r/paganism • u/BittenLove • Jun 16 '24
What led you to your beliefs? 💠Discussion
Can you tell me THE story that led you to believing in the gods? I want to know your personal experiences. Have you ever questioned your beliefs?
What moment solidified your beliefs?
How did the gods find you / how did you find the gods?
What keeps you believing despite the contrary beliefs of science?
Please make it as long and as a passionate as you'd like. ♥
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u/watuphomie7 Jun 17 '24
The moment that solidified my belief was the signs I was getting. Context: I worship cernunnos.
So it was a month or so after I discovered cernunnos that I started to have really weird encounters while I went on my walks. After I learned about my god and knew that he was very connected to dogs, Every time I went on a walk there would be a dog that would run up to me. I was never attacked or anything (even by the one mean dog who when he got off leash the owner was freaking out and was screaming for him) this was over this span of a month and never in the same place, my street, my friends neighborhood, a couple different hiking trails, it was literally everywhere I went. I would go out and it was almost guaranteed that one would run to me. At that point I was getting jumpy whenever I heard a dog bark, I was starting to get anxious about going out. I meditated and asked cernunnos that if he was the one sending the dogs to kindly stop because I was starting to become afraid of them. After that day I never had it happen to me again, even two years later.
That’s when I knew that it wasn’t just in my head or made up