I Wish This Was A Real Pokemon, I'd Gladly Have One As My Partner Pokemon.

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Yule art that put me in the holiday spirit!

Michael Kerbow, Esther Remmington

Renae Taylor art, Margaret Ellis

Renae Taylor arts, L. Helje

Julien Hatswell, Briar

Wendy Andrews, Lynn Bywaters art

Druidry is based on what we can assume from Ancient Druid traditions. Which includes the religions that were around at the time as well. Now here's a very important thing, we don't know much because the Druids would pass things down through oral tradition, and the Christianization of the Celtic nations caused it to die.

What we know about Ancient Druids: Druid was a job position and status, they did a lot of things like advise, heal, and mediate conflicts.

Modern Druidry is not Ancient Druidry. We literally cannot be like the ancient Druids because we don't know enough about them and we also aren't going to be advising kings that's just- not happening.

Modern Druidry, however, is based in what little we know. No one is claiming it is exact, and if they are, they are wrong.

What we know about the culture where the druids existed: Holidays, clothing, religion (thanks to some Christian priests who wrote myths down during the Christianization of the nations), legends and other mythology not relating directly to religion, the Fair folk (aka Fae).

With what we know about Ancient Druids, and what we know about the culture itself, we have attempted to combine into the religion/spirituality of Modern Druidry. We call ourselves Druids not because we are advisors to kings, but because we are honoring the Ancient Druids that were once spiritual leaders and important members of society. What we follow is hopefully something close to what Ancient Celts would have followed.

Why? For a lot of reasons, but let's just go with the simple answer "because we like it" just like with any damn religion.

Forest Nymph by Hans Heyerdahl (1890)

After considering @alchemicalmoth’s question (is Steve Roger Ra to Sam’s Horus?) I’ve decided to rewrite my original premise that Sam Wilson is Horus. I’m so dumb, lol, it was right there all along; Sam is Garuda, and Steve is Vishnu. In this context, the Shield is the spinning Chakram.

Vishnu’s snakes represent human desire, and his ability to lay comfortably on them represents hisvictory over temptation. Garuda is also a snake hunter and rules over birds of prey. He represents the struggle between good and evil. The snake is marvel’s Hydra, and the struggle is Red Skull’s brainwashing. Also notice how Vishnu rests in the waters, where Steve was found encased in ice.

Thanks for your question, moth. It got me thinking 😊

Merry Christmas everyone

I wish more than anything else, that I could believe in magic.

I want to wake up, and know that there are tree spirits in the forests. I want to go hike across the countryside and see a fairy circle, and think "that means something." I want to see a rabbit and truly believe it can hear and understand me. I want the northern lights to have some meaning, to be the spirits dancing across the sky, instead of just sun spots.

Yo Catholic stuff had so much magic in it, it's not funny. Hell even lifted stuff straight from the pagans. Light a candle at Mass? That's magic. Christmas? Thank you pagans for the most popular Western holiday.

“You can’t be Catholic and an occultist” is the take of someone with an extremely limited understanding of both the faith and the canons it both established and was formed from

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