Hello my blessed friends,
I have been researching and getting my head around Wicca since October. Its been a few months but not long enough for me to categorically say I am a Wiccan.
I LOVE the concepts of Wicca:
The equality but polar opposites of the God and Goddess
The acceptance of all spirtual paths
The love of nature
The use of magick
One thing that seems to be a sticking point is the belief regarding what happens when we leave this world. Many texts linked to Wicca emphasis the belief in reincarnation where the soul comes back in another form.
I have a bit of an issue here as im.not sure that is the belief I can fully commit to. I have lost people close to me and have had experiences which suggest they are with me in spirit, not incarnated elsehere. Im going to digress a bit here just to give you an idea of wjat i mean so i apologise for the long post
My grandfather died 5 years ago. He loved being oit in nature and was always out walking. He said when it was time, he would love to go.while out walkingā¦
He did. The night before he died, i went to visit him to borrow a drill. It was night time and we went out to the shed. The sky was clear and filled with stars. One star caught my grandfathers eye because it was so bright. Me being into astronomy pointed out it was infact the planet Venus. The last words he said to me were ārememberā¦i want that drill back!ā He died the next morning.
That night i was sitting in my living room on my own contemplating what had happened. I sat in darkness execpt for a candle I had lit on my coffee table. Next to it sat my astronomy magazine. I asked my grandpa for a sign that he was OK. There was then a gust of air in the living room and the lages of the magazine flipped. They landed on a double page spread with the title VENUS. I got my sign that he was OK on the other side. Since his death, a pigeon has landed on the tree or table in my garden almost every day. He kept racing pigeons, which I used to help him with when I was a boy.
Weeks later, when I was asleep. He appeared in a dream. He wasnt part of the dream. He interupted it! Almost like he had paised a tv screen and walked in front of it. He smiled and said āyouāve still
not taken it backā. I can only.assume he meant his drill!
I do get little signs now and then like a feather (normally a pigeons!). I also saw a medium who told me how he had died, right down to the location and clothes he was wearing. She also said he was complaining about the hedges in the back garden. He kept them pristine but they had become overgrown.
Before christmas 2022, i lost my uncle (grandpas son) to cancer. Begore he passed, i asked, practically begged, my grandpa to keep uncle safe and look after him. My grandpa once again appeared in a dream where he said.āive been to see Tom and told him im here waiting on himā. I got a phonecall early in the morning to say my uncle had died.
My mother was devastated at losing her brother. Like i had done with my grandpa, she asked her brother to show her he was ok. He appeared in one of her dreams and just said a 7 digit number. My mum said it was vivid and she could remember the number clearly. When speaking to my uncles wife, my mum asked if the number meant anything to her. My aunt said it had been my uncles rank number from the army 30 years ago. My uncle was ok too!
Apologies for these long anecdotes but I wanted to share them to make my point. I have had many experiences which almost convince me that we go somewhere else after here. I wiuldnt call it heaven as such but beleive we trully feel the energy and love of those we have lost, as well as that of the god and goddess. Perhaps we even become part of them. This does not tie in with the beleif suggested in Wiccan texts that we are reincarnated. I am at a complete contradiction though because I do believe ive experienced a past life. How can this be though when I so firmly believe our souls go elsewhere? Perhaps our sould are reincarnated but our old energy remains elsewhere.
My thoughts on this issue are all over the place and I am really struggling with whether i can trully class myself as Wiccan with sich conflicting beleifs on the afterlife even though i fully embrace everyhting else
I would love to hear your thoughts on this to help me find a clearing on this somewjat overgrown part of my path.
Blessings to all of you
Alan
Without giving you a novel to read, Iām just going to try and give some main points that show you that reincarnation doesnāt necessarily invalidate your belief about going to another place when we die. Some of these may be hard to explain, and these are beliefs that I hold myself so if they donāt fit your belief system then thatās totally fine! 
I donāt view time as linear. There are too many things I have learned in life to think that time runs on a straight line. I mean really, does anything in this life happen in a linear fashion? 
Megan
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It really gets you thinking, though!