LadySquee
I don't claim a certain religion, either, but my beliefs are close to Christianity.
Ever since I was young, at least beginning at 10 years old, I was fascinated with things such as spells and candle magic. Sneaking some books and reading about Wicca or reading on the internet, a lot of it struck a chord with me, but because of my family, I never really had a chance to keep up on it. By the age of 13 or 14, I believe it was on my birthday, I was at the mall alone with a friend and we stumbled into the only New Age shop I had ever seen. We were talking about Tarot cards next to the reading room, and we both were expressing our interest, but we both talked about religion and the effects it might have on us. The psychic overheard us and talked with us a bit about it, easing our fears. I believe it was a mix of wanting customers and probably frustration of people always condemning things they don't know about. Needless to say, I was sold and had been curious ever since, now almost 10 years later, I finally got a deck of my own!
Hopefully I haven't gone too off topic, but I had a very troublesome dream last night that immediately had me thinking to this thread when I woke up.
I am not Catholic, but in the dream my family called an intervention of sorts because of my hobby of Tarot. They brought in a nun, and although I can't remember everything that was said, they were condemning me, telling me I had lost my soul, and I was terrified they were going to lock me away. All throughout the dream, however, I felt they were wrong, they were getting so worked up over nothing and I couldn't believe them, they were condemning an innocent person! The Sister was doing all she could to convince me of my sins and it was plain scary.
If I had not had the feeling that they were wrong and had it not had anything to do with the Catholic religion, I might have seriously been jolted and reconsidered Tarot, but my gut was telling me they were wrong.
Man, I hope I don't have another dream like that.
Ever since I was young, at least beginning at 10 years old, I was fascinated with things such as spells and candle magic. Sneaking some books and reading about Wicca or reading on the internet, a lot of it struck a chord with me, but because of my family, I never really had a chance to keep up on it. By the age of 13 or 14, I believe it was on my birthday, I was at the mall alone with a friend and we stumbled into the only New Age shop I had ever seen. We were talking about Tarot cards next to the reading room, and we both were expressing our interest, but we both talked about religion and the effects it might have on us. The psychic overheard us and talked with us a bit about it, easing our fears. I believe it was a mix of wanting customers and probably frustration of people always condemning things they don't know about. Needless to say, I was sold and had been curious ever since, now almost 10 years later, I finally got a deck of my own!
Hopefully I haven't gone too off topic, but I had a very troublesome dream last night that immediately had me thinking to this thread when I woke up.
I am not Catholic, but in the dream my family called an intervention of sorts because of my hobby of Tarot. They brought in a nun, and although I can't remember everything that was said, they were condemning me, telling me I had lost my soul, and I was terrified they were going to lock me away. All throughout the dream, however, I felt they were wrong, they were getting so worked up over nothing and I couldn't believe them, they were condemning an innocent person! The Sister was doing all she could to convince me of my sins and it was plain scary.
If I had not had the feeling that they were wrong and had it not had anything to do with the Catholic religion, I might have seriously been jolted and reconsidered Tarot, but my gut was telling me they were wrong.
Man, I hope I don't have another dream like that.