to completely level with you on this one and offer a rant in return, i get you.
however, i think in practice theres a much more complex variety of people than SS/xtian/atheist.
for example, i have a friend whos a SS but we arent really close on an emotional level. we meet every now and then and fuck around, and also take care of all lets call it paranormal activity, or offerings etc. you get the gist. i would still rarely if ever talk to her about any advancement i maybe made, or anything related to spiritual work whatsoever. to give a stupid example, if i were doing a mercury square for whatever reason, she probably wouldn't find out unless she directly asked me. because it feels odd to let her know, since we dont connect on an emotional level.
on the flip side, i have a friend who's an atheist who i could casually say that to that would just say oh yes sounds cool, maybe ask how or why and we'd move on.
and to bring up another example, i knew a xtian girl who truly did not give a fuck i or my friends were SSs. we mentioned we dont really fuck with angels and her response was "yea i guess that makes sense from your POV" and thats it. we went thrifting directly afterwards.
all that to say, dont focus on finding spiritual people necessarily. it wont mean they will understand you better. just find someone who is working on bettering themselves in whichever way, and who you can talk to. even if you dont give out all of the information (to use my previous example, many wont care you're using squares, runes or celebrating pagan holidays, but they will think your opinion on the holocaust is awful, so simply dont mention that and talk about the rest). ideally we will create a world where all you have to do is step onto the city square and youll find multiple SSs sitting in a café, but until we do you're just kinda have to settle for regular normal people, who have hobbies they enjoy, who work on themselves in whatever way they can, who are supportive of you and compassionate
ending it here I've gone on for too long alread
