Paganism

I worship penis, does that count?

I'm a practicing pagan fellow. Merry Meet! 🌒🌕🌘

The supernatural is for bozos.

OP = overweight tarot card reader with velvet pouch of runestones in tow

Oh, honey—I stopped practicing years ago. I play for keeps.

Saturday is Lughnasadh (i.e., Harvest, called Gwyl Awst in my tradition), and next week is the Corn Moon and the beginning of the Month of Coll (i.e., Hazel, in the Ogham).

How will you bitches celebrate? I’ll likely do my usual ritual damage (break a bowl or a mug, or something) and go scrumping fruit where I can find it to steal. Beyond that though, it’s hard to know what to do, given it’s been such a quiet uneventful and unproductive year thanks to that bastard virus. No-one’s been sowing or reaping much, metaphorically-speaking, and everyone is in frugality mode because of uncertainty about the coming Winter. Most people of this era don’t have a close relationship to the land or food grown in it, either. So, how to give thanks or enjoy abundance in such a climate?

The presiding God of the season Lugh/Lleu (I know him as Lugg) is of course the spear-wielding, shoe-making and crow-whispering King of Oaths. Perhaps there’s some clues there as to how devotee can close out the Summer in proper Pagan style - I’m thinking burning a prayer or leaving out food for the crows could be apt.

Stealth Midsomer Murders thread?

R1 many ancient animistic & polytheistic cultures venerated the shaft & balls. You are not alone in time, Pagan friend.

Shakespeare was an Animist, or at least several of his most famous leading characters were.

And our true hero Kit Marlowe was a full-blown unapologetic Gay Pagan (Gaygan???) by the end.

Paganism died with Ancient Rome.

I was really into the whole pagan storyline in True Blood. Does that count, OP?

R10 Not really.

Pagan and Worshipper of the Dong!