How do you incorporate your culture within your craft?

[lipop888]

Hi everyone! This week, I have been pondering upon the question of how and if I should incorporate my background culture into my craft. Do you incorporate your culture within your personal craft, or do you prefer to explore broader practices that have nothing to do with your background? I come from the Mexican and Jewish cultures and have been trying to incorporate more of these aspects within my practice (despite my calling towards two Greek goddesses). Lately, it feels like I have been reading a lot of books with nowhere to really go from there in regards to practicum-- I am finding myself in a bit of a practicum-rut of sorts. I would appreciate any tips or input at all!!! Thank you so much!!

 

[Sonam Gyatso]

Hi everyone! This week, I have been pondering upon the question of how and if I should incorporate my background culture into my craft. Do you incorporate your culture within your personal craft, or do you prefer to explore broader practices that have nothing to do with your background? I come from the Mexican and Jewish cultures and have been trying to incorporate more of these aspects within my practice (despite my calling towards two Greek goddesses). Lately, it feels like I have been reading a lot of books with nowhere to really go from there in regards to practicum-- I am finding myself in a bit of a practicum-rut of sorts. I would appreciate any tips or input at all!!! Thank you so much!!

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From the archetypal level, you can select the qyalities each of your Greek goddesses most strongly represent,
and you can most probably find mythological or historical figures in your culture that embody those qualities.

Gooluck!

 

[Nagaram]

I'm obsessed with the aesthetic of my birth culture but not necessarily the content.

I'm basically a white american born into a catholic dominant family. So I am familiar with and enjoy the catholic aesthetic. However, the call of heresy, blasphemy, and witchcraft was hard to ignore. So I use a lot of the aesthetic I inherited like fancy dress for rituals, protective necklaces, and altars to specific entities.

I just made my own rosary stand in but using semi precious stones that have meaning to me in place of the crucifix.

I'm personally an atheist, but its always been my thinking that if a god is truly worthy of being a god, they can appreciate any form of worship even if it is traditionally associated with another god.

Or maybe the pantheists are right and all gods and entities are just the same god so it doesn't matter how your worship (it might be some other group that says that)

 

[Lurking Magician]

I was born into a catholic family, and I was probably the most religious of them all before realising the point was spirituality and magic, not a specific religion (and, in any case, surely not christianity-related).

But I love holidays and celebrations. So I still celebrate, maybe not the full religious ritual anymore, but I keep doing the folkore-related works.

And some time things really do work if enough people believe in it. Saint Rita really does miracles, should you be in need.

 

[Sapientia_Lucio_369]

Since you stated you're of half Jewish background, Damon Brand has some good books on angelic sigils that stem from ancient Hebrew tradition. I don't know much of Mexican occultism.

I'm the type that chooses to incorporate my background/interests into the occult practice, it really doesn't matter because at the end of the day, it's about how well your energy cultivation is.

You can certainly incorporate your culture in your Occultic practices. I began with Western occultism but now I use Taoist, Buddhist and pre-Catholic Philippine symbols. Many people from non-Chinese or non-Asian backgrounds get into Asian occultism all the time, like Taoist esotericism, and Traditional Chinese Medicine and martial arts (which often-not, intertwines with spirituality).

For example, I use these symbols for wealth workings, they're essentially Chinese wealth sigils. However, without meditating, and proper inner cultivation, they're just fancy artwork.

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I was born into a catholic family, and I was probably the most religious of them all before realising the point was spirituality and magic, not a specific religion (and, in any case, surely not christianity-related).

But I love holidays and celebrations. So I still celebrate, maybe not the full religious ritual anymore, but I keep doing the folkore-related works.

And some time things really do work if enough people believe in it. Saint Rita really does miracles, should you be in need.

I was also born of Catholic background, though became a Buddhist-Daoist admixture, most of those "Catholic holidays" are actually pre-Christian pagan holidays anyway and plus, it's just a very spiritual thing to be festive. In my opinion, Buddhas, Gurus, Saints, Sages are pretty much the same types of people under different names and titles.