*shakes bars*
i'm not woo.
i believe that the slaughter of pagans served a political goal in the expansion of christian empire, and so i attempt to revive some elements of pagan cultures as a way to fight oppressive hegemony.
*shakes bars harder*
i do this in community with friends & loved ones who never surrendered their cultures, to build bridges among colonized peoples from different places. i consider magic to be cultural technologies for meaning making. admittedly, i have absolutely seen some shit that makes very little sense, and witchcraft imbues the world with a smol level of magic, as a treat of wonder, which i rely on to make it through this hellacape.
*begins to kick base of bars*
i believe that so much useful knowledge & culture was destroyed or harmed by christian assimilation that we do ourselves a disservice to write off paganism entirely.
*screaming*
i just want to celebrate imbloc & pray to the poem god as a way to break up the winter monotony. i'm literally not hurting anyone 😭