Journey

My religious journey started in the catholic church - that is the faith I was raised in. However, I have always been reading everything I could get my hands on, and one day one of those books was Starhawk's "Spiral Dance". It took me years before I would actually call myself a Wiccan, but from that time on, I walked that path. I met the Gods, I celebrated the seasons and I read every book on magic and witchcraft I could find.
Some years later, I joined a group of Gardnerian Wiccans. It took me a year to acknowledge that this group - and probably the Gardnerian system, at least as I had come to know it - was not right or healthy for me. However, I came to know the joy of celebrating and working together instead of solitary only, which is something I am deeply greatful for.
Dissappointed with british traditional Wicca, I began to look out for other traditions and ideas. Today I am a member of Universal Eclectic Wicca (UEW). This tradition holds that truth can be found in a lot of forms and places. We practise ethical eclecticism with a strong academic tendency. I feel comfortable in this tradition, and while it is a pity that I seem to be the only German member, I am happy that there is at least an active online community. I have worked through the First and Second Circle of the Coven of the Far Flung Net (CFFN), the online learning coven of the tradition. Recently, my Third Circle project has been accepted, so now I am working on that.
There is always another path to journey on.