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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
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