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Questionnaire response 29

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1. Name (optional):

 

2. Age: 20

 

3. Nationality: Portuguese

 

4. Gender: female

 

5. How would you explain your path to someone else with no knowledge of it?

 

I follow a Goddess path, that meaning I worship a Goddess (I sometimes call her Mother, Luna, Brighit, or Trebaruna...).

I also worship her duality with a God.

I celebrate the Wheel of the Year, marking every Sabbat (or pagan festival) with a celebration of my own.

It's mainly a lone path, I don't belong to any Coven, although I embrace some witchcraft into my beliefs.

 

6. How is your path expressed in practice?

 

My practice is mostly daily.

I take some time(when I can find it)to meditate and talk to my Mother, ask for some advice and light some candles or leave some offering.

In the main festivals I do some workings of my own, go to a special corner in a forest, or by the sea.

 

7. How do you know if your practice is successful?

 

When I can feel that

 

8. Why have you chosen the particular path you are following?

 

It was pure intuition.

I always had a particular inclination to the female aspect of the faith, and witchcraft as well, and somewhat structured systems as the Wiccan were my first introduction, but never seemed to fulfill my enthusiasm and thirst for something new.

This path, that's not a straight one, allows me to introduce some other aspects of paganism, such as shamanism and oriental beliefs as well, through yoga and meditation.

 

9. What is your experience of otherworld beings? Could you give some examples.

 

I dedicate myself to a Goddess, and lately I've been identifying her as the Iberian Goddess Trebaruna, original to the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) since the Celts took over this region. She is mainly a mother and a healer.

I also relate to Brighit, the Celtic triple goddess.

 

10. How do you see your relationship with them?

 

I worship them and seek advice and protection, as well as help in my workings and intentions.

What I give back is respect for nature

 

11. How does your path relate to other areas of your life?

 

I recycle, meditate and am pretty much aware of every natural aspect being a manifestation of the divine.

I also try being a more tolerant human being.

 

 

12. How do you see the relationship of life and death?

 

I somewhat still fear death, I think that's human.

But I believe in the rebirth concept, although don't know if I agree with the karma concept as well...

 

13. How do you see time?

 

As something relative, when it's good it takes seconds to make an hour and when you're in a traffic jam or in an cracked elevator you can feel that hours have passed in only ten seconds...

So, I don't fear getting old, I fear getting boring and depressed, cause that will take a lot to get through.

 

14. How do you handle ideas of good and evil?

 

I think good and bad should be seen as black and white...I believe that not everything should be JUST black or JUST white. There's grey as well...

Everything has its balance.

 

15. How do you view different spaces and objects in your practice or experience?

 

I consider some metals important in my worship, such as silver representing the female aspect...

I don't own a wand or an athame.

I trace my magick circle with my own finger or water...so as you see,I don't make a big deal of material things to my path.

I own a silver necklace with a pentagram that's with me all the time, but that's really the only precious thing I wear.

 

16. How do you feel about other religions?

 

I'm very interested in other religions (hey... I'm a Sagittarius...I can't help it!)

I read a lot about Islam and Buddhism and their faith is really rich and envolving.

Just don't ask me about Christians...I was raised as one, not in a strict family, and what I think about Jesus is that he was the Gandhi of his time, and that the word just spread too much, and things got a bit out of hand, being that fiction has taken over everything.

That's when things got out of control ...

 

17. How do you feel about science?

 

I study Psychology, so I'm very interested, but it will never make me a sceptic....

 

18. How do you feel modern Paganisms relate to ancient paganisms?

 

When you go into a forest, or find a quiet corner in the city park, or in an elevator, or in your car, and you can feel the wind in your face and the sea salt in your hair, you go back to when it all began, so although thousands of years separate us from the ancient pagans, we still can find each other in our love and respect for Nature.

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