Deities w/ a sense of humor

[Cobalt Cobra]

Have any of your Deities ever given you slightly teasing advice or had a humorous tone to them during a ritual?

Back almost a year ago, I was devastated over losing my job at Pacificorp. I was at my altar every day meditating and praying and casting every kind of job spell I could think of.

Of course, the panicked, unfocused energies I was sending out were not helping at all, but I received a response from my Goddess.

She said, "annoint your brow with oil, wash your hands with salt water, take a shower, and forget about Pacificorp". At the time I thought, "Thanks! I'll do just that and I'll have my job back in no time!" About halfway through the shower I realized what the message was. :lol:

Anyone else have any interesting stories?

[Theres]

i did a rather large ritual to Hekate for Samhain last year.
after being out of work for over two years (originally due to medical reasons), i had designed the ritual about change and transition (you know, crossroads stuff).
within weeks i got a job... making gravestones!

tell me She doesn't have a sense of humor! :lol:

[Cobalt Cobra]

LOL that is awesome!

[Theres]

i see you are in Oregon also CC. maybe next year you'll join us?

[Cobalt Cobra]

For a Samhain ritual? That sounds like fun! Where do you meet? I am up in Aloha.

[Theres]

just south of Salem, in Jefferson...

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[Isil Darkmoon]

Hee... my entire ride with the Morrigan, even from her Calling to me, has been overwhelmingly funny sometimes.

The funniest event during the calling--and what finally was the "ok, I GET it now, put AWAY the cluebat!" signal... I used to wear a ring with a large oval sunstone and a smaller, round moonstone. The sunstone got lost... in the pagan section of barnes and noble... and the only thing that fit it, from a box of gemstones I had back home for crafts, was a black star sapphire.

More recent events...
during my dedication, one of my pledges was that I would keep the area in front of Her altar clean no matter the state of the rest of the house... starting that evening and still continuing, anytime the puppy had an accident in the house, he left his "offerings" right in front so I HAVE to clean the area up well. (we're still working on housebreaking, but before that, he'd always gone in the living room. This was a totally new behavoir.)

Soon after, I was trying to rearrange my altar. I wanted to put up the Raven mask I'd made on the wall... it kept falling off every time I tried. Finally I realized that, unthi nkingly, I had been trying to mount it UNDER a plaque of the Wiccan Rede, a path I used to follow a lot more than I do. She, being among other things a battle Goddess who woulnd't hesitate to use violence when needed, was having NO part in that. As soon as I took down teh Rede plaque, which honestly had just been on the wall so long I forgot it was there, the mask stayed quite happily where I put it and it hasn't fallen since.

[Kitfox]

Oh, yes, they are most humorous.

When I was first doing ritual, I was really stiff and formal and didn't really know what to do in a circle. About the second time I'd ever really sat down and done ritual work, my candles kept getting blown out, my cat kept meowing at the door, I kept dropping things, and everything was just wrong. I got sooo frustrated that I started to cry (I'm a Cancer, it's normal).

Then, all of the sudden, I felt like somebody was laughing at the situation. I started laughing and it was like they were there with me rolling on the floor and holding their stomachs. It was just so hilarious.

I'm waaaaay more relaxed now, but it was a really eye opener.

[Nantonos]

This was a long while ago .... I had convinced myself that I had to have a particular set of magical tools, all made just so from the most exotic materials, before I could go any further. (I have since discovered that this is a common way newbies stop themselves from progressing). Part of the mythology I had imposed on myself was that each of the four tools had to be obtained on exactly one of the four quarter festivals.

So it was just before Beltane, I was stomping around a moor in the Trossachs, in Scotland, where I had decided that my hazel wand had to come from. I was in a foul mood, lots of things were going wrong. I had walked for ages, unwilling to face a single and obvious flaw: its a moor. There are no trees to speak of. I was getting very frustrated, and was sure everything would go wrong and I would never get my wand which would mean I would not be able to get the next tool too and ... and ... well its funny now but at the time I was distraught and didn't see that the problems were of my own making.

So I prayed. Not for a better mood, or detatchment, or stuff like that. No, I set myself up again. I prayed to Cernunnos and asked for a physical sign, an omen, a way to tell that my God was with me and that all would go to plan..

And ... nothing. Didn't feel different. No sign. No hazel trees suddenly visible. No mystical visions. Harumppph! so I stomped off in a huff - and two steps later, tripped and fell over headlong on the rough grass. Well, that was that. It was all over, my world was ruined, everything was going wrong. I decided to head back to civilization and rethink.

Sitting up again, I investigated what I had tripped over. Something solid, hard, unyeilding, buried deep in the soil with just a loop sticking out low in the grass to trip me up. I started to pull the grass away, and gasped.

Digging out the huge, seven tined red deer antler - the physical sign I had just asked for, I started laughing. Strapping it to my pack, I set off again in an uplifted mood.

Over a short rise I came across a deep,narrow valley cleft into the exposed moorland. In the small but sheltered space, small stunted trees were growing. Hazels. One tree had partly fallen over, and still living, had put up a large number of straight shoots, about as thick as my thumb, about four feet long. Wands.

I camped there that night and celebrated Beltane the next morning, having learned not to trip myself up with self imposed limitations - and having learned that the Gods do listen,and do have a sense of humour.

[Aidron]

Aeolus. This facet of divinity always seems to be in a good mood, and I've burst into laughter more than once when dealing with him. :lol:

[aftershocked]

Working with my patron (Anubis) and patroness (Hathor) has been an interesting experience.. it's given me a great eye for picking out tie-dyed patterns in roadkill. :lol:

Also, for one reason or another, I decided that I had to have the Ancient Egyptian Tarot.. it was one of those possession plateaus that Nantonos was talking about. Well, considering it's out of print, and my house is not pagan-friendly, accquiring it was pretty much impossible. Getting frustrated in my search, I sighed and said, "Why couldn't you want something easier to find?!" And, of course, the answer:

"What fun would that be?" :rolleyes: Gotta love Him.

[alesay]

Yup, i too follow The morrigan, and like Isil, she knows that she comes first above all... With me, i speak to her mostly, well all the time, but when i generally want a question answered, i refer to my Tarot deck that she helped me pick... Every answer, everytime is the most sarcastic answer it can get... Being the clutz and goober that i am, everytime i do something stupid, i always always ALWAYS hear her laugh at me :)

[Phi]

All wise ones use humor, there is no Wisdom without Wit.

[aftershocked]

Another fun episode with Set...

I was walking through the terribly crowded halls of my school.. and I was getting very irritated (social anxiety disorder does that).. and all of a sudden, my non-voice (long story; basically that little guy in your head) says 'Don't worry, I'll take care of it. Get me a cattle prod and a box of matches, and it'll be taken care of.' Set's a joker.. but you gotta learn to control that, or chaos insues :hehehehe:

[Grey]

Whenever I have problems with my girlfriend Ill sit there and pray... and my goddess will sit there and shake her head at me and give a look as if to say: you silly young man... what fun would it be if everything was good?

And of course I was sitting there trying to meditate... and also to make smoke come from my fingers. Thinking of fire, and ash... something very common in my valley. Then a long candle fell from my desk and set my hair on fire... point takin. No more showy stuff, no matter what dad says. it was funny looking back at it.

[Ceffyl]

Digging out the huge, seven tined red deer antler - the physical sign I had just asked for, I started laughing. Strapping it to my pack, I set off again in an uplifted mood.


Talk about a sign! Is this where your sig line comes from: "Don't trip yourself up?"

Thanks for sharing that story.

Ceffyl

[Nantonos]

Talk about a sign! Is this where your sig line comes from: "Don't trip yourself up?"

Yes, literally tripping over the requested sign is exactly what my sig line refers to. And it says "don't trip yourself up" not "don't get tripped up" in recognition of the fact that yes, I had tied myself in problems of my own making; I had tripped myself up. I had to realise that you get what you ask for (whether on a mundane level or at a spiritual level).

And I had this pointed out in a humorous but inescapable way.

[mydemand]

Not so much deities, but faeries, definitely.

One time I had lost my biodata that I needed to send quickly, and my mum was looking for a section of the newspaper that she hasn't read yet. We looked ALL OVER THE HOUSE for the two missing items, but we couldn't find them. In our house we have a stack of old newspaper, and I shuffled through them about twice already but I couldn't find them.

In desperation I screamed out "Hey Theif Fairy! Please give us back our things!". Suddenly, during the next old-newspaper shuffle, they showed up. o_O

Me and my closest friend have a thing with faeries as well, and we're always joking about them. One time both of us were having trouble with our computers at the same time (we were trying to work on her official website) and also we had wanted to meet up (we don't get to meet up often because we stay far away from each other and she's REALLY busy) but plans weren't quite working. We kept going on and on about how the faeries were angry at us because we were spending more time with computers than with them XD

B*B, Tiara

[Khaelo]

My gods have been tolerant of eclectic experimentation, provided it doesn't veer out of secular territory (i.e. the Tarot) into their religious realm. Most of the time, that's not a problem. However, a couple years ago, for whatever reason, I decided to try finding "my animal spirit"...clearly Native American based, clearly affecting my spiritual path, and clearly not in line with my religious practices. I don't remember why it appealed to me; it was some random online meditation. I tried it sitting in front of my computer. Surprisingly, the meditation went well, right up until the animal itself was supposed to appear. It was...a rhinoceros. While I was trying to figure THAT out, my patron appeared suddenly, laughing. :lol: So much for that experiment...

[argento_occhi]

while not having any humorous moment to share, i reckon djehuti's a bit annoyed i didn't put him on my lab coat. i reckon he enjoys my labs more than i do sometimes!

[ChakramSpice]

I'm yet another Morrighan child... she sure has a sense of humor! When I was trying to find who my matron goddess was, I had a dream that this woman I know told me her craft name was 'Paella.' When I woke up the next day I could hardly contain myself. I just knew this name was a sign. I googled Paella to find that my great goddess was... a type of pasta?! I could hardly stop myself from cracking up right there in my cubicle :)

[Erincelt]

There ought to be a sitcom, "Life with Yinepu"... yes, that'd be good. :) Being devoted to the prominent jackal-headed one is just asking for it. Once I was concerned about an image I'd seen from some temple paintings, one of which was of Him wearing the crown. I was all worked up on what it might mean, was it real or raked, blah blah blah... I made a deal of asking Him and so on, so forth... I did get my answer though. "Kid, you worry too much about a hat. Thanks for the wine, though."

[Shadowolff]

All wise ones use humor, there is no Wisdom without Wit.
Yup.