Hello! Who's here? What Tradition do you practice? In a group or sol....

[icymist]

...Solitary? Just courious... Icymist.

[thinkingwoman]

1. solitary

you?

[icymist]

2. I don't believe it! Somebody answered this! And quickly!

Honey, I've been through a lot. I started out reclaiming, then went into a ....oh what should I call it? A Goddess and Me stage! Yeah, no better word for it. Then came the Druids. I like the Druids and wanted to stay there, but, they fell apart due to miss-management and lack of interest in their general population. Basically, I'm back now to what I've always been.... Solitary! Strange, Huh?

[thinkingwoman]

3. I think I'm too weird

to practice with anyone else. My husband and I do some spellwork together, but solitary is me, all the way.

[icymist]

4. Hey. I don't think you're weird.

But, than again, maybe 'weird' is what we're supposed to be?! Frankly, I think you and you're husband are normal. Me?! I'm really alone. Just me. Nobody else. I keep on.

[LiberalEsto]

5. solitary

started in Celtic tradition over 30 years ago, now learning about my own ethnic "earth religion."

[Dragonfli]

6. Solitary

Wicca/Taoist blend...
Prefer Rituals with my wife but have attended a couple of open circles

[TimeChaser]

7. Solitary

My path is my own, I really don't know what to call it.

[Arianrhod]

23. I think I would be interested in hearing about your Path.

Judging from your avatars and taglines.

[davsand]

8. Solitary

Kitchen Witch is a fair way to describe me, I guess. "Eclectic" seems too fancy. :)


Laura

[Dervill Crow]

9. Eclectic coven, but also studying British Tradition Wicca.

I've been with a coven for two years come Samhain, solitaire prior to that.

[Silver Gaia]

10. Mostly solitary...

or with my husband. Or with a couple of close friends now and then. And with Reclaiming when we want to be with a large group of folks of like mind/heart. My practice is very, very eclectic and uniquely mine, as with most who have posted here.

[khashka]

11. Mostly solitary and very eclectic

I tend to drag in all sorts of stuff. Ritual Magick, Crowley, Voudon, Radical Faerie,other stuff.

The Goddess and God manifest themselves in myriad ways. The coven I sometimes work with is cool about it. We even have a covener who's a Christian!

So I try not to limit myself to any particular tradition. Just as the god is reborn every year, the Old Religion is reborn every day and becomes the New Religion. Changing and evolving.

Khash.

[Silver Gaia]

12. "Changing and evolving."

I agree. Joseph Campbell said something to the effect that any religion that does not evolve with the needs of its people is doomed to stagnate and die (I think that was in Myths to Live By, but I don't have the exact quote). My own practice also draws on many sources and is always changing. That's one thing I like about attending Reclaiming's public rituals--they are never the same, and are always flexible and evolving... and therefore, exciting.

[nickinSTL]

13. Heathen...

or Asatru, or Norse pagan...take your pick.

I consider myself Asatru or Heathen, but there are those who would consider me unworthy of those labels. :eyes:

I'm solitary...at least for now. I'm too busy to get seriously involved in a kindred, even if I was aware of one in the area, which I'm not.

I'm also likely to be VERY picky about any kindred I'd consider joining...I want nothing to do with Volkisch or white/Aryan supremacists masquerading as Asatruar.

I'm definitely a liberal Heathen.

[Chovexani]

14. Solitary Hellenist

I did the coven thing in the past, and vow never to do it again. Way too much drama and politics for my taste (maybe it was just my group).

[Behind the Aegis]

15. Me too!!

I like being a solitary Hellenist! Of course the other name is "neo-classical Hellenistic pagan." More wordy, but being verbose can be fun! :)

[Chovexani]

16. Hey, you!

It's fun isn't it? How's it going? :hi:

[Behind the Aegis]

18. It's a blast!

Been pretty good. yourself? :hi:

[Chovexani]

19. Not so good

I've just been in a very deep funk for a while. :(

Trying to hang in there though.

[Behind the Aegis]

20. I am so sorry!

I understand deep funks! They can really hard to come out of. However, if you need to, you PM me and I will do my best to be a little ray of Helios' light in your cloudy day!

I hope you like cats...'cuz Tony says, "Curl up in a blankie and have a nice nap! Works for me every time!"

[Arianrhod]

24. I had that EXACT SAME RUG in my last apartment

with a heavy mahogany table sitting on it.

Cool. :)

[Geek_Girl]

17. I'm new to wicca

But I'm solitary eclectic

[ismnotwasm]

21. Solitary seeker/agnostic

Drawn to traditional paganism. I admire Kali, because I do believe to face the world as it is really is to face madness and you have to walk through your own truth and madness to escape it. She is the one I use for meditation. I admire the Red Path also. But no answers for me yet. When I'm far away spiritually, I pick up a layman's physics book, one that explores all the possibilities, especially the theory that all possibilities may be real. Quantum mechanics--that funny, irreverent form of mathematics. Poor scientists struggle so hard with it's implications. Do we create our own reality, simply by the act of observation? I laugh, because there have been spiritual belief systems that have been saying this since humankind began to wonder.

[Arianrhod]

22. Solitary Druid

by way of Zen and Taoism. A follower of the Goddess of the Moon.

I like keeping company with fellow Pagans, but the idea of being enthralled to a Group Mind just doesn't appeal to me. While I study in order to understand various traditions, spells, and rituals, I write all of my own practices. (I treat spellwork the same way I do recipes: Try the basic format once, then improve on it!) I think that the only true power in Paganism is that which is experienced individually. IMO, Groups tend to force one into little boxes (even if unintentionally) that restrict freedom of expression, thought, and action. The human need to "fit in" is extremely strong, and we always can find reasons for going along with the crowd. I prefer to buck those reasons I come up with. . . .

Being solitary is, IMO, more difficult than belonging to a Group. But in the long run, I think one attains more assurance in the Cosmos, and confidence in one's power, when these things are gained in solitary practice. I have never found myself estranged from other Pagans because of this. OTC; I feel deeply connected to others.

[Der Blaue Engel]

25. Solitary post-Dianic

Lol...I make up my own names for things. My first exposure to Wicca was Z Budapest's "The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries." She calls her tradition Dianic, and it is very female-focused (generally lesbian). It was good for me to start out with as I was recovering from a childhood of fundamentalist xianity heavy on the patriarchy, but I've been trying to add god energy back in to my new tradition in recent years. My focus for the past few years has been on Isis/Osiris and Shiva/Kali, and lately Bast.

[pagandem4justice]

26. Solitary Hellenic Pagan

Started out as Wiccan, solitary after I couldn't deal with the melodrama of the coven life (in my experience anyway). Called by Artemis to deeper studies of her worship, and then extended that into Hellenistic studies.

[roguevalley]

27. solitary. I love Herne