Witches Of Valiant

Hi and welcome! It's only fair to do a "quick" blurb on who we are and thus, what the blog will focus on.

To start off, we're called Valiant System, a Mixed Origins system (DID + endo, for more info, see/ask on our main blog) with autism, ADHD, and BPD.

We're 27, and I'm a Capricorn sun, Libra moon, and Aries rising. We identify as a vampire/demon/incubus being (See more info on alterhumans or check our main blog). I'm also an ENFP, and am a genderfluid pansexual living on East Coast, USA.

My name is Scythe, the core, usual host, and especially important here: Our Primary Medium, who takes on all these traits most and is usually the one talking and most often operating in our practice and spiritual life.

Read below for the rest!

Hi! So it's been almost a year, and I've given it a lot of thought and a good breakie..

I'm returning to be active on this acc/blog, and plan to make new posts again, focused around our practice especially, but maybe it'll go and reach out of our comfort zone sometimes too!

Okay. So it's been a while, I thought I'd be returning sooner, but life happens, folks.

And I've had to think a lot about the direction I'll be taking with an online presence. I won't mince words at this point, Tumblr's community, especially one I frequent often, the Helpol community has felt extremely negative and plenty have been uninviting either personally to me, or at large like to spread ugly ideas and misinformation. I'm not here to throw shade, I'm deeply tired of drama instead of focusing on being inviting, friendly, mature about things, and providing safety and unbiased education to all, or just sharing experiences and feelings in our practice and so on. There are certainly good people on this platform too, it's part of the whole reason I'm not deleting this account. But it's also because I don't want what has been put on here to just vanish away, and I don't mind posting more casual things, like devotional posts for some deities, answering asks here, or reposting. And yeah, I know that's how it is with social media nowadays, but I'm just giving myself a space that actually feels comfortable and chill. Will I comment on things that I feel I want to comment on? Absolutely. I'm by no means just shutting down or shutting up, I'm just supplying myself and anyone else who wants to check it out a nice a chill space that is fully dedicated purely to my practice and won't get crowded by any drama at all.

I'll be posting once the blog site is up, and I'm still planning a Discord server in a few weeks too focused on Celestial and Elemental magic/practices, so if you're interested, look forward to it!

So. I'm not fully back, I will be soon, but I see some things that I can't just stay quiet about.

This will get into religious trauma, tw for that, but I just want to say some words to the community of HelPol, pagans, witches, and anyone else just willing to read this. And I'll give you the general idea now. I want to send a message to all in this communities and even those outside of it that might be seeing in from the outside, those either carrying an interest or in their own corner of the internet, that this NEEDS to become a healthier space for all, and we all need to combat the toxic ideas that are out there together. Not through bickering with each other, and not through telling anyone that things should be one way or the other. Think of it as PSAs versus an entire government. The point isn't control, it's health & safety overall.

Keep reading for the full explanation! ♡

So I've obviously had an interruption in my posts. A lot of heavy and difficult stuff has been happening for the past few months, and I'm working on my mental health as well as my spiritual practice. I DO plan to come back to posting at some point, I just won't be doing so for an unknown amount of time, and I'll continue where I left off when I'm back.

31 Days of Hellenic Polytheism & Demonolatry - Day 8

DAY EIGHT:

Do you have altar(s)? If you do, how do you use it? If you don’t have one, do you want one? Why/why not?

I just recently made one, actually! During mid-December, I made a very simple altar with a few LED candles around a silver jewelry box. I use it for any deity and primarily formalities and meditation with spirits/deities, as I really don't have much to use and as a closet witch, I can't really be obvious about these things either. I ALSO plan to finish a Minecraft world with various altars made for the various deities I work with/worship, and that one I'm VERY excited for! Generally, however, I've hardly felt a true need to use it regularly nor have I felt it to be a necessity for my practice, as I really don't like feeling like I need anything to practice witchcraft, or my spiritual beliefs.

Clairsenses

Before we get into specifics, let's clarify the big question in this section: What is a clairsense?

Clairsenses are basically spiritual aids that allow one to gain knowledge through any method of understanding that we would regularly gain knowledge through. And we can gain knowledge through our 5 senses, knowledge given, through emotion, and through sensation.

1: Clairvoyance

This clairsense involves sight, as it means "clear seeing" and can be described as seeing something in the spiritual sense, whether that be a form, color, a scene like a memory, and so on. This can also happen either externally, like seeing it in front of you or outside of you, or it can happen internally, as if seeing it in your mind. Through clairvoyance, you can see people's auras, events that have happened or will happen, or various kinds of spiritual entities.

2: Claircognizance

This clairsense involves knowledge/thinking, and means "clear knowing" as it relates to knowing things that you wouldn't have tangible evidence to know. This often culminates in understanding things you wouldn't otherwise know. It can be confused with clairsentience or even clairempathy, but this is purely the knowledge and thought aspect of clairsensing, and many often end up with a combination of clairsenses going off, either one after another, or at the same time. Claircognizance can have you knowing how a person would react with little knowledge of who they are, and then perhaps seeing that through clairvoyance, or sensing the emotion through clairempathy all around the same moment of each other.

3: Clairaudience

This clairsense is connected to one's hearing, and means "clear hearing", and is best described as hearing sounds or speech in the spiritual sense. This sense is in use when you're hearing speech directly from spirits (including deities), or sounds that you might not normally hear. Like clairvoyance, it can also occur externally or internally, feeling as if it came from in your mind, like hearing a voice in your mind, or from outside of you as if you'd heard someone speak in front of you (it can vary of course, but this is the general example).

4: Clairempathy

This clairsense means "clear emotion". It has to do with gaining understanding through sensing emotion. This is often confused with clairsentience and both can be felt together as well. However, most tend to describe clairempathy as sensing emotion, while clairsentience, as we'll talk about next, is feeling sensations.

5: Clairsentience

This clairsense is connected to sensing feeling, physical feeling, and means "clear feeling". Clairsentience relates to physical sensation, and many also define this as feeling emotion, the empathic part of interacting with someone else, basically. To give a better example and comparison of both clairsentience and clairempathy, would be that while you as a person, may feel your face get hot when you're angry, the understanding that there is rage would be tied to the clairempathy, and the face being hot and even the feeling of what rage feels like would be attached to clairsentience.

6: Clairtangency

This clairsense is connected to one's touch, and is described as "clear touch". Thus, clairtangency relates to sensing through touch, meaning you would gain understanding about an event, an object, a person, etc. when touching that object or person. This practice is also called psychometry. To give a proper example of this, say you touched a necklace, then ended up knowing an event that happened surrounding the necklace, or information on the person that might've previously owned it. From experience, I can also say that you can have other clairsenses come into play in combination with this, as you may have a vision of an event, or feeling the event physically, or sensing the emotion attached to the object/person.

7: Clairsalience

This clairsense is tied to sensing through smell, and means "clear smelling". Clairsalience is fairly straightforward, alike to clairaudience, it basically relates to knowing through smelling, so you may end up smelling some random smell, like perfume or flowers, that can lead you to gaining understanding about something previously unknown. In my experience, it has come up in various ways, I have gotten smells leading me to understand someone's aura, I've gotten odd smells for various spirits, I've had a beautiful smell of flowers in relation to the spiritual as well. At times, it has been in combination with other clairsenses as well.

8: Clairgustance

This clairsense means "clear tasting" and connects to tasting without there being anything physical in the mouth to lead to one having that taste sensation. Fairly straightforward as well, you'd end up gaining information/understanding as you have a certain taste in your mouth, very alike to the way clairsalience would work as well.

Sources:

The Eight Clair Senses: A Visual Guide To The Spiritual Psychic Senses by Ruben Ricart

31 Days of Hellenic Polytheism & Demonolatry - Day 7

DAY SEVEN:

Are you openly a Hellenic Polytheist/Demonolater offline? How does being open/not being open effect your worship?

I'm actually not open about it to anyone around me offline. Any environment I'm often around, that primarily being my family is very heavily Christian and not open about these things at all. Because of that, I do have to find a lot of ways to practice as I wish without the worry of being caught or drawing attention to it. Ironically, it helped me to learn from the start how important it is to understand that you use what you have, you do what feels most right to you, and you don't have to practice how anyone else practices. Most of all, understand you just bring yourself to your deities, and to your practice, and that's all you need to start with, and that's all you ever do need, as long as you feel that's right.

31 Days of Hellenic Polytheism & Demonolatry - Day 1-6

Welcome to my 31 days, with a twist of Demonolatry added in too!

DAY ONE:

Who was the first deity you began worshipping? Do you still worship them now?

The first deity I began worshipping was Hades/Pluto, and I do indeed still worship with him now, and in fact now work with him, which definitely was a journey with a lot of shadow work involved and learning before I was allowed to work with him and that I was comfortable with working with him as well.

DAY TWO:

Which deity did you most recently start worshipping? Were you called to them or did you reach out first? Do you think there were specific reasons behind why you were drawn to them?

Barbatos is the most recent deity I've started worshipping & working with, and it was more that I was called to him, with him reaching out first. I'm still learning and understanding more about him, but I do see reasons behind why I'd be drawn towards him, both in his personality and in part of his domain, that revolves around the revealing of secrets or the unknown, and understanding mysteries and divination. Honestly, this is going to definitely include shadow work as it tends to with other deities Lol

DAY THREE:

How long ago did you start Hellenic Polytheism?

About two years ago, actually! I certainly would've started sooner, but it took a lot of deconstruction of my (toxic) Christian upbringing, so it just goes to show, one's journey in anything can take much longer than we like at times, but all of the best things happen in their own time and when the time is right for you.

DAY FOUR:

Are there any deities you don’t currently worship but want to learn about?

Absolutely and I think it's always that way Lol Prometheus, Moros, Khaos, Phobetor & Phantasos, Nemesis, Eris, Belial, and Astaroth. (Probably more, but that's what I can think of for now)

DAY FIVE:

How much have you bonded with your deities?

I'd say plenty, but there's still much more to learn and go! The ones listed as me being devoted to are the ones I know best and feel closest to at this point (Hades, Lucifer, Ares, Kronos, and Stolas), but even then, like a close friendship, you continue to learn with time about the person you feel so close to. I am able to be very casual with these deities most of all, though I'm casual with plenty, but just as you open up more to another as you get closer in a relationship, it feels like I continue to see more of them, a side they didn't show when I first had met them or was just beginning to know them. With time, we continue to know each other, building a greater bond, and a better relationship with one another.

DAY SIX:

What’s one way you incorporate Hellenic Polytheism and/or Demonolatry into your routine (daily, weekly, monthly, etc?)

The single primary way is by meditating and cleansing at the beginning of the day alongside any deity I worship that simply feels most right or whoever decides to simply join me. I also pray before eating at times, offering my food to a deity or more than one deity I worship. But most of all, I just tend to give my time to a deity regularly, existing with them, and letting them channel through me at times.