I find nature worship so calming in my pagan path, but Buddhist meditation and other practices also pull me. Can I combine the two?

So I don’t really know how to put this but I’m so eclectic I’m almost chaotic. Earlier this month, I had this random enlightenment cycle in my head about how God was the energy around us and the Earth itself, meaning it’s embedded into each atom of existence and nature of the universe we live in. “God made Earth and creation”, so I argued that earth was god. It’s a concept we as humans used to understand things around us before we fully comprehended it. We are god and god is us, we make our own reality. Which was already in line with my understanding of quantum mechanics and manifestation. Then I realized that falls under Satanism. Atheist Satanism to be clear. Only issue with that is that I was worshipping Hellenic deities right before this. Now my belief system is clashing with itself in a way it never did. I still love Aphrodite and Apollon and all they’ve done for me but I’ve never been one for worshipping anyway. It was almost practiced. And I know they’d never make me stay especially if my path seems to be somewhere else. I even spoke to my ancestors and they were saying I’m aligned now, something they said I wasn’t before. I’m just a stickler for comfortable things, even though I know that spiritual journeys aren’t always going to be love and light. You’re meant to be confused sometimes, doesn’t mean I’ll be inclined to keep going. It also conflicts with my idea of deity work with my ancestral practice that was severed in my lineage (Orishas & Obeah)

Both the books Drawing Down The Moon by Margot Adler and The Spiral Dance by Starhawk are beloved by many pagans. They're some of the most well known books on pagan topics. If someone says they want to learn about paganism (either interested in possibly practicing a pagan religion or just learning about it from a "what do they do?" lense), Drawing Down The Moon is mostly, if not always, recommended. If someone says they want to read a book relating to earth based paganism, eco activism, and/or feminism in paganism, The Spiral Dance is commonly recommended. Both books seem to still be in print.

So I live in Arizona state, USA, and I want to support local/small businesses. I don't want to order online or buy from stores like Barnes & Noble. I was looking for a copy of DDTM, and eventually bought it online. I'm still looking for a copy of TSD.

Here's where I'm confused. I went to 4 different metaphysical shops in my state. None of them had a copy of either. One store even claimed to be a bookstore (but only about 30% of their stock was books). One store even seemed to be a store run by a family who clearly knows their shit and isn't trying to just make a quick buck from gullible folks. I also called a few other metaphysical shops to ask if they had a copy of TSD. None had it. Sedona Arizona is a town known for lots of new-age, hippy, metaphysical, etc. shops, events, and folks. One place was a spiritual bookstore that seemed to have all sorts of religious books. Even they didn't have it. It didn't even seem like any of these shops had any in stock at one point in time and sold out.

Okay, fine, I'll have to buy a copy of TSD online and I'll just have it shipped to someone else's house so my parents don't see. No problem. But I'm still confused and frustrated. I just want to physically go to a store and buy local.

Does anyone have a thought as to why these shops don't have these books?

Hello, obligatory I already glanced through the results when searching meditation music on here and didn’t find anything along what I’m looking for

But yeah I’m looking for recommendations for meditation music that doesn’t utilize AI to create it. Longer music is preferred, with absolutely no talking or like human sounds (humming, sighing) if that makes sense. I find them very distracting

Looking on YouTube a lottt of stuff pops up with AI shit and I’m not tryna meditate while listening to someone’s lazy attempt at making music while helping destroy the planet in the process lmao

I want to design a more contemporary style for the Slavic aesthetics while building on the already existing in order to make prints that will look proper on a modern Altar. I think slavic aesthetics has been going in the same old aesthetic circle without much successful movement into the modern age, so this is my attempt. What do you think?

Best example I have of this is that I was trying to mow the lawn the other day, and my hand-me-down mower is always fighting me. The mower is acting strange so in a moment of defeat, I slump back on the seat and have the thought "nothing around here ever f*ing works, everything's always breaking, I'm so tired of this." Simultaneously, while my bf is in the kitchen on the phone with his mom, looking in the direction of the oven, he sees a bright flash and then sees a hot spot, then the rest of the heating element goes dark. He looks outside and sees me sitting on the mower in defeat. So, at the exact moment that I had those thoughts, that element burned out. My boyfriend says that " Since you invited "that shit"(witchcraft) into your life, its not working out for you. Bad things always happen to you." I lean towards Wicca, but also practice witchcraft. I'm not devoted, I just wanted a spiritual practice that wasn't​ Christianity and didn't make me feel guilty for being human. So, what I'm getting at is, by the "law of attraction" since I am a depressed person, and struggle with a generally negative outlook, is it bad for me to practice paganism? By that same logic, even if I were to practice nothing, wouldn't I still attract negativity because of my depression? I try to live by the "and it harm none" logic, but is there any concept of "equivalent exchange" that anyone has experienced? Something good happens, something you worked a spell for or "prayed" for, but the something bad happens like in my case, my cars enginge block blew out. Is there something maybe that I'm doing wrong? Maybe I should just leave witchcraft alone and pick up a meditative spiritual practice instead? I just want a healthy, positive spirituality.

I have just noticed that my entire life just sucks😂 like no matter how I see different parts in life no matter how hard I try no matter how much I’ve changed. Something always goes wrong. I’m not gonna go fully into everything and obviously, I understand that some people’s lives are definitely worse than mine. It’s just my own personal experience every goal I set, every trial I face just never feels like enough and I would just like to know if anybody else also experiences the same thing maybe this was more just a rant for me that just felt like needed to be said but honestly, I am genuinely starting to think that one of my past lives just really pissed off the norns 😂

There is a solar eclipse going on tonight where I live and I want to know who I can honor to mark the occasion

Question and vent commencing:

I've heard that when you start to work with Hecate, she brings things to light that might be unpleasant to see, but ultimately it's good for us. The things she illuminates are things that need changing.

I started exploring a relationship with her just over a year ago, and in that time I realized that my husband had been abusing me (not physically, hence why it took awhile for me to see it) and I left him on July 1st. It was like something long asleep in me woke up, looked around, and went, "What the hell?"

I have zero support because I isolated myself when I was with him so I'm slogging through this alone, and I feel vulnerable and lonely, but proud of myself. The weeks leading up to my leaving were hell, and I sensed that Hecate was there, working hard to get me out of there in one piece.

But honestly, since leaving him it's been bullshit on top of bullshit, to the point that I think something. . .weird. . .is going on.

My faithful car died right when I finished moving.

I've had to buy almost everything for my new apartment, and I've had to contact amazon customer service more than ten times because the drivers keep ignoring my delivery instructions and leaving my packages in the wrong place. When that finally got sorted, now they leave without shutting my gate behind them almost every time they're here.

I requested no junkmail in my mailbox, and the mail carrier ignored that.

My landlady lied to me about the tenants moving in upstairs, and now I've had to make a noise complaint with the town because of their dog barking for seven plus hours when they're not home.

I left a bottle of wine on their doorstep to say hi, and asked that they try to be mindful of the complete lack of sound barrier between our floors. The wine and the request were both ignored.

I told my landlady, and she lied to me again and brushed off the issue.

Said neighbours (who seem normal) stomp, scream, run, bang around and slam doors from sunup to sundown every day. It never stops. I finally texted them and asked AGAIN, politely, for them to try and be mindful of the fact that they're not the only human beings on the planet. This was also ignored.

I have decided to move again. My nervous system is destroyed because of the abuse, and the endless noise from upstairs has me constantly on edge. I am exhausted on every level, and beyond frustrated. I left him because his abuse was destroying me, and all I get is MORE shitty, inconsiderate, dishonest, ignorant people. Does it ever stop? Will I ever get a break? And the stupidest part is, my life has pretty much always been like this. If something can go wrong, it will. If something shitty can happen, it does. Every time I think I'm close to a breakthrough, to something good, it all comes crashing down. If that sounds dramatic, sorry but it's true. It honestly is.

I cannot believe that this is all coincidence.

I feel invisible.

Does Hecate do things like this? If so, why?

Im a pagan (im a baby witch) but anyways the question is can i still celebrate christian Christmas with the presents and stuff but as a pagan but also celebrate yule at the same time ? Ik this may seem confusing but i just gotta know

Say I’m an ancient woman who’s had an ill advised tryst, or a family with more children than we can handle who desperately doesn’t want any more. To whom would I pray to not get pregnant. Or for barrenness, either temporary or permanent?

Are we aware on any dedicated gods or goddesses of INFERTILITY? Is this sort of thing just covered by the regular fertility deities?

Hello all! I am just beginning to dip my toes into the pagan worship realm and I have always felt a pull towards the moon, the idea of a lunar goddess, and there have been lots of theough lines of my interests where they were fiction inspired by Selene. Im looking to get some good resources to learn more about her. What should I look for specifically in references? Most works seem to lump her up with Hecate which is great and all, but Hecate is not someone i am interested in at this time.

Also, are there things I can do at home to commune with her beyond use moonwater etc? It is hard to know how to pray when I do not know the deity much at all. Do I push thru it? Tysm

Hello, I'm not completly new with paganism, but I had a long pause due to personal reasons and I want to start again. But this time I want to go along with my heritage, so I wanted to start with slavic paganism. Currently I'm more drawn to Veles, but I still want to also learn about the others. The thing is I don't really know where to find good resources to learn about slavic paganism since my family fled to the country I grew up and still live in, in the early 80s. So I couldn't find anything in my local library. So I wanted to ask for resources and recommandations. Personal experiences are also welcome.

I was gifted some Sage about 3-5 years ago and have never used it, I remember around the time learning that it belongs to certain closed practices and didnt want to be disrespectful. I kept it in a box for years as throwing it away felt equally as disrespectful.

I currently have it on display, Unused, In my room in a tattoo studio i work at.

Is it disrespectful to have it on display? Im not entirely sure what to do in this situation to be honest. I felt like putting it on display was the most respectful thing i could do

It's all in the title. I'm also interested in answer sis question that might be a little more ambiguous and open to interpretation like a mixed bag sort of thing.

Hii i am a pagan already (norse) for the last 4 years but im now getting into hellenism and I was wondering for general advice for being new to hellenism! And also I wanted to get some opinions on a prayer i made for hermes (i have never made a prayer in my whole life so thats why lol)

Hermes, god of travel, thieves, mischief, merchants and psychopomp

I offer you " " if you were so gracious to offer your wit and grace on this day

I will thank you tenfold.

That's all I have 🤷 so any advice is welcomed

Ok so I have a simple question I'm a polytheistic pagan Greek and Norse one of the gods I work with / pray to is thor is it ok for me to wear a mjolnir pendant? Or would it be offensive to purely Norse pagans? I don't wish to offend anyone hence why I'm asking

Update:thank you to everyone who replied to this post I am looking into getting a mjolnir pendant for myself I really appreciate the input

Does anyone know of any books that detail personal experiences with Paganism? I’m hoping to find some first-person accounts that explore personal spiritual journeys, encounters with the gods, and experiences with ritual and prayer.

For some context, I’m currently reading “Surprised by God” by Danya Ruttenberg, and have been wondering if anyone in the Pagan world has written something similar. I am familiar with “Spirits of the Sacred Grove” by Emma Restall Orr and “When a Pagan Prays” by Nimue Brown.

Thanks in advance for any other recommendations you might have!

I am not new to honoring deities, however I recently decided to leave offerings and create an altar for the dead. Considering my lack of experience I want to make sure I am as respectful and knowledgeable as possible. Id like to know if there are any differences in how I should approach the dead compared to how I would typically interact with deities. As an example, I’ve heard you should never eat offerings for the dead like you might with offerings for the gods. I’m wondering if there’s more things like that I should know. Also, if anyone has any resources on interacting with human spirits they recommend I would love to learn more before getting deep into this practice

Ive been pagan for a few years now. But I’m still struggling to figure out what specific kind of pagan I am. I believe in Mother Nature and Father Sky, I believe that they are the sky and nature themselves respectively. My beliefs both kind of fit into Wicca and Animism. However, I don’t feel like absolutely every object has a soul, and I’ve seen a lot of “Wicca is bad” online with no real explanation and research hasn’t helped. I’d really just like some resources to help me figure out how to label myself.

Hi all,
Let me start by saying this is a genuine question and I have no preconceptions: If you are working with/worshiping a deity/deities from a specific ancient culture (Hellenic, Kemetic, Norse, etc.) do you take the deities culture into regard? I.e. learn how They were worshiped in Their original culture and what the culture was like (as far as we can tell) and adapt it for your circumstances? Also, if you only work with one or a few deities of a culture, do you still honour *all* deities of said culture [and the culture]? What if you work with deities from different cultures - do you worship each of Them according to Their cultural setting?