My SO has an issue with mixing the communities he belongs to.  He says he doesn't want to mix his Paganism with Renaissance.  I made peace with the knowledge that my worlds were going to meet and I'd better deal with it.  The Masonic and the Renaissance has met.  A couple of couples from the Masonic community have seen us at Scottish Games, and indeed at the Pleasanton Games we go in search of one of them.  But he has trouble with the Pagan side of him intersecting with the Renaissance side.  I've already encountered this because some of the other members of our guild are beginning Pagans who want to learn more.  I think my SO's problem is that he keeps things all neatly compartmentalized, and he's very obsessive about it. When I was younger, I wondered what would happen if while at a Science Fiction and Fantasy convention it turned out that my parents were at a Christian convention at the same hotel, and I decided that they would just have to deal with it.  The point I'm trying to make is that as soon as you try to neatly compartmentalize everything, things or people will try to get out of their compartments.  We ran into a woman from his work at the Art and Wine Festival.  Things like that happen.  It's part of life, so deal with it.  It makes for a nice plot complication; a guy or gal thinks s/he has everything neatly compartmentalized, then things start getting very chaotic.  He's in one place and runs into someone who knows him from another of the lives he's living.  A woman who runs one of the groups I belong to is also a Druid.  Another woman who is a Druid also belongs to one of the other groups I'm in.  If I'd tried to keep my Paganism a secret from the Romance novelists I correspond with, it could be awkward.  But my Pagan spirituality is a big part of who I am, and is a big part of my writing.  I happen to think that non-Pagans, or Muggles as we like to call them, are curious about us Pagans, and might be curious about us enough to read my work.  I'm also trying to integrate my life.  To some extent, it is still compartmentalized.  The Masons don't know that I'm a Pagan.  But they'll find out someday.  I just hope it won't be too much of a shock when they do.