You Might be Pagan If . . .

• When you're sworn in in court, you bring your own grimoire.
• You've been seen talking to cats.
• They talk back.
• You understand what they're saying.
• When asked if you believe in God, you ask, "Which one?"
• You know what "widdershins" means.
• You apply it.
• You have a fully stocked spice cabinet With more than 10 sices even if you don't cook.
• You know that laurel and bay leaves are the same thing.
• You have a frequent buyer card at the local book store.
• The proprietor of said bookstore picks out anything to do with the Celts and saves it for you.
• You know that there are exceptions to the laws of physics.
• You've caused them.
• The first thing your guests say is, "My, that's a nice altar you have there."
• On Halloween, you yell "Happy New Year!" at passers-by.
• You know that Christmas trees were originally pagan symbols.
• That's why you bought one.
• You have friends who say they are elves.
• You believe them.
• You commit blasphemy in the plural.
• Upon dying, your first thought is, "Darn it, not AGAIN."
• When you say "Mother Nature," you mean it.
• In Religion 100, you're disappointed because they didn't cover YOUR gods.
• You know that there is a right way and a wrong way to draw a pentacle.
• You can explain the difference.
• You've spent the last year and a half looking for a familiar.
• You talk to trees.
• They talk back.
• You know dragons and fae exist.
• You've seen them.
• Painting yourself blue, spiking your hair, and dancing naked around a bonfire sounds like large amounts of fun.
• Just dancing naked around a bonfire sounds like large amounts of fun.
• You've seen The Craft.
• You know where they were making stuff up in The Craft.
• You have explained this to other people.
• You can do it better than they did it in The Craft.
• You understand the symbolism behind a maypole.
• You've ended phone calls with "so mote it be."
• Your children go around telling people that "the Goddess loves you."
• You're reading this page.
• You understand what it's talking about.
• You have more to add.

additions:

• You make a futile attempt to draw a diagram for neophites explaining exactly how to do a spiral dance.
• You leap the Beltane Balefires with gusto, and never worry about catching on fire.
• You belong to a group that dances the maypole.
• No matter how many time your group's danced the Maypole, you've NEVER GOTTEN IT RIGHT ALL THE WAY DOWN!!!
• You know what a Morris dance is.
• You have danced a Morris dance.

Dusty's additions:

• You know the difference between an atheme and a boline
• You use them...often
• You say Blessed Be after saying so-long to a person
• You know what it means
• You know that while using a Tarot Deck, the highest card doesn't always mean a that it's a good thing
• And you know the reverse applies to the same

You might be giving pagans a bad name if...

• You think Mercedes Lackey should be a cultural icon.
• You think The Mists of Avalon should be a religious text.
• You use it as such.

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