Another Happy sigh of spiritual relief

I just finished reading "Spiral Dance: A Rebearth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess". I bought it specifically for my year to study paganism. I find that simply reading it gives me a sense of spiritual wholeness that I have never felt before. I have a long way to go, the book is filled with excercises that I will do as I continue on the road to deciding if I want to be a Pagan (though I must say that that decision is almost already made).

I think now I need to begin to think about what I will do when that year is over. I do not remember the exact date that I began this journey, so I have set the day of August 31st. I have thought that aftter that date I would consider myself more of an "aprentice witch" but that's not the right word....I want to say that even though I will be calling myself a witch, I will be in the very beginning stages of practicing. The book calls a person that is learning things they need to know to belong to a coven an apprentice, so I guess it's not only used in the buisness sense. Still, I will be teaching myself, and therefore not initiate myself. Grrr...My own friend who lives with me, we will call her Genny (and this one is innocent!), might be able to help me with this, but she has all these problems of her own....

Anyway, I guess I will talk about what I am going to do with my learning to be a witch/learning about Paganism: I have not done the excercises in the book, I wanted to read the book through before I actually did them. What is nice is they start out really simple: things that anyone can do to become more enlightened. As they go on, they move into breathing techniecs, meditations, and finally actual spells, rituals, and trances.

I'm so excited that I am on this journey and can't wait till tomorow when I do more!

till next time!