About
Lórien Gaesorix Osfairy (I go by Lórien) is the nom de plume of a city-dwelling, settler animist and witch who is exploring gallo-germanic polytheism and other continental heathenries. I use they/their/them pronouns.
I have been developing, since 2021, a reconstructed religious framework affectionately called Orchardcraft based on my explorations of Continental Germanic Heathenry and Gallo-Roman Polytheism.
My witchcraft is probably best described as herbalism-meets-hedgewitchery, inspired by folk tales. I am very much a “feel it out, trust my gut” kind of witch. I don’t believe that witchcraft can solve all my problems. It probably can solve a few of them, though.
As a settler and descendant of immigrants, I have a responsibility to commit to anti-racist and anti-colonial practices in my relationship with people on this land. As an animist and witch who came to their practice in the early 2000s, I absolutely have to commit to decolonizing my practice in the face of colonialism, imperialism, war, capitalism, poverty, and the ongoing human-created climate catastrophe.
This site is not only a current record of where I'm at but also functions as an archive of most of my public writings on witchcraft and animism since 2015. Many of the older posts don’t really represent my current outlook, but I consider them useful to keep around as perspective on where I’ve wandered.
Social Media
I can be found on the Skíðblaðnir and Toutâ Galation Discords.
My account on the Mastodon instance pagan.plus can be consulted here: pagan.plus/@osfairy. There are also some private posts on pagan.plus which are only viewable from within pagan.plus, so feel free to check out pagan.plus if you would like to join a small, non-corporate online pagan community.