Wicca, Wiccan Magick, Witchcraft, and Magic Spells

The tradition of Wiccan: An overall picture

Wicca is an empirical spiritual system of magick and ceremony which functions with the divine one as the goddess and a God, and underlines the growth by balance and the discipline. This balance, that it is of light and dark, female and male, or active and passive, of acting like a dynamic tension to create the harmony and to allow the individual to progress in their development by arrangement their relationship with itself and the world around them.

Wicca is probably among one of the limits most badly included/understood used in modern Spirituality. Wicca has not only it much information distorts still attached to it among general public, it is often badly included/understood within the modern pagan community and is also applied to an enormous variety of practices and traditions, with some of which bear little resemblance to the practices, the belief and the manners of the traditions of which they claim to start. Partially this can to be due to fact that ritual and lesson published of tradition of Gardnerian and of Alexandrian has be often employed like inspiration for ritual and practices of traditions with belief very different, sometimes sprinkled to the bottom to such level that it does not contain much any more in common with the practices of which they start, etc etc This often leads to much confusion, discussion and misunderstanding.

Wicca, although having many things in common with paganism, Druidry and pagan sorcery, is a tradition with its own chief. Sometimes also called Wica or the trade or the old religion by those which practise it, it is a tradition of mystery, in which release plays an important part. There is dozen new constant traditions of Wicca each year, the majority of them are developments of Gardnerian or Alexandrian Wicca, or were been born out of materials published available on these two traditions:

Gardnerian Wicca
This tradition of the trade was given publicity the first time by Gerald B Gardner during the Fifties after the abrogation of sorcery and the media of Fraudelent act. Adhesion is by release in Coven established with the detectable line again with Gerald Gardner or one of his high priestesses, including Doreen Valiente, Patricia Crowther, Lois constant.

Alexandrian Wicca
During the Sixties a new tradition of Wicca emerged, this wire of time by Alex and the grinders of Maxine, Alexandrians while they became notorious, had a sight more included towards practices magickal. The grinders of Alex claimed the release of his/her grandmother in a Welshman tradition of the trade, the lesson which it passed was to the bottom a graying mixture of what Gardnerians made, others practise traditional, as well as Magick, ceremonious Qabalah etc Alexandrian Wicca is a preliminary tradition of mystery, adhesion is by release in A coven able to trace their preliminary line with the grinders of Alex or Maxine.

The British Traditional Wicca or BTW is now sometimes employed to distinguish the traditions of Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wiccan, and the preliminary traditions directly derived from them, and, usually the United States based, the newer traditions created since the Seventies - some of which to have very the little of in common with the latter.

Some general facts on Wicca

The philosophy of core of Wicca is contained in Wiccan Rede moral it badly no - to make because the will of Ye this is a guide, by underlining the need for each practioner to the responsibility for catch on a personal level for all their actions. The four elements of air, fire, water and put at the ground all the play an important role in the ceremonies. They are called at the four cardinal points of the circle to bless and keep the circle of magick during the ceremonies with their gifts and powers single. Wiccans celebrate the seasons changeantes, by the wheel of the year or the Sabbats witches. There can be four or of eight of the latter one year according to the preference of Coven. Reverance of offer of Wiccans to a male and female deity, IE. God and a goddess. Wiccans regard as being the moon the marvellous body most important, the moon is often associated to the goddesses called in ceremonies of Wiccan - including/understanding Aradia, Diana, Artemis, Hekate, Ceridwen. The gods usually called in the trade are generally associated the forests or the sun and include Cernunnos, with horns, Gwyn AP Nudd, pan, Apollo, Llugh Wiccans have a certain number of rites of passage of which release in the tradition, first degree, plays an important part because it is a shared experiment in which come is Rene as a member of the tradition and is accomodated in Coven in the same way that all other members were the first time introduced into the trade too. Wiccans traditionally function the skyclad, IE. nudity, although some prefer to also function robed or masked. The old man, or the spirits of the place, is often called in ceremonies of Wiccan, particularly while working outside, - the ancestors, being the spiritual ancestors and physics which you have, are also sometimes invited for their blessings, helps and councils. The ceremonies of Wiccan take place in circle particularly prepared of magick.

There are many discussions about the exact origins of the tradition of Wiccan, but independently from where Wicca started, we know that since the days of Gerald Gardner, which claimed release in Coven of Wica in the new forest during the Thirties, Wicca changed, developed and developed in a vibraint and a modern system of the magick which is effective, simple however signicatif. It is practised per many people, inside and outside Covens and from all both inside and outside the preliminary veils.

At the end of the day what is important is that if you employ the term to describe you should entirely realize of what it means, and sure that is Wicca what really made you and practise, and which the spiritual belief related to the tradition is also something divide you. You are only one Wiccan if what you practise is Wicca - and although that seems easy, it is not unless you were enough lucky to find a good, and honourable, professor and coven which trained you and launches you in the tradition. It is not impossible to learn from the aspects of the tradition by yourself using the books, and courses such as our own course of Wicca Homestudy, but finally without entirely testing the ritual one, it is also not possible to divide in the experiments and thus to acquire the experiment by on which one passes knowledge and arrangement, some of ritual important of the tradition, because those are usually conceived for a group of people who were trained particularly for the roles that they take. If you cannot with due to work, the family or other engagements to work with Coven but to wish to explore the tradition by yourself, this is naturally possible, but you can later on wish to explore possibilities of launching to other your arrangement of the tradition.

The conclusion of Coven is not easy either, during years when many people contacted me to require where their people of the country coven are! There is Covens everywhere RU, Europe and of Americas today, however the groups are autonomous and each group make their own decision - thus while finding coven has can only be the first stage in the respect to gain adhesion and release and can have to you to travel much hours systematically to attend meetings with A coven which want both accept you as a member, and with which you will have pleasure to work. You can find the lists of the moots, the groups and the workshops, as well as of greater festivals.

To remember that you to have the right to put questions of a professor or to group you can work with. They should be able to give you answers for the majority of the questions, although naturally the somethings are oathbound - but the oathbound should not be an excuse for answers. If you project on meeting people to take care to do your work initially so that you can put intelligent questions and with the current. The good professors and groups will appreciate that you made an effort and this can count in your favour when they make a decision above, that you to take as a member or not. In addition to this obvious advantage, you will be able with the text the group to also see whether their practices, believes, ethical and knowledge is appropriate to you.

Myths and Misinformation

You are known as that all is a secrecy and they cannot tell you anything else, except the way in which old and ancient and magickal the tradition is. A priestess or a true priest of Wicca should be able to offer to you answers to the majority of your questions., Since it is significant questions. If you are dubious to ask him that to provide you a referee to a large organization of pagan/sorcery which will be able in measurement to guarantee for them, or perhaps an author or any other public figure which can be laid out to guarantee for their authenticity and reputation. It is a good idea to deal with the conferences and local moots and to ask people if they intended to speak about the group/anybody. To consider that an opinion can be useful, but that it is usually the best to ask several. Also not to circulate publicity this are to you about to join has coven as usual the covens prefer being deprived about their business! To take on board what you hear, but to remember that it decision is WITH YOU. You can hear negative chattering somebody who had been excluded from a group, which had with their clean bad behavior, but not as they will admit with that. If meeting a potential professor or coven by the Internet or others advertisements please exert the attention in the same way as hanging an appointment with an unknown person to you. Which Wicca is not. Although the things changed much in the world, although people generally more are informed about various times and of spiritual practices; and although people are generally more open occupied in these day and age, there remain a certain number of misunderstandings about the tradition of Wiccan which should be addressed as of the beginning.

Wicca is not identical only sorcery. Sorcery is not a religion, nor is it attached to any particular tradition. In the theory it is possible that people of all the religions of the world can practise sorcery, and indeed does not practise it without any religious association. On the one hand, you cannot be, for example, Moslem Wiccan, Satanist Wiccan or Christian Wiccan etc Wicca is not an accessory of mode. Although it became last cry in some circles due to the factor of Hollywood it is a spiritual way and serious magickal, requiring the attachment, patience, hard work, the study and the practice. Wearing a witch's hat, the long black velvet dress or the medieval behaviour is not made Wiccan, expect that this to occur will do you with the laughing actions! Wicca is not simply any combination of sorcery, paganism and Magick, nor is it what feels the right way. It is a specific combination of ritual, believes and the practices magickal - which can be adapted to the costume that an individual coven or nobody, after they learned the foundations initially. Wicca is not something to play with. If is this what you really really want, outward journey to buy, while a friend with me describe, one of that those the books covered by carpet with orthography in him and will spend a fortune in your local occult purchases of store all tools which will impress, or alarms, your friends and family when they visit, preferably with large pentagrams on all she. I am sure that the store will appreciate your patronage, thus you will do something of good! , But to wander, just not to call what you do Wicca, to compose a larger word resounding for him, with an also large title resounding for yourself - to start with large Madam or the dark lord and to add a good number of adjectives, nouns and verbs resounding magickal.