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We have all felt lost on occasion. We have all felt the longing deep inside us for what once was, for when our spiritual path reflected and fed the needs and desire of our spirits. We look back to a time hundreds of years ago when our beliefs were the accepted religion of Western Europe and was understood by all, Witch and non-Witch alike. And so we sometimes imagine that we are strangers in our own country. We feel like strangers to those we live amongst, for many people would like to claim that America is a Christian nation, and so it is not surprising to find that some days we feel we do not belong, that we have no place here, especially when we are told that our religion is wrong or even evil.

Europe was conquered over a thousand years ago by a faith which was not its own, that did not spring naturally out of its forests and hills, its mountains, rivers, and valleys. For the Gods of old Europe were the Gods who belonged there, who were native to the land and the people that they served. They were and they remain the Gods who best speak to the spirits of those with European ancestry and Who still reside in our very blood. We belong to Them and They belong to us, and that has always been the relationship between God and Witch.

And so we ache and long for a rebirth from the ashes of the restless dead. We hope and pray for the Old Religion to return to us and be renewed in the coming Age. We reclaim and rewrite our rituals time and again, finger through book after book and search the internet, hoping to stumble across the way back to what was taken from us. We seek after the heart and breath and bone of our own selves and of the faith of our ancestors, for the two are intimately intertwined. But, perhaps, the problem is that we are looking in all the wrong places. Read the rest of this entry »