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PathWalkers.Net Interactive :: Helping you along your path Let me suggest this: While they may be right that everyone is a priest(ess) for themselves, meaning they don't need an intercessor between them and the Gods, there is nothing wrong with allowing the leadership roles to fall upon those who actually want to do the job and who are good at it. You don't have to be a priest or priestess of the Gods if you don't feel the call in your heart, because it's a long hard road. If you only feel like doing the worship parts and praying to the Gods when you are alone, guess what? You can do that. But for some reason, fluffies seem to think that just because you are Wiccan, and Cunningham said you could initiate yourself, that you are automatically a priestess and MUST have a coven and lead them all. Well, if that were the case, the Christian religion would be made up of nothing but priests and priestesses. They pray, they do the celebrations, they go to church, but they have not dedicated their lives to service of others and leading groups of worshipers in ritual. They don't have the specialized knowledge that has been the hallmark of the Clergy. Your Prest/ess has that specialized knowledge. If you feel compelled to find that knowledge out and tread the path of becoming Wiccan Clergy, more power to you, you will find a lot of helping hands. If you only want to celebrate and worship, more power to you as well. But don't think that just because you have been initiated into Wicca (ie baptized into the Christian Church) that you are automatically clergy and have to be an asshole about it. I had been practicing for four years before I ever thought about calling myself a "priest". I had earned the title many times over, but someone else called me a Priest before I would ever think about calling myself that. 7) An aversion to introspection. A while ago, I did a series of articles on various things, one of which was "The Path of the Magickian". It lays out the path a practitioner of magick treads in their journey. One of the recurring themes of that article, and a critical component of anyone's spirituality, was introspection. Don't know what that is? Let me explain. Introspection is "looking within". In an INspection, you look at things, adding "intro" means within. So, you look within your mind, your soul, your body and find out what is right, wrong, in need of correcting at a future time, and what can be put on hold indefinitely. You look and find why you are pissed off when your sister takes the attention at Christmas, you look and find out why you are tired at the end of the day, you look and find out why that song on the radio made you cry. You find these things out so you can apply them in your life. Want to be helpless every time "The Leader of the Band" comes on the radio? Then find out why it makes you bawl your eyes out. I know why it affects me, and how to keep it from affecting me to the point of having an accident. But I would not have know that or how to "fix" it if I didn't go looking for the cause and how to fix it. Want to know why you don't have a lover in your life yet? Look at past relationships and pay attention to what you were doing. Remember that when so-and-so grabbed the brush out of your had that you flew into a rage is not enough, why did you fly into that rage? Is it because they were rude, is it because you were not done yet, or was it because you were afraid they would hit you with it like your mommy did? Are you insecure about your looks and brushing your hair is a way to delay looking in the mirror and dealing with how ugly you are? Or is it that he simply wanted to talk to you and you thought that his doing that was incredibly rude? As GI Joe said at the end of every episode "Knowing is half the battle". Guess what.... When you know, you can say to your next lover, "Don't grab the brush out of my hand, my mother used to do that just before she smacked me with it for being bad, and it brings up a LOT of bad memories for me" or that you need to work on your temper or your beauty self image issues. Thus, you can brake out of one cycle of behavior through knowing WHY you reacted the way you did. Ninety percent of the time, without breaking out of those cycles, you can't advance spiritually. 8) Not wanting to mess up. This is probably the most insidious fluffy behavior there is, the desire not to screw up. Conversely it's the easiest to correct. http://www.pathwalkers.net/interactive/modules....ame=News&file=index&catid=&topic=1&allstories=1 (56 of 284) [12/25/2005 12:22:21 AM]

PathWalkers.Net Interactive :: Helping you along your path You are asked to do something for your leader. Because you don't want to mess up and you want to be looked upon as trustworthy and capable, you decide to do it and you jump in with both feet. It does not matter that this is not something you are actually knowledgeable in, and that you are incapable of doing this, you want to impress her and your mates, so you do it. You do this without help, you mess up, mess up and mess up, and pretty soon you are in over your head. Want to know a secret? No one is going to look down on you if you say "no". No one is going to assume you are a bad person if you don't put the incense on the altar because you are afraid of fire. No one is going to look at you with distain because you can't play a note of your guitar despite 5 years of lessons, and if they do, who needs them? I'm afraid of clowns, terribly afraid of them, so don't ask me to participate in the local Pagan Carnival, because I will probably snap and beat a few clowns up. Does this make me less of a Priest? No. It means that I'm mature enough to accept that I can't stand clowns and that I don't want to be associated with them at all. My wife is afraid of balloons, so both of us working at one of these carnivals is REALLY a bad idea. But if I were not honest with myself and those in the community, if I were fluffy, I would keep this a secret and not reveal it to anyone, with possibly disastrous results. All because I don't want to be seen as weak. It's not that important. It makes me human. I have a flaw, so we deal with it, move on and work around it. I'm a person, not a saint or a paragon. Be honest with yourself and others and don't try to take on things you are not suited to. (The following two pieces were suggested by Chris Cottrell on a.r.w.m. Many thanks to him.) 9) Wonderland syndrome Wicca is nice, Wicca is kind, all elements that may be considered "dark" like death, cycles of nature, decomposition, dolphins raping females, whales beaching themselves deliberately because they are suicidal and on and on and on. Part of this syndrome is that if anyone does anything that could be considered "dark", such as casting a spell to give what someone has coming to them, they are IMMEDIATELY considered a "Left Handed Pather" and are thus beyond contempt. It doesn't matter that Silver RavenWolf herself practices Dutch Hexamastery, that Buckland says that hexes are sometimes good things, or that most HP/Ss in practicing covens say "can't hex, can't heal" and advise everyone to be familiar with ALL aspects of Magick, oh no, that is entirely ignored. Added to that, Unicorns, Dragons and Fairies are routinely put into the practice and spirituality of one who is a true fluffbunny. Yes, each of these creatures can be benevolent and kind, but Unicorns have a limit to their patience and sometimes will gore you just to get rid of you. Dragons consider most humans no better than lice and the Fairies of pre-Victorian practice stole babies out of their cribs because they could, leaving a "changeling" that would sicken and die within weeks. Cats were reputed to steal the breath of children while they slept, leading to SIDS, Brownies would wreck a house where proper "tribute" was not left on the doorstep, and gnomes in the garden demanded fresh milk daily or they would keep the plants stunted, starving the owners of the garden. Then there are the truly evil fairies, like the Red Caps, who dipped their hats in fresh human blood to make them red and to gain power, incidentally killing the person in question. Most fluffies exhibiting the Wonderland Syndrome feel blood sacrifice is one of the worst things from the "dark side of Wicca" that one could mention. It is irrelevant that menstrual blood is a critical component for things like "Witches' Bottles" and so on, or that blood appears in various forms in spells from the Middle Ages, or that there are many good articles out there dealing with modern Blood Sacrifice (by going to donate blood), or that they are in the middle of ritual and feel an overwhelming urge to cut their hand with their athame, oh no, that is BAD and of the Dark Powers (never specifying just WHICH dark powers). See, Wicca is of light and love and life and lollypops and fluff and cotton candy.... They completely ignore that the Moon has a Dark Phase too. http://www.pathwalkers.net/interactive/modules....ame=News&file=index&catid=&topic=1&allstories=1 (57 of 284) [12/25/2005 12:22:21 AM]

PathWalkers.Net Interactive :: Helping you along your path<br />

You are asked to do something for your leader. Because you don't want to mess up and you want to be<br />

looked upon as trustworthy and capable, you decide to do it and you jump in with both feet. It does not<br />

matter that this is not something you are actually knowledgeable in, and that you are incapable of doing<br />

this, you want to impress her and your mates, so you do it. You do this without help, you mess up, mess<br />

up and mess up, and pretty soon you are in over your head.<br />

Want to know a secret? No one is going to look down on you if you say "no". No one is going to assume<br />

you are a bad person if you don't put the incense on the altar because you are afraid of fire. No one is<br />

going to look at you with distain because you can't play a note of your guitar despite 5 years of lessons,<br />

and if they do, who needs them? I'm afraid of clowns, terribly afraid of them, so don't ask me to<br />

participate in the local Pagan Carnival, because I will probably snap and beat a few clowns up.<br />

Does this make me less of a Priest? No. It means that I'm mature enough to accept that I can't stand<br />

clowns and that I don't want to be associated with them at all. My wife is afraid of balloons, so both of us<br />

working at one of these carnivals is REALLY a bad idea. But if I were not honest with myself and those<br />

in the community, if I were fluffy, I would keep this a secret and not reveal it to anyone, with possibly<br />

disastrous results. All because I don't want to be seen as weak.<br />

It's not that important. It makes me human. I have a flaw, so we deal with it, move on and work around it.<br />

I'm a person, not a saint or a paragon. Be honest with yourself and others and don't try to take on things<br />

you are not suited to.<br />

(The following two pieces were suggested by Chris Cottrell on a.r.w.m. Many thanks to him.)<br />

9) Wonderland syndrome<br />

Wicca is nice, Wicca is kind, all elements that may be considered "dark" like death, cycles of nature,<br />

decomposition, dolphins raping females, whales beaching themselves deliberately because they are<br />

suicidal and on and on and on. Part of this syndrome is that if anyone does anything that could be<br />

considered "dark", such as casting a spell to give what someone has coming to them, they are<br />

IMMEDIATELY considered a "Left Handed Pather" and are thus beyond contempt. It doesn't matter that<br />

Silver RavenWolf herself practices Dutch Hexamastery, that Buckland says that hexes are sometimes<br />

good things, or that most HP/Ss in practicing covens say "can't hex, can't heal" and advise everyone to be<br />

familiar with ALL aspects of Magick, oh no, that is entirely ignored.<br />

Added to that, Unicorns, Dragons and Fairies are routinely put into the practice and spirituality of one<br />

who is a true fluffbunny. Yes, each of these creatures can be benevolent and kind, but Unicorns have a<br />

limit to their patience and sometimes will gore you just to get rid of you. Dragons consider most humans<br />

no better than lice and the Fairies of pre-Victorian practice stole babies out of their cribs because they<br />

could, leaving a "changeling" that would sicken and die within weeks. Cats were reputed to steal the<br />

breath of children while they slept, leading to SIDS, Brownies would wreck a house where proper<br />

"tribute" was not left on the doorstep, and gnomes in the garden demanded fresh milk daily or they would<br />

keep the plants stunted, starving the owners of the garden.<br />

Then there are the truly evil fairies, like the Red Caps, who dipped their hats in fresh human blood to<br />

make them red and to gain power, incidentally killing the person in question.<br />

Most fluffies exhibiting the Wonderland Syndrome feel blood sacrifice is one of the worst things from<br />

the "dark side of Wicca" that one could mention. It is irrelevant that menstrual blood is a critical<br />

component for things like "Witches' Bottles" and so on, or that blood appears in various forms in spells<br />

from the Middle Ages, or that there are many good articles out there dealing with modern Blood<br />

Sacrifice (by going to donate blood), or that they are in the middle of ritual and feel an overwhelming<br />

urge to cut their hand with their athame, oh no, that is BAD and of the Dark Powers (never specifying<br />

just WHICH dark powers).<br />

See, Wicca is of light and love and life and lollypops and fluff and cotton candy.... They completely<br />

ignore that the Moon has a Dark Phase too.<br />

http://www.pathwalkers.net/interactive/modules....ame=News&file=index&catid=&topic=1&allstories=1 (57 of 284) [12/25/2005 12:22:21 AM]

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