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 Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:33 pm
I am still unacquainted with Wicca.
Enlighten me.
What is the importance of Wicca?
As a Wiccan, what does Wicca mean to you?
Do not copy something off the internet or out of a book.
I have the power to do that myself. And I have.
Thank you. biggrin
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:05 pm
The importance of wicca, is the same as the importance of any other religion: A conceptual scheme that helps one deal with certain things, for example the infinite/eternity. Furthermore, there is no advantage of being one religion over any other, save for it fits you better.
As a Wiccan, what does Wicca mean to you? Since I am not a Wiccan, it means little to me, other than a religion, in which being part of a lineaged (Gardnerian/Alexandrian) coven is a requisite, that may involve the practicing of certain kinds of magic.
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Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:16 am
Wicca for the Rest of Us is the best place to go on the net for a broad overview of Wicca. Religious Tolerance also has a good page on the subject. Wicca has the honor of being the dominant Neopagan religion of all those that are out there. It was the spark that started the revival and since then claims a signifigant religious minority in adherents. In its many forms it provides an alternative structure for people to discover their own spirituality. Some do this a traditional way using covens, other practice on their own. There's much diversity in the movement that stretches to a long list of traditions. So much so that arguments have already spawned about which are legit and which are not. Wicca is of great importance, though, because of how it broke out of its original system and into the larger world. In this way it was able to get many more adherents than it ever could have, as well as introduce tens of thousands to a fascinating alternative sprituality. While I couldn't in good mind consider myself Wiccan as I do not hold one of the key beliefs, a large part of what I do is drawn from Wicca. This is mostly because it's what's available out there in the market. It provides a great pool of resources at any rate. At some point I might want to walk through its door more completely, but not at the moment. It was the first thing that spiked my interest though, and I'll ever remember it for that.
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:40 am
Thank you chaoticpuppet and Starlock for your help.
Although I am still not satisfied, you helped.
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:56 pm
I myself am not a Wiccan, my religion is heavily Wiccan based. The premise is that there is a goddess and a god. The goddess is immortal, as is the god in a sence. The god has a different form of immortality, he has the life span of an earth year and he lives on by having sex with the goddess, and then he dies around winter and she weaps but he is the fetus in side her. and spring rolls around and he is born again. If this doesn't answer your questoin then I apologize if I have wasted your time. If it does well... w00t.
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Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:35 am
I am a Wiccan, a Dianic Wicca, made specially for worshipping the Goddess. Wicca is not the worship of just one form, diety, or "person" it is to worship nature, and Gods/Goddesses, wether they be lesser or, however you want to phrase this, THE God and Goddess.
Like Christianty, we have different styles of worship, different types (Christianty- Christian/Catholic) (Wicca- Algard/Dianic and many more) We do not worship the Devil, for we do not believe in Him. As many people say, we practice the dark arts, that is half true. All worship is in balance, dark and light.
Wicca believe that if... "If God and the Devil were playing football, the Wiccan God/Goddesses would be the field they are playing on, the sun that shines down on them"
We worship all things living as the Goddess/God is everything. The rocks, the moon, the grass.
I hope that explains it to you biggrin
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:12 pm
What does Wicca mean to me, as a Wiccan?
It is very important to me, and I truly believe in it. I belive that you can heal by being a Wiccan, and that you can harm. It isn't the religion that harm's others, it is in the heart of the religion's follower.
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:29 am
What does Wicca mean?
As my mother (who is Wiccan) says, ask a dozen Wiccans and you'll get 13 different answers. wink
For most, Wicca is about revering nature; Wicca is a very seasonal, in-tune-with-natural-cycles sort of religion. For some, this aspect is less important. Wicca has a goddess and a god, although different covens (or solitary practitioners) place different emphasis on them. (As the Dianic Wiccan said above, her faith focuses solely on her goddess; while I haven't heard of any Wiccans who focus solely on their god, it's possible.) Some Wiccans practice in elaborate traditions that have been handed down for X generations, with a great deal of ceremony and levels of learning. Others are solitary, working on their own in a back room or backyard. Many are somewhere in between. Some Wiccans focus more on the magic, magick, or Magick (depending on the Wiccan) that they can do through their rituals; others use the rituals primarily as a connection with their deities. Some have elaborate, drawn-out rituals, while others have short and simple ones.
Even the Rede, "An ye harm none, do what ye will" can be defined many different ways. Some take it as a license to do whatever they want, but try not to be too violent about it. Personally, I take it as a "weigh the consequences of your actions;" if nobody and nothing is injured, go for it. But when does that happen? For me, it's a weighing of the respective damages of actions. But again, there's a whole range of possibilities.
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