However, as I pondered what it is that I wanted out of my spiritual life, simplicity was the at the heart of my desires. I want to...
- converse with the god and goddess to show my appreciations and seek guidance.
- understand the cycles of the moon and how it relates to all the earth's seasonal glory.
- understand what each season has to offer and explore and love every minute of it in nature.
- live by the Wiccan Rede.
I do not believe that most other spiritual people feel the need to practice ritual and the such within their own home. This is usually done in church among other members of their community. Many Christians I know do not actually go to church. Most of what they believe and how they choose to live their lives is based on personal reflection and conversations with god.
So, I guess I am just writing to gather my thoughts and clarify my thinking.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
What do you think in regards to all the ritual, etc in most pagan traditions? Necessary or not?
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
hi :)
ReplyDeleteI'm in two minds about this.
I never cast circles at all. I think I have done so maybe the grand number of two times. Mostly this is because it doesn't feel like me to cast a circle, it just makes me feel a little pretentious. When I start to do any spirit work though I do run through a list of respects I pay first. Once the elements were not included in this list but they are now as my views on them have changed a little.
However on the flip side of this I wouldn't say that I'll never cast a circle again because on those few times that I have I can honestly feel the difference in the energy it contains.
It's a bit like chosing your arguments I guess ;)
I think the energy that raising a circle creates is only needful for big important stuff.
I think there are quite a few of us that are moving away from raising circles now, which is an interesting development.