Describe Your Path

[scorn]

Well. This is a question not many people ask.
Lets see. Im very spiritual and I can see a pattern/reason for almost anything. I understand and study basic Shamanism. I like the idea that in an attempt to simplify and understand our world man had created laws and boundaries like time, distance, ext.
I am more focused on Celtic Dieties, although I am getting a firmer grasp on Greek. Some wierd gods they have. My prefered Dieties and main ones I serve are worrior/protector Dieties. I feel more powerful and capible of anything when calling upon them.
Over all, the religious path I am on right now is just opening myself to abilities I have hidden from myself, or has been hidden from me.

[Ebony]

Over all, the religious path I am on right now is just opening myself to abilities I have hidden from myself, or has been hidden from me.

I like this. Thanks for saying it

[scorn]

Your welcome Rose!! I was just speaking my mind.

[Starshine]

I don't really have a "path" I guess...I was raised as a Christian and I believe in that, but in quite a different way then most people do.
I believe there are a lot of misconceptions in Christianity, and most of the people who believe those misconceptions are people following it.

But I also have a keen interest in a lot of other religions and I love learning about them. I keep my mind open, and love new (even if from old sources) ideas. ;D

[Avaros]

I would have to say i take the path of a Spiritualist and an Idealist.

[mirabilislane]

Let's see,.... my path is twofold. I am a combination, a very happy combination of green and kitchen witch/wiccan. I have been studying wiccan for the past seven years in variying degrees of concentration since life tends to intervene too much. I have been a green witch and a kitchen witch for about twelve years. I also have been working on my divination skills for most of my life with dreams being my mode of choice. They tell me of things both good and ill, so I'm prepared for what may be ahead.

I was raised in a Baptist home and baptised as a child, but was not anxious to pursue that path as it just didn't feel right. I read about the witch trials and felt great sorrow at the pursecution of so many innocents. I knew that I was going in the right direction when I began to read more about Wicca and the Craft because something was calling me to follow and protect those things most precious to us.

I want to use my education to benefit both my professional life and my lifepath in ways that will be gentle to earth and our environment. We are not to dominate this earth, subdue it, but to protect, nurture it for we are simply travellers here and here only for a short time in this body. We are to protect it for the next generations to come so they may enjoy it as others before them have.

My path is earth-based (with a deep longing for the sea).

[phoenix]

I do not know what my path is any more and as such feel a little insecure about it. I took the seax oath but found great difficulty working to the tree. My god and goddess are thor and freya and now my connection with these is stronger than it has ever been. I have never considerd myself a wiccan. Always a witch.

I believe the craft is about balance light and dark good and evil. I work very simply and only use 'tools' on special ritual occasions. Normally I use candle light, insense and my bath tub! As you can guess really does not work with a complex seax ritual ;D

So now whilst I am seax in origin I do not know where I am now

BB P

[watershield]

It has been my experience that about the time we start feeling comfortable enough to start accepting a style lable, our "style" changes.
The path can and will take many turns, twists, and maybe a little back tracking.

[caine]

I'm a theistic satanist. I see Satan as a symbol but a symbol of very real very powerful forces. I see demons on the very same way. My rituals are for my gain and not for worship because I believe the Great Dark Force which I believe Satan is a symbol of does not need to be worshipped. The Great Dark Force exists in and all around us my goal is to align with that force to become powerful.

[VeryStrange]

i'm christian. but i'm very openminded and i explore different religions. i'm really not sure what to put here. i want to become closer 'insinc' (i guess u can use that word?) with the energies around me.
gar brainfart its like i'm speechless now. so here ya go.

[debralah]

I'm Santeria Lukumi, which some consider to be a form of vou dou. I became Lukumi when I figured out that my adopted parents who are Satanists, were sending black magic to me and my family members. I was sent to see a priest and priestess in the religion by a witch that ran a local store, and they did some rituals to help me and my family, and I ended up joining the religion. I have been Santeria Lukumi for about 10 years now, but left my godfamily/coven about 6 years ago, and am thinking about becoming a solitary witch instead. Mainly because in my religion it is vital that one be in a godfamily to progress to higher levels, and I don't want to join another godfamily at this time.

My family and I have been living through what my godparents termed a witchcraft war for 15 years now. It has been extremely hard on us. The magic that has been done for us by my godparents and that I have been doing has helped us greatly, and I know that I will have to practise defensive magic for the rest of my adopted father's life. I really pissed him off, and am paying for it now. I wish that I would have remembered how powerful of a witch he was before I pissed him off, but those memories were stuck in my subconscious mind until AFTER I made him really angry with me. It has been a long, hard road. One that I wouldn't want my worst enemy to have to go down, to tell the truth. I have learned just how real magic is over the years, the good and the bad.

I hope to make some friends on the board here, and to learn as much as I can about being a solitary witch, in hopes of going down that path someday when it feels like the right time to me. For now I still have children at home, and will probably stay Santeria Lukumi until they are all safely raised with their sanity intact. Wish me luck.

[fairymom]

Wow, lets see, I was raised Catholic, fell away for awhile, came back, then left it completely after my divorce.

Was searching and felt the Goddess calling me back from when I was a child! Been following the Eclectic Wiccan path for almost 3 yrs, but now searching out Celtic beliefs with it since I have Celtic background and also for the Faerie Relm as I love faeries and believe in them. I have seen their sparkling lights around, (we do not have lightning bugs here in florida as up in the northern parts)so the only conclusion were the faeries!
I follow my spiritual path, be kind to all, and just be a good person. I do some rituals, not as often as I did before since moving and I am solitary now.
I incoporate many things into the home for spirtiualism. I do the cleansing of the home alot to keep out negative energies.
Just enjoying living and learning all I can!

[artemis]

I'm a Solitary Eclectic Polytheistic Witch with spiritual base in Greek Pantheon - Artemis and Apollo being my personal Deities of choice, well they choose me I should say? lol

I have always been a spiritual person, bought up with Christianity all around me, I never felt linked to it, and came to my own spiritual beliefs at eight. I liked reading alot of Theology - mainly Angelogy - and philosophy. I had my own system of how everything worked...but soon found that even my own ideas and views werent enough answers. I started to look more into wicca and witchcraft.

Ever since I've been hooked to the Greek Pantheon. However my spiritual beliefs are wide and I try to take teachings from every religion I come across. For example, I follow the Greek pantheon but I believe in reincarnation much like the Hindus and the summerlands like wiccans (the spirit passes onto the summerland once it has done its purpose in the grand scheme).

I also believe that our fates are predetermined and that we are all here for a reason, whether it be good or bad.

anyway it would take all day to go into it all lol but thats a general jist!

[morgaine]

Im a solitary, celtic witch/wiccan. When i was little i searched for 'my' religion and i was christian for a while and i knelt at the end of my bed praying everyday but it didnt feel right. Soon after i found wicca. I believe that everything has a spirit, trees, animals, rocks. I also work with faeries and angels. I dont believe in satan or any kind of evil embodiment but i believe that all people have the capacity for evil. I believe in fate but not the kind where you have no choices and its all predestined. Imagine your life as being a path with lots of different junctions. Everything happens for a reason but behind the reason is your own choice and freewill.
Thats the basic plan of it.

[PaganOne]

I am Pantheist. The view that everything is of an all-encompassing immanent abstract God; or that the universe or nature and God are equivalent.

Immanence, derived from the Latin in manere "to remain within", refers to philosophical and metaphysical theories of the divine as existing and acting within the mind or the world.

From my Pantheist viewpoint, God embodies All and is All. God cannot be fragmented or separated. In other words, I am part of the whole and cannot be otherwise. I do not have Life unto myself, but am in and partake of Life. Life itself being God.

I do not worship or give homage to any deity, but I do revere the Earth as I see Her as a living, breathing entity.