Found: How Witches Find Patron Gods || Ask A Witch ep 1 

Just here to add: If you're adopted, the pantheon that relates to your adopted family would absolutely have you with welcome arms. I hope you don't have any anxiety surrounding that!

I try not to disturb the dead. They're resting, and I can imagine they might be a little grumpy when they're woken up. The only time I really do anything with my ancestors, is Halloween or for Day of the dead

It is always good to see witches joining social media

It got a bit late for me yesterday so I’ve watched the video after having a nice and easy Sunday morning. It’s a very interesting topic. I’m not interested in finding a deity to worship. I have a catholic background and my grandparents are pretty religious so we went to church every Sunday and all of us ended up at the centre of the community we have here. My sister played the organ, my mom was head of the official church group (we still had a good connection with the mayor office and we could get sponsorship in case the church roof needed repair of something and she would work with that) and I did some work in the church and during the ceremonies. All 3 of us quit because we noticed just how rotten the community was. I more than everyone else really drew back from anything religious and closed myself off so I could take a deep breath and look at things with different eyes again. Witchcraft, Wicca and paganism has intrigued me for a long time. My family always wrote it off as fiction and that’s what I saw it as too so I never felt guilty reading about it while being catholic. After closing myself off from religions for a while witchcraft came back into view and once I found out that to practice you don’t actually need a deity to worship I dove in deeper. I wanted to do something with the energy within me and I feel comfortable with what I’m reading about witchcraft. Now this switch to witchcraft only happened about a year to a year and a half ago and I’ve only been truly referring to myself as a witch for about a month, maybe less. My family doesn’t know obviously but I’m ok with that for now. I want more time to explore it for myself first. Videos like this are really helpful definitely since I’m dyslexic and videos are easier than reading. I do really like stories so reading mythological stories is something I love to do. I already know a lot of Greek and Roman mythology but I’m also interested in Norse mythology and Japanese mythology. I have a strong attraction to Japan I want to go there and I’m trying to learn the language because I find that really important to learning the culture since language is a large part of a culture. One thing that has been quite obvious to me is that once I decided to stop seeing witchcraft as fiction and start taking it seriously I’ve actually seen a presence that I always felt around me. It was a large dragon and he is showing himself to me more clearly the further go on this path. I truly believe now that the main higher beings I should be working with are dragons. Although I’m definitely open to working with deities I am still not ready to get back to worshipping them or any other higher beings. It just doesn’t feel right for me. Sorry for the long comment, I really did enjoy the video and I’m looking forward to the next one. Also I apologise if there are any mistakes in my comment. English isn’t my first language 😅💕

Another thing that I didn't realize, or agree with, until recently is... WE can "create" our own deity. I bring this up because I HATED god/goddess research and felt that I was just going to settle on Morgana/freya/Athena blah blah blah because I got worn out and tired of being god-less. To ME, it seemed as if the gods were all on an endless buffet from which I had to choose my few favorites OR wait around for them to choose me. And what about the gods/goddesses that have been forgotten? Can you imagine how many trillions of those there are that may be "Just the one?" So, wanting to work with deity, I started hearing MANY other witches who found their own deities to worship and/or work with. I've recently chosen that path and I'm happy I did. Whiskey Stevens has a youtube video called "Can you create your own gods?" that I highly recommend.

I’ve decided to take my old religion ( Christianity) and put it with my witchcraft so I’m working with Jesus and Mary as well as god, later if I become wiccan I will just do things that bring me to whomever

This is a really wonderful video, thank you for sharing your insights. I especially love how you suggest we let go and look for the signs in nature, it's amazing how the deities communicate subtly (and overtly!) with us, revealing their personalities! I have been diving into my ancestries, which has awakened some powerful connections to my homeland(s) deities. I do want to offer an alternative for adoptees. My partner is adopted (closed) and to him, his adoptive parents ARE his parents. They raised him from the moment he was born, and shared their culture with him. The idea of an adopted child needing to trace their bloodline can reinforce an unnecessary tie to social constructs of race and lineage. Foundlings belong to their found families. They have been invited into a tradition, and if they don't feel pulled to explore their genetic ancestry, they needn't feel pressured to do so. The love and wisdom passed to them by their adoptive parents is a lineage all adoptees have the right to tap into. If they want both their blood and adoptive cultural gods, they have a right to both, IMO. All can find belonging. Likewise, if you trace your bloodline and hit a dead end on one of the branches, that doesn't mean you're unable to claim what may be further back. My paternal grandfather was orphaned quite young, and we'll likely never know his ancestry beyond North European, but does that mean I don't have enough blood to call out to the Germanic gods? I'd say not. We needn't reach backward to an archaeological purity, there often isn't one.

The Morrigan is such an amazing book! I absolutely adored it, so glad to see some more Celtic references.

So I follow you on instagram and are thrilled to see your RU-vid channel. I'm a sub now☺

Deities were topic for a weekly challenge in the Pagan and Witchcraft Amino. I don't have a Patron God so I kinda felt left out at first but instead I wrote about why I don't have one and wrote about my soft polytheist belief system. I found a wonderful network of secular witches who all practice differently. I'm still open to finding a Patron but not searching.

Thank you so much. This video is a t good timing for me. Also Song of the Sea is a great movie

Can someone explain the difference between worshipping the Goddess & God and dieties? What is the separation there? Any articles anyone can recommend to expand on this??

I like My True Ancestry ...it tells you where they were and when going back as far back as you can (mine went back 4000 years!) and when I saw that it clicked for me. Because my parents didn't really know much about where the family had been and where we came from. This became very obvious (for example) my father loved his greek fisherman hat and loved to speak Italian, but he thought he was Polish. Even though my father thought he was Polish he wasn't really....the DNA showed me that we were actually Greek going back 4000 years. My father loved spanish bullfight music (he was very eclectic!) and I found that from 1000 to 1500 we were living in Iberia, which was where the ancestors had moved after the fall of the Roman Emipire. Before that we had lived in Rome for about 2300 years! I also found I have 4 ancestors (on both sides) who are buried in the highlands of Crete dated from about 2000 BC. Europe is all mixed up, the people moved around alot, the Romans shuffled the deck and then Crusades shuffled it again. Famines and illness and wars moved people around like chessmen on a board. You may not be who you think... Food for thought. You may be attratcted to gods you only think aren't attached to your lineage...the waters are muddy.

I wasn't really interested in finding a deity, but I learned about Freyja & I knew it was meant to be 💕

yay someone else that speaks about having a working relationship with deities rather an worship :D I'm from the Coven of the magical yeet and quite often I have people struggle to understand the fact that the bond I have formed with my deities is one of friendship and working together rather than me giving them offerings and making an alter

Nice beginning saying Fáilte :) My goddess is Mórrígan, we are intertwined since I was a child. I played, lived near here her homes. My family is deeply rooted to that area for as long as it could have been documented, we are ancestors. If you ever get a chance to visit here, Ireland, you will feel like you are home. Danu is always another who I work with too. Great video :)

Sing me a song of a lass that is gone, say could that lass be I?...

Thanks for the info- looking forward to more

The music is beautiful, especially the flute, it gave me chills. Thanks for a great video. I have yet to connect with my god/dess. I've felt a pull in a few places but nothing confirmed yet. Although, I am just coming home to my craft after leaving it for almost a decade; so there's that... I do like ancestral magic but I don't know much about my ancestors. I don't have a relationship with my biological father; and my mother didn't learn much of our heritage from my grandmother and grandfather prior to their deaths. I have traced our names back to Scotland and Belgium. However, there is a lot of room for error, so I am going to try 23andMe to get a clearer picture :)

You don't pick them. They pick you.

O wow, I watched this video this afternoon and I am back. I was married to a man from Mexico and I have a daughter with him. She is 13 now about to be 14. I fell in love with Guadelupe when seeing her in the Mexican culture and I even had her tattooed on my leg( from my ankle to my knee) This was over 12 years ago. I was always talking to her ... even to this day and she is so beautiful, and I resonate I love her. I even have a picture of her in my apartment. I have candles with her and I never thought until today she maybe my Goddess and I looked up Guadelupe as a Goddess and information came up. I am white and I am not catholic, Can you help me make sense of this. Am I supposed to be setting offerings out for her and what should I set out. I am just now learning about Gods and Goddess although I have always been in touch with my spiritual side. I do not speak Spanish because he spoke English. I understand a lot and I can speak some but not proper and fluent. How do I know if she is my Goddess?Thoughts?

Natgeo discontinued the DNA testing

i find myself admiring fire and light , it used to be water lighting candles

Nice i live in central Florida Clearwater Beach is my happy place i am also drawn to saltwater

i liked that IT analogy :)

P.S. Pier 60 is where my sister, nxt summer snd when its my turn, me as well

Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, too.

This is a fantastic video! This needs to be talked about so much more. Very well said and clear. I can’t wait for more videos 😊

I actually watched this movie and loved it. I knew it was about mythology but I didn't realize they spoke about gods in the Irish Panteon, which is something cool that I know now thanks to you. I just watched this video after watching your patreon video on Deities and I found that both of them are very informational and enjoyed them :)

im your subscriber/viewer from the philippines. what type of wiccan/witch are you? im just new in your channel.

Thanks for making this video! I hope you'll be making more! Lovely to see Song of the Sea and Irish gods cropping up here - writing from Dublin X

Man, I am so bummed that you aren't releasing content anymore, this was just beautiful. You're So well-spoken, you just have such a warm and comforting, gentle nature about you. I really enjoy hearing someone speak about these topics the way you do. As someone just starting out, this video was incredibly helpful and reassuring, and one I'm sure I'll be revisiting. I hope you will come back, if you're able. In the meantime, I'll keep watching your channel, and see if I can follow you on social media. 🥰

I feel drawn to the moon Goddesses.

Love this 💕

Thank you for taking the time to share all this! I follow on IG and am excited to see you teaching on RU-vid. :)

I’ve been having lots of signs from Hemera but there’s little to no information about her anywhere and I can’t find anyone who works with her so I don’t know what to leave as offerings or how to even start and I’m so stuck 🥺

at the beginning of my path, i desperately and persistently tried to contact Lilith with no results whatsoever. it took me months to acknowledge that it wasn't meant to be, and almost as soon as I accepted that, my patroness came to me.

Can't wait to see more content from you! This video is fantastic

I'm glad that you are branching out to RU-vid! 🙂 I would like to hear more about secular witchcraft. What does that look like? 🤔 Sounds like the sort of talk that might ruffle some feathers. V curious.

You advices are so helpful💙🌊

You said you have been practicing witchcraft since 2001 but didn’t become pagan until much later, could you help me understand what you mean by this? I’m super new to all things witchcraft! Is witch/pagan interchangeable? And Can you practice witchcraft without being a pagan or a witch- if so, how do you BECOME a pagan/witch? Help me understand- I feel so dumb but I wanna learn everything I can! Please forgive my ignorance 😅😂😂

When the sea lullaby came in I knew exactly what movie you were gonna say!!! That's beautiful :D

My parents did there own dna, our ancestry is a pretty even mix of stuff. I'd have expected more celtic or norse I guess. I was surprised by how much Mediterranean dna there was. I sometimes feel Im called by Athena, but she doesn't seem to fit my life style and she honestly scares the crap outta me. I find the greek pantheon kinda... Problematic? But I know that a goddess has been calling to me and Athena fits the bill in many ways.

A patronx isn't really necessary. At least in my experience, the gods will come and go leaving signs and side missions here and there.

As an ex Mormon you can probably ask any of them for help with ancestry work. Just smile and nod when they try to convert you and they'll do what you want

Another secular way for the atheists out there. Choose one (or more) to be an inspiration to you. Just like we are inspired by story characters. ☺️

When you said "stop looking" I realized who it was lol

Such a great Vid! ✨

Very interesting video and I like how you refer to your immediate line as ancestors not way back.

Thank you so much for sharing! It is very helpful especially when one is new to the topic of a patron.

For a long time I have been seeing crows and ravens. I don’t know if it’s a sign and telling me to look? I’m a little confused. Any thoughts on this?

How do you feel about the idea of creating/inventing your own god(s)? If you look across multiple religions and pantheons, deities start to fall into archetypes, or at least have multiple shared attributes. It's common for sky gods to also be warriors and kings, for example, or for tricksters to be associated with the afterlife. Do you think it's valid for witches to take the attributes of different gods that appeal to them while discarding those which don't, and search for their own, unique deity?

HEYY, TemperanceAlden💥Great 1st RU-vid I'm sooo, proud of all your achievements my cousin, my love perhaps I can see you over winter solstice?, Can include some astrology or astronomy or cooking on your Channel but it is very inquisitive for myself to appreciate new religion a new way of being I appreciate U keep up the great work Luv💕 Dani from Boston

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I have Greek blood, Native American, Roman, French, Irish, and Italian....I feel they all want me to follow THEIR path of gods....I’m having a break down -v-