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That’s all perfectly okay! Many people are Pagan and don’t believe in magic and deities. 

-Tema

I’d recommend you looking into Humanistic Paganism. It might have what you’re looking for.

Sounds to me like the Wiccan Lord of the Forest, but I may be wrong. Can some others weigh in?

-Tema

I’m not very familiar, but it does sound like the wiccan Forest deity, or maybe Lucifer. Lucifer can sometimes be linked to “the wilds”. But again, not things I’m inherently familiar with. Followers?

It depends on the individual. I believe, personally, in the personification of night as Lady and forest as Lord, therefore the Goddess and God. Others may believe otherwise. Some may worship Gods and Goddesses from other pantheons within their study, and that’s perfectly okay, though it may be unorthodox in some practices, and, again, that’s perfectly okay. Being one with yourself is what matters. 

-Tema

From my understanding of it, (neo)Wicca is a more soft polytheistic practice. They see all gods and goddesses as facets of the God and Goddess. So using that paradigm both Diana and Freyja would be facets, parts of a greater whole, that is the Wiccan Goddess.

We don’t give out spells, but anything giving thanks for getting you through surgery and wishing for a good recovery should be sufficient. 

Etsy!

-Tema Koinu

In the meantime, you can use stones such as amethyst, agate, lepidolite (or pretty much any stone with a violet/ purple hue, in a pinch) under your pillow or near where you sleep.

> Smudge

Edit: please make sure that if you’re buying dreamcatchers, you’re doing so from indigenous artists.

Generally, a Prince Rupert’s drop is safe to handle if handled by the strong end (the bulb). However, by definition, they are not round.

-Tema

Whether or not it’d be effective in magic would, like any other tool, depend on what you’re trying to use it for.  Get one, cleanse it, consecrate or dedicate it if that’s your style, and just experiment with it.  If you’re curious about glass spheres, experiment with some inexpensive marbles, too.

Okay, mind you can check the magic tags in the tag list.

But, since I find this question a tad interesting, in my practice, magic is the exchange of energy or materials for a certain outcome. Note this is MY practice and therefore we come to the first crux of your question; magic means many things to many people. There is no one unified “Magical theory,” in existence because no two people practice the same.

For me, again, any living thing contains energy, which includes trees, grass, etc. and the earth, people and animals, and sometimes rocks if they’re mineral-specific. 

To answer your question simply, you decide what you can harness energy from. Try things out, see what you can pull from. I center on magic work so it’s easy for me to pull energy out of things, but some people can’t get energy out of, for example, stones, because they’re not living things. 

-Tema Koinu

Here’s the “magical theory” tag in particular.

A lot of associations (in European folk magic, that is) come from the idea of sympathetic magic.  Location, appearance, and medicinal uses often inform something’s magical energy.  Sometimes it comes from a mythological reference.  Ultimately it comes down to a magic practitioner’s trial and error. 

There’s some disagreement as to what extent the energy of a spell comes from the practitioner versus the object itself.  Is the power so innate in an object that even the most unlearned of people can cast a spell?  Or is primarily the person’s will and experience?  I think most agree that it’s somewhere between the two extremes.  There’s also something to be said about an object’s association being strengthened under the weight of history, e.g. rosemary has been associated with protection for so long that the association has become more innate to rosemary’s magical and spiritual presence than it might have otherwise.

I personally define magic as the use of personal and/or external energies in manifesting change in the shared, physical world through the manipulation of chance and probability. However, magical theory changes between traditions and schools, so really, definitions and methodologies of magic all depend on who you ask.