No names

[scaravich]

I agree with what a lot of people are saying... I think a lot of us become so in-touch with the Goddess because before we found this path, we lived in a patriarchal society where most people worship a single male God, and we felt a great imbalance because of this. Now on this path, things are different, and we feel a need to connect to this feminine energy more.

Personally I feel like I connect with the God more easily than the Goddess sometimes. But it's probably because I'm a man, very passionate, and very sexual. So I think naturally I have a lot of masculine energy... Litha is one of my favorite Sabbats because I really resonate with that and thrive in the God's strongest day. But when I first started this path, I definitely spent a lot of time focusing on the Goddess only, and I think it's because I had been missing that balance for my whole life.

Anyway, as for me, I don't really work with named gods or pantheons or whatever. I like learning about them and learning the stories of various mythologies, religions, and folklores... but as far as my personal devotion, worship, prayer, and craft, I only work with the Lord and Lady, and not specific incarnations of them with names or anything. I do call them by many names, but they are not names like "Diana" or anything, they are things like Goddess, Lady, Great Mother, etc.

I have experimented and been off-and-on with trying out using the named gods and goddesses... for a while I was really into Odin and was starting to incorporate him into ritual, but... in the end I don't really think it was for me. I think I just really liked that imagery. But it helped me understand new faces of the God... I started to understand him even better because of this.

[-Dark-Moon-]

I see the divine as one diamond with many facets

I have never acknowleged the male aspect of deity except for one time in a solar ritual and it f@&$kd everything up completely and the electrical wiring in my house hasnt been the same since.

I stick to lunar magic these days, and yes, my relationship is purely with the goddess...and certain deities which represent aspects of her which I wish to invoke.