Curious

I am. Have been for 16 years. Right now I'm not active as in belonging to a group or doing monthly Full Moons, but rather just trying to live life as the Goddess would have me do. I try to do at least some small thing for each Sabbat. I'm pretty low profile as I live in a high-Christian area.

Cheryl

Pagan without active involvement in any particular tradition.

Have you already decided on a path or are you looking? There's a few books that I could recommend.

- Sandy

What Sandy said. I've discovered that I have a profound distaste for "organized religion" in any form. So I'm a solitary technogeek pagan.

KarenS

Jeanne

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40 minutes.

some people have used those labels for me---I kinda like what Popeye had to say: "I yam what I yam."

Thanks for answering. I really should have put "OT" in the subject but I didn't think about it until after.

As for your reply, it was what I expected and what made me compelled to question the group. We're living in an age with such a diversity of religious practices, supposedly under a constitution that insures our right to worship as we please, yet you say you keep a low profile because you live in a high-Christian area. I'm assuming you do this because you don't want the hassle you'd get otherwise.

Second thing was, it surprises me (but maybe it shouldn't) to see this religion (is that the right word?) so well represented in a newsgroup, when it gets so little play anywhere else. Maybe witches/wiccans/pagans are talented at producing beauty, natural or self-made?

Anyway, thanks for the chance to comment.

I'm not really looking but I would definitely be interested in reading more, if you wouldn't mind pointing me in the right direction?

Understandable. Organized religion isn't improving with time.

I didn't mean to insult, but those words are all I have to describe what I meant. Even an innocuous word would become a label, so... (eek)... there isn't a way out of this.

Hi Cat! :) I'm an eclectic witch. I talk about it in my blog sometimes, and am pretty open about it. Have you seen

It's a great site about all things pagan.

Interesting viewpoints, Catherine. :)

I think it does depend on where you live. The pagan community is pretty large here in Washington, so I feel pretty comfortable being mostly out as a witch here. I don't announce it to everyone I meet, generally speaking, because there is still a lot of prejudice out there, and it can come from anywhere, but I think pagans as a whole are getting a little bit braver about being out. The world progresses very slowly.

Hi Kandice. :) Yes I did. I especially liked the "Voices" section of that page.

That it does. But the hope is, it eventually does.

Cat wrote: "I didn't mean to insult, but those words are all I have to describe what I meant."

And I'm not insulted. Just a bit careful about words, because they mean different things in the mouths of different speakers. Thats the difficult bit about using words. Especially words that have been used in persecutional ways of identification by some people throughout history. Nor do I mean to insult YOU because I have no knowledge of your intent in asking this question---but not everybody looking for witches does so to say " hey, I love your outfit".

Me too, solitary eclectic. I used to sell jewelry to Pagan shops among others. Since stones have extra meaning for pagans that could be one reason we get into making jewelry. I collected rocks before beads and my first jewelry was talismanic. I was raised pagan so that was all a long time ago :).

Ingrid

*nodnod* Understood. All I can say is, time will show you there won't be any harmful intentions or action coming from my direction. I was merely curious.

Raised pagan. Interesting. I must admit this is the first time I've heard anyone say that. But I find my experience with the world is terribly limited.

That site is delicious, btw. :)

well, you are in good company here at RCB---we have MANY curious folk. Its pretty much a perpetual mode for me, personally. Why, why not....what if you DO this.... what if you dont........ thats where all the cool discoveries and techniques come from!