“Most of us don’t feel more magical, we struggle with banality, with things that grind us down and leave us feeling sad and tired. Humans make terrible setups for humans to live in and I genuinely have no idea why we do that.”
This echoes what I shared yesterday.
How do we maintain that connection to the magical, to the Mysterious Ones?
I’m interested in your answers, Gentle Creatures! 🙂
For me, it’s about daily prayer and practice, about reading the writings of other Polytheists like a Christian might do daily meditation through scripture.
I also spend a lot of time in contemplation and meditation.
I think I have said before – it’s not for everyone, but it certainly helps me.
Anthropomorphisation. Silly as it sounds. I have followed Wōden for years now, seeing him as role model. But more recently I have thrown myself at exploring my relation to his wife, Eōrþan Mōþor Jőrđ, or Gaia Sophia – whom I feel is embodied by the ancient, overflowing, abundant Venuses. I have done this artistically , intellectually and poetically. Before this, I tried to keep at Blótar.
https://spergbox.wordpress.com/2023/03/24/category-venus/
Thank you for sharing this link – I will check it out across my weekend!
It’s curious, I’ve never had any connection with Venus or Aphrodite, but this last week they have popped up about three times each… I’m putting it down to Spring and Bealtaine in the Northern Hemisphere, lol!
Can you expand on the Anthropomorphisation aspect (or is it all explained in the blog?).
No, I’m autistic so it’s doubtful if I ever explain anything well. Humanisation, like how the Greeks turned The Electric Universe into Diyaus Piter, Dios Pater or Zeus. So for me, it is learning to see Jordh in the everywoman, conceptualise Her as the great, Vast Mother whose enormity is our blessing.
I feel less connected to the frisky aspects of these, which I believe the Greeks added to subjugate Goddess worship. I prefer the company of Mother Goddesses, but feel the Love and Mother Goddesses, re: Inanna, were indisoluble.
My pleasure, no rush and no pressure.
Oh gosh yeah… I always doubt myself in terms of explaining things.. like did I bang on for too long, did I make it too much about me because I was trying to relate, did I confuse the issue because of the way I write… I get it, perfectly valid.
That moment of seeing Deity through someone can be very powerful.
I’ve never really connected with love deities or mother deities; those that I connect in with are the healers and the psychopomps and those around death, wilderness, nature; I suspect working in the emergency services sector for over a decade has probably influenced some of that. I was devoted to one deity for over a decade but over the last 2 – 5 years, have connected with many more (the Healers in particular) and that helped my a great deal during my cancer experience, recovery, convalescence.
Wōden & Eōrþe are my go-toes. So i understand, minus illness, the psychopomp draw. I wrote an ode to Eir today, whom I ought to have sought on others’behalf long ago.
Ohhh! I was reading an Invocation to Eir yesterday and it resonated so I have it shared and scheduled to post in about *squints* 10 hours! I’ll keep an eye out for yours (I always try to share prayers for healers now, even if they aren’t the ones I have connection with).
I’ll throw mine up next week. I’m doing a series of Odes to Frigga’s maids. I’ll be keen to read yours!
During chemo, I developed the habit of just going through names and most known attributes – it’s something I still do most days.
I do love reading the prayers people create!
Good, well, I’ll leave you a link here if so. I’m sorry to hear you had to deal with chemo. Brűtal stuff.
https://spergbox.wordpress.com/?s=Ode
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https://spergbox.wordpress.com/spergalicious-commentaries/
I’ll look forward to reading them!
Yeah, cancer – really, 100% would not recommend, zero stars.
And chemo was intense, I got really sick – but I’m still here! I blogged a lot about my experience last year, I kind of reframed my blog to focus on my experiences as I worked through all the first anniversaries, and it really helped.
Now I’m reorienting my blog back towards the devotional polytheism side of things.
Cancer, bad stuff. Agreed. Well. I’m glad you made lemon out of it. Godspeed for now!