It’s the same old, same old.
I’m sick to death of it!
I have spent the last 15 years inundated with Paganism 101.
The next time I have to do the “Be a Tree” meditation I’ll scream.
I’m going to pull my hair out the next time I have to eat a salad mindfully to connect with Earth.
I am so sick to death of “All Hail Great All/Goddess/God/Spirit/Nothing” pick something already!
If I have to sing yet again the same stupid Wiccan chant I’ll puke.
I spent hundreds of dollars on the OBOD Bardic Grade course to spend the next year studying the Classical Elements? I don’t fucking think so.
What the hell do they think I’ve been doing for the last decade?!
“May you never thirst” makes me want to kick someone.
Would it kill you to serve something other than store bought shortbread cookies for ritual meals and offering once in a while?
I can’t take it anymore!
What the hell is wrong with you people?
Come up with something new!
This isn’t CHURCH
GAHHHH!!!
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As much as my own practice is radically experimental–and it is–I don’t think that novelty and innovation in shared rituals always work for Neo-Pagans. Custom and familiarity and a sense of getting connected to a living tradition are important.
Do we encounter a range of limitations in our rituals? Yes, we do. Are our rituals everywhere distinguished by creativity and enlightenment? No, they are not. Do our rituals work for everybody on every occasion? No, they do not.
But if our rituals–however lame they may sometimes feel–help us, all in all, link up with the Earth and the Deities and Guardians that we work with, isn’t that worth putting up with a little clunkiness for?
Clearly you need new friends.
Oh, I’m all for custom & Tradition … however, it seems to me that people pick the first lame 3-line chant they read in a book and decide to use that ad nauseum for the next 3 years.
If you’re going to choose some thing to keep using, at least go for quality and/or originality.
*sigh*
I could never belong to a Coven. I’d die of boredom.
This Juniper needs fresh soil or she withers.
And why does everyone have to do the same thing? You’d think you’d at least find something different in a Druid Trad from a Wiccan one … but it seems its often just more of the same old, same old.
“Here’s our slightly different spin on the same information”
I’m a sheep born with black wool I guess. I must be having a day.
You are so right!!!!! I have exactly the same complaints about Santeria – it has become so hierarchic and obsolete. I am also a black sheep in my path.
Although I freely admit to being a creature of habit, that doesn’t apply to my *practice* — such as it is, I hesitate to even call it practice because it’s never the same twice..truly….I’m all over the map — which is why I don’t belong to a coven either…the stuffiness of it all reminds me far too much of church and dogma and This-Is-How-It-Is-ness…
Still…I imagine the comfort of familiarity has it’s place…somewhere…for some folk….
Amen. Or, smote it be. Or, whatever. I led a coven for 12 years, and when I got fed up and bored, and wanted to change, what grief I got. “We can’t change Tradition!!!! O My Stars!!!” Blah. So they left to start their own. Hmmmmm……… Moving back beyond the Hedge………..
nice! you got me too!
…and that’s exactly why I’m a Hedge Druid, my friend. If you bore yourself, or make your own stupid rituals up, or bake yourself cookies, then it’s your own damned fault!
Hahahaha! Time to avoid public ritual my dear, sounds like the laypagans are getting to you
. I had a similar breakdown a few years ago and avoided the public events like the plague. I still go to a few private events, but now I just bite my tongue and go with the flow to have fun – don’t want to scare the Neos too much after all… Come to the woods with me and we will harvest magic, talk to spirits, and find secret gateways to the otherworld…
I hear you. Loud and clear, and can sing harmony with you, sad to say. Where are the post-grad Journeyman, Master, and Sage/Elder-class levels of Pagan practice? Do I have any peers out there, or are they stuck in a perpetual KinderGardenarian loop, forever playing the same lame game?
I’m way past 101 stuff, y’all.
That is why I’ve become a free-range TechMage. Don’t have to bother with any of that, can have jalapeno cornbread and Corona beer for cakes + wine, dance to Tangerine Dream cranked up to 11, and write my own rits, and include a broadband element in it if I want. WiFi Witchcraft is so 21st Century. I love it.
Life is good, if you dare to live it. Rules are meant to be broken.
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