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 Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:14 am
What interests you? What have you looked into before? Are there any you are currently studying or practising? Are there things you don't like?
I currently consider myself an almost-Heathen, in that I practise something that's preeeetty much Heathenry but I also have other practices and beliefs ^_^ I'm interested also in Hellenismos and Kemet, but I haven't done much research into either.
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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:11 am
Heathenry. It sounds wild. xd
I'll have to go look those up.
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:30 pm
I consider myself an ecclectic kitchen witch smile
I like your mix, it sounds like you found what works for you and embraced it. That's how I came about mine - I first started researching Wicca and then realized that it was part of this whole shebang called Paganism, or polytheism. So I started picking up here and there things that I like and work for me. I'm always learning but I have a pretty basic and solid foundation, good moral balance and lots of fun things.
I think that is what attracts me most of all to Paganism - it's so mutable, and intensely personal, like any good religion should be.
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Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:08 am
-posted as Maya (o-to-ko-yo)-
I'm more into herbalism and energies.
I do love to learn more about what other people are into. Hence why this guild was created.
I like to experiment in the kitchen and with aromatherepy and such.
I have helped a lot of people around me with what I have found out. Ie, my cousin's asthma isn't quite as bad as it use to be.
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Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:07 pm
I suppose if I had to fit myself into one category or another, I'd call myself a Hedgewitch, which is to say: I'm okay working in a Coven, but I'm equally comfortable doing my own thing. So I'm "on the hedge," or fence, as we'd call it now. But "Fencewitch" doesn't sound so nifty. =P
I have a good foundation in herbology, some interest in gemstones and candlemagick, and dream walking, interpretation and astral projection are my current areas of study... I think I'm still fishing around for my niche, the place I feel most comfortable. I feel like I won't really be able to find it until I am no longer afraid of my family discovering my religious practices. Even when they're several hours' drive from me, I worry that they'll find out and stop talking to me, so I'm struggling there.
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Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:42 pm
"Hedgewitch" actually refers to a form of what an anthropologist might call "shamanism". Hedgewitches "walk the hedge", travel to the underworld and so on.
Story goes that the term comes from the hedge surrounding a garden or a village. What is within is civilized or safe, the human world. What is without is wild, and can be dangerous. To walk the hedge means you have one foot in this world, one foot in the other.
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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:03 am
A-yup! That's definitely one way of looking at it.
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 2:29 am
Though I still am young and I look around for more to surround and build my base, my Deities are set. I also dabble in almost all things magickal in order to stretch myself and find out what I'm comfortable with. I think that perhaps it's a good idea for those who're younger to do that because it doesn't set them in any one way. 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:19 pm
I don't really see why anyone would HAVE to set themselves in any certin way. I like being free, in that way. It makes me feel like I can change things to what I've learned. If you set yourself in a certin belief then you have to change what you know around you to fit. But not having a set way gives you the freedom to mold your belief from what you've learned from the world.
I learn something new everyday. It's been a goal of mine since I was a kid. Infact all of my good friends should know these two quotes well (since I say them constantly)
"Well you learn something new everyday."
and
"And now I know, and knowing is half the battle...
G.I. JOE!"
... What? So I like G.I. Joe. Let me guess next your going to pick on me for watching the original Transformers too huh? They were cool before the movies you know. *pouts*
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Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:11 am
At best I consider myself a eclectic norse -pagan.
Since it is the best way to describe my backgrounds of german paganism.
I am facinated by Heathenism, though I have barely started to learn about it.
I prace mostly green witchcraft, celtic shamanism and herbalism.
I really would like to learn more about Chaos magic and satanism.
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Dangerous Conversationalist
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:20 pm
I had a roommate what was a satanist. He described a lot of it to me, but I an in no way an expert. I also thought it might be going a bit far in this guild, but if there are others interested in it educationally, then I might be tempted to open several classrooms for each of these.
FYI Satanism is NOT what your thinking. If fact there is no god or satan in the beliefs, not sure about the name still. It's about drawing energy and workable magic from yourself as appose to the earth.
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:22 pm
*raises my hand*
I'm Wiccan~!
So yeah, take that for what you will. :3
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:45 am
Passion Is Obsession *raises my hand*
I'm Wiccan~!
So yeah, take that for what you will. :3 I'm going to go the route of curiosity. There are many people with sometimes vague, sometimes differing beliefs that identify primarily as "Wiccan" rather than, for example, "eclectic neo-pagan" or even "solitary witch". What is it about your personal practise that you understand to be indicative largely of Wicca (as opposed to eclecticism or other Pagan religions)? What leads you to prefer this title over other possibilities? and do you have a specific definition of "Wicca" that you consider the most correct?
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 1:00 am
*yawns*
Well, I'm a bit tired, and I honestly didn't think anyone cared~
But, since you asked.
I've never really gone by or have been called anything but "Wiccan." I'm monotheistic, I practice Magick, and I belong to a Coven of seven, if you can call that a Coven. So, what title would you give that? Or do you need more detail?
Again, I'm tired, so most of what you typed was wasted on me, sorry.
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 1:09 am
Passion Is Obsession *yawns* Well, I'm a bit tired, and I honestly didn't think anyone cared~ But, since you asked. I've never really gone by or have been called anything but "Wiccan." I'm monotheistic, I practice Magick, and I belong to a Coven of seven, if you can call that a Coven. So, what title would you give that? Or do you need more detail? Again, I'm tired, so most of what you typed was wasted on me, sorry. That's okay ^_^ For now I'd go with "neo-pagan", not even "eclectic", because I don't have enough information to say one way or t'other. If your deity is female then "goddess-worshipper" might be most accurate. At any rate, "witch" would be accurate, if you practise magic ("magick" as I understand it is Thelemic, although you might well, in fact, be a Thelemite, but I suppose you'd know if you were). Wicca is ditheistic, whichever way the individual Wiccan understands their deities. Wicca is a form of worship of the Lord and Lady of the Isles.
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