Unveiled Artist
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I didnt just get out of high school. Im not in my freshman year in college. Im not even in college. I have no tatoos, thank goodness. Not running around for the girls. Yet, growing in the pagan faith, in my experience, feels like Im still a teen finding magic spells and playing with cards.
This is my experience not a generalization.
It seems like neopaganism and new age is highly popular among younger folks. I visited a UU church couple years back. A member wanted to set up a pagan group. Everyone, he said, complained because they wanted to make it a coven. There are procedures need to be done, papers written. Yet, they were hard pressed for something special. (Again how it came across to me)
I believe that a pagan (lack of better word; not prechristian believers) is so in touch with nature that she lives every way in accordance with it. Everything is based on the ritual workings of the earth. Magic is natural. Its nothing special.
Yet, I get a feeling that by todays definition it is.. Maybe many young people who have different beliefs under the pagan label makes me stereotype the new age stuff from the actual living as a pagan.
Nature has literally called to me my whole life. It didnt just come. My mothers interest in witchcraft influenced it. My grandmothers interesting tactics to protect our home was neat to learn from. General things like hunting with my father, fishing with my mother. I can feel my mothers energy. She is a natual born witch. Some of us are not like that.. We struggle we crawl.
I just wonder is what i am doing the way my family down south practice folk magic. I like tradition. I just dont like "new". I know Im not young and sometimes Id like to find peers who practice the Craft. What do they have to say? Our family is so secretive about our heritage and faiths. All we know is christianity.
Its something else.
This is a blogglet. Nothing special.
This is my experience not a generalization.
It seems like neopaganism and new age is highly popular among younger folks. I visited a UU church couple years back. A member wanted to set up a pagan group. Everyone, he said, complained because they wanted to make it a coven. There are procedures need to be done, papers written. Yet, they were hard pressed for something special. (Again how it came across to me)
I believe that a pagan (lack of better word; not prechristian believers) is so in touch with nature that she lives every way in accordance with it. Everything is based on the ritual workings of the earth. Magic is natural. Its nothing special.
Yet, I get a feeling that by todays definition it is.. Maybe many young people who have different beliefs under the pagan label makes me stereotype the new age stuff from the actual living as a pagan.
Nature has literally called to me my whole life. It didnt just come. My mothers interest in witchcraft influenced it. My grandmothers interesting tactics to protect our home was neat to learn from. General things like hunting with my father, fishing with my mother. I can feel my mothers energy. She is a natual born witch. Some of us are not like that.. We struggle we crawl.
I just wonder is what i am doing the way my family down south practice folk magic. I like tradition. I just dont like "new". I know Im not young and sometimes Id like to find peers who practice the Craft. What do they have to say? Our family is so secretive about our heritage and faiths. All we know is christianity.
Its something else.
This is a blogglet. Nothing special.
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