the grey emotion 🌑

Also I encourage those of you who weren’t even tagged to look it at when you have the time :D

The way I approach holidays is very “inspired”, and not at all reconstructionist. The longer I go, the more I just… integrate Kemetic/Hellenic deities into holidays/months that I already celebrate. It’s easy for me to worship Aphrodite in April, or Sutekh in the winter and fall, or Nebet-het during Halloween, because the world around me reflects aspects of those deities (to me).

Alternatively, though, I try to stick to a more reconstructionist approach during ritual and prayer, especially when I’m approaching deities for the first time. (The biggest exception to this is Sobek, who I’m a little bit more experimental with.) And I prefer it this way- when I’m approaching deities through a framework I think they’ll be familiar with, with caution and respect, they usually react better and stronger.

I also combine elements of both. I’m fairly comfortable worshiping Kemetic and Hellenic deities together, because they were worshiped together in Alexandria. At the same time, it’s dubious that the deities I bring together are the same ones that the Alexandrians brought together. 

-To counter that, I’d probably wouldn’t bring, say,  Thor and Sutekh into ritual together, because to my knowledge, their cultures never met in antiquity, and the deities might not “get along”. (This being based off my own approach to religion; other perspectives will differ)

I decided to share the entirety of my devotional fiction, “The Grey Emotion” (which is also the namesake for my blog title!)