longer answer: in my philosophy the Divine doesn't care how it's manifested. All it wants to be is part of this world, so the conduit is unimportant, the destination is. By openning up to everything you allow yourself out of the gendered roles that most live by. This allows you to manifest the Divine in the way you perceive it without the constructs imposed by gender identification, sexual preference or style. So where do you fit in? Where you want too......
My spirituality is obviously different than your's so this may not be applicable to you.
All of the above works for me! I can be a willing conduit for the Gods. That is the easy part. The hard part is working through my relationships with others.
people will either accept you in all your facets or choose the ones that fit their universe, the issues lay with them, not with you, be true to yourself. As for relationships, I still haven't figured that one out, I just continue on my path and see what's around the bend
Why should gender limit us in any way? I have drawn down Mannanan Mac Lyr in ritual. No lightning struck me down. I have always rejected limitation, especially when it had to do with gender or sexual preference. We have men in Blue Star who are terrific priestesses and women who are terrific priests. The wheel of the year, in my experience, is about procreation, not about gender or sexual preference. It's not about heterosexuality. It's about making babies. Creation. Well, creation doesn't always have to be procreation! So don't sweat it, toots! You'll find your place, and no one here is going to hold you down or say "you can't do that 'cuz you're a girl".
Thank you for saying that Cat! What a relief. I know I'm okay with you, and Balefire. Apparently, I'm a bit controversial a couple of other places... I'm okay with that.
I say, don't worry about it. I fell into Wicca when I was young and mostly het. Back then, I found the divinity of the female and sexual polarity empowering. But Wicca has followed me as I got older, wiser, wilder and queerer. The way I see it, the binary concept of gender in Wicca is one key to the mystery. It's not the only key and it's not the mystery itself. And anybody who tries to enforce the "rule" of binary gender polarity- in Wicca or anywhere else- is missing the point.
Be yourself- you fit in exactly as you should, and you stand out beautifully :-)
Nobody thinks they fit. Everyone I know thinks that they are the "different" one. I know very few people who aren 't mixes and mingles of all sorts of characteristics. You are only as "other" as you let yourself be in this context.
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longer answer: in my philosophy the Divine doesn't care how it's manifested. All it wants to be is part of this world, so the conduit is unimportant, the destination is. By openning up to everything you allow yourself out of the gendered roles that most live by. This allows you to manifest the Divine in the way you perceive it without the constructs imposed by gender identification, sexual preference or style. So where do you fit in? Where you want too......
My spirituality is obviously different than your's so this may not be applicable to you.
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I can be a willing conduit for the Gods. That is the easy part. The hard part is working through my relationships with others.
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What a relief.
I know I'm okay with you, and Balefire. Apparently, I'm a bit controversial a couple of other places... I'm okay with that.
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Be yourself- you fit in exactly as you should, and you stand out beautifully :-)
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