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 Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 5:33 pm
I know there's already a thread about what deities you pray to most often/have the strongest relationship with. This is similar but there's more to it. The strong relationship is a part of it. But often, when honoring Gods, you make a chice about who you want to honor. What about when a God chooses you? Has a Deity ever made themselves known in your life, even before you knew who they were? What about one who buts to get your attention when you're trying to deal with someone else?
Feel free to share stories, discuss opinions and whatnot.
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 6:07 pm
Very nicely phrased OP 4laugh
The first time I met Loki properly he actually thrust himself right into me (NOT LIKE THAT) and told me what was what. Meanwhile I'm sitting there going "ohshit it's Loki, I mean I like him and everything but whatdoido?!"
He actually let me have an out, though, when things got more "serious". Which I didn't take. Often I wonder if this is his way of saying, later, "you've no one to blame but yourself for this" or something xd
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 6:05 pm
That sounds completely in character for Loki.
My personal experience is with Freyja. It was sort of subtle and sort of not. She was one of my "imaginary" friends when I was a little girl. Actually the term I used for them was sisters. Freya was my sister. I was five and I didn't know anything about Norse Gods so the name didn't mean anything special to me but she certainly did. Anyway, I got older and, like most people, left my imaginary friends behind. When I started looking into paganism I sort of drifted towards the Northern Gods. At first, though she sounded very cool, I didn't make the connection. One day I was thinking about my old "sisters" though and the name Freya popped at me. "Wait a minute. Freya. Freyja?!?? That Freyja?" At that point she stepped in with an amused "Hello again! Took you long enough." It was sort of like a smack on the head and a tight hug all at once.
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 6:23 pm
^_^
I was aware of Loki from a young age. But from a distance. Nothing like your experience wink I remember knowing of him, and having read that tale about him and the fisherman's son. (Which I remembered years later and had to go on a mad quest to find again.) But it was way at the back of my mind. It was there but I didn't think about it, for the longest time.
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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 2:06 pm
How can you be sure if it's a deity?
Not that I question your experiences, just, I want to know more. Has anyone had experiences with other deities, or is it just the Norse gods and goddesses who make themselves known?
What made you think it was a god, and not just your own self?
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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 3:39 pm
Both of us are Norse pagans, that's why our experineces are with the Norse Gods. I've know others who've had similar experiences with other Gods. Just no one else has posted any here.
As to how I know or not, Iv actually don't care about the psychological of it. I could care less if the things I interpret as Gods and magic actually come from some hidden part of my own mind. Freyja thinks and acts in ways that are very differnt from my own personality and she and her ilk feel like outside forces to me. Other than that it would be difficult to explain in a way that someone who hasn't been through something similar would understand.
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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:25 pm
So I have a question about this subject see. I am curious as to how getting a Patron Deity works? Like for instance a friend of my mother's 'gave' my mother to Hecate, making Hecate her Patron...does that work? How can you find out who your Patron Deity is? Can you choose one?
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Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:59 am
PersianPapiiChulo So I have a question about this subject see. I am curious as to how getting a Patron Deity works? Like for instance a friend of my mother's 'gave' my mother to Hecate, making Hecate her Patron...does that work? How can you find out who your Patron Deity is? Can you choose one? Works differently with different pantheons. The Greek lot, if we're drawing from Greek culture here, have a structured "Patron-client relationship" thing that will influence how that works. (This, by the way, is where we get the term "patron" from, but it won't work in the same way for every culture.) In Norse we have the term "fulltrui", implying a very close friend, a friend who is Tru. "Full trust." I imagine different pantheons will have different associated terms. Whether that could happen, with your friend? possibly. That would depend deeply on that friend's relationship with Hekate and what Hekate required of her. I would imagine your mother would also have to consent but that might depend on how Hekate thinks about it. Sometimes a god decides they want you, and that's that. You can't choose one. They'll find you, generally. It's a close relationship formed over a long period of time. It involves service.
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Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 1:34 pm
Sanguina Cruenta You can't choose one. They'll find you, generally. It's a close relationship formed over a long period of time. It involves service. Though, you can, essentialy, make an offer to a God that you think you have a connection with and see if they're interested. If they are, they will make it known. And you can have a strong connection to a deity without them being your "Patron Deity".
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Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:33 am
Yus yus! That's very true. 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:56 pm
So I was thinking about this recently. I realized that there was another experience that I hadn't made the connection on when it happened but clicked into place fairly strongly upon reflection. There was the stuff with Freyja when I was a kid and the eventual realization but there was another moment.
Not long before I made the connection about Freyja, I attended a ritual with the open circle in the area. They were doing a lot of very ceremonial stuff and some seidh-like trance work and there was a lot of energy swirling around. Anyway, during everything that was going on (too much to go into just now) I heard a horn call. Now I knew I was the only one hearing it but it didn't sound the way things in my head usually sound. I was very real but still for my ears alone. It was very insistent and had the feel of a summoning. A summoning directed at me. As it continued an image formed in my mind of a woman with slightly wild blond hair and a cloak made of feathers. At the time I hadn't come across any mentions of Freyja's falcon feather cloak yet and I didn't make the connection. I couldn't yet identify her and after a time it slipped from my mind. It wasn't untill I was discussing that ritual with someone a few weeks ago that it hit me like a brick.
Thanks for that Freyja. I know you're laughing about that. You couldn't have brought that up when I realized who you were? No? I suppose I'll just have to pay more attention to such things. Which I guess is the poin isn't it?
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Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 1:11 pm
In Vodou there is a thing called a Met Tet- or a Master of Your Head. When you feel called to Vodou, you have a reading done to see who is on your head.
That reading is very important- it lets you know who out of the hundreds of spirits you'll be doing most of your work with.
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Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 5:45 pm
Esiris In Vodou there is a thing called a Met Tet- or a Master of Your Head. When you feel called to Vodou, you have a reading done to see who is on your head. That reading is very important- it lets you know who out of the hundreds of spirits you'll be doing most of your work with. What if the person doing the reading gets it wrong?
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:47 am
I feel that I have had several experiences with Aphrodite. . . From a young age, I would read her myths and feel a deep connection with her, as if she was resonating inside of me. I tried to tell other people about it, but they often told me that she was just a story, and that I should let her go. Still, I wore a pin I found of her every day and would cry myself to sleep wishing she was "real," above all other Gods and Goddesses I read about.
Later in my life, when I discovered paganism and finally opened myself up, I felt her presence immediately. She has comforted me with her warm embrace in my darkest times and made herself visible to me in the flame of a candle, and the beauty of all things.
My strongest impression of her, though, was when I was going through a bad break-up. The girl I was with at the time was treating me badly, and although I wanted to leave her, I was too afraid that if I left, I would never find any sort of love again. It took me two months to work up the courage, and after, I was terrible shape. . . I started trying to use others' affections to validate me, and I started drinking more than usual. Finally, after I went overboard one night, I made a resolution to get better. I prayed to Aphrodite that I may find light and love where I thought there was only darkness. Not even an hour later, I had a chance meeting with a boy. Two months later, under very different circumstances, we became friends. A few weeks after that, we started dating.
We're now engaged, and he is the light of my life. A light found through love, gifted to me by Aphrodite.
I consider her my patron in every way, and keep her in my thoughts constantly.
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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 1:28 pm
I still don't have one. But I'm not worried. I made a promise of an offering to Minerva to help me with mid terms and she came through. I made another promise of an offering today so we shall see. The family has a patron in my path, but I am the only one in my family so be a Roman Recon so it takes time. Though the Norse Gods keep calling to me as well, so I've been doing some more research on them and how the Romans would have adapted them. We'll see.
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