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 Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:19 am
...in a year? Looking back, what has happened over the last year that has changed you or your practice? What have you learned? What do you do diffferently now?
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:24 pm
This last year has actually been the year that I've changed the most. I immersed myself much deeper into my path and began seeking out much more knowledge. I've learned quite a bit actually, and this guild has a great deal to do with that 3nodding
There are so many things I do differently now. It isn't so much that going deeper changed me as a person, as much as it is that it brought out so many good qualities, and made me think of different ways of going about things, or thinking, or whatever.
Yeah, this past year has been the year for change smile
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:24 am
I'm very happy we could help ^___^
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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:06 am
Umm I have gone nowhere as I have yet to start on my Path. I was introduced to Wicca and Paganism a few months ago by friends and I am still sorting out what they have told me with what is practiced by most Pagans and Wiccans. Artistic Genocide from here has been kind enough to answer my questions, and I will probably post them here as well for all to answer.
I am really just trying to get a good feel for this and such before I really head into it. I am a kinda paranoid, OCDish, uptight, very nervous person and as such its kinda hard for to let go to the necessary degree and listen to the Gods. Which is why I am thinking I rushed into this and a few Gods I thought I had connection with I dont.
But I am hoping this Guild can help me and I can learn truly start following a Path as this is the only religion that has not terrified me.
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Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:35 pm
Naturally I would like to imagine I've furthered my knowledge and reached the pinnacle of understanding, learned the Icelandic and Elfdalian languages, and created a strong, everlasting bond between myself and the gods. The reality is, however, that I've still only just begun, and have much more to go before I could even consider myself knowledgeable.
Over the past year, not much has changed, save for the fact that I understand myself a little better. I conduct myself differently than I once did, even a year ago, and place more emphasis on logic, wit, and objectivity whereas once I was ruled by emotion. I don't believe the taming of my inner nature would have been possible without the influence of the gods, the concepts contained within the Havamal, and the Pagan community of Gaia (Even you, San xp ).
Perhaps in another year I'll have progressed further, and I look forward to the journey.
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Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 7:40 pm
This may or may not be too much information for you all, but here it goes! whee
Basically, a year ago, I was a clinically depressed, anti-feminist, Calvinist, fundamentalist Christian. Yeah ... Well, long story short, I got help for my depression, and it made me reevaluate myself as I became a mentally-well adult for the first time ever. I had to discover who I really was, and one of the questions I asked myself was, "Am I really, in my heart of hearts, a Christian?" And the answer was no! I didn't feel like it fit me, like I was wearing someone else's clothes, trying to conform to what someone else wanted me to be.
So then I had to ask myself what it was I really believed. If not the Bible, then what? I asked myself all the big questions: Is there a god? What happens after we die? Are there such things as demons/angels/ghosts? While I figured out my own answers to these questions, I started researching other religions. I'd heard about Wicca on TV (Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost, anyone? xd Talk about a misrepresentation of Wicca, not to mention a perversion of history!), so I researched that as well. And well, Paganism in general really struck a chord with me.
So there I was, just after Beltaine, and finally I could put a name on my beliefs: Pagan. Sure, it was a very broad term, but it worked, and it fit. For the first time ever, I felt like I was "wearing the right clothes."
So yeah. eek Things have changed a LOT for me over the past year. I'm happy, I've got my life on track, and I'm following the path I know is right for me. That's all that really matters anyway, right? heart
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Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 10:21 pm
Thanks for sharing that, Rose heart
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:51 am
I've...become much more aware of things outside of myself and I gotten a lot more active. Before it was mostly about books and small rituals. I was very much inside my own head. This last year, things have expanded greatly beyond that.
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:54 am
This last year has been kind of quiet for me. My solitary practices have take a huge backseat to real life crap, which pretty much sucks. However it's given me a chance to read up more on Heathen practices, so still moving forward, even if it's in a somewhat different direction.
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 5:09 am
Over the last year I guess I've had a chance to "shake off the fluff" and look at the various paths within paganism with a more educated view. I'm still learning and at this stage, learning is what matters most to me.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:04 am
This last year I've really buckled down and devoted myself to my craft. No more willy-nilly fluffyness. I'm seriously studying it, learning from a high priest and priestess, taking a course in reiki, and getting rid of the massive amount of negativity that was pulling me down. I've cut ties with people who called themselves pagans, but they weren't. I mean, no one who mentally and emotionally abuses others and uses them for their own personal gain can call themselves a pagan. That's just so not pagan.
I'm working on making myself a better person since then, a positive person, one who doesn't absorb the negativity from others and let it poison ever aspect of her life.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:54 am
To be fair, you can be a pagan and, manipulative, abusive, selfish, cruel, and many other negative things. Pagans aren't automatically good people. Regardless, I'd call cutting ties with such people a good thing.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:24 am
CalledTheRaven To be fair, you can be a pagan and, manipulative, abusive, selfish, cruel, and many other negative things. Pagans aren't automatically good people. Regardless, I'd call cutting ties with such people a good thing. I think I might've phrased it wrong. She thinks that she's a "good witch" (her words, not mine.), and that she should be treated as a high priestess. It's...a big ole stinky bunch of ego yuckage that I'm glad I'm away from.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 3:29 am
Amytheria CalledTheRaven To be fair, you can be a pagan and, manipulative, abusive, selfish, cruel, and many other negative things. Pagans aren't automatically good people. Regardless, I'd call cutting ties with such people a good thing. I think I might've phrased it wrong. She thinks that she's a "good witch" (her words, not mine.), and that she should be treated as a high priestess. It's...a big ole stinky bunch of ego yuckage that I'm glad I'm away from. Well, no arguments there! We've all run into play-gans and those people who are just in it for the ego kick. It's creepy. Raven was just commenting on this statement: "I mean, no one who mentally and emotionally abuses others and uses them for their own personal gain can call themselves a pagan. That's just so not pagan." I mean, there's no reason why that wouldn't be Pagan, as such. It's not going to disqualify you or anything wink Nero was a Pagan, and he was ******** insane.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 4:01 am
Sanguina Cruenta Amytheria CalledTheRaven To be fair, you can be a pagan and, manipulative, abusive, selfish, cruel, and many other negative things. Pagans aren't automatically good people. Regardless, I'd call cutting ties with such people a good thing. I think I might've phrased it wrong. She thinks that she's a "good witch" (her words, not mine.), and that she should be treated as a high priestess. It's...a big ole stinky bunch of ego yuckage that I'm glad I'm away from. Well, no arguments there! We've all run into play-gans and those people who are just in it for the ego kick. It's creepy. Raven was just commenting on this statement: "I mean, no one who mentally and emotionally abuses others and uses them for their own personal gain can call themselves a pagan. That's just so not pagan." I mean, there's no reason why that wouldn't be Pagan, as such. It's not going to disqualify you or anything wink Nero was a Pagan, and he was ******** insane. Fair enough. I guess I just came at it from the viewpoint that pagans are people who are kind to other people, because I've been around a lot of pagans who fit that viewpoint recently. I guess I forgot that that's not true of all pagans. sweatdrop
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