What it means to be a pagan.

As most people know I'm a pagan. I've been pagan since about 2002. It wasn't a decision I just made on the spot, it happened over time and I have been so happy ever since. It wasn't until I went through a real tough period of my life trying to figure out, what life was 'really' about and trying to figure out certain religious beliefs I was brought up to believe.

I thought in this post I would write what it means to be pagan to me.

For me it is all about Mother Earth, caring for her and the environment. It's about Recycling everything. From paper, to plastic pots to clothes... just about everything you can.

Looking after our insect and animal Kingdom. Gone are the days where I used to kill a spider, or a beetle. Now I look after them and will even pick snails up in the street and put them in safety. Some people will argue that you must let nature take it's course, but we receive help through means of people in our lives, guides and for some, even angels. So that's why I help the insects etc. I'm being their guide.

I believe in Karma, and so believe that what goes around comes around. So I try to think before I act. I don't like confrontation and so prefer to just walk away if someones being difficult, if they want to be angry etc then let them. It's how I react that's important to me. However, I do have my days where I bitch, or may do something that afterwards I regret. That's part of life and I know that that's where the balance comes in. If I get angry I try to put it into positive use, like using it to make myself to something I have little confidence in. But then there's those times I lose it, but hey we're human right?

Being pagan, we understand there is a balance to everything. Ying and yang, light and dark, good and bad, right and wrong, male and female.... I believe things happen for a reason, and sometimes I know certain things that come into my life which may cause me stress, are here to teach me a lesson and are also bringing things to a balance.

I believe I'm a student here on earth, and my lesson is to achieve all I can and to pay back any karma that needs to be healed. I'm here to learn, to teach and to guide. It's my belief we're all here for the same reason. We're all students making our way and each little problem, each thing that gives us stress is a lesson that needs to be learned, so we can grow and move forward.

I believe in the spirit world, which I believe is home. Once we have lived out life and our body dies, our spirit steps over into the spirit world, where we reflect on our life we just left, see our mistakes and our achievements until we feel ready to move on to another life. I'm very open minded and I could go on about this subject, but I think I'll leave it for another post.

I celebrate the seasons in the Sabbats that take place. Even though I am not a winter lover, and hate being cold, winter seems to bring out the student in me that wants to learn and give thanks to the God and the Goddess. I love Samhain, it is my most favourite sabbat and is the beginning of the Wheel of the Year us pagans celebrate. It's the same as new year for everyone else, but ours starts with Samhain.

I'm not too keen on the term Witch and rarely use it. Society, the media and religion has made this name seem, dirty unkind and cruel. Witches are none of these. Of course there are good people and bad people, it doesn't matter what religion you follow or where you come from, there are good and bad in every religion, culture etc etc etc.......
Some Witches will hex, they believe that this helps with the balance of things. However, hexing is not for me. If I was to hex then I would know that my karma would come back and bite me on the ass 3 times stronger. What you give out is what you get back!!!

OK so that's a little about me being a pagan, but there's so much more. If anyone would like to comment, feel free to. If you want to discuss it in more depth, I'm happy to give out my email to those who want to discuss further.

There's also a great spiritual forum that covers subjects like these. Postive Slant

And also Crazy About Forums

And The Cult Following




Maggie.