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…

somerset:

TW: DOMESTIC ABUSE

Another thing I don’t get in all this white clamor to be the loudest and most indignant critic of Chris Brown (and the grammy’s which are basically coded as black) is that none of these people can even fake pretending to care about how Rihanna feels. Maybe a domestic abuse victim doesn’t want you referencing how she got “the shit beat out of her” on an awards show stage so that you can make a cheap and petty point to aggrandize yourself. Is that how you respectfully talk about a victim? That’s how you reference domestic abuse survivors? As people who “got the shit beat out of them?” You’re just another piece of shit using the body of a black woman without her consent to aggrandize yourself and worse, to make a cheap, self-congratulatory point to a bunch of other white people so you can all pat yourselves on the back.