About Patch and this Blog
-I'm known on the internet as Patch.
I have been a practising Hellenic polytheist for 4 years.
- After following a re-con methodology for a number of years, I became unable to ignore the call to witchcraft and so here I am today exploring how this fits into my practice.This blog primarily deals with devotional worship, Hellenic polytheism, pagan living and a whole lot of navel gazing.
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The silly things I agree to do! – Dionysia
I have lots of things that I want to post about here. I still mean to re-write the shadow work post that got eaten last week, in addition to musing about the direction in which my relationship with Hera is … Continue reading
Posted in festival, Hellenic polytheism, Local community, Ritual
Tagged city dionysia, dionysia, dionysos, festivals, hellenic polytheism, pagan community, ritual, Wheel of the year
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D is for Deipnon (again!)
This was last years D topic too, but it was Hekate’s Deipnon a few days ago and so I saved this brief little post for today! I did my usual ritual in which I cleaned my shrines and cleansed my living … Continue reading
Theogamia 2013
Theogamia began at sundown on Thursday. It is the ancient Athenian festival in celebration of the marriage of Zeus and Hera. Since Hera has become pretty damn important to me this year, I decided to make this a big event in my calendar! … Continue reading
Posted in Altars, festival, Hellenic polytheism, Ritual, The gods
Tagged Altars and Shrines, festivals, food, hellenic polytheism, Hera, offerings, photos, ritual, theogamia, zeus
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Introversion, Imbolc, and using internet powers for good; not evil.
I’m writing this post tucked up in bed between breaks in the last episode of breaking bad (I am going to marry Jesse and take him away from all that!!), sipping camomile tea with spearmint, yay! As I think I … Continue reading
Pagan Pride Nottingham
I arrived back from my holiday in Gran Canaria at 6am Sunday morning. I had 4 hours sleep at my parents’ house and then drove up to my (new!) house in Nottingham, to attend this years pagan pride parade. I … Continue reading
Posted in festival, Local community
Tagged festivals, local community, pagan community, pagan pride, photos
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What I was up to
Before my life was taken up by looking at bacteria in blood and faeces (believe it or not, I actually chose this career), I was looking to bring about some important changes in my spiritual practice. For now this has … Continue reading
Posted in Altars, ancestors, Devotion, Life, Religious practice
Tagged Altars and Shrines, devotion, festivals, nature, personal practice, seasonal
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Imbolc
I generally do not celebrate the neopagan wheel of the year outside of large, non-specific community gatherings. However Imbolc is an exception. I adore this time of year because spring is just around the corner (bringing with it warmth, new growth and … Continue reading
Posted in festival, Food, Local community, nature, Religious practice
Tagged dreams, festivals, food, nature, Pagan blog project, personal practice, seasonal, Wheel of the year
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Question: Dionysian festival
The other night I dreamt I was honouring Dionysos for a festival that began with T. I want to say it sounded something like ‘thalusia’ but that might be my concious mind trying to make sense of things after the … Continue reading
