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Lynne

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Cautiously Optimistic

Updated:

Monday, Feb. 11 - 02:16 PM

Location:
Chillicothe, OH

What is Your Path? Witch

About Me I am in the process of completely redoing my page, so bear with me. I've been offline for a few months because I have been dealing with personal problems, but it's almost behind me now, so I want to make a fresh start everywhere. Merry Meet! I am a 58yr old mother of 3 and grandmother of 3. I live in South Central OH and over the years have considered myself Eclectic. However, I find myself practicing more of a Celtic/Druid path the more I learn about the Old Religion. When I was in my early 20's I belonged to a small coven. But in the late 60's and early 70's in a conservative town, being different elicited all kinds of retribution. Since I had three children, I left the coven, and then spent most of my life denying my beliefs and faith preferences. But a few years ago, I was tired of trying to live a "good Christian" life (whatever that is!)..and found myself seeking a more natural and intimate and spiritual relationship with the divinity within nature and within myself. Letting go of all that early indoctrination was hard at first, but now I feel totally free and spiritually at peace. I have a lot of Native American blood coursing through my veins, so I decided to look into Native spirituality, and through that process ran across Wicca. The religion Wicca. The more I read and researched, and studied early Goddess/Matriarchal societies, I realized I had found what I had been searching for all my life. I felt the call of the Goddess, and she began filling all the empty crevices and holes in my soul. I continue to study as much as I can, getting to know as much about the various paths of Wicca/Paganism that I can. I feel more centered than I ever have at any time in my life. I feel the immanence of the divine in a way that no other religion ever provided me. My senses have been reawakend, and I find myself taking more notice of the natural world around me and reading the many signs and wonders presented to me throughout each day. I have become a more "authentic" person..I no longer live with the "guilt" and shame of Christianity. I now understand that all acts of goodness, pleasure and kindness are offerings to my Goddess. Although, too many years of working in a corporate world, and fighting the demons of the mundane world, and the stresses of just living in a hurried and noisy world have left me a little "shell shocked" and sometimes a little distrustful.. I am working on that! While I work on getting this profile up, you can check me out on MySpace at www.myspace.com/ethlynnewillow

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