I’m tired of stories that present love as something effortless and suggest that effort implies it isn’t real love.

Nimue Brown, ‘Love and understanding‘

Joe from Caffeine-Fueled Magick has a post on a non-toxic flying ointment. As he notes in his own post, it’s good to do your own research on the ingredients of such ointments. You should make sure to test out a small bit on your body before slathering it everywhere as well, in case you have an allergic reaction.

If I decide to spent all of my time watching Netflix with my partner, I don’t spend the time in devotion to a godd.

Irisanya Moon, ‘Related to the Godds, Relating to Each Other‘ on Patheos Pagan

Building further on the above quote, I want to share this post by Nimue Brown on how we develop relationships, as well as what tends to happen when we just let them happen ‘magically’.

Books often paint this picture of ‘advanced practice’ as something that is frankly unrealistic for most people.  Being advanced doesn’t mean you have a three hour long ritual for every Sabbat that includes a full meal, crafts and seasonal spellwork. …Advanced practice means that you have advanced beyond looking for other people to tell you what you should be doing and how to do it, and you have started making those decisions for yourself.  You determine what your advanced practice is, and the more people we can get talking about it, the more everyone benefits!

Kylara, ‘Advanced practice‘

Annora Silverros has a good post on the offerings we can make to the gods. The post touches on a lot of my own thoughts concerning offerings and what we give the Gods, what we can give Them and why it matters.

Here’s a post by Tommy Elf on identity and labels and being a Pagan that could be useful for Pagans and polytheists of all ‘levels’ (beginner or experienced).