Are you comitted?

As a witch I am drawn to mythology and ancient gods and goddesses.  Which ones do I worship?  I believe that there is energy in all things and that energy originates from 'The All'.  The All, in my opinion is much like someone worshiping in a mono theological religion. In nature though there is balance a female and male, yin and yang.  The goddess and her consort, the god.  for me, this is pretty much where it ends, I believe that all mythology stems from these two energies.  All female goddesses come from the female half and all male gods come from the male half.

I accept that there are 3 facets of the goddess (and of the god, who ages in his own way) the maiden, the mother and the crone.  So when I am being motherly and protecting my children, I call upon the goddesses who fall into the motherly aspect of the goddess. When I am doing a love spell, I call upon the love goddesses, all still the same original goddess but focused intent.  Much like lighting a red candle and red ribbons.. it is all about focused intent.

What goddesses I am drawn to depends on that intent.  I do enjoy specific goddesses' mythologies, like Kali for example I love her.  And Gaia is one that I can focus on in regards to nature and mothering.  I am drawn to Ireland and the Tuatha de Dannan.

Over the coarse of my path I have changed directions many times.  I have studied every type of mythology even dabbled for quite awhile in the Christian Mythos and became a christian witch.  That worked for me for awhile but still felt wrong in my heart.  I cannot embrace the christian thing it always felt wrong for me, I knew I was destined for something different and now I am trying to figure out how to share this all with my kids.  I wanted to make religion something they had to work for, research every religion and decide which path is right for you.  My son keeps wanting to say grace and he asks me about heaven, which I know is because the family is christian and he hears things.  He is curious about church and I am fine with that but I want him to know that his family is not christian.  Believing in that is fine but he should learn his parents religion, and since my husband doesn't really lay claim to a deity I think it is important for me to explain mine to him.

I do not want for him to be judged or bullied by family or friends because we are not the mainstream religion but what if we were Jewish, Muslim, or Buddhists?  I should not feel apprehension about what others will think of him but i think the worst of it would come from family and i don't want him to feel uncomfortable believing in whatever it is he chooses.  But i don't want him predisposed to Christianity when we are not christian.

I hope the answers come and maybe in the spring we will go for nature walks and talk about the energies of nature.