Why did you become a Dianic/Goddess Worshiper?

[Philosophia]

Why did you become a Dianic/Goddess Worshiper? Was it something that was innate within you? What made you choose this path?

[Fairy_Princess]

I'm hoping to meet chicks....

[EvieLee]

I'm hoping to meet chicks....

LOL!

I don't remember consciously making a decision. I've pretty much always seen my world this way - the name came later.

*shrugs*

[RainInanna]

Same here. It was more a matter of realizing other people felt the same way.

[LadyWillow]

It's a comfort issue I think. I feel more comfortable this way.

[Mrs.Sidhe]

I looked in other paths (including other Pagan paths) and this one just felt 'at home' or just 'right' for me personally. I don't see how I could have been anything else now. Thinking back on it now I think I've felt and seen the world this way all along.

[akewa]

You know looking back I did not even know about pagan religions. But one thing I did know what the bible said and what they preached at chruch was not the whole story or mostly correct. I found out about Dianic witchcraft from a news program back in the early 80's. I was already doing a search and had study some shamanism. When I saw that news story it all click and I came home to Her.

[Snapdragon]

Any 'why' would be retrospective and analytical...but the fact of feeling drawn into worship, was neither. This is one of the problems with trying to account for human reality: we can provide a logical framework and an explanatory method...but that really does not touch the living truth.

Why was I? I haven't the slightest idea; what I do know is that it was the emphasis on the sacred feminine and its corresponding imagery, that mainly drew me to the Craft.

[Squiddy]

Cos it goes to 11. :)

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[RainInanna]

Ok, let me clarify a few reasons.

1. Sensory. Nothing makes me feel as sacred and magical as the Goddess - experiencing her in circle or reading about her in books. Through poetry, mythology, personal reflections by Goddess oriented witches or even just female writers such as Sue Monk Kidd. Goddess centered spirituality is so experiential, the sacred so immanent. It's the best way to touch Divine. I feel her most clearly.

2. Female body. I'm a woman. I experience the world as a woman. Even when I'm strong, combative, conflicting, ambitious, moving towards power or whatever else some might consider "masculine", I am always, always female. And my goddess contains "masculine" concepts as easily as I do of course.

[CloeOtter]

I have to admit that I have always been drawn to Dianic path I did not call myself that cause I was not sure about how that would include or effect how my brother, whom I had custody for a time, would be effected by my beliefs. In saying this I have never been able to connect with any god nor work with male energy very well, if at all. I can sense it in men and part of things but I feel the female goddess energy everywhere and in everything. When I was very young and all the way to letting go of what I considered "the Christian betrayal" beliefs I always asked what about the Mother??? Where or who is she??? I got in trouble allot with church leaders and worried my mom allot too. I remember as I sketched and spent time with nature and animals that they almost all came from the body of females/mothers. Growing up even while being raised Christian I always took pause when I heard or read a reference to Mother Nature. After a while I started to think Mother Nature most be the Mother that the leaders of the churches we attended did not want to talk about.

In knowingly embracing paganism and wytchcraft I found a spiritual home . A path I have been creating with what I felt and blending what came naturally and fit for me, as I am sure many have....I have to admit thinking about my life and path that I have always loved, lived, worked with and known Goddess was there and part myself and all. I just never called myself Dianic or as specifically a Goddess worshiper. Honestly though I am a Goddess Worshiper.... I mostly think of her as the Mother Earth/ Mother Nature/Nature.

I now am married with a 1 yr old boy and a another baby on the way, I guess I need to work out how I am going to include them in my spiritual life and how I am going to help them with theirs....

Thanks for helping me to focus and face this part of my self that has been so unresolved. Sorry this is such a long post.

[Mithrea]

I have to admit that I have always been drawn to Dianic path I did not call myself that cause I was not sure about how that would include or effect how my brother, whom I had custody for a time, would be effected by my beliefs. In saying this I have never been able to connect with any god nor work with male energy very well, if at all. I can sense it in men and part of things but I feel the female goddess energy everywhere and in everything. When I was very young and all the way to letting go of what I considered "the Christian betrayal" beliefs I always asked what about the Mother??? Where or who is she??? I got in trouble allot with church leaders and worried my mom allot too. I remember as I sketched and spent time with nature and animals that they almost all came from the body of females/mothers. Growing up even while being raised Christian I always took pause when I heard or read a reference to Mother Nature. After a while I started to think Mother Nature most be the Mother that the leaders of the churches we attended did not want to talk about.

In knowingly embracing paganism and wytchcraft I found a spiritual home . A path I have been creating with what I felt and blending what came naturally and fit for me, as I am sure many have....I have to admit thinking about my life and path that I have always loved, lived, worked with and known Goddess was there and part myself and all. I just never called myself Dianic or as specifically a Goddess worshiper. Honestly though I am a Goddess Worshiper.... I mostly think of her as the Mother Earth/ Mother Nature/Nature.

I now am married with a 1 yr old boy and a another baby on the way, I guess I need to work out how I am going to include them in my spiritual life and how I am going to help them with theirs....

Thanks for helping me to focus and face this part of my self that has been so unresolved. Sorry this is such a long post.

Your story sounds similar to mine, though my questions in Sunday school were: What about me?" because I couldn't understand how I was supposed to follow in the footsteps of a bunch of men when my life experience is so completely different as a woman. We just plain weren't taught about the women in the Bible or anything that would help me in that regard. I eventually realized that I was and always have been Dianic.

I know you didn't ask for advice, and I'm not meaning to sound like I'm giving it either, but I will say this: What people don't get is that part of my belief system is that this is what I am supposed to focus on in this incarnation. This life, for me, is about connecting with the feminine and nurturing the feminine aspects of my soul. I would think that being a Dianic and raising a child should be about helping the child to find what this particular incarnation means for them. Does that make sense? I don't have children and I most likely will not have children, but I have often thought that is what I would do, if I were ever to be blessed with them, whether they are male or female.

Congratulations, by the way :)

[CloeOtter]

Hi Mithrea, thank you we are happy to be having our last baby. :smile:
I do understand what you mean and it is part of my concern that I had for my brother. I didn't not want him to feel or think he was less or not represented in his spiritual side of life. I also know I see and feel things from a very feminine way, though I am not a girlly girl at all. Even when I had mostly male friends there was no forgetting I am a female. I developed early and loved swimming and being outdoors, still do. Even when I would ware tomboyish cloths I had a plump curvy figure. Anyway, I have a son and though hubby and I have decided to raise our children pagan to give them a base. We do intend to be open about other faiths/paths, non restrictive to a extent. We have just not work out all the details. I do feel helping our children find their own way is what we intend I am just not sure of the how....

I do know that my children will not be taught that they are born in sin, if they have sensitivity to what is around them, that its natural and not to be feared, help them learn to live comfortably with what ever their talents are, if they want to get training support them. These are just a few areas of what I hope to help my children with. I feel this area of pagan life there is not allot of support of how to guide our children that isn't very Wiccan based I usually have to adept for myself and have even started looking to what I can adept for our kids. This is one area where being pagan means taking it one day at a time, one milestone at a time. :smile: