Day Fifteen: On Finding A Pantheon

Disappeared for a few months in the middle of this because I got overwhelmed with college, tasks and then had a depressive episode. I'm going to try to get back into doing this regularly though because I want to actually finish what I start.

I think pagans, both new and old, put too much emphasis on deities seeking you out first. It's always "how do I know if x wants me to worship them?" and...well, the answer is (generally) yes. The gods want to be worshiped. But the issue is that...that is not how most people find their gods.

To be quite frank, if you sit around waiting for a deity to come to you and "ask" you to worship them, you may end up never worshiping any of them at all. The way you "find" a pantheon is by reading and picking the one you feel drawn to.

I do think it's also okay to stop worshiping deities when you no longer feel that they're the correct option for you. As long as you fulfilled all of your obligations to them (which is between you and them, I can't really give any examples), then moving on is fine. Sometimes a deity or pantheon is only correct for you at the time you started worshiping them.

For example, I actually started out worshiping the Egyptian gods as a Wiccan. I did transition towards a more reconstructionist approach after graduating high school, but at some point, the Netjeru stopped being central to my pagan practice as I found pantheons that were a better fit for me. That doesn't mean I chose "incorrectly", they were definitely "correct" for me at the time I started being a pagan. It is natural for your practice to evolve over time and your relationship to your deities (and to which deities) is part of that for a lot of people.

I will also add that you do not need to pick just one. It is also fine to just worship one deity from a pantheon, but not the rest of the pantheon. The important thing is that you are approaching them respectfully and with sincerity. Sincerity is probably the single most important thing about being a pagan, especially when it comes to honoring the gods.