A Mad World, My Masters

[poliphilo]

The world likes to oblige us.

It shapes itself as best it can to our perceptions of it.

When I was doing Wicca the world obliged me with low-grade magic- synchronicities, amazing coincidences, omens and the like.

Now I'm no longer doing Wicca the world has settled down quite a bit. It conforms to the views of the middle-aged rationalist it thinks I've become.

But I'm not fooled. I know just know how giddy it can be.

Comments

Re: Whimsy

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I spent most of the 90s thinking of the world in terms of gods and goddesses. I've moved out of that phase now, but it's left me with a tenderness towards things like trees and weeds and stones- all of which I relate to as beings with feelings to be considered.

My pagan days

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

Let's see.....I spent the time between 1988 and 1998 as a pagan myself, but even prior to that point, I always felt an affinity for plants and animals of all shapes and sizes. I still have an abiding fear of insects, though. -shudder-

Re: My pagan days

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

When I left Christianity it was a grand old rumpus, with blazing anger on both sides. When I left Wicca it was a matter of gentle drift. I'd done it for long enough and my attention was wandering.

I guess I'm still a Pagan, but it's no longer a religious affiliation, more like a point of view.