Dear reader,

By reading this I assume that you are a lot like me when it comes to spirituality. Your family probably “gave” you a religion but it did not seem right to you. At some point of your life you started searching for your own path, the right path for you, and luckily you found it. But have you really found YOUR path? Or you are just following the path that seems to suit you most of all the others without being totally into it?

Recently I found myself in that situation. I was following a pagan tradition based on elemental magick. I felt great about it and was really into it, but not totally into it. I came to understand that we cannot make discounts to anything concerns our spirituality. Even if a very little, but important, part of the tradition we are following is not attuned with us I believe that we should search for something else.

I understand that there cannot be a tradition that is perfectly attuned with everyone. That is impossible and, come to think of it, it would be extremely boring if everyone was thinking the same way, had exactly the same beliefs and needs or wanted the same things.  So what can we do? Is there any way to make finding the best path for us possible?

Actually I think there is. We can adjust things! In every single part of our lives we are adjusting things! Why can’t we do the same with our spiritual path? Why can’t we find a tradition that seems best for us and adjust the tiny little, yet important, parts of it that don’t seem to work very well?

I believe that the most important think here is to find a tradition that the deities feel right for you and with which you can find yourself attuned! So before thinking of anything else search and find your God/Goddess/Gods/Goddesses!Once again! Do not make any discount! Search deep! There is surely one deity waiting to embrace you! I was searching for five whole years to find mine and it was right under my nose! I am Hellene and I had never thought the possibility that the Hellenic Pantheon is for me! Believe me you will know it when you find your Gods! You will feel it with every molecular of your body! I know I did!

After you have found your Gods then study their traditions! Learn as much there is for them as possible and when you think you know enough to begin your journey though that new spiritual path that lies before you, its time to think of what does not feel right to you and if you should change your views on these things or adjust the tradition to yourself! Sometimes during our spiritual wanderings we can find ourselves realizing things that we did not seem to understand or accept before. That is the way that spirituality improves us. So before rushing to adjust anything stop one moment and think “Do I really need to change this or should I change myself?”.

Now in a very rare occasion we can find it very difficult to follow a tradition. It happens! Even if the deities are perfect and everything seems great the rest of the tradition may doesn’t feel right. That’s the moment to start creating your own tradition! You have your Deity! Work with the gods to help you create your own path! Ask your Gods to aid you and if you work hard I’m sure you will succeed. If you think of it people who did not fit in to the traditions of their time made all the traditions that we know today!

So all in all! Don’t make any discounts to your spirituality, search hard to find your Gods, adjust the tradition to your needs and if that seems impossible create your own path!