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Bob Wiley
10/30/08

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Samhein is actually my birthday! But I grew up Catholic, so it was All Saint's Day instead. Not as fun. It's a holy day of obligation so we had to go to church..and no one wanted my birthday cupcakes because they had all their Halloween candy.
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RedHotz
10/29/08

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I guess I am rather "odd" in that I was raised with most of the old ways but my family never thought about them as that way. My great grandmothers were healers and midwives so people would come to them but they also attended church. When I got older and started trying to find my own path I couldn't resolve the teaching of the church to what I believed so I began searching. I found Wicca and thought I had found my path. I studied for years and joined a coven but alas that also didn't seem to fit me very well either. I became a solitary and through the years I have become to call myself more Pagan or ecclectic than anything.

Both my husband and I practice as do both our daughters and our son isn't sure exactly what he is but we allow him to find his own way.
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Raspberry Swirly
10/29/08

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When I was younger, my friends and I tried to start a coven, a la The Craft. I was North, because I'm from New York. We held interest for about a week before moving on to something else.
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DontFearTheReefer
10/29/08

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GUYS, I NEED PEOPLE TO JOIN MY COVEN

any witchezzzz in DC?? i am serious.
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Witchtit: Your low productivity advisor
10/30/08

@DontFearTheReefer: Aargh--I am in a capital too but that of Canada--good luck with finding a good coven. I have had no luck so far with coven--so solitary is the way for me.
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Hamsterpants
10/29/08

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People, you're overthinking this. It's called a Renaissance Faire.
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LacyBones
10/29/08

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Hey Jessica- what was the point of posting this? There was no real tone, though it did border on poking fun. I'm seriously wondering.

Not all Pagans are witches, not all witches are Wiccan, and few people that say they are Wiccan actually are. For some people Wicca is their faith, as much as any loyal churchgoer. We're not all naive glitter-covered 16 year old girls.
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CherriSpryte
10/29/08

@LacyBones: This post reminded me of when I was a naive glitter-covered 16 year old! I dabbled in Wicca, but never identified myself as wiccan, and was (and still am) totally in awe of all of you for whom this is your faith. I'd like to think i wasn't the obnoxious kind of fake wiccan, but who knows.
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WallSt_Rabbit
10/29/08

@CherriSpryte: Wow, honestly I thought that "wicca" was just something made up by the weird goth kids in high school. I didn't realize that adults actually.... believe that stuff. Just...wow.
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Jessica
10/29/08

@LacyBones: The point, I thought, was in the spirit of the article. They weren't poking fun, they were looking at their religion in a lighthearted way that I sought to echo while also giving people a little bit of knowledge about a religion most people don't know about. I posted it because it's almost Halloween and I thought it was a good article.
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CherriSpryte
10/30/08

@WallSt_Rabbit: I find it considerably harder to believe that a virgin gave birth to a man who died and then rose from the grave than to believe the basic concepts behind Wicca, but, you know, to each their own.

Thanks for not being condescending, tho!
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CrossWord
10/29/08

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This reminds me of planning prom in high school. I bet all these witches were on student council.
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ZanDPY
10/29/08

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Yep, that sounds about right.

Pagan standard time is a bitch too. (and by Pagan standard time I mean; get there when you get there.)

Also: never have one of those rituals on a farm with any form of livestock. They will no doubt come up and say hello. (And if they're goats they'll try and join in the fun with you!)
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Tart of Darkness
10/29/08

@ZanDPY: Unless you are working with serious Druids in which case every minute COUNTS!
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msAnthrope
10/29/08

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covens kinda remind me of the Purple Hat ladies we talked about yesterday. there's probably a group for everything.

i don't get the magic-by-committee aspect of covens. but of course i'm pretty anti-social so it wouldn't appeal to me. i'd be the crazy old woman out in the middle of the woods all by herself, mixing up potions from her herb garden and surrounded by critters.
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foxiwiitch
10/29/08

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All those discussions, all those disagreements.. and people wonder why I don't belong to a Coven. Solitary witchin rules.
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MegSpencer
10/29/08

@foxiwiitch: Every Samhain for the last few years I keep meaning to rededicate myself, and every year I say "I've got too much else going on." I have a hard time staying motivated solitary but I won't look for a coven until I've rededicated. Alas.
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CrankyOldBroad
10/29/08

@foxiwiitch: I've always been a solitary, despite knowing some amazing women in covens. It has just always worked better for me that way. I am too much a join the group and start taking on every task kinda gal everywhere else in my life. I didn't want my faith to become yet another onerous job, ya know?

I also laughed at the 'lapsed pagan' joke, because that's exactly what we call ourselves in CrankyHaus.
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Interior_League
10/29/08

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Pagans by nature are self-centered drama queens, getting a group of them to agree on anything is near impossible.
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Her Grace
10/30/08

@Interior_League: While I wouldn't go so far as to extend this generalization to all Pagans ever, it certainly is true of the Pagans I know now or knew when I was attempting to be one. I'm a bit too introverted and atheistic to make it in the magick scene.
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RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee)
10/29/08

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"Bell, Book, and Candle" with Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart is a must own. Sadly, wasn't allowed to rename the cat Piewacket.
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badmutha
10/29/08

@rose.of.many.thorns.colette: best kitteh name in the world.
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Kilotwat
10/29/08

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Moral of the story: the easiest thing is to have no religion at all.
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hatepaperdoll
10/29/08

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This sound exactly like a board meeting at my co-op. That's it, the next time no one will second my motion to adjourn, I'm turning them all into newts.
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Khrushchev
10/29/08

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Here is where I would make a joke about Hermione Granger, if I could think of one!
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