moronqueen
2005-04-19 10:49 am UTC (link)

I am an Electric Pagan. I stick forks in toasters and anything else with a current for the shock to get me closer to the Gods.

...ok, not really...though my hubby can show some pretty nifty electrocution scars.

I'm pretty much an Eclectic Pagan with pretty strong Wiccan leanings...very solitary, at that. Squishy only in places.

I do believe in a trinity Goddess and a dual God, but I tend to concentrate far more on balance than most anything else, and encorporate my beliefs into my life by trying to do minimal harm and maximal help to the world around me.

I do also practice magic, though mostly casual, folksy type tings...lotsa candles. I'm not that fond of huge, ornate rituals. Visualization and the otherworld also fascinate me 'cause of things that've happened to people very close to me and myself that can't be mundanely explained away.

My beliefs also sort of change over the years as I study, think, observe and practice. It's an evolution to parallel that of the other areas of my life.

Really...no one else has a place in it except for my husband, and I tend to ignore the people who want to change me because they see me as being wrong in all things. If I'm wrong, I'll discover it with time, and I'll act accordingly. Nothing some stranger says is going to change that.

*twitches* I live in the Midwest US, and I tend to get a lot of idiots pushing their faith on me. It's not appreciated in the least.

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always full of questions, am I.

celtic_ankh
2005-04-19 02:08 pm UTC (link)

and encorporate my beliefs into my life by trying to do minimal harm and maximal help to the world around me.

I politely request an example.

Visualization and the otherworld also fascinate me 'cause of things that've happened to people very close to me and myself that can't be mundanely explained away.

Care to elaborate at all?

My beliefs also sort of change over the years as I study, think, observe and practice.

I think that's normal. If a person never changed, I'd be freaked out.

I tend to ignore the people who want to change me because they see me as being wrong in all things.

Who tries to change you? Like, fundies? Other pagans?

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Re: always full of questions, am I.

moronqueen
2005-04-19 02:59 pm UTC (link)

minimal harm, maximum help:

Environmentally: recycle, use energy sparingly, pick up trash in and around the neighborhood...personally: let people lean on me when they need to and offer advice...I try not to be too mean or impatient, but hell...I'm only human. There's more I'm just not thinking of at the moment...and I do end up screwing up time to time, mostly with the interpersonal relationships.

Visualization/otherworldly stuff:

Visualization is mostly visualizing white light or sheilding around myself when I'm feeling paranoid, and visualizing good things happening instead of always worst case senerios...which oddly enough helps a lot.

Otherworldly stuff...electronics going on and off on their own or doing what I want them to before I physically manipulate 'em (strangest thing was the ATM that did the withdrawal from my account before I had the chance to enter my pin or the request...I shit you not o O), ghost sightings, which people may or may not believe. Thing I can think of right off the top of my head reguarding people close to me would be when my husband was a boy, he was sledding up on his parents' property with his brothers. As he was going down the hill with his brothers (they were all three on a sled), his two brothers bailed out just before they hit a lil' natural jump, like a mound of dirt, leaving hubby to go flying towards a mass of metal debris...sharp, rusty scrap metal their dad had pulled out of the lake earlier...completely out of control. At the last moment, he and his sled were diverted and landed a foot or two away from the metal. I wouldn't believe it if his mom hadn't seen it, too. Again...there's been other stuff that's not coming to mind at the moment.

And the people changing me...yeah, pretty much Christians...mostly Babtists, Catholics and Born Agains on the busses and off the streets (though it's happened at schools I've gone to and work, too...ugh). Believe me, I cherish the thought of being able to eventually afford a car and money to keep it running. And of course the people coming door to door trying to preach. Family has been known to try it, too...though they've learned to pretty much leave it alone if they want anything pleasant to do with me.

I don't flaunt my beliefs, but I'm not going to hide every book I read, either, which is usuall what gets 'em going, unless they're already in that mood.