Hello...
New to the community. This is my token post.
I began studying Paganism when I was 19, but it had never occurred to me that people could "be" animals, spiritually. When I was 20, I started dating a girl who said she was a wolf. I went with it, it was her thing. At 21 (my current age), I affirmed myself as a Pagan. But I was still confused when someone asked me, "What are you?" Apparently, a lot of people I know are animals. It'd never occurred to me. So I thought about the question, and had a hard time figuring out what I was. I asked some people who knew about that sort of thing, but the closest they could figure out was "some kind of dog". My totem hadn't made itself known to me, as it had to my ex-girlfriend, who'd been a wolf forever. So I did some searching and studying. Finally I realized that I felt a strong connection (maybe partially because of my ex) to the red wolf. There are other animals I am close to, but I think the red wolf is my closest spiritual partner. That's why I'm here.
I began studying Paganism when I was 19, but it had never occurred to me that people could "be" animals, spiritually. When I was 20, I started dating a girl who said she was a wolf. I went with it, it was her thing. At 21 (my current age), I affirmed myself as a Pagan. But I was still confused when someone asked me, "What are you?" Apparently, a lot of people I know are animals. It'd never occurred to me. So I thought about the question, and had a hard time figuring out what I was. I asked some people who knew about that sort of thing, but the closest they could figure out was "some kind of dog". My totem hadn't made itself known to me, as it had to my ex-girlfriend, who'd been a wolf forever. So I did some searching and studying. Finally I realized that I felt a strong connection (maybe partially because of my ex) to the red wolf. There are other animals I am close to, but I think the red wolf is my closest spiritual partner. That's why I'm here.