Choosing a Pagan Path - How to Choose Your Pagan Tradition

Choosing a Pagan path can be one of the most cumbersome parts of becoming a Pagan as there are so, so many to choose from. Here are a few tips to get you going.

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How to choose a Pagan path
How to choose a Pagan tradition

[tlollirot]

I am an eclectic pagan myself. I incorporate deities from different pantheons primarily egyptian practices, native american practices, norse practices, greek practices and irish gaelic practices and animism. I feel it allows me to gain the full benefits of everything that the metaphysical world encompases and with me working with crystal healing and magic having all of those different deities gods and godesses really brings alot of power to my manifestation practices. I dont even refer to gods and godesses as such i call them the divine ones cuz i like to to adresses all the higher powers that i believe in while praying meditating and setting intentions with my crystals. Thank u for sharing this. Now i dont feel as bad about having more then one pagan path

[thecauldronspoon]

Thank you for this video! Newly leaving Christianity and Catholicism to follow my heart again! There are so many levels to witchcraft and it feels so complicated. I just love healing with herbs, everything nature and I want to understand all of the pagan holidays and moon/sun cycles.

[pollyrg]

Very helpful, thank you. I've been Christian for many years but my interest in herbs, natural health etc has seen a number of people identify me as a witch, and I've always felt some pull to that identity.
At this stage I'd describe myself as Christo-pagan, emphasis on the 'Christo' and with prayers in place of spell work, but have accepted that I'm currently in an unfinished time of significant change so am focusing on forming my 'Pagan' identity and interrogating my Christian aspect in light of this

[weserman]

This is very helpful.

I been trying to discover my pagan path for a few years.

I am more into animism than anything else.

when I walk into a forest I feel a alot of spirits around me and when elements blend together my soul heals greatly.

So I am more animism. But thank you for the video, I have to rewatch it again to pick up more what you said. Once again thanks for the video and keep on being connected to life.

[xrxdgsn]

I recommend the book,
“Paganism - An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religions”, by Joyce & River Higginbotham.

In my opinion, it does an amazing job in covering this mass umbrella term of Paganism. Let’s face it, trying to define it is quite a complicated. I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did.
-Eugene

[antheios]

You're incredibly easy to listen to! This video really helped clarify some things for me and it definitely doesn't hurt that you're great at explaining things.

[Valshara_]

I feel like I took nature for granted until I moved to a big city where vegetation is few and far in between. After living here for a few years, I've been longing to be surrounded by nature again. Anytime I have the opportunity to be around it, I feel such a connection now. I have never really been a spiritual person for most of my life, but after experiencing such a cut-off, I definitely feel it now

[sunnyspinach]

So I've been in and out of pursuing a greater understanding of my spirituality for most of my life. I was able to find Drawing Down the Moon online and I'm reading it just eyes wide. I've never considered magic, religion, and other views described in the book until now and I feel like it's sort of blowing my mind. Thank you so much for making this video and recommending this book!

[marathecrayon]

Thank you for uploading this video, it will really help with finding a label for myself. I'm having issues with accepting a label because I feel like I'm constantly being judged by others, but I hope to overcome these feelings in the future

[kobushugo]

Wow thanks I've been a witch for a year now and this video is the first one to help me decide that i'm also a eclectic pagan. Blessed be 😁🧙‍♂️🙏

[karolina_sevcikova]

At the beginning of the video I was like, being a pagan doesn't mean you're a witch, it's not the same thing, BUT I'm glad I continued watching the video. Very well made video, finally someone who really does understand this topic/religion! Good job! 👏🏻😌You earned my subscribe ❤️ (slavic pagan here 🙋🏻‍♀️)

[rowanlaverne]

"Drawing Down the Moon" was always sugested along with "Triumph of the Moon" when I was a baby witch. I read both of them at the time but its been like 12 years since then.

Also! I love your shirt. I love In This Moment

[sohielfab]

Thank you for this amazing video, i just started on this subject and I'm very excited to see how it goes and also thank you heather for suggesting this video so we can all be informed 💕💕💕💕😊😊😊😊

[RomanPaganChurch]

Came for the smile, stayed for the music. Fun video. Thanks

[mikaylab]

I'm currently christian but something is drawing me to paganism. I've always felt different from my family in beliefs. So I'm trying to find my path, I need to know what I'm talking about and what I'm doing before I openly practice because my family will have words with me.
I feel like I might have skills in herbs and "spiritual communication" (if that's what you call it, idk) but I'm thinking over going down that path. As well as I'm leaning towards, Norse or Celtic religion. 😊

[Vlad-biss]

I just think there's a god/gods and that all religions are here to guides us in our lives, also I want to protect the animals and nature (I feel like god IS nature)

Still I find the pagan paths beautiful so I find myself reading about greek and norse mythology and listening to folk music

[heathergriffin]

Yay! I got really excited when i got the notification this morning :p
Thank you! You do a great job of explaining things :)

[sidneybuckaloo]

It’s weird because in my mind most of anything someone believes in can be true. Animism, witchcraft, the God and Goddess, Nordic religions, Christian religion, etc… It’s a feeling of both the terrifying unknown and complete wonderment of what could be. I lean towards The God and Goddess of Wiccan religion, Mother Gaia as a Goddess, the plants and animals having a souls, the idea of magick in all living things around us, magick and soul in the elements, magick in all things we do if we keep ourselves aware and do things with intention, the magick in belief, etc… I’m going to ask myself the questions you posed in this video to try and figure these things out for myself.

[ericv]

I am just starting my pagan journey in midlife after decades of being an atheist, but growing disillusioned with the hyper rationalism and mechanistic materialism underpinning much of that movement. Personally, I'm attracted to Hellenistic practice, perhaps due to my getting a degree in philosophy when I was younger and reading a lot of Greek writers. I also find relevance in the Norse pantheon, particularly Thor, and have always believed in reincarnation, having also read extensively on Eastern philosophy / religion (perhaps also motivating my distance from atheism). So my approach is eclectic, to say the least!

[demaiin]

hey! firstly, thanks for this video, it really helped me a lot. ever since i was a child i believed in reincarnation cycle and that was it. i didn't see myself fitting into any of the abrahamic religions as i didn't believe in heaven and hell, and i also don't believe in the christian god or the islamic god. i believe that we are part of the nature and the creator, that everything is alive, breathing and has a soul. i see nature as sacred and believe that gaia/mother nature is its source. that part is certain, i believe in magick but i want to stay close to nature as possible as i can so i don't want to participate in it. i believe that we can connect with the deity/deities through rituals so i'm really open to doing that. the thing is, i don't necessarily believe in mythological stories, i feel like the deities are real but the stories are exaggerations. the purpose of them is to make us understand our earthly mistakes through stories. ( i believe that the thing they call heaven and hell is on earth, our souls chose to come here to experience and when the cycle ends we return back to where we are originally from -to gaia-, because all souls are part of her) i also think that since some mythologies share common deities, they were just named differently but the deity was the same one so we can call them by whatever name we want. i celebrate the sabbats, try to live according to my beliefs. what i wanted to ask is, since ancient pagans believed in nature and there is polytheism in neo-paganism and i participate in both, what should i call myself? i'm really confused about the mythological part of my beliefs. i really do believe in deities but also, gaia is the main goddess i believe in, she is everything. so it feels like i'm underestimating the deities and seeing them as lower. i don't know where to place them in my head.