ok...since im the only one posting anything....ill put a topic out there and see what happends..when i was single and dating...The last 3 girlsfriends i dated were all Wiccan....I figure'd there was some "strange" reason for this, so i did some reasearch, on this "Wicca" thing, and low and behold, found out i had finally found my spirtual path! And so here I am! So theres our topic..How were you drawn to Pagan'ism/Wicca?
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Nevar
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Fri, August 31, 2007 - 7:25 AMI was drawn to Wicca after being a christian for a very long time and becoming dissatisfied with the amount of guilt and control being dished out. I wanted answers so I started looking around. My personal beliefs are kind of a mesh of various things now, but mostly pagan. -
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Fri, August 31, 2007 - 9:56 AMHey Frank,
Well for starters labeling a topic 'topic' isn't exactly the zippiest headline. ;-)
Also, the group could use a picture or two.
Anyhoo, what got me into Wicca was a trip to the Chalice Well in Glastonbury, England in 1996. I walked in as a happy agnostic, and came out as a Witch. But what happened in between is quite a tale!
Check it out:
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Fri, August 31, 2007 - 10:40 AMpictures....i didnt think bout that....but thank you Angus...we still have to hang out sometime, as much time as i spend in santa cruz and all!..and thanks for that site as well, i have to go to the hospital today.debbie is having a histerectomy, surgery
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Fri, August 31, 2007 - 10:48 AMGood energy to Debbie!
Hanging out sounds like fun. Here's the line up for September for the Community Seed crowd. I'll probably be at all of these things:
Sunday, 2 September (this Sunday) is our monthly Energy Walk, this time on West Cliff Dr.
Saturday, 8 September is our monthly Open Circle at the Quaker Center.
Saturday, 15 September is Coastal Clean-Up Day, and our last beach cleanup of this year at Bonny Doon Beach.
And looking ahead:
Saturday, 27 October will be this year’s Samhain Sabbat, at the Santa Cruz Masonic Lodge.
Info at www.communityseed.org -
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Fri, August 31, 2007 - 11:04 AMthanks Angus! one thing i like about community seed, is the enviromental concern...im trying to get everyone at Greenheart Grove more involved is that kind of stuff.... -
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Fri, September 7, 2007 - 1:17 PMI have always had pagan leanings. As a child I was always in the backyard making some concoction using the plants and fruits in our back yard. I would stand in a fiels and listen to the wind. My mom wasokay with this and encourged my backyard doings. My best friend went to chruch every Sunday. If I wanted to spend the night it had to be Saturday night which meant going to chruch with them. I was okay with that cause I could be with my best bud and we would go to the store afterward where I would buy candy. And just like the Stevie Wonder song i would spend my collection money on candy (ice cube chocolate hhmmm) After a while her parents realized I wasn't going to chruch for the 'right" reasons. They found this out after trying to get me tobe baptised into thier chruch. My mom had a religon forced upon her. She wanted to follow her father's , he was jewish. But her mom felt that it was hard enough being mixed is 1940 Arkansas without being jewish also. So she let us(mostly me) try all the flavors out there and left it to us to pick. I tasted most of them, found them to be the same just slightly differnt dogma and decided mine was for me. I no longer could spend the night which bummed me out. But by then I knew that I was different.
I married an agnostic, then lived with a east coast catholic for 11 yrs. That was an expereince . One day i stumbled upon wicca. Ah Ha I found that I am a witch, hence the potions making, etc.
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Sat, September 8, 2007 - 7:06 AMGreat story! My wife, Karen, found that when she finally read books on Witchcraft she was just nodding along because she knew all this stuff already, she just didn't know what it was called.
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Sun, September 9, 2007 - 8:46 AMthanks Sonia....sounds like you been thru alot!...but the main thing is you finally found your calling! like most of us, i guess! its funny i use to go to sunday school for the gram crackers, they gave out at lunch!
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Mon, September 10, 2007 - 1:55 PMI was a very devout catholic, church on sunday and during the week, kids in catholic school etc...At one point we had been in the same parish for 10 years and as I was sitting in church and the lady of the financial commity was making a speech about giving to the church and she said''...some of you have been seen at Starbucks twice a week , if you can afford to go to Starbucks twice a week you are not giving enough to church!" Then and there I realized something had gone terribly wrong.And I started looking around me and mostly thinking for myselve and I realized this had nothing to do with religion anymore it was all about money and status. If you didn t give to church or school you didn t count in the meantime my children had become dreadfully unhappy in their school.
Always I had been a King Arthur afficionada and I was reading yet another version of the legend and in this one this one sentence kept coming back' religion is kindness, faith is love...' and I realized I was not getting that in my religion. Religion was supposed to give you peace of mind, reasurrance happyness and all I felt was sadness and inadequacy. I had to investigate this Goddess religion of which one spoke.And of course thanks to the internet I was full sail ahead to paganism.
The more I read the more it made sence to me, my attraction to the moon since i was a small child, my vivid imagination (talking to fairies and trees and plants as a small child). And like some people in the previous post I was nodding while reading yes yes this is it this is so natural so invigorating. Well like I said full sails ahead and I never looked back. -
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Mon, September 10, 2007 - 7:18 PMthanks christine!....well thank you Starbucks!
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