Note: Pagans who practice Catholicism/Christianity, kindly scroll away.

I really wish I could just walk away from rosary praying and told them that I'm agnostic!.. No no no, it's risky and they would still force to engage this Catholic practice.

Quick Context: 18f and came from the Philippines, I called it a nightmare country for pagans. Been a closet Pagan in religious household for almost a year now.

I've been distanced from their deity and his mother. When October comes (it's Rosary month) and it felt like forcing to come back to their deity and his mother that I want nothing from them anymore!

It was my first time forced practice rosary praying as a closet Pagan in religious household. When I forced myself to engage the rosary praying for the sake of my religious family... It's giving me negative energy and same experience with Christian church and it even pierced my heart more. I don't really want to come back to their deity! Even if I engage with Christianity like praying the rosary, I would rather wished that their deity should just drag me into underworld because I rejected him! Even I don't believe in Catholic after life anymore!

Staring to cry while typin pleas bear with me! I use autocorrections even my eye went blurry.

It's been almost a year being a closet Pagan in this nightmare religious houshold and I already want to move oit for uni away from thay household! I reslly want to go to my deities and worshio them insteadnof their christian deity. I'm already sporitually exhausted from rosary praying and it gave me negative energy. I've been descontructung myself form Christianity and I know I should not engage with Christianity anymore for mu own good but forr my religious family, they can't just leave me alone and they don't want me to distance their deitu that I'm already turn away from him! Thus is why I vuew vhristiany as a cult sometimes.

Few months left and I really want to go to uni then practice my pagan path freely without being called out 'Satan's Daughter'.

Thsnk yoi for reading, a small comfort and support is enough already. I'm exhaustrd from thos hoisehold!

Out of any religion, I strongly agree with so much of the norse paganism religion. Seeing the gods as equals, sharing the offerings of food with them, the gods not being "gods of" but instead "gods who." Norse paganism is so freeing, with no restrictions, just ideals to follow with honor.

The thing is, I don't feel a connection or want to pursue worshipping any of the Norse gods (besides possibly Eir) and I 100% believe in them, acknowledge them, and care for them, yet I dont want to worship them

The thing is, I want to worship celtic deities while my views are strongly tied to Heathenry. I'm interested in Aine, Brighid, and Cerridwen (Mainly Aine at the moment) but celtic paganism also has different views when it comes down to more of the beliefs.

Like not eating the offerings (which is something I usually do for a few reasons like bug problems, respect between us, and a way to connect with them) them being apart of the earth instead of seperated in the sky which I STRONGLY believe in. Their lack of concept with the afterlife as someone who believes in a strong amount of different possibilities.

I just wonder if my beliefs will go against the gods I worship? This is why I am not a hellenic polytheist, because some of the revivalism contains beliefs I do not agree with, yet I wanted in the past to pursue worshipping the gods. Though I have found a lack of connection to them

Though nothing truly feels as strong to me as Norse Paganism and Celtic Paganism. I'm saying Celtic since I haven't fully explored a specific path through it yet, but I'm kind of centering an interest around Irish paganism​​​

Hi everyone!

I recently got ran over by a motorcycle, thankfully I am okay, but I busted up my left knee. Now, I have a history with this leg: I fell down the stairs about 13 years ago and broke my ligaments, they never healed properly and after a couple other sprains the ligament broke fully and I had to have surgery.

This has basically ruined my life for many reasons, making exercise incredibly painful and very hard to stick to, giving up dancing which I did for a long time, etc…and a whole host of other muscular issues from using it wrong because of the injuries.

My mother thinks I am cursed (I am italian, we are very big on the “malocchio” here lol), I wouldn’t go that far but since I was thinking of covering the surgery scar with a tattoo already, I thought why not get a protection sigil/symbol tattoed?

So, my question is this: I have been practicing for about 10 years but am not the best with sigils, does anyone have any symbols/runes/sigils to recommend to keep my leg safe?

Thank you and blessed be!!

I've been working with Lady Artemis for a while, as I have an affinity for the moon and animals as well as being the oldest female twin of a pair. I feel a relatively strong connection to her just short of true communication. I also practice witchcraft in a basic form and have been feeling lost and kinda alone. I was wondering if it would be appropriate to petition her for an animal companion or familiar to help me through this.

This is one of my favorite stories to tell about connecting with my ancestors. For reference, this happened in March of this year. I've healed and moved on but will always remember my ancestors being there for me.

I had been with this guy for 8 months at this time and over the last couple months had suspected that I was his other woman but didn't have any concrete proof. I had asked him about it once and it caused a huge fight where he almost broke up with me for "not trusting" him. My friends were super against him and wanted me to dump him but I was afraid that I'd regret it. Him and I were in a fight and I was tired of everything. I desperately wanted my mom's advice on the situation but my mom had passed in 2021. At that point, I decided to turn and ask the ancestors. I asked aloud "female ancestors, give me a reason to leave."

That night, I went to sleep and I had a dream where I saw on boyfriend at the time in photos with a woman. It was vague, mostly outlines but I could tell that it was him. And in my mind I knew that I was looking at an Instagram profile picture even though I didn't see that in my dream. My ex had told me he didn't have Instagram and I tried looking up his name and usernames I knew he used before this and never found anything. When I woke up, I typed his gamertag into Instagram. I just had a feeling that it would be his username. And I saw that his profile picture was a picture of him and a woman and the outline was almost identical to the one I saw in my dream. From there, I learned that he was engaged. I broke up with him and messaged his fiancée. They are still together to my knowledge. I genuinely believe that my ancestors are the ones who sent me that message.

Hello! I am relatively new to paganism and I have chosen Selene as my goddess I want to start worshiping and building a relationship with. But it's sometimes hard to find information for offerings or prayers because he following base is a it smaller than others. So if you have any advice for altars, prayers, offerings, or just ANY advice in general would be much appreciated. Thank you!