30 Days of Paganism
{Obligatory note about how all of these beliefs are my way, not the absolute way, and I don't expect anyone to follow them besides me.}
So, like other people, I'm using this to try and organize my thoughts on my religion and spirituality. I had quite the epiphany while thinking about my heritage the other day that finally motivated me to do this.
I've been looking to my ancestors for answers on what my religion should be. I've tried the Pagan cultures of their ancestors: Irish, Scottish, British, German, Cherokee, Greek, then there's probably a dozen more that I don't know about, Cajun by heart from my adoptive father, and the American, semi-conservative, nondenominational Christian, southern way my mother raised me . My dilemma was that I felt I should honor all my ancestors, but I should only choose one path to avoid playing with cultures. I then tried to find out what the majority of my blood is. And that was the problem.
I'm 100% mutt.
At first this distressed me, I didn't know what to do. But then I thought, "Why can't I have a mutt religion as well?" So that got me thinking. Why can't I just find my own path? Isn't it still in the nature of my ancestors? They broke away from their cultures, married different people, moved to different places, worshiped different gods, immersed themselves in different cultures. And there's nothing wrong with that. Now I'm almost proud to be a mutt.
I think, that maybe, the way of the mutt is made out of solitude, movement, learning, and experimentation. And with these four principles I should find my path, my way, by myself. Of course I can learn information from others, but it's my responsibility to take that information and make it into something. And so I will start the 30 Days of Paganism, and it will be a tool I may use to navigate some of the forks in my path.
