The Witch Instinct 🕷🕸ᚹᛁᛋᚺᚨᚱᚨ

Heathen, witch, wife, woodland creature living in England. American. WASP: White Anglo-Saxon Pagan. Wīshara 🐇 (ᚹᛁᛋᚺᚨᚱᚨ).

[Brian Nijman @BrianNijman]

Ancestors,
Guide me home.

Ancestors,
Guide my heart.

[ᅠ ᅠ @greenvibe]

Flowers have their own kind of magic.

[The Witch Instinct 🕷🕸ᚹᛁᛋᚺᚨᚱᚨ @witch_instinct]

Very similar to my story. Reading about Thor and calling to him while a thunderstorm raged, realizing that he was far more real to me than Jesus or anything I learned in Sunday school. Once I was told about the concept of original sin as a child, there was no hope of me ever being Christian. A few years later, I tried doing magic inspired by Tolkien and then over the next 25 years, I grew into the Heathen I am today.

[Brian Nijman @BrianNijman]

Nature is a force that the Gods too are part of - they are not supernatural.

We don't "venerate or worship" Nature because it is in itself not sentient; it's the cosmic order as well as the chaos it expands from. The Gods didn't create Nature but established order within it - an order the corporeal maintain as we are part of that created order.

Animism is, and always will be at the core of any Native Faith. Everything, from man to God, from plant to mountain, is part of Nature; the animist knows and respects this.

[ᅠ ᅠ @greenvibe]

A garden painted by spring.

[The Witch Instinct 🕷🕸ᚹᛁᛋᚺᚨᚱᚨ @witch_instinct]

@Burnzyrefr @Anglo_Warrior Me and The Commodore 🐰❤️🐰

[Urbanponds101 @urbanponds101]

Treating myself to a few minutes of tranquility

[The Witch Instinct 🕷🕸ᚹᛁᛋᚺᚨᚱᚨ @witch_instinct]

I have not yet reached the crossroads, but I can see where the path splits just up ahead. I haven't yet decided which way to turn.

Intuition pulls one way, necessity tugs another. I have followed the path, yet I am lost in the forest.

[ᅠ ᅠ @greenvibe]

Beauty grows where it is least expected.

[The Witch Instinct 🕷🕸ᚹᛁᛋᚺᚨᚱᚨ @witch_instinct]

@Heliotrophy @postmugglism Every culture has some type of herbalist tradition using plants native to the region in question.

[The Witch Instinct 🕷🕸ᚹᛁᛋᚺᚨᚱᚨ @witch_instinct]

https://t.co/DAptUqy401

[The Witch Instinct 🕷🕸ᚹᛁᛋᚺᚨᚱᚨ @witch_instinct]

@Orthon_Spaceman @AngloPlayboy_ First suggestion: capitalize the P in Paganism. We may not be a fairh with centralized order the way that Christianity has become, but we at least deserve capitalization for our Faith.

[The Witch Instinct 🕷🕸ᚹᛁᛋᚺᚨᚱᚨ @witch_instinct]

Yes, that's my view. However, (though it may contradict official doctrine) not every follower of Abrahamism takes that stance, so if there were Christians out there who thought exposure to Paganism might be beneficial to them beyond internet sparring and attempts at conversion, they would be the ones I'd be interested in talking to.

[The Witch Instinct 🕷🕸ᚹᛁᛋᚺᚨᚱᚨ @witch_instinct]

@kingradbod @Politzania10 In what sense? In the sense that Abrahamism is world denying and Paganism is world affirming and nature oriented, perhaps so.