Pagan Misconceptions (by other Pagans)

thenaturewitch:

Just to clear a few things up.

Not all of us:

• are eclectic Wiccan
• practice witchcraft (of any kind)
• honour ‘the God and Goddess’
• are Earth-honouring or nature-orientated
• celebrate the Wheel of the Year
• cast circles/call quarters/invoke elements in ritual
• believe in/practice divination
• are interested in anything considered New Age

The rest of us:

• are neo-Druids, Heathens, Hellenics, Kemetics, non-Wiccan Witches, Eclectics, Reconstructionists…(the list goes on…)
• practice folk/green/kitchen/hedge witchcraft (if at all!)
• are polytheistic, pantheistic, panentheistic, atheistic…
• celebrate Greek, Egyptian, Roman, Northern European (etc.) holy days (along with or instead of the Wheel of the Year.)
• do not include Crowley-inspired ceremonial practices in our rituals

The point I’m trying to make here is that you can’t lump all neo-Pagans under the same Wiccan-coloured umbrella because not all of us fit nicely underneath it.

Some of us do - that’s OK.

Some of us don’t - and that’s OK, too!

I’m not trying to put down the Earth-honouring, circle-casting, Sabbat-celebrating eclectic Wiccanesque types, not in the slightest. But since they make up the majority of Pagans out there, the rest of us tend to get…over-shadowed.

Do you get me?

Of course, this totally doesn’t help with defining Paganism but I’m not even gonna go there…