Tradition...

[Kaylara]

Do you follow a specific tradition? If so, (and if you are allowed to tell us) what in this tradition spoke to you? If you are eclectic, what do you look for when you are gathering information from specific traditions or religions?

Kaylara

[pagandream]

Hi,
I follow my families' tradition. Am an (Irish) Celtic Pagan witch. Grew up going to all faiths in order to form an edcated decision when I grew older. I decided to stick with family tradition whereas my siblings didn't.
I have a website that explains on my profile.

[Mairwen]

Hhhmmm... There's got to be a better place for this ... And this is a good thread! ....

[Kaylara]

Mairwen~
Where do you think this thread would go better?


Kaylara

[Mairwen]

I was going to whisk it off to Gods and Goddesses, but I don't know if that would be right, either ... But that makes the most sense ... But I don't know how.

I'm full of but's this morning ... :D

[pagandream]

I am new here, did I post my reply in the wrong area? sorry if I did, I am not used tot his forum format.

[Kaylara]

No, you posted in the right area, it's just that no one else is responding!

Kaylara

[pagandream]

oh, ok. well, not exactly earth shattering news LOL

[Mairwen]

Well, as most of you know, I'm an Elder HPs in the Gwyddon Tradition. For more information, just read my posts, particularly the God & Goddess forum, and/or follow the link in my sig. :D

[Yvonne Belisle]

Eck! For some strange reason I can't fathom I have the song Tradition from Fiddler on the Roof running about in my head. Could be because the kids have played it 9 times this week or it could be this thread. :D

[pagandream]

I don't know rules on adding links to personal webpages here so I won't but will direct you to my webpage (listed on my profile). Once there scroll down to HUMOR. Once in that page click on "Ceremonial Song Banishing Ritual" Hope it helps. :) (what can I say? *S*)

[Yvonne Belisle]

ROTFLMAO You know it's bad when you have one song going on in your head and you are listening to another. My son has Annie on.

[Niamh]

Greetings!
i am an eclectic! When I first started studying, I studied more basic books and eventually developed an interest in the Irish-Celtic traditions. Being mostly Irish was I think the reason for this.
Right now I am studying Green Witchcraft as well as American folk magick. I love growing and using herbs.
Also, the more I study the Burning TImes of American history, the more interested I become in the traditions rooted in the US, especially the northeast.
Who knows where my studies and my Path will take me next!

[pagandream]

my familial history is also (recent history) in New England and (Olde) Eire. I wish you well on your search. I had the benefit of family records but the Internet certainly is a huge aid in tracking down things that otherwise you'd have to be world hopping to ascertain.
Nicole

[Semele]

Niamh. friend!!!!

Please go to the green room this minute and share your herb growing secrets with us. Mol and I are babies in this area and the lives of our new herbs depend on the kind encouragement of educated folks like yourself!!!!

Semele

[Shatav]

I guess you would call me ecclectic as well, though I've got some definite leadings towards alchemical and Hermetic teachings in my personal tradtion.

[pagandream]

well, I don't mean eclectic on the sense most do. I follow family tradition pretty much made up of old ways. I don't believe in a pinch of this and a dab of that. I guess I mean I am open to all, not rigid & will never close my mind to possibilities but I will never waver from the basic traditions I believe in from the knowledge my elders passed along to me.
I worry about the diluting of those ways with new religions every couple of years grabbing from so many others. I am disillusioned because they are so 'well rounded' all sense of 'concrete religious belief' is gone, 'cuz there is nothing it 'isn't'. They are not a 'splinter' off the traditional witchcraft forum, they are nothing LIKE traditional witches. Can you see any other belief system/relifion that would say "well, this is what we are founded on but you can profess to be one of us and chose your own doctrine?". What's the point then? Just start your own religion. It is yours , what you made it not following and adhearing to Witchcraft traditions. Then it has become nothing more than a 'pop culture'
and that has to be the scariest part of all. It’s like a death blow when you make something ancient into a pop culture. You may as well smother it out and bury it. Like the afterglow of dying embers of a bonfire, it just dies a slow death. Sorry I 'went on' - in an odd 'mood' tonight :-)

[Shatav]

Originally posted by pagandream
Sorry I 'went on' - in an odd 'mood' tonight :-)

I think there's something in the air. I feel the same way, just want to rant a little. ;)

[Kaylara]

Same here Shatav... I just went on a tangent in the feminism thread!


Kaylara