Posts by Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus
(DIR) Post #B41OpwssNidD3aqyrw by Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus
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POV: You go to take a photo with your phone but the front-facing camera is on.#caturday
(DIR) Post #B43On4T67Etu1hLMPo by Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus
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I heard a flock of redwing blackbirds this morning!! They signal the return of the first wave of birds for the spring; the grackles and robins won't be far behind. This is about 2 weeks earlier than last year, thank the gods, because winter started early and the cabin fever is real.
(DIR) Post #B45G93mQqPYMzXiWau by Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus
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I am a very religious person; I pray and leave offerings to my gods nearly every day. I truly believe, with the utmost certainty, that the gods exist. But I was a practicing pagan for nearly a decade before I actually believed in it. I see this quite a bit in paganism and occultism. Many of us started as teens after watching movies about witchcraft, and it was just for fun, nothing serious. Then, the more you practice and build experiences, shit starts to get real. A game becomes a hobby, which becomes a persuit of knowledge, which becomes part of one's identity. That's not to say that everyone who practices paganism will end up believing in gods and magick. Faith in paganism takes many forms: faith that we are part of nature, that all nature is connected, that we can influence the world around us. But unlike some other religious traditions, the faith doesn't come first, its built by experiential evidence. Ironically, believing in paganism is not a requirement of paganism. We don't have to try and convince anyone of its efficacy, because we recognize that if someone puts the time in, they'll get there on their own. #paganism
(DIR) Post #B47NMbSw09zHE1vF20 by Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus
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I have finished the temperature blanket panel for 2025! This is a decade-long project. Each stripe represents the local daily high temperature in farenheit: red is 90s, orange is 80s, yellow is 70s, and so on. To capture the entire winter and summer seasons, the first bottom row actually starts on November 1st of the previous year, and the numbers are placed on January 1st of the labeled year, and it continues up from there.#crochet #FiberArt #ClimateDiary
(DIR) Post #B4DhANWDC8voWef9qC by Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus
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Hail Freya, it's Friday! Today's #FridayPaganPoll:When you are practicing your paganism, (prayers, rituals, offerings, meditations, etc.) do you put music on in the background?#Pagan #Witch
(DIR) Post #B4IKahWK7nUyvy661w by Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus
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A fine spring day in Michigan...
(DIR) Post #B4Q5JDoFOLnNogMr0y by Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus
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Half the villiage has been snowed in for the past 4 days. Usually, the neighbor down the road with a plow on his truck will clear out the main road so we can all get to the highway, but the drifts were so high he couldn't make it. The county grader plow just came through and it was like a block party, everyone came out to watch it go by, lol! One lady gave the driver a box of girlscout cookies, we were all honking our horns and clapping. Thankfully, we were stocked up, and we didn't lose power, but I sure am glad to finally be able to leave the house! Some roads still aren't cleared, and the local school has closed for the 6th day in a row. At a record 39.5 inches, this was the worst snowstorm I've seen in my life.
(DIR) Post #B4SBoax4O4Pubpl0pE by Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus
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Hail Freya, it's Friday! Today we have a special Equinox edition of the #FridayPaganPoll:Some pagan traditions consider the equinoxes to be 'minor holidays.' In fact, when Gardner was constructing the modern neopagan Wheel of the Year, he had to look far and wide to find ancient pagan traditions for these times. Both Mabon and Ostara have questionable historical attestations (which I am not here to debate). Regardless, they are absolutely pagan holidays now, because I think most of us celebrate them in some way, lets find out!Do you celebrate today's equinox as part of your pagan practice?(I'll leave the definition of 'celebrate' up to you.)#Witch #Pagan #Ostara
(DIR) Post #B4SRbNNt7NEw251Ig4 by Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus
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I will be delaying my Spring Equinox celebrations until Sunday this year because the once-in-a-lifetime snowstorm we got last week has borked everyone's schedules. I hardly ever move equinox/solstice stuff because I like to celebrate when the event is actually happening, but even mother nature has decided to delay spring by dumping over 3 feet of snow on us, so I figure it's okay, lol. I still took a little time outside this morning for a cup of tea and a breath of fresh air. I also waded through the snow to fill the bird feeder and put out a little hay for my furred and feathered neighbors, who are no doubt struggling with the snow just as we are. #HedgeWitch
(DIR) Post #B4WbQPttCOTepCEzq4 by Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus
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I asked my kids if they wanted to do an egg hunt this year for the Spring Equinox, and they excitedly agreed. They're both in their 20s. I had fun setting it up because I could hide the eggs really well in silly places all over the house to make it difficult. They had a great time, turning it into a competition, laughing and shouting when they found one. My husband even joined in while I gloated about my egg-hiding skills.Anyway, egg hunts aren't just for little kids, let the adults have fun too! I feel like a lot of old pagan celebratory customs are a relaxing of the rules of social behavior. It's permission, for a day, to act like a kid, to be silly, to eat candy for breakfast. I think it's especially important for those of us under our puritan capitalist system, to specifically set aside time to act like a goof and be a bit irresponsible.#Pagan #Ostara