different people. Different landscape. Different politics perhaps. But the same underlying lesson.

When power decides a group no longer belongs, it rarely begins with dialogue.

It begins with exclusion.

Then comes the roadblock.

Further Reading

Andy Worthington, The Battle of the Beanfield

Christopher Chippindale, Stoned Henge: Events and Issues at the Summer Solstice, 1985

Emma Hallett, BBC News, Summer Solstice: How the Stonehenge Battles Faded

Tony Thompson, The Observer, Twenty Years After, Mystery Still Clouds Battle of the Beanfield

English Heritage, Stonehenge 1977–85: A Dig in Time and a Confrontation

Copyright © Mysterious Times 2026. All rights reserved. This article may not be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form without prior written permission from Mysterious Times, except in the case of brief quotations used for review, criticism or scholarly reference.

This is the book that started it all! Now in its second edition, Ariadne's Thread was my first published Minoan-themed book. It inspired me to start the discussion group that grew into a full-blown spiritual tradition called Ariadne's Tribe. Details, Table of Contents, and plenty of places to buy it that aren't named after a South American river: https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/ariadnes-thread

#Minoan #pagan #paganism #book #bookstodon

Apologetics: Flippin’ Fatwa Friday – The Bible vs. The Quran: Surah al-Baqarah Verses 156-158.

Last time on Flippin’ Fatwa Friday, we covered three issues, talking about good works, the Ka’ba, and jihad. Today, we’re sort-of back to talking about the Ka’ba, though we’ll more specifically be looking at another big part of the Hajj. Let’s take a look at this:

156. Who, when a calamity befalls them, say, ‘Surely, we belong to Allah and to him, of course, we return (and in his will is our peace).’ 157. It is they upon whom descend the benedictions from their Lord and his mercy, and it is they who are guided aright. 158. The Safa and Marwah (- the two eminences near Ka’ba) are certainly (two) of the symbols of Allah, so he who is on Pilgrimage to the house or performs ‘Umrah (- a visit to Ka’ba), there is no blame on him to perform Tawaf (- to run between) the two (eminences), and he who remains thoroughly dutiful and chooses to do good deeds spontaneously, the surely (he will find) Allah is Appreciative and rewards ever good deed done. Surely, Allah is All-Knowing.

I’ve already talked about the pagan origins of the Ka’ba and the Black Stone, but one of the things I sadly forgot to mention was how the Hajj also includes running between two small hills, the Safa and Marwa, seven times. This verse is the only time where this practice is mentioned, and it isn’t really elaborated on in the Quran.

The pagan origins of this practice aren’t something that can only be found through spending hours flipping through history books or scrolling on Google. It’s readily admitted in the hadiths that this practice stems from Arabian pagans. For example, Sahih Bukhari 4496 says:

Narrated `Asim bin Sulaiman:
I asked Anas bin Malik about Safa and Marwa. Anas replied, “We used to consider (i.e. going around) them a custom of the Pre-islamic period of Ignorance, so when Islam came, we gave up going around them. Then Allah revealed: “Verily, Safa and Marwa (i.e. two mountains at Mecca) are among the Symbols of Allah. So it is not harmful of those who perform the Hajj of the House (of Allah) or perform the Umra to ambulate (Tawaf) between them.” 

Stange how pagan customs were never absorbed into Judaism or Christianity by God. Why would Allah make a pagan custom something that is mandatory in Islam?

The reason for this has much to do with what I’ve mentioned in previous posts about the Hajj. It was all to gain a following. Muhammad knew that these customs were important to the people groups he knew. It wasn’t something they would give up easily. Thus, he simply absorbed them into Islam to make it more palatable for them.

Until next time,

M.J.

"Greek and Roman gods are the same-"

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2001840/greek-and-roman-gods-are-the-same

"Greek and Roman gods are the same-"

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/2001837/greek-and-roman-gods-are-the-same

✨ Славянский Звук Силы: 32Hz & 963Hz для Исцеления и Гармонии 🙏

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3iBZt8mEYo

#СлавянскаяМузыка #ШаманскийБубен #Исцеление #ОчищениеДуши #Здоровье #Энергия #Гармония #Медитация #БетаВолны #Чакра #Сердце #Природа #ДревниеТрадиции #SlavicMusic #ShamanDrum #Healing #SoulCleansing #Health #Energy #Harmony #Meditation #BetaWaves #Chakra #Heart #Nature #AncientTraditions #Folklore #Paganism #SlavicMythology #Vibration #SoundTherapy #ВируснаяМузыка #Шаманизм #СлавянскиеТрадиции

32 Hz + 963 Hz | 🔮 Сила Шаманского Бубна для Очищения Души и Тела

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNoPFR91ALo

#СлавянскаяМузыка #ШаманскийБубен #Исцеление #ОчищениеДуши #Здоровье #Энергия #Гармония #Медитация #БетаВолны #Чакра #Сердце #Природа #ДревниеТрадиции #SlavicMusic #ShamanDrum #Healing #SoulCleansing #Health #Energy #Harmony #Meditation #BetaWaves #Chakra #Heart #Nature #AncientTraditions #Folklore #Paganism #SlavicMythology #Vibration

A Unique Handfasting Ceremony: Love and Pride Celebrated

https://janetannelogan.com/2025/06/23/a-unique-handfasting-ceremony-love-and-pride-celebrated/

#Handfasting, #Litha, #Paganism, #PrideEvent, #Trans, #TransElders, #TransJoy, #Transgender

I am absolutely delighted with the way this book has turned out. I loved making all these illustrations and immersing myself in Minoan art, and the stories practically wrote themselves. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed creating it.

https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/tales-from-the-labyrinth

#Minoan #MinoanArt #art #illustration #BookIllustration #mythology #pagan #paganism #book #bookstodon

Insidious forms of schizophrenia are the worst because relapse isn’t marked by a major psychotic episode. Instead, people gradually lose insight and slip into psychosis unnoticed. In occult spaces, this is problematic, as schizoid symptoms are normalized.

Even if a person with schizophrenia is on meds, stressors or drug use (e.g., cannabis, stimulants) can overwhelm treatment. Health changes (like endocrinological issues) affect how antipsychotics are absorbed or metabolized. Just because someone with schizophrenia is on meds doesn’t mean they won’t relapse.

Endocrine disorders like thyroid dysfunction can affect liver enzyme activity. The liver metabolizes antipsychotics through enzymes like CYP450. I take antipsychotics and need liver blood work done because a side effect is liver damage. If the liver is affected by hormonal imbalances from thyroid issues, the enzyme CYP450 won’t function properly, altering antipsychotic efficacy.

People with schizophrenia who have thyroid issues have a higher chance of relapse, even if medicated. I’m thinking of one in particular. The really sad thing about that particular case is that chaos magick communities are so toxic that no one sees when their members are in crisis. It’s actually very isolating. The deeper people get into occultism, the more they alienate themselves.

Fediverse Reactions

#bipolar #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #highStrangeness #mentalHealth #mentalIllness #occult #occultism #occulture #pagan #paganism #psychiatry #schizophrenia #UAP #UAPs #UFO #UFOs

Hail Freya-Frigg this Freya-Frigg’s Day!

The old ways speak still not least through our sense of having been made bereft of the feminine energy of the spiritual life. Patriarchal creeds have severed us from the Goddess, but the yearning persists and leads us back to her embrace.
#pagan #paganism #norsepagan #goddess #frigg #freya #altar #spirituality #writer #writing #divinefeminine #patriarchy

Hail Odin on Odin's Day!

White as snow,
The ravens are let loose
And bade by Odin
Plumb the darkness;
Thus they fly,
Long, far
Into midnight thoughts
And shaded will,
Till again to Odin come
They settle black as void;
For Thought and Will are naught
Save the darkest of both is known.
#pagan #paganism #norsepagan #odin #woden #wotan #allfather #heathen #druid #writer #writing #poetry #spirituality #thought #memory #wednesday

Snowdrops teaching for the light, photographed in our neighbourhood today. New life springing in the footsteps of the Goddess. What a beautiful, magical time!
#pagan #paganism #norsepagan #druid #druidism #heathen #nature #spring #goddess #wicca #snowdrops

The part of the tree that is above ground is nourished by unseen roots that plunge deep into the darkness of the earth. Likewise, may this darkest of seasons be a period of respite and renewal, where we put down strong roots of intention and aspiration.
#pagan #paganism #norsepagan #heathen #druid #druidry #druidism #wintersolstice #yule #writer #writing #wicca #aspiration #trees

So I am preparing for my initiation rite this week as I join myself to the Isle of Wight Order of Druids; a simple but meaningful ritual. My ancestry is both Celtic and Norse and thus I acknowledge this beautiful marriage of forebears and traditions that led to me, here, now.
#pagan #paganism #norsepagan #celticpagan #druid #druidism #druidry #spiritualjourney #writer #poet #neopagan

With the sunset, an offering of wine to the Allfather for the forthcoming Odin’s Day.

#pagan #paganism #norsepagan #odin #allfather #sacredspace #altar #writer #heathen

:spellbook1: FediOccult Book Club—September 2024 :spellbook1:

:spellbook: The FediOccult Book Club is an informal association of practitioners of all backgrounds who come together to read & comment on one chosen book per month.

:spellbook: Each month's book will be chosen by popular vote. September's book will be announced on August 27.

:spellbook: No sign-ups are required. To participate in the Book Club, just pick up a copy of September's book and post about it between September 1 and September 30, 2024. You can share prompts, questions, comments, reviews, essays, and more! Keep the magick flowing~

:spellbook: Tag *all* posts related to the Book Club with #FediOccultBookClub so others can find and interact with your posts! And don't forget to follow the hashtag so you don't miss announcements and more!

🗳 POLL: Which book will the FediOccult Book Club read for September 2024?

#FediOccultBookClub #occult #occultism #magick #pagan #paganism #mystic #books #reading #BookClub #pagan #paganism #polytheism #religion #paranormal #HighStrangeness #sorcery #tarot #divination #witch #witchcraft

@TJ1001 I'm not a pagan or a druid, but I have sympathy for their beliefs and I hope some understanding too. The way you talk about "outrage for a lump of stone" tells me you have not grasped the meaning of sacred sites in these religions. If you were to dedicate a church, or a mosque it would mean more to followers than causing possibly minor damage to a building, it's the same with sacred sites.
#sacredsites #paganism #druidism #JustStopOil #polytheism

“There is no need to justify god in the face of the injustice and evil in the world. Evil is inherent in the nonexistent and hence is older than the gods and present in the world from the beginning. The gods cannot be made responsible for it, but are the very powers that combat evil and continually drive it out from the existent world.”

(Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many, Erik Hornung)

-------
#God #Gods #Kemetic #Kemeticism #Kemet #AncientEgypt #book #quote #reading #netjer #religion #spirituality #pagan #paganism #polytheist #polytheism

It's that time of year: time to break out the #pride #jackal

---------
#kemetic #kemeticism #wepwawet #spirituality #religion #polytheist #polytheism #pagan #paganism

The urge to be petty and post a screenshot is really strong, but I will not since I’ve been saying a lot about that particular lot for years now. If you know, you know. Look, folks, if someone sits down at a table with Nazis, you have two Nazis and not one. Twitter is that table. Any white person who is still on Twitter is probably a Nazi, has implicit antisemitic beliefs, or enables antisemitism. I could be very, very petty and drop a screenshot of a well-known occultist defending antisemitism aimed at an autistic person who had to get off Twitter because of antisemitic conspiracy theories, but I won’t.

Instead, I will just tag their cabal in the hash tag. Fascism did not swallow anyone whole. They were always fascist.Too many occultists enabled bigotry for far too long. With that, I am logging off the internet and will be enjoying my husband’s boneless, skinless BBQ chicken thighs. Cut off anyone who is still on Twitter because they see what is going on and have decided to still be in that space. Again, anyone who sits down with Nazis is a Nazi. Twitter is the dinner table. The same goes for substack.

#anarchism #anarchists #anarchy #Animism #animistic #antisemitism #authoritarian #autism #autistic #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #DKMU #fascism #fascist #magick #Nazi #Nazis #occult #occultism #occulture #pagan #paganism #paranormal #politics #Reddit #substack #Threads #Twitter #uspol

I don’t do conspiracy theories, period, at all—the end. From the left or the right.

If you log onto Mastodon, you see non-stop political discourse that is increasingly becoming radical from the left. If you log onto Twitter or Reddit, you see anti-Semitism, fascism, and Jesus Gets Us ads.

There is no moral equivalence, nor am I arguing that. However, the existence of fascism doesn’t justify spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories to counter their conspiracy theories. In fact, it should be even more of a motivator to be meticulous and rigorous when laying out a persuasive case.

While I am a magician and an occultist, I am fact-based and data-driven. If there is not a significant amount of data or if what you are asserting does not have enough empirical support, I will categorize it as speculation, conjecture, a counterfactual, and thus fiction.

I don’t know if it is because it is an election year, but social media has become a dumpster fire of misinformation, conspiracy theories, antagonism, and non-stop political discourse. On a personal level, I resent it when people try to manipulate my opinions or beliefs.

Again, there is no moral equivalence to fascism, but people should stop and evaluate the tactics they, themselves, use. Fascists spread conspiracy theories as a Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) tactic. I am seeing FUD spread all over Mastodon from people on the far left. It is an appeal to fear by creating paranoia. If you do this, you’re participating in Machiavellianism and expressing the same cynical view that is the slippery slope down into fascism. It could always be you. Most monsters don’t start off that way.

A lot of people who do horrible things do so because they believe it is for a good cause. Most people end up in cults because they believe they can recognize when something is a cult, and since they would never join a cult, it isn’t a cult. In addition to that, very intelligent people are more likely to believe misinformation if it comes from peers and their peer network that they have strong relationships with. That’s why misinformation spreads like wildfire through highly connected social networks.

Using Machiavellian approaches, for whatever reason, is implicitly the same type of cynical justification that fascists use. I’m not so naive to think that these random posts most people won’t see will change anything. I am just simply stating I’m logging off from social media because the conspiracy theories from all sides are too damn much.

I’m backing up this site as I type this, moving a live site to my local host, and I will continue to express my thoughts privately. Thank God, all of my RSS feeds for reputable news and peer-reviewed research are set up on my smartphone and via Thunderbird. I have YouTube carefully tuned for only STEM stuff, and I have disallowed it to make recommendations for me. People have lost their damn marbles. As someone who deals with the esoteric and arcane and the spooky, I’ve always largely ignored conspiracy theories, but this is getting out of hand. I will not drink from a poisoned well. Time for me to log off.

#anarchism #anarchist #anarchists #anarchy #Animism #animistic #antisemitism #Biden #BlueSky #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #disinformation #DKMU #DonaldTrump #fascism #fascist #fediverse #JoeBiden #liberal #libs #machiavellian #Machiavellianism #magick #Mastodon #misinformation #Nazi #Nazis #occult #occultism #occulture #pagan #paganism #paranormal #progressives #propaganda #Reddit #RSS #RSSFeed #RSSFeeds #socialMedia #Threads #Thunderbird #Trump #Twitter #uspol #witch #witchcraft #WordPress #YouTube #YoutubeAlgorithm

We really need to stop calling obvious schizophrenia, manic delusions, and psychosis ‘unverified personal gnosis.’ A person whom I knew 15 years ago has persistent beliefs, regardless of facts, that they knew me in a past life and we made some pact to alter the future to save the world from Nazis. It’s insane, but everyone in the occult Discord is nodding their heads and validating it.

A delusion is a persistent belief regardless of facts. This person has dreams and hallucinations that they believe are gods, spirits, and telepathy. In these hallucinations and delusions, the spirits tell them who random strangers were in a past life. A lot of these delusions are obviously paranoid and inevitably roll into a conspiracy theory about Nazis. This is very terrifying. This means, based on a random occurrence with a person, they will create a parasocial narrative that manifests as them knowing this person.

Most schizophrenia delusions emerge from noise and thus have no actual information. You can uncover that it is a delusion by asking the person for details. For example, if they make a claim about remembering a past life in Egypt, you can do the equivalent of asking them who the President of the United States is now. I did that with this person. They were claiming to have known me and other people in a past life in Egypt 3000 years ago, so I looked up what was going on around that time. I asked them who the high priest was, who the pharaoh was, and what they remember happening around that time. All of it was wrong.

That caused most of that Discord to jump all over me and imply that it was fine because it was their personal gnosis. To be clear, this person is creating parasocial relationships and narratives based on delusional narratives that they are applying to random people they meet.

Phrasing things as they happened in a different reality or a past life is a way to avoid the falsification of and is a way to rationalize the delusion. Claiming that you knew a person in a past life is a way to justify the parasocial relationship. It is not unverified personal gnosis. It’s mental illness. There is nothing magical about mental illness. If I had a nickel for every time a schizophrenic occultist spun up a delusional narrative to justify an adversarial parasocial relationship with me, I’d be rich. This is a major problem.

#anarchism #anarchists #anarchy #animistic #Astral #astrological #Bipolar #BipolarDisorder #ceremonialMagic #ceremonialMagick #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cult #cults #Discord #divination #DKMU #Egypt #fascism #gnosis #magic #magick #Nazi #Nazis #occult #occultism #occulture #pagan #paganism #paranormal #pastLife #pastLives #polytheism #psychic #psychosis #Reddit #reincarnation #schizophrenia #schizophrenic #spirits #spiritual #Spirituality #Theism #Thelema #thelemites #Threads #Twitter #UnverifiedPersonalGnosis #UPG #witch #witchcraft

“Stonehenge Before the Druids (Long, Long, Before The Druids)”

https://daily.jstor.org/stonehenge-before-the-druids-long-long-before-the-druids/

#Stonehenge #Druids #Druidism #Britain #Celts #Celtic #History #England #Paganism #NewAge #Religion #Folklore #Megaliths #Archaeology

Does your spiritual/religious practice bring you joy and improve your life overall?

Bonus Question: Which religion/spiritual practice do you follow? Please comment your answer.

#religion #spiritual #spirituality #atheism #polytheism #monotheism #animism #henotheism #Christianity #Judiasm #Islam #Hinduism #Bahai #Buddhism #Shinto #paganism

https://mageofa.substack.com/p/chaos-magick-101-how-to-get-results

#chaosmagic #discord #discordianism #chaoswitch #dkmu #terencemckenna #irishpagan #celticpagan #witchcraft #paganism #polytheism #aiart #aiartist #midjourney #chatgpt #ai #agi #psychonaut #psychadelics

CHAOS MAGIC 101
How to get results:

Step 1: Pay attention.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/21/google-opens-early-access-to-bard-its-ai-chatbot/

#chaosmagic #discord #discordianism #chaoswitch #dkmu #terencemckenna #irishpagan #celticpagan #witchcraft #paganism #polytheism #aiart #aiartist #midjourney #chatgpt #ai #agi #psychonaut #psychadelics

Happy #Ostara everyone! Yesterday was spent in celebration with sacred plants. I have touched grass and I hope you have too!

I'm planning on doing a creative content dump in the coming days, but in the meanwhile, I'm looking for other #bards and #poets who are cool that I'm a #transhuman #TechnoPagan doing an art project on the unification of humans and machines via AI #DawnOfTheMachineElves dedicated to #TerenceMcKenna

Terence McKenna was a major proponent of rave culture. Some people just gotta make some noise and get some attention! It's fine to recreate rave culture in your living room, so long as you can pay off your neighbours not to call the cops ;)

Overall, I'm a huge lover of art and nature.

#SpringEquinox #Cernunnos #paganism #polytheism #irishpagan #celticpagan #chaosmagick #discordian #dkmu #psychadelics

@yshath https://youtu.be/XAi3VTSdTxU#DawnOfTheMachineElves #chaosmagic #Discordianism #dkmu #Hexorian #SigilBomb #chaosmagick #magick #occult #pagan #paganism #sigils #sigilmagick #occultism #occulture

@MalignusCeles https://youtu.be/kEDZZin4_eM

#DawnOfTheMachineElves #chaosmagic #Discordianism #dkmu #Hexorian #SigilBomb #chaosmagick #magick #divination #tarot #tarotcards #occult #pagan #paganism #sigils #sigilmagick #ceremonialmagic #ceremonialmagick #occultism #occulture

I am looking forward to Dr Angela Puca's Magus lecture on Druidy enormously.
https://instagram.com/stories/angela_symposium/3044675996877811363?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
#paganism #druid #druidry #druidism #pagan #ReligionLaw

but the power that provides unification is foreign to the one who presides over the division and opposition of encosmic things [Ares]. So it is this cooperation of dissimilar causes that the myths have referred to as adultery." Proclus, Commentary on the Republic 141f. (2/2)

I like this from Proclus as it works as a continuation of #Empedocles idea of the Cosmos sustained by Love/Strife

#Proclus #Polytheism #Aphrodite #Ares #Hephaestus #Paganism #Myth #Neoplatonism #GreekMythology #Mythology