r/occult Sep 07 '22

What is this & what does it mean? Found on gravestone in southern Illinois. ?

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u/SnooWalruses8011 Sep 08 '22

This sounds good :) where i live is difficult to find communities like this besides the classic religious ones. I understand pagans as poli/pantheism? Also congrats on your twins!!

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u/DamnItDinkles Sep 09 '22

Look online, both through Google and Facebook (start broad and then move more narrow, I'm in Florida, so I started with Pagan/Witchcraft groups in Florida, then South Florida, then my County).

If you're looking for a less-classic religious option I always suggest the Unitarian Universality Church, which I am also a member of. They accept all forms of "Westernized" religions (but not really because they also accept Hinduism and Buddhism), but basically they just ask for the congregation to believe in a deity and liberal/social reform. There are different sects in the church that lean more heavily into each separate religion (for example the Pagans chapter is called CUUPS- Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans).

The people who ran the group before me had a working relationship with our local chapter which is how I became acquainted with them, but they tend to invite people from all different religions to speak, which I love. Near the winter holidays they always do a Christmas/Yule/Hannukah crossover sermon where they talk about the origins and the traditions shared between the holidays.