24/07/2025
I couldn't explain this any better, this is beautifully put 💜
What is Pagan?
Pagan is not a costume, not an aesthetic, though it may wear bones and bark, ash and antler.
Pagan is a way of being.
It is to root yourself in the soil of this world, not just to walk on the land, but to belong to it. To honour the turning of the wheel, the pulse of the seasons, the spirits in wood and water, stone and storm.
Pagan is an old word, once used by those in power to name the ones who still listened to the wild, who still spoke to the old gods, who still remembered. It means “of the country,” “of the land.”
It is not about looking back in nostalgia, it's about stepping forward in connection.
There is a pull, deep and wordless, that cannot be explained,
only felt. It stirs in the blood and the bone, in the wind across barrow and branch. An ancestral call that echoes through time, waking something ancient within us.
A knowing. A remembering. A return.
To be Pagan or Heathen is not a fantasy escape.
It is a return. A remembering. Of ancestors whose names were carved in stone and whose blood still hums in our bones. Of sacred fires and oaths spoken beneath moonlit skies.
Of reverence, for nature, for death, for life in its untamed wholeness.
We are not lost. We are reclaimed. And we carry antler, ash, and truth as we walk between the worlds.
-Woodlarking
Image by Dawndra
