I don't know if they are related or not, but, I find that the Egyptian goddess Bast and the Irish goddess Brighid (my two matron goddesses) get along really well!

The green algae at the beginning of the video receives nutrients from the splashing of the water, holding onto the rocks for dear life, and simply rocking back and forth with the motion of the waves - nice life

I'm a male witch and I work with Aphrodite, Hermes, Hecate and Apollo. They are amazing spiritual energies to work with and I love them. ❤️

This video's very reassuring, thank you! I'll be honest that I too felt afraid to work with deities at first because of my Catholic Christian religion. It took a bit of shadow work to eventually remove my old mindset, but as I deepened my practice and learned more about deities, I eventually grew comfortable. I still identify as Catholic, but at the same time, I'm also comfortable working with Bridgid, Hekate, and eventually Anubis. 😁

When I first started working with Sobek I was given so many warnings about how dangerous he is and how he might eat you and stuff. And it damaged the beginning of my relationship with him and I'm still recovering from that. I was scared (and still am a little) of him, even though I know rationally I shouldn't be. Is he stern? Yes. Is he dangerous? No. Honestly, since working with him I feel better than I've ever felt. I've always had a hard time standing up for myself and taking care of myself. And Sobek is helping me change that. I'm so thankful for him and I wish I could remove that doubt in my mind. So right now I'll have to settle for chipping it away a bit at a time.

i was told that Loki was a dangerous deity to work with. then i actually spoke to someone who did and received signs from him. he is great to work with, although if you make him angry he will let you know apparently. thankfully i haven't had this happen

My 1st deity was Hecate and so many told me online.. No don’t it’s dangerous it’s dark it’s not good! But I learnt so much of my shadow aspect by working with Hecate in no way did she take me threw a door unless I asked her first and she also had my back

I can share a little about Hinduism! The basic idea is that divinity transcends form and therefore can take many/any/all forms. At its most general, it’s taught as Brahman - the stuff that reality is molded from that you yourself are not separate from either. In fact, the only way to truly know it is to find it at the center of your conscious experience - you might call it the true self, higher self, atman, or soul. When you connect with divinity in any form - a guru, devas (deities as described here), chemical experience, whatever - you are really connecting with yourself. A great saint Ramana Maharshi once said “God, guru, and self are not different”. If you find yourself attracted to a certain deity, by all means pursue them, love them, and dive into the mystery, but also ask what it is about yourself that draws you to them and makes the two of you one

Thank you very much for calling out the bigoted actions of the Christian Church of the past @1:40 . This is very important to talk about because indigenous religions especially have been disrespected for centuries, and it gives me hope that people like you are calling it out.

aphrodite is amazing! i work with her and she has so much to teach us

The relieve I got when you said that you don't need to "graduate or get to a certain level of witchcraft" because I've been wanting to work with deities for a long time now but I never really felt like I was approved to do so

I consider myself to be a "soft" polytheist, and I kinda think ab gods and goddesses as like personifications of things for example like giving a name and traits to certain earthly things such as crops or maybe dogs idk that's just kinda what I think

When i was 8 i discovered my first god. He was Poseidon. I was on a boat with my father, then him and i had a conversation. I didn't know who he was until i asked him. He is actually really friendly and i recommend working with him

I always love your point of view and how you explain things. I hope to see another video on kemeticism soon, because you're part of the reason why I started worshipping Egyptian deities!

I see evil and dangerous as two separate conversations. I think on this the literature and the history if you are going to read it you should be mindful of it. Not all the cautionary stuff comes from Christians rewriting things. I see gods and magick alike the way I see electricity. Electricity powers my laptop and heats my house, but if I jam a metal knife into an electrical outlet it is going to go badly for me. But if you are informed, take precautions and are respectful you will be just fine. That covers most people. Nature has creative and destructive forces but is neither good, nor evil. Just don't go running around under trees in a lighting storm is all. :)

So um I just woke up from a dream today, and in my dream I was visited by Loki. He helped me out in my dream and said “You owe me one” with a smile and as he left I woke up... I don’t really know what to do so can somebody help me out ;-;. I’ve only been a baby witch for a few months...

this is a fantastic video and has been so helpful as i am growing in the hellenistic pagan community. thank you so so much for calling out elitism as well. i left the hellenistic twitter because of encountering so much of this right away. also i'm so happy i found your channel. though in truth i've found my connection with Hera to be every encouraging and loving and strengthening and Persephone to be uplifting and empowering and Hestia to be very peaceful and comforting and supportive.

i work with Set and the Morrigan both, i perked up when they were mentioned lmao but thank you for this video. i tend to attract deities that get the 'dangerous' label and while i've found them to be intimidating, i've never found that they needed that label. again, thank you, this video was great

Love this thank you! I've been diving into this for a decade and I'm just now starting to seriously practice. This is really reassuring and loving.

I know I'm 3 years late, and I don't know if I'll be able to articulate myself properly. But hearing the whole section about being ready and prepared for what a deity might bring to your life was really eye opening for me. It was sort of encouraging. I'm at a ttime where I feel the call to someone and I'm not sure why but I ttthink it is because I'm looking for a mentor on how to apply tthese traits in my own life, I admire them.

For me, i don’t believe that gods are really physical, and I believe that the humanoid interpretations are well, interpretations! Instead, I believe that the gods carry a divine consciousness in the elements of nature. For example, when I talk to Selene, a moon goddess, I’m not talking to her as if she is standing there like a person. However, I’m talking to the MOON and the MOON’S CONSIOUSNESS, which happens to be in the form of Selene. It’s really hard to explain

I love love love your videos so far! You are helping me so much. I’m very very new to this and I’m into the witchcraft part of it. But for some reason I’ve been drawn to work with a deity even though I haven’t even really gotten far into it. Everytime I think about it I want to do it then I see people saying it’s dangerous and your videos have helped me so much! I feel I’d be ready but I’m also worried what if I’m not.

I mainly work with deities because when I started out doing witchcraft, I was just about to graduate high school with limited ways to get around and was strongly discouraged from going out (as in beyond the block) very often unless I had to do something like work. This was the suburb so nature is few and far between. The Gods were the only way I could regularly work with nature (I see them as personifications of concepts, aspects of nature and the psyche). Even now, living in a city, I need to adapt to very few expressions of nature around here. Not that it's a bad thing; a lot of energies can flourish in the city. Even now there's a lot of my practice that has more shamanic techniques than nature-based practices that's common in paganism because I simply don't live near a lot of nature. The first deity who reached out to me is considered a personification of Death. The second, according to mythology, had to be appeased to stop a culling. The third I never see recommended for beginners because she is considered a "chaos entity" with a lot of "negative energy" (I think in her case it's justifiable). But they accepted me and when I respected them they rewarded me. Death, conflict and change are all inevitable in nature; you can ignore it but it's always going to poke its head around. And they aren't all bad things all the time. Usually they're pretty neutral forces; it's the power I think that makes people scared because having the power over such concepts means that there is a lot that deity has in control.

Wonderful video dear and I fully agree !! I would say to newbies it is good to remember that random spirits can be very dangerous and are very different than going up to the divine realms of deities!

I think the most dangerous part of deity work is if you are tricked into working with an entity which either a) is not who they say they are, or b) are manipulating you (or don’t have your best interest at heart).

I called upon Hekate right away because I felt a powerful urge to connect with her in my life. It was very calming and I actually have experienced good things when I talked to her for the first time and connected with her. I've always been fond of the moon and it's energy and I immediately wanted a strong female guide in my life. I haven't explored anyone else yet lol I am picky. But thank you very much for your information and how to look upon it. Love your suggestions and thoughts. 🤗 Bless be.

Honestly, you’re so well spoken. you’re such a guide for these baby “scholars” Keep making this type of content ❤️❤️

I appreciate your answer and your overall knowledge . I think an important point that could also be helpful is If it is dangerous to work with deity or not also depends on your intention ,and your ability to be grounded in What is beneficial for you and your environment. Btw totally off subject you have a soothing energy in the way you speak .

I've been looking into witchcraft over the last week, and I've been wanting some form of a guide on this journey. Like yeah I can watch videos and read books, but I want something of a teacher to help out. Was thinking that a diety might be a good idea, but kept seeing that it's a bad idea for beginner witches. The only risk I can see is tying myself down to a diety early on, and not being able to switch to something that I feel suits me better later.

Hey I just wanted you to know how thankful I am for you. You introduced me to Set ^-^

Hey! I love your videos ❤️

I don't think any deities are dangerous, and certainly not evil, but they can certainly be exhausting or annoying. Different people have different experiences with deities though, and there isn't any deity you shouldn't work with. Some people experience Loki as very loving, some people as intimidating and angry, but most common seems to be experiencing him as whiny and bratty, constantly changing his mind and loving to pull pranks. We all still love him lol

I’ve started working with Lady Athena and Lord Apollo and I’ve never felt more safe within my life. Also with my practice, though I’ve never even done a spell before, thanks to them I feel ready.

I feel like I've been working with deities my whole life just naturally. I just started actually studying witchcraft recently though and keep feeling wrong for working with deities. It's a practice I feel I've been doing my entire life just without the witchcraft label. I've been gaslighting myself about it and this was very validating lol thanks

I plan on trying to work with odin and hestia. I'm nervous but also excited it's been a year since my journey began and I've thought about this a lot

TY for the video. Quite informative!

This video was so helpful ❤️

is it bad if i just have a shrine to aphrodite? I dont want anything like granting wishes and i dont do any spellwork I just want her to know that i appreciate her

Loving the background view.

I used to be very afraid of Apollo because of his myths and i was very new to the gods and goddesses. I felt so drawn to him i did not care and had to get to know him. He was so much different than in mythology and he is actually very sweet and kind and loving . I am so happy i gave him a chance .

Thank you so much for this clarification! I think it is very important to learn when you start with deity work that it has nothing to do with the demonic Christian view. Also thank you, I learned something new from you as well :)

Aphrodite is great. she respond our prayers immediately . Glory to the Divine goddess Aphrodite

Overall, a good video. But you can't really say that nothing is dangerous. Fire, water, and air can be dangerous. Why can't a deity be dangerous? Maybe not dangerous by necessity, but under the wrong conditions? Of course then the question is dangerous how? Because something we might perceive as dangerous from one point of view may be in the end beneficial from another point of view

I just started, but I kept hearing the name Osiris in my sleep, but the visual image looked kind of like Horus. I didn’t even know who Osiris was, but I kept hearing it like it was calling out to me, what should I do?

I subscribed after your working with mermaids video! As a water witch I’m very connected to mermaids and sirens 💚 That being said I always thought you were a witch! As a Wiccan, I feel connected to a lot of your values even if you don’t identify as a witch ✨

Thank you! I needed this. Im so tired of being antsy about working with deities and beings. I believe as long as you are respectful and kind, i think it'd go just fine

On the other hand, you can never stop working with the divine🌒🌕🌘 All is one, and so are the gods✨

out of nowhere i got a sudden interest in aphrodite and since then i’ve been keeping a close eye out for signs of her. i haven’t been super lucky, but once i have a more stable income and do more research i want to work with her :)

Due to a living situation I formed a blood pact with the Egyptian God Set, and later was contacted by Aphrodite, sadly though recently I've felt that I have been lacking in their eyes and losing their favor, I'm honestly lost on what to do about this situation.

I want to work with hades but I can’t find many things online about him. I’m new to the faith but idk what to expect from that whole encounter. I would really like some advice

this may be silly but i’m just slightly confused. I’ve been thinking of taking the wiccan path for awhile and i’ve been learning about the wheel of the year. Definitely resonates with me so i love that. The sabbats represent the growth and development of the goddess and god throughout the annual cycle and seasons of the earth, but when it talks about the goddess transitioning from mother to crone for example, do i interpret that same depiction of the goddess as the deity that i currently work with? Sounds confusing. What i mean is, let’s say i work with Aphrodite, would i interpret her into the wheel of the year and the symbolic meanings of the sabbats? Same with the god as well. Would i interpret Apollo (for example) dying during Samhain and then him being rebirthed by the Goddess (Aphrodite) during Yule? Might be a silly or obvious question but it’s always good to ask. I currently don’t work with a deity, i’m just learning about the beliefs of them

Heii, I recently started practicing witchcraft. I am not really believer (christian religion), but my parents are and it is somehow difficult for me to understand , if there are greek gods, can you still believe in another religion direction like jewish, christian and work with gods?

I keep seeing images of Medusa randomly through my days, I’m looking into Medusa because I want to know if she’s reaching out to me

Guys...I am just beginning to work with deities and i have been suggested to work with a deity i kinda find comfort in their associations...and the first goddess i ever knew of was medusa and I kinda see her as a representative of hope and second chance because of how she did not give up on her life totally even after everything she went through...And I am not sure if this is valid,but when i was a slyrherin though the animal i find most comfort with is a cat...so guys I need help

My first was lilith, I have added hecate and Medusa in my trust corcle.

HI i had a question x i am not completely but a bit new to witchcraft and I was wondering if it was ok for me to work with hecate and aphrodite? or can I not even work with a deity yet.

Is it possible to contact or talk to fenrir I feel really connected to him and want to talk to him💕

I’ve been very interested in Lugh and he contacted me through an oracle leading and it just all made sense and I want to work with him. I hope to get a pendulum soon so I can truly ask him if he wants me to work with him/worship him.

Such a great video. I am one of those people who fallow a goddes that very many people turn their heads questioning me. I follow the goddes hel. She feels like a mother to me. One reason that helps our closeness. I have a lot of health conditions. Mostly chronic pain. The right side of my body needing a crutch to help me walk. The other side the stronger. My body mirrors her own. Being half living and dead.

I allways feeld a deep conection to Apollo(n) and I just startet to wor with him ^^ and I allready feel so much safer and better! Hope I get to know him better in the future and get a better connection to him :D

i just found your channel and it has honestly changed so much for me. i knew kemetism was originally an african religion and I was absolutely scared that me feeling a strong connection to that pantheon would somehow be appropriating culture somehow since there are tons of articles about how often modern paganism appropriates culture. i haven't put up a connection to any deity yet (although I feel a pull towards Nut for some reason) because I first want to learn about protection and wards better. Am I doing right? am I overthinking too much?

@Leafy Dyad what does it mean when the God Apollo shows up in person in a dream and says "you'll be different then the last one Cassandra " then I woke up??

I never had fear, persay, when it comes to working with deities, but I do have a diagnosed anxiety disorder so I get really worried they won't want to work with me. I'm working on that, but it's still not great.

Hi imma total newbie with things but I'm into pyromancy and honor my deities with lighting candles but make it clear I'm too new to work with them yet. But my newest deity candles when lit flame bent toward me in sync together (the new 4) do you know what this could mean??? Any tips and tricks are gladly appreciated as Google is failing me!! Blessed be

I’m thinking of working with the god Lugh! If anyone has any tips please help! Thanks

How can one identify an entity one might have interaction with? I am referring to specific people who claim they are having these interactions with ______ (left blank intentionally so as not to influence possible solutions to questions) - how do they know/can they verify it IS in fact what they think it is?

I'm a baby witch. I know the basics and I want to start looking for a diety. I know it could take a bit and patience is key but do any of you more experienced witches have any tips?

I agree with you honest. Because some of them are not that bad to work with SM a really good to work with if you're actually in the same stuff that their it and understand them. Others are really hard to work with and very dangerous to actually work with. You mentioned about Aphrodite. To be honest with you she's actually she's good to work with it not good to work with because she could be dangerous to work with. I actually had my experience with her and I actually had to let her go. Because her night don't get on the same page and she was not very happy with it and let's just say her and a trickster decide to work together it did not end very well. Well Hera end up finding out and she was not very happy with Aphrodite. Hera and Athena have been beside me since I was probably born and like I said in your last video that Hera basically saved my life and I owe it to her. I know there's a lot of people that talk bad about Hera but to be honest with you does have a kind heart and yeah she might get jealous because of her husband but to be honest with you Hera is pretty cool goddess to be honest with you. I really do love working with her and Athena and I always have faith in them I still need to learn a lot on Athena I understand her. But it's like I said I love working with them and also you mention about an altar. I actually have an altar of Hera and a little bit of Athena. But I mostly connected with Hera.

Blessings! Thank you for sharing!! I completely agree, it is not that they are dangerous per se you just have to have the stomach for the lessons and de demands the make of you when you walk with the Goddesses snd Gods

In our current world system you would think mutual respect and admiration for differences would be easier and more common. Even scripture talks about how God is mysterious and there are things that are hidden that we don’t understand. Thank you for sharing this with us and for being an example for your community.

Thank you for sharing this video! I recently had a confirmation that Beelzebub was reaching out to me and was interested in working with me but I have heard so many things like he is very stern and serious, or others say he is patients and nice. I just don’t know what to believe. Then there’s that Christian mindset I got engraved into me that infernals or demons are evil and angels are so good so I’m trying to rework my brain because I don’t want to think that way.

Is Apollo good for beginners? I had a dream of flashing yellow lights and coin with his face on it, it was intense. Is that a sign?

How do i know if Athena is calling me?

hey is there a way I could ask you a few questions, I really need some advice

What if you have lived within chaos all your life....that you dont know the flip side....what does that say? Does this point towards a particular relationship you should or should not move towards? Ie youve felt most at peace within a pandemic (not about the pain it has caused others) but just admist the turmoil... you felt more balanced and prepared?

Guys Nemesis has reached out to me multiple times now so I want to try and work with her, but I’m a bit worried aha :/ Any help???

Could we meet up for deeper discussion?

Interestingly (commentating on the effort of the church to eschew deity worship) I would consider working with YHWH as a very dangerous deity to work with… He demands singular devotion and his punishments to his own devotees are written about at length in the Bible! Love the content! Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge!

I think that witches and pagans are fascinating and I want to personally apologize for what you all deal with and as a gay person in Christ I think I can understand the frustration. If you have any ideas for changing that perception I would like to help. I think the possibility is that saying that goes “a small few ruined it for the whole”. I respect you as well as a lot of other witches I have seen. You all have a lot of awesome movies and tv shows as well. Christians don’t have that so right now you’re a few steps ahead of us ma’am ❤❤

I’m felling drawn to eros what should i do abt it?

I had recently got in contact with selene, Greek titan moon goddess, and it just so happened to be the day my cousin's buddies come over. And after I asked her if I could put out her candle and did so with her permission. I just feel so scared. I feel like I messed up big time with a goddess who had saved my life multiple times in the past. I'm going to do a meditation after I type this and see if she's upset at me or not. Because yesterday I started my period and selene is a feminine energy. The day AFTER I contacted her. So I'm kind of nervous..I just hope nothing else happens...

My Deities are Hecate which is my main Deity and Horus God and Ra God which Hecate Goddess sent to me . Hecate may look like scary to many but actually she is a compassionate God . She just looks like scary because she is connected to the underworld and witches and witchcraft which is true and lots more but if you respect her and treat her on how she will make you feel then it’s not scary at all ,…like she gave me the energy that she is my teacher and friend not mother, then I give her too an energy of a student and a friend maybe at first because she is truly powerful and her energy is an energy that you haven’t experience yet if you are new to deity work like I was …I was really scared and having second thoughts if I do it or not but I tried my best to understand what she is trying to tell me and what she wants to happen . It is a give and take relationship,she will not control you but from time to time you will go into a initiation that will scare you to death but when you overcome that she will tell you “ see it’s just all inside your mind ,it’s not even true “ She usually tell me this thing 😅 Anyway ,I love her and I adore her and respect her like a teacher . She made me feel secured that I will be ok no matter what ,she is better than human because human will just take you for granted sometimes or most of the times when they know you are weak they will put you down but with Hecate when she knows you are weak she will help you to become strong . She will not let you be put down by others ,I know that ,I always know I have her as a friend and protector and a teacher . Ra God is bit hard to please for me . Horus God is much ok to understand. I’m working to know more about Ra and understand what he wants .

If you call out and ask for bad things-wish bad things onto others then you’re attracting it more. ❤

Aphrodite is sending me signs of pearls 🥺🐚🌷

I always hear on tiktok witches deities being angry and them walking off camera to do something. Do they go and pray to them or give offerings to please them? What happens to them if their gods/goddesses are angry? They make it seem like they get the butt of it and not whatever is making their deity angry. I don't understand and i wish i did, i work with only 2 archangels so i guess they might not be as bound to be angry or what have you so excuse my ignorance.

I HAVE A QUESTION!! so I have worked with Nyx as my only deity for years. i am also pretty well versed with gods/goddesses in greek mythology. so I recently got a candle I felt a strong connection to and felt very quickly that it was a male god calling to me. i went through a list and the candle reacted wildly to zeus I did many different things after to cleanse my house because I don't want to work with zeus. is it ok to reject working with a god???

Ok i am a super newbie in here. I live in Indonesia. How do i contact or worship or befriend with greek gods/goddesses and are they picky of their believer/follower? Based on my air sign, i think Hermes is the fIrst God that i should contact. Is it neccessary or just any Gods/Goddesses?

this is a wonderful video! one thing about theosophy though, it’s origins have very close ties to nazism, i would avoid theosophy.

What about the Deity Hercules?

So I’m a baby witch and I’m just confused what deities do pagans worship? Like is it Greek,Norse,Celtic etc. or is it whoever u have a strong connection with? And how many deities can you worship? And can I pick a deitie from each (Greek,Norse Celtic)?

What about "selling your soul to the devil"? My husband claims to have done this to gain my friendship. Could their be truth to this???

Ok so I got a vision while watching a deity info video and saw a red Deer with black horns. And the first thing I searched on KZfaq, cernnos came up on top. I'm a baby witch can somebody help

I was born pagan but never thought I would do any sort of deity work, and that if I did it would be with a god we know (like a greek or egyptian or norse or roman). Instead, on Samhain, during a difficult transitional period in my life, during a bout of half awake sleeplessness, I got contacted by Stolas who said he was protecting me from nightmares (mind you I’ve had auditory hallucinations while half-conscious before, but always in random voices in gibberish, not one consistent voice with clear definable words and sentences). I never heard of him and only saw a picture once, and upon research turns out he teaches everything that I work with in my witchcraft (astronomy, herbs, and precious stones) and is seen as a psychological exploration. Of course that I, an already weird person, get a weird deity to work with!

Leafy, I want to be accepted by Lilith. How do I attract her attention to find out?

If a person is not ready for a certain deity, such as the grinding of Demon Kings. While Arch Demons for the seven deadly sins, will get what is wanted even if it harms a person. Also if working with demons, the joyful reflecting back of energies, so chaotic adolescence will reflect the area back. So I go toward invoking Bifrons, for the calmness and the ability to bind or loosen spirits. With my not caring what witchcraft traditions desire. But evocation requires plenty of chaos, along with a drainage of the body. And if channeling, the obsession, oppression, and entanglement, facilitates the channeling. While the sciences with how to get to replicatable results, is also nice for Bifrons. So my daily actions have reduced getting of the wrong results. And the energy needs rebuilding, with certain deity, so that is why beginners can be steered away from certain mild mannered entities such as Bifrons.

The deities that I will work with are the ones who are a part of my Slavic/Kievan Rus heritage

One goddess I was devoted to was just abusive to me. Not sure what to think about that.

Thank you soo much for everything ❤️ you are gorgeous btw, you look soo much like Lady Gaga 😍

Hey I’m a beginner and I work with Zeus does anyone have experience with him?😅❤️ I love making him happy so anything helps!

Searched the deity I’m extremely drawn to and this is the only video that came up that has anything to do with deity work 😂