reflect a little in my life. The one thing that I have been learning
is balance. Balance in everything must achieve to have a happy
life. Here are some examples. The foods that we eat must be a
balanced diet or we will get sick. If you are on a motorcycle you
must maintain a balance or you will crash. If you surround yourself
with violence , you will never know simply beauty. This balance
does apply to every aspect of life. look around you do you have
balance?
I love to collect dragons and birds of prey, that is very power
oriented decor, but I balance this with pictures of family and
friends. I love a good scary movie, but I also love to watch a
romantic comedy. I love and use the every changing technology
around us, but I still go to zoos and walk in nature.
The symbol above is the tao symbol 'Yin and Yang'. this is a
very important symbol that we all can learn from. It is a perfect
example of balance. You may look at it as equal and opposites, and
that is true in a way . Yes one part is black and the other is
white. But notice the spots in each half. They are opposites and yet
the same. You can't have beauty without strength. And strength can
be beautiful. This reflects into male and female balance. Every
person has both aspects of personality inside them. You can't live
in only one aspect, there must be balance.
And that is the way my faith has turned to be. I was a
christian for many years. But I always felt empty inside. I started
to do some soul searching and a lot of reading and I found a way
that has brought me a lot of peace. Today the Christians in a very
small way still venerate the mother but yet they don't. everyone
refers to 'Mother Nature' when we have bad weather. But to the
Christian faith there is only one god and it is the virgin Mary that
is the closest that they get to being a goddess. That is not
balance. I believe in the Mother/father aspects of the gods. In my
Celtic heritage, that is the way it was before the Christians came.
And that is the way I believe now. The mother is as important as the
father. Women are as important as men. It is a balance that
creates harmony in life. With this I feel at peace with the world.
SO before anyone tries to say what I am and what I am not, I am
a Pagan. What this means is that I honor the world and nature around
me. I don't look at nature and see what it could become, I look at
it for what it is. The trees, plants, bird, animals, winds and
smells, those are what is important to me. Where do you live? where
do you get your food? Where do you get the water that you drink? It
all comes from the earth, so that is where I place my honor. This is
not Satanism, I don't believe in an ultimate evil like the
Christians do. Celtic beliefs were in existence before the spread of
Christianity, remember that the Church had to convert the Celtic
people over, thus the Celtic faith was there first. Thus I am not an
evil person, I am just different. There are many pagans in the US,
and there are many types of pagans also. So don't let one person's
view ruin your opinion of the pagan community as a whole. And
before you say anything about the number of different pagans
groups, just remember all the branches of the Christian church, there
are the Lutherans, Methodists, Wesleyan, Mormons, and many more.
Just please keep an open mind.
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