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So, I work with Giratina, Dialga and Palkia. Giratina is an entity I consider a patron, heavily linked to my own personal origins spiritually. However it was asked of me a while ago how I feel about working with them and if it’s related to my belief in the left-hand path and chaos magick.
For a long while I’ve believed entities from fiction came into existence the same way mythological and folklore gods and deities had - through the devotion, thought and energy of their followers. Through thoughts, fan-creations, and life-long dedications from millions. I don’t see how that energy wouldn’t raise an egregore with just as much strength.
I follow a belief similar to left-hand path magick, due to the fact that I do not believe any god created me nor do they control me or any other human. I do not see myself or any other person as inherently below them, if anything just less experienced.
And so I do not worship Giratina, it does not desire worship even if I was intent on providing. If anything, my devotion to it is similar to a student-mentor relationship. I am learning, as while it is not inherently higher than I am, it has a lot more experience and knowledge through the millions of thoughts which raised it to existence and to godhood. So while I do not view it as automatically better, I do see it as worthy of respect, like an experienced coworker I seek to learn from.
To me, pop culture magick is connected to chaos magick and left-hand beliefs, due to this relationship. Rejecting dogma is a major part in accepting that you can feel entities written and created by peoples’ stories to be just as worthy of the devotion and energy.
But through this, the experience is empowering to me. I’ve spent many years trying to fit into boxes, convince myself of deities I wished to interact with being able to command and control me. But those boxes and catagories were not what brought my magic out, or what raised my energy into making the changes and influences I wished to make. I do not walk on eggshells, or conduct my morals dependent on my deities and on dogma, I’ve created them myself years ago and stand by them. Giratina and I will not agree on everything and that is alright. In the end, I still respect it, and I feel that it respects me.
This is all so stark in comparison to how I grew up, felt the need to be inferior and conduct myself based on others - be they God or family. Now it’s just me, and pardon this sounding self-centered, but it feels nice to finally allow my own magick to be a bit self-centered. Never stop acting in ways that are kind, of course. But allow yourself your own strength, own path and beliefs. For in the end, belief can change and grow.
That is what I’ve begun to live by.
For a long while I’ve believed entities from fiction came into existence the same way mythological and folklore gods and deities had - through the devotion, thought and energy of their followers. Through thoughts, fan-creations, and life-long dedications from millions. I don’t see how that energy wouldn’t raise an egregore with just as much strength.
I follow a belief similar to left-hand path magick, due to the fact that I do not believe any god created me nor do they control me or any other human. I do not see myself or any other person as inherently below them, if anything just less experienced.
And so I do not worship Giratina, it does not desire worship even if I was intent on providing. If anything, my devotion to it is similar to a student-mentor relationship. I am learning, as while it is not inherently higher than I am, it has a lot more experience and knowledge through the millions of thoughts which raised it to existence and to godhood. So while I do not view it as automatically better, I do see it as worthy of respect, like an experienced coworker I seek to learn from.
To me, pop culture magick is connected to chaos magick and left-hand beliefs, due to this relationship. Rejecting dogma is a major part in accepting that you can feel entities written and created by peoples’ stories to be just as worthy of the devotion and energy.
But through this, the experience is empowering to me. I’ve spent many years trying to fit into boxes, convince myself of deities I wished to interact with being able to command and control me. But those boxes and catagories were not what brought my magic out, or what raised my energy into making the changes and influences I wished to make. I do not walk on eggshells, or conduct my morals dependent on my deities and on dogma, I’ve created them myself years ago and stand by them. Giratina and I will not agree on everything and that is alright. In the end, I still respect it, and I feel that it respects me.
This is all so stark in comparison to how I grew up, felt the need to be inferior and conduct myself based on others - be they God or family. Now it’s just me, and pardon this sounding self-centered, but it feels nice to finally allow my own magick to be a bit self-centered. Never stop acting in ways that are kind, of course. But allow yourself your own strength, own path and beliefs. For in the end, belief can change and grow.
That is what I’ve begun to live by.
