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Childhood Faith......
Jul. 4th, 2018 09:16 amWith all that's gone on the last month+, I guess I shouldn't be surprised having nostalgic feels for my childhood Faith....Wicca. Well, technically teen faith, since I didn't have any framework to arrange my Spiritual Feelings with;>. While I was raised Christian, between my parents ecumenicalism that all denominations were equal and those same denominations teaching me they each were and my exposure to Classical Paganism(as well as books on Shinto brought back from Japan by my mother while her stepfather was stationed with MacArthur's Occupation force...), it had no chance!
Oddly enough, it's the Wicca I PERSONALLY practiced, not that of my Alexandrian offshoot coven. For one, I was ALWAYS Polytheistic. While Duotheism made sense logically, it didn't "Ring Tru" for me. Everything else "Worked" for me. What didn't was this "Call" I'd had since before Puberty to "Come Home" to my Ancestor's Ways....and Wicca WASN'T. I didn't help that our coven basically imploded when our HPS moved to Israel to be a part of a "Bring Back the Elohim" movement there at the time.
Now, I'm still Heathen. The Aesir, Vanir and Disir as well as the Ancestors, Alfs and Wights are an integral part of my life. However, nowadays I'm finding myself missing the Sabbats. I remember them more satisfying than often I find our 3 High Holy Days. I do find it amusing, realizing how far this once proud Folkish Heathen has "fallen";>.
Haven't done anything about it, though last yr I started to use the old AFA Wheel mainly because it made it easier to keep my Practice regular. So, "Going All the Way" certainly wouldn't be a surprise. And after all, the Florida Panhandle is one of the few places where 1st Frost is around Yule and Last at Imbolc/Charming of the Plow(which is one of the few Norse Holy Days that "maps" to our local biome).
Cheers,
Pat
Oddly enough, it's the Wicca I PERSONALLY practiced, not that of my Alexandrian offshoot coven. For one, I was ALWAYS Polytheistic. While Duotheism made sense logically, it didn't "Ring Tru" for me. Everything else "Worked" for me. What didn't was this "Call" I'd had since before Puberty to "Come Home" to my Ancestor's Ways....and Wicca WASN'T. I didn't help that our coven basically imploded when our HPS moved to Israel to be a part of a "Bring Back the Elohim" movement there at the time.
Now, I'm still Heathen. The Aesir, Vanir and Disir as well as the Ancestors, Alfs and Wights are an integral part of my life. However, nowadays I'm finding myself missing the Sabbats. I remember them more satisfying than often I find our 3 High Holy Days. I do find it amusing, realizing how far this once proud Folkish Heathen has "fallen";>.
Haven't done anything about it, though last yr I started to use the old AFA Wheel mainly because it made it easier to keep my Practice regular. So, "Going All the Way" certainly wouldn't be a surprise. And after all, the Florida Panhandle is one of the few places where 1st Frost is around Yule and Last at Imbolc/Charming of the Plow(which is one of the few Norse Holy Days that "maps" to our local biome).
Cheers,
Pat
