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Snapdragon
April 14th, 2011, 10:48 PM
As you live your life, unfolding your pagan identity and understanding, your shape shifts. Your path winds, your perspective swivels, your sensation of movement and change evolves.
Write about how this has been and seems to become, for you.
IanCorrigan
April 15th, 2011, 11:50 AM
None apply for me, because I am comfortably centered in a practice that has worked for me for many years. I had my periods of eclecticism and exploration, moving from independent Pagan magical apprentice to traditional witchcraft and then to Celtic polytheism and Druidry. I still study a variety of world magical systems, mainly to see what can be reasonably adapted to my own system.
OpenHands
April 15th, 2011, 07:16 PM
As you live your life, unfolding your pagan identity and understanding, your shape shifts. Your path winds, your perspective swivels, your sensation of movement and change evolves.
Write about how this has been and seems to become, for you.
None of the above. I've belonged to the same religion for the past seven years and continue to work on deepening my understanding and practices.
Gaudior
April 15th, 2011, 09:02 PM
None really apply to me. I do wander a bit...I remember finding Feri interesting, and still have somewhat of a mild interest in Ceremonial Magic...but, I keep coming back to Sanatana Dharma (Hinduism) so I think that is where I belong :)
AmadoreEdana123
April 16th, 2011, 01:07 AM
None apply because Am on the one path I am supposed to be on. I am still following and still not knowing. But I still walk forward. :)
C. Iulia Regilia
April 16th, 2011, 01:12 PM
I tend to stick with my Religio, but I tend to move between aspects of it. Sometimes the practical end of the religio, sometimes the theology, sometimes the Mysteries. But I'm always a Romana, and I always stay with the Olympian Dii Consequentii and so forth.
Pyrohawk
April 16th, 2011, 03:09 PM
Honestly I'm so sick of religion. Things with rules and lists bother me. I don't want to be closed into a box anymore of what I can believe and what I can't. I just what to be myself and not put a label on it. Belief is good, religion and me don't mix.
Snapdragon
April 17th, 2011, 07:47 PM
What originally attracted me to Wicca was the beauty of the imagery--graphic and written--and the emphasis placed on worship of the sacred feminine. My own devotion is Diannic, and has largely revolved around the goddess Kali.
Ritual--which is a major emphasis for most Wiccans, in my experience and observation--was never central. In fact, if one were to use terms that apply to the predominant religion in our culture, I was always a "Protestant" Wiccan rather than "Catholic." Maybe the terms "low church" and "high church" apply here.
Whatever the language, I find myself increasingly putting away the implements and spending less time in front of the altar, as awareness seems more diffuse. My altar is not separate from each step, and prayer neither spoken nor formed, for the most part. On reflection, this seems to me a movement away from a specifically Wiccan pagan way, towards one more general and not tied to any tradition.
U-we-tsi-a-ge-ya
April 18th, 2011, 12:59 AM
None of these apply to me. I am happily walking my path which, When given a 'proper' term is Eclectic Paganism but I like to think of it as 'Morganism' because my path is specificly molded to me. I walk where my dieties and ultimately myself,lead me.
BlackSwan
April 19th, 2011, 12:05 PM
Honestly I'm so sick of religion. Things with rules and lists bother me. I don't want to be closed into a box anymore of what I can believe and what I can't. I just what to be myself and not put a label on it. Belief is good, religion and me don't mix.
This is pretty much the conclusion I came to. Since what I do is entirely catered to me, it is something different than religion IMO. So it makes me wonder is my path changing with me, or was it a part of my path all along?
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