tipsie-tarot:

wodneswynn:

TBH I feel like a lot of the crises of faith we all have so regularly about feeling disconnected from our craft and our gods have got more to do with social pressure and cultural expectations than they really have to do with us.  If you spend a lot of time on witchblr and in other pagan spaces, you’ll get the impression that most people’s lives are just one moment after another of constant religious ecstasy, and so clearly the rest of us are doing something wrong.

For one, that’s just not the case.  Nobody’s life looks like a YA novel; the only reason so-and-so appears to be more beloved by their gods is just because that’s what they primarily talk about; the disconnect is our perception, not their reality, and they put their bra on one boob at a time same as you.

And for two, even if you’ve hit a rut and seriously lapsed in your craft, a passive relationship with divinity is just as valid as an active one.  Like, as for me, every once in a while if I’m struggling with something, I’ll look up at the sky and be like, “Hey, boss:  You remember that time I swore my life and soul over to you?  Could I, like, get something out of that?”  And no, the mighty Father Sky does not ride down on the storm-winds out of the Eternal Blue Heaven to fix all my problems for me, but it certainly does help. 

All practice all the time isn’t possible. And if it was, you’d burn out super quick.

Sometimes I won’t pick up a deck for weeks, forget to make offerings for months, etc. etc. It just happens, and it’s life.

I see all these posts on how to handle lapse in practice, and the number one thing I can ever say is just let it be. Forgive yourself, don’t worry, and just hang out for a minute. 

Your gods will still be there. They’re hangin’ out. They cool, bro. (Unless you’ve sworn some kind of I WILL ALWAYS DO THE THING ALL THE TIME, which is a whole bag of tea in itself).