Day 8: Does your family and/or friends know you practice witchcraft?
Some do, and some don't. I'm not 100% out at work, and I'm fine with that. It's a secular institution. My work friends know that I go to church, meditate, and am interested in women's spirituality. That's enough. Much like my vegetarianism and my sexual orientation, I don't walk around talking about my personal life and beliefs until someone asks. If someone asks, I tell them the truth, if I care to discuss it. I write under a pseudonym because I'm an educator, and I like to keep the church and state of my life separate.
My personal life situation is mixed. My parents are staunchly Catholic, and I don't want to rub my failed indoctrination in their faces. Still, they know I am a Unitarian Universalist and interested in magic and other cultures. They know all that they want to know; we're on a don't-ask-don't-tell, need-to-know basis. The rest of my family hasn't asked. If they do, I will tell them enough. I don't have anything to hide, but I don't have anything to prove, either.
I'm 100% out to my close friends and one of my sisters, but again, I don't go around bringing it up. I might say, "hey, I can't come over tonight because it's the full moon and I need to get my witch on," and that's about as far as it goes. Then I have some new pagan friends and acquaintances, and I am delightedly and obnoxiously out to them because they get it.
(For more information, see my 31 days of secular witchcraft tag and Allec's original 31 Days of Secular Witchcraft post here.)
My personal life situation is mixed. My parents are staunchly Catholic, and I don't want to rub my failed indoctrination in their faces. Still, they know I am a Unitarian Universalist and interested in magic and other cultures. They know all that they want to know; we're on a don't-ask-don't-tell, need-to-know basis. The rest of my family hasn't asked. If they do, I will tell them enough. I don't have anything to hide, but I don't have anything to prove, either.
I'm 100% out to my close friends and one of my sisters, but again, I don't go around bringing it up. I might say, "hey, I can't come over tonight because it's the full moon and I need to get my witch on," and that's about as far as it goes. Then I have some new pagan friends and acquaintances, and I am delightedly and obnoxiously out to them because they get it.
(For more information, see my 31 days of secular witchcraft tag and Allec's original 31 Days of Secular Witchcraft post here.)
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