Assorted items from Reverend Lunatic:

[azurelunatic]

* You do not do a smol summon to all the trickster gods you can dig up sigils for simultaneously and go "HAAAYYYY I'M A SEEKER" for similar reasons to why you do not post publicly to facebook, twitter, and 4chan simultaneously going "HAAAYYYY PARTY AT MY PLACE HERE'S THE ADDRESS" while @-ing a few choice contacts. That is how you get more infosec d00ds than you know what to do with on your lawn and hacking your launderizer; similarly, you don't necessarily want a certain redhead and a certain fan of well-targeted fruit to take up camp in your pineal gland without that you thought things through very, very carefully beforehand.

* I can, in fact, still use coffee as a divination aid.

* Does anyone know a deity or two who might be associated with shit sandwiches and/or lemonade? No, seriously. The deity who is your boon companion when you go "Well, this is certainly a shit sandwich that I have here!" and/or also the entity for "Welp, these are some lemons; I guess it's time to find a big pot and some sugar." Asking for a friend.

* Tumblr is great for creating new mythology. However, anything that tumblr says are true historical fax, double-check that with other sources.

* 90s web design is not an immediate disqualification for a pagan informational website. Presence of information which can be easily debunked via actually qualified historical sources, however...

* Libraries are a thing.

* Divination can be super helpful at some things, but when you're doing it for yourself, you're going to get a lot of internal noise from what you're wanting to happen. Thus, divination is a reasonable way to explore what you personally in fact actually want...

* For fuck's sake, do not get a tattoo on your actual body honoring Bacchus without thinking things through super carefully.

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Comments

[rynia]

i am very fond of this entire post tbh.

i tend to think of ganesha as a particularly kind god of shit sandwiches and lemonade buckets. i'm not well versed enough in his theology or followers to determine if his worship is actually part of an open pantheon or not, but he is the remover of obstacles... or sometimes the placer thereof, if he thinks you need the heavy lifting practise. tread with extreme caution to not be a dick, though, if worship of indian subcontinental deities is not a Thing in culture of origin.

also worth checking out are the brer rabbit stories as a semi-modern mythos and a particularly south-eastern americana trickster who is a++ at making shit look like gold & vice versa

[azurelunatic]

Happily, a lot of the discussion was going over exactly why some of the dubious advice (which my friend had accurately pegged as dubious) was as dubious as it was. GREAT FUNTIMES :D