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Its ok to have an internet-based practice. Polytheism is about weaving your faith and magic into day-to-day life, and in the modern age that means at home in a city or suburb and online. As good as woodland shrines and temple rituals are, the simply are not practical for many people.
Thousands of years ago, the wilderness was all people had. They didn’t necessarily revere it for its virtue of being untouched by humans, they revered it because it was the world they knew. People carved symbols into rocks because they didn’t have pen and paper. Chalices and shells were used because paper cups weren’t a thing. Talismans were carried on leather cords because they obviously didn’t make them in the notes section of their phone.
We live in a world of computers and phones and TV, of highways and skyscrapers and suburbs.
But that can be just as spiritual if you will it. A blog post can be a hymn, a beautiful picture an offering. Candles can be electric but bright as ever. Rainwater can be collected in old mason jars for a ritual done in your bedroom. Yes, we still honor the natural world. Herbs can be grown in window boxes and you can find solace in the tiny patch of trees in-between two roads.
You can honor love deities when you text internet friends who mean the world to you.
You can find liminal spaces in truck-stops and empty streets in the early morning, in abandoned outlet stores and snowy mornings.
You can listen to music and hum along, thinking fondly of your deity of the arts.
You can look up tutorials on candle-making, craftsmanship, amulets, hymn writing and all your devotional interests.
You can watch the pigeons that trundle across the sidewalk and see that nature perseveres under the domination of humans.
You can even form spiritual groups and covens with those you meet online.
Is the connection less real if you discovered the deity online? Is the deity less real if you heard their whispers from your laptop rather than the woods?
Remember that the world changes around us but the spirits are still here. The moon and stars you look up to at night are the same your predecessors saw.
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Its ok to have an internet-based practice. Polytheism is about weaving your faith and magic into day-to-day life, and in the modern age that means at home in a city or suburb and online. As good as woodland shrines and temple rituals are, the simply are not practical for many people.
Thousands of years ago, the wilderness was all people had. They didn’t necessarily revere it for its virtue of being untouched by humans, they revered it because it was the world they knew. People carved symbols into rocks because they didn’t have pen and paper. Chalices and shells were used because paper cups weren’t a thing. Talismans were carried on leather cords because they obviously didn’t make them in the notes section of their phone.
We live in a world of computers and phones and TV, of highways and skyscrapers and suburbs.
But that can be just as spiritual if you will it. A blog post can be a hymn, a beautiful picture an offering. Candles can be electric but bright as ever. Rainwater can be collected in old mason jars for a ritual done in your bedroom. Yes, we still honor the natural world. Herbs can be grown in window boxes and you can find solace in the tiny patch of trees in-between two roads.
You can honor love deities when you text internet friends who mean the world to you.
You can find liminal spaces in truck-stops and empty streets in the early morning, in abandoned outlet stores and snowy mornings.
You can listen to music and hum along, thinking fondly of your deity of the arts.
You can look up tutorials on candle-making, craftsmanship, amulets, hymn writing and all your devotional interests.
You can watch the pigeons that trundle across the sidewalk and see that nature perseveres under the domination of humans.
You can even form spiritual groups and covens with those you meet online.
Is the connection less real if you discovered the deity online? Is the deity less real if you heard their whispers from your laptop rather than the woods?
Remember that the world changes around us but the spirits are still here. The moon and stars you look up to at night are the same your predecessors saw.
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