Dark Paganism & Satan

## What Makes Satan -- Dark Pagan?

*Satan themself, as I see them as both male and female in energy form and signature, and neither, is a Dark pagan deity just as much as Lilith, Kali Ma, Nyx, Morrigan and others.*

*Witches sought to distance themselves from Satan in the reformatting of Wicca/Wicce in the 1950's due to the Christianity movement of the time which has been popular for over 1200 years of Earthen History. Gerald Gardner of the Gardnerian Tradition of England was the creator of the Wiccan movement, and when this fizzled in 1955, he started a new image in the form of Anton LaVey and started the Church of Satan in the 1960's. which ran for about 15 years -- though it did and has continued through the 1980's and so on.*

*I had recovered this from a past life I had in which I was loosely affiliated with this endeavor and traveled with during the 60's and later the 70's. I think I also died on one of the end of the retreats, not due to any kind of satanic or criminal activity, but because of my depression. Depression and Satanism does not go well together. There were allot of meetings all around the Northern US, New York and Georgia and Southern Georgia and Northern Florida and Alabama and even Mississippi. LaVey believed in transfer points in certain cities that would allow meetings to press forward and the energy of the old ways to come through. Most of the time, LaVey was on drugs heavily. That is why I do not believe in his Satanic Bible, and I do not believe in the Temple either or any group based on LaVey's teachings. (I didn't kill myself, I just laid down outside somewhere and went to sleep and never woke up. I just vanished from the area.)*

Dark Paganism is Paganism, it just deals with darker or mysterious paths and teachings and topics such as:

1. Blood letting and bonding
2. Death
3. Transcending the mortal form
4. Expanding your mental self
5. Death Rites
6. Warrior aspects and shamanism
7. Vampyrism
8. Ceremonial Occult Practice and symbols and sigils

WHAT IS THE HARM OF BELIEVING IN SATAN IN THE SAME WAY AS THE GOD/DESS?

There is not any. Pagans just want Christians to leave them alone about their path and roads. They are afraid to be seen as lesser by a Christian POV.

So, they tell everyone that Satan is still "bad" and that paganism doesn't embrace Satanism practice. What exactly is Satanism practice?

Lighting a candle, dressing in black and chanting or praying or meditation on Satan? That's fashion, and paganism.

I dress in black because I am comfortable in that color and I am comfortable in hoodies and tunics with hoods because it feels right to me. I feel correct, and that is what I like to feel like, otherwise life doesn't flow well.

Repeating what other pagans have said to be comfortable is not true paganism. You are doing that to fit in. Satan is just as pagan and anything else. One of Satan's God's name in paganism is Astarte. Astarte is seen as both male and female, and a celestial god. They even had a cult in the bible and it was mentioned. The cult of Astarte was a Star cult, they convened on hills under the stars and usually had healings, prayers, chants, meditation, and of course stoner culture, even though I don't participate in getting stoned on weed or other things. I do occasionally inhale herbal smoke from natural burning, such as sage or mug wort, rose petals and even sunflower petal and or cabbage leaves, but this is a different practice than stoner culture mentioned in the cult of Astarte.

Another famous bit about this cult is weddings on the grounds/in the crowds performed by "Priests and Priestesses" of Astarte which were not even known to herself/himself at the time, and there were herbal libations being passed about in the crowds gathering. People would braid your hair and paint your face and body, and tell you good fortunes and it was like a travelling psychic witch fair full of the star people in these times. Everyone normally had a good time and no one was ever very lonely. The crowds grew because each town they camped outside many would go to join and participate in the things going on. This behavior continued up until Diana's time, which is a predecessor to Astarte themselves.

Think Ancient Woodstock with an emphasis on sexuality and star gazing. The people who married each other in the Astarte cult loved one another. They stayed together. Maybe ancient cults knew something that today we have forgotten: yeah how to not social distance and how to have fun!

Darker Pagan Deities:

1. Nyx
2. Lucifer
3. Morrigan
4. Macha
5. Mora
6. Cybele
7. The Horned God
8. The Horned Goddess
9. Kali Ma
10. The Norns
11. The Furies
12. Valkyrs
13. The Ancient Ones
14. The Old Ones

These deities has a reputation for taking no sh&t from anyone they knew, and are most often called upon when facing dangers, when we are afraid of something, or need someone to walk beside us. Most of these had at one time, their whole world destroyed, was plotted against and people tried to kill them. That is why the abused and the low down work a dark path thinking they will find solace with these dark deities, seen as dark by the pagan community because they went through some sh&t.

Satan can be an excellent deity for Lawyers, law enforcement, and people trying to win court cases. They can witness and see the unseen what we think we can't see, they are mysterious and uncanny. They can be called on for security of person and the home and also during the hunt for a killer, or a criminal or people who think they defy the law.

Being a Spiritual Satanist --

I have been out as Spiritual Satanist for the last three years and respect for my person has skyrocketed. I am followed and respected on twitter by most other Satanists, and it may be the only platform outside of the International one on Oxwall, that allows Satanists to convene together, without arguments. I did not want to join the one on Oxwall as the only people who use Oxwall software outside of me, are the ones who created it, and they don't like me when I use it, afraid I will get a big name for myself, but that's not what I am after.

Satan by their defiler name, or any other pagan name can be used in spell works, dedications and rituals and this is what the grotto path and presence (GP&P) and the NaturalMagick.life traditions have been working on, to showcase to pagans, all pagans that Satan is no more "taboo" than "Morrigan" or "Lucifer" himself. It is the pagan version of Luciferianism that has much mystery that has turned to bone and fetid ritual and practice that should be examined. Luciferianism today has turned into "Bruja worship". I am not here to attack or point fingers, it is just that bones of dead animals which are real, or even the fakes have no place in circle magicks with a coven or circle or solitary, nor do feathers, furs or blood or fluids or anything like this. It is unclean, fetid magick and it has no work within your rites.

  I. The only feathers one should work with in magick is Crow, Raven, or Peacock, Wild Quail, or Bantam Rooster and it must be from an adult form of the bird, discarded by the bird and not stolen from it's being.  This does not prohibit Dreamcatchers.