So, I've been reading on the forum and i feel just as confused as ever. Last week I thought i had my path figured out - what/how i would start to practice but now - i'm not really sure.

I know what i'm intrested in, what i want to practice, learn, but i dont know what to call it. There is huge debates between what wicca is - religion vs spirituality. What makes a pratice specifically wiccan? Specially when there are several types of wicca.
I agree with "an it harm none, do what thou will" and i love nature and animals and feel that the divine is in all of nature. But i dont really see myself to lots of rituals to honor to goddess, maybe except to observe the sabbats. Can this alone make me a wiccan? or is its something else all together - do i have to join a coven and study for years under a high priest/ess... can i call myself wiccan at the start of my solitary study/practice or do i have to earn that title?

Or should i just - continue with my own thinng, mix of severeal intrests, and say i'm a pagan and end it there...

 any comments, help would be awesome.

blessed be.


edit: and i also believe in reincarnation, though whether or not there is an otherworld or summerland beforehand, i'm not sure  

thanks...

i probably more or less self identify as an ecclectic sort of pagan/wiccan and i know there is a difference. i'm just - not sure where the line is... like - if i start practicing herbology and divination and do a little something on the sabbats and spend alot of time with nature, is that wicca or just - pagan?

:P

for discussion? when talking to someone about - beliefs and stuff its easier to say "pagan" or "christian" and explain things a little further instead of going into a long winded explanation from the begining...

sure in the end the label doesnt quite matter, its how you interpret things or what you do... was just kind of looking for people opinions on what i might be

true enough...i just get a little lost i guess, trying to figure it out, having the freedom to since i wasnt raised with a religion at all, i dare say my dad is boredline athiest...

its fascinating really how people can differ so much even with something like wicca - on person will say its all about tradition and if you arent part of a coven/initiated by a high priestess, you arent really wiccan. while another says that if you have certain principles and do certain things you are...

i think maybe that - since i dont really want to focus much on esbats and moon rituals and more on the herbology/healing divination/palmestry incense/oils ... that i'm more of a witch, not wiccan.

uggh! :P