Five Ways...

I recently realized two things: one, I have been a Wiccan for thirteen years, not twelve; and two, I cannot add.

I don’t usually set much store by mystical numbers and their associations, but even after all these years there’s still something about the number thirteen that seems…important. My tenth Paganiversary passed pretty much without notice, but I feel that this one, which I will mark officially at Yule, should at least get a cake or something.

In the meantime, I give you,

Five Ways You Can Tell You Have been a Wiccan For a While

1 – You have a Book of Shadows you haven’t needed to open in six months or more

2 – When your coworker says, “Everyone’s acting crazy today, it must be the Full Moon,” without looking up you reply, “Nope, not until next Tuesday.”

3 – You have a favorite resin

4 – You’ve gone from being a neophyte to hating neophytes to hiding from neophytes to teaching neophytes

5 – You long ago stopped believing that

Christian = evil
Pagan = good
Tools = magic
Magic = guarantee
Pagan Standard Time = funny
Degrees = worth
Festivals = safe
Clothed = oppressed
Author = guru
Reading = experience

Comments

[Renee]

Love those 5 things! :) Always a pleasure coming to your blog :)

[Daven]

Oh, those are great. I really liked them. Well done.

[Christopher]

Dear god, that is remarkable.
Just today I said "Nope, the moon was peaking 8 days ago" and talking about how I should stop hiding from the people that come to me for advice.