Strange Witch

To get started, I will be recycling a few Blogs from the past.  

One of my talents is an ability to ask embarrassing questions.  And this has been my history with various religions in my life.  I started out as a Baptist, until my mother got pissed that in order to join the Church you had to be voted in by the congregation.  She thought that the issue of joining should be between you and God.  Then I tried the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ).  Then the new age Unity church, which was gay friendly, but still Christian oriented.  Then flirted briefly with the Catholics.  Then I went into full seeker mode.  I started looking hard at Religions.  Studying, reading, trying. 

I slowly began to realize that as I looked around, that everything had something of value to me spiritually.  I was picking up pieces from the Bible, Vedas, Upanishads, even books and movies and quotes.  Every path had something, however small.  And that is when it all came together for me.  I realized that I am not a Christian, nor a Jew, Hindu, Muslim, or Wiccan.  I am a seeker.  I am on a great journey and I will ever be so in this life.  And the little discoveries that I make and the surprises that I find are what makes it a joy for me.  Witchcraft seems to be a system in my head that makes sense of all this and gathers it all together into something coherent that I can talk to others about.  I seem to fit the definition of Eclectic Witch.  But if I say that three times real fast it evolves into "Electric Witch".  And I have so dubbed myself.

There is a quote, the source of which I have lost, but I think it was Starhawk, "We ask ourselves questions, not to generate dogma, but to propel us on journeys."  That's what I am about.  I believe that all paths lead to the Divine.  The Universe is my temple.  I love Nature and find peace there, no matter how inimical it seems to be.  Nature just is, and I love to try and figure it out. 

One thing about Christian Fundamentalists that drives me crazy is their take on evolution.  I see that all life on Earth has co-evolved.  Our environment is All life and the Earth and we are supremely adapted to it all.  How can we be more connected to all there is?  I heard a scientist say once, "When you try to study something by pulling it out in isolation, you find out that it is connected to the Universe.  You can't do one thing."   Expanding sphere of consequences, the Butterfly effect, Karma in Nature. 

What do I have Faith in?  I can reach out to the Divine and feel it.  I know because I have done so.  And part of my journey of seeking is to try to discern the Nature of that Divinity, but it is not necessary for me to define it to believe it.  May be it is in my head.  But no matter, in any case it is part of Nature, and it is good, so I go with it.

But there I am, a strange Witch indeed.