New server #introduction (I’m not new to Mastodon)

Derbyshire based (for now) #artist and #illustrator, semi reclusive, left leaning, tea drinking, #nature loving, finder of cosy corners.

A bundle of contractions, should never be left unattended in a book shop…ever!

Likes - books, music (most genres), art, #folklore, history, #curio & oddities, #weird stuff, enthusiasm, #symbolism, #stories, a quiet life!

"A bit odd... in a good way!"
"Not quite #pagan but not far off" (apparently!)

Multiple reports say that the building housing the Theosophical Society of America in Los Angeles has been destroyed along with the majority of its artifacts by the devastating fires.

https://wildhunt.org/2025/01/la-fires-claim-theosophical-society-building-and-archives.html

#lafires #losangeles #TheosophicalSociety #Theosophy #pagan #cafires #palisadesfire

Solstice postcards should be a thing. I bet people who celebrate Yule/Solstice/Saturnalia get a lot fewer festive postcards...

#Solstice #pagan #witchy #holidays

A special Garden Grimoire for those spirits that flourish with the flora. 💚

It's been a long day, but I'm so amused by designing these. A friend of mine who loves to draw and sketch plants requested this design. I can't wait to stalk her and take pictures as she's huddled in an awkward position in the garden to do her sketches in style. 😎

https://www.redbubble.com/i/notebook/Garden-Grimoire-by-OddlyWitchy/166691487.RXH2R

#advertising #fedigiftshop #witch #witchcraft #pagan #paganism #garden #gardening

The moment when an acquaintance asks me "do you have rituals?"

And I realize way too late that they meant daily habits...

#paganism #pagan #oops

😅 😶

Philostratus keeps on giving:

A huge part of the book is about Palamedes, the Greek hero who got himself completely written out of the Iliad.
For dissing Odysseus too much.

No wonder Odysseus was pissed, there are some great one-liners in there :D

Oh, and the guy invented writing, numbers, and dice. In case you needed a #pagan patron of #DnD players.

#ttrpg #mythology #books

This solstice marks a year since I decided to explore (a very personal form of) paganism. It has been a soft, welcome change in my life, and also quite a journey. It is a challenge to find my own way with a traditional Catholic upbringing behind me and a very skeptical archeologist mind. But a lot of things have fallen into place and I love that.

Today it made me happy to find ivy for solstice decorations. It's the little things. 😊

#pagan #paganism #solstice #spirituality #religion

Antoninus Liberalis also mentions that on Crete people worshiped Leto the Grafter, a goddess who changed a woman into a man by "grafting organs on him". Just saying.

#mythology #pagan #queer #LGBTQ #folklore #Classics