Has everyone made a resolution? I made plenty as usual and will continue to make more throughout this January. I guess I just don’t put enough thought into the first one! My sister got me a book to help with one of my resolutions in particular {with out even knowing I had made that particular decision}. I haven’t gotten farther than scanning the contents, and a chapter. It lists some modern issues that many pagans face. Hopefully I will open it and work with these thoughts regularly enough to spend more time on my own spirituality. I feel that I have hit one of those proverbial walls {a short one, more of a curb than a wall}, I don’t know what to research or where to look when inspiration does occur. I think this book will help, probably more than I am willing to admit yet. The book is Llewellyn’s 2012 Witches’ Companion: An Almanac for Everyday Living published by Llewellyn Publications. The ISBN is 978-0-7387-1211-6 for any one who wants to purchase this book. I am sure as I work through it I will be commenting from time to time about what I discover.
Hello 2012
05 Thursday Jan 2012
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Intriguing, can you share what some of those thoughts are? As someone new on this path, I often have very large or questions with more than one part.
A big one, is How is it that you can be a witch, w/o being a pagan?
How can you be a pagan, but still believe in Jesus, and/or the Bible? I get confused sometimes, when I hear others “talking” (blog)
BB,
Susan
The thoughts in the book are more along the lines of cannibus and it’s uses in a pagan lifestyle, eccentricism vs syncrinism or how to have an open circle and so on. Like I stated previously I have only read a few pages (about some listed goddess’) and the table of contents. As to having very large (involved?) questions or ones with multiple parts, that’s been good in my path. They kept me moving forward. The whole “who is a pagan” is a question that is addressed in many books published through Llewellen Publishing (I can’t pull the title’s off the top of my head sadly) and is an integral part of your journey. The definition of pagan (according to http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pagan) is one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans and Greeks. It is also defined as a person who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim; or an irreligious or hedonistic person. Historically a pagan has been a person or group that does not subscribe to the ‘common’ (of that particular time and location) religion/belief system. Therefore when christian’s first came about (we are talking 30-200 CE {very roughly}) they were considered pagans by most cultures, including Jews.
Storybook did a post on Tuesday, November 8, 2011 about labels that you might find interesting, it was a Witchy Wisdom and is the first blog that appears if you click the ‘pagan’ category to the right. It is also under the categories Philosophy, Post it Note Tuesday, to think about.