Dianic Wicca, a largely feminist form of the practice, is named for her.

Dianic Witchcraft and Dianic Feminist Witchcraft, is a tradition, or denomination, of the Neopagan religion of Wicca.

The revival of Dianic Wicca was practiced on Winter Solstice 1971, in which Zsuzsanna Budapest led a ceremony in Hollywood, California.

Dianic Wicca itself is named after the Roman goddess of the same name.

Much of the history of Dianic Wicca is closely intertwined with " traditional " Wicca, though Dianic Wicca's feminist views stem largely from second wave feminism.

* Dianic Tradition / Dianic Wicca, a Feminist Goddess women's tradition of Wicca started by Zsuzsanna Budapest and her book, " The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries.

Some Dianics fall into this category, acknowledging Z. Budapest as a foremother, and do not participate in the initiation / ordination lineage of Dianic Wicca.

* Z Budapest's Dianic Wicca website

See also Dianic Wicca.

Some Wiccans believe there are many goddesses, and in some forms of Wicca, notably Dianic Wicca, the Goddess alone is worshipped, and the God plays very little part in their worship and ritual.

In Wicca, ( especially Dianic Wicca ) the concept of an Earth or Mother Goddess, similar to the Greek Gaia, is emphasized.

In the 1970s, Wicca was notably influenced by feminism, leading to the creation of an eclectic, Goddess-worshipping movement known as Dianic Wicca.

Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca, British Traditional Wicca, and variations such as Dianic Wicca are examples of eclectic traditions, as are Neo-druid groups like Ár nDraíocht Féin.

A hereditary witch, Budapest is frequently considered the mother of modern the Dianic Wiccan tradition.

Among Dianic Wiccans, Imbolc ( also referred to as " Candlemas " after the Christian feast that developed independently and occurs on the same day ) is the traditional time for initiations.

An exception is Dianic Wicca ( also known as Feminist Witchcraft and / or Feminist Spirituality ), a branch of Wicca practiced almost exclusively by women, most of whom are heterosexual, preferring to practice their spirituality with other women in pursuit of Women's Mysteries.

It is thought that these circles may have been formed In response to Dianic Wicca.

Dianic Wicca is a religion that welcomes lesbian pagans and celebrates their perspectives on feminism, sexism, and women's empowerment within patriarchal culture.

Ruth Barrett ( born in Los Angeles in 1954 ) is a Dianic Wiccan High Priestess in the direct lineage of Z Budapest.

Zsuzsanna Emese Mokcsay ( born 30 January 1940 in Budapest, Hungary ) is an American author, activist, journalist, playwright and song-writer of Hungarian origin who writes about feminist spirituality and Dianic Wicca under the pen name and religious name Zsuzsanna Budapest or Z. Budapest.

The Dianic tradition adopted Graves's Triple Goddess, along with other elements from Wicca, and is named after the Roman goddess Diana, the goddess of the witches in Charles Godfrey Leland's 1899 book Aradia.

Some Wiccans believe there are many goddesses, and in some forms of Wicca, notably Dianic Wicca, the Goddess alone is worshipped, and the God plays very little part in their worship and ritual.

One of the founders of modern American Goddess religions is Zsuzsanna Budapest, ( Zee or " Z "), who started a women-only Dianic Craft or Dianic Tradition version of witchcraft ; this was in the mid-1970s, a few decades after Gerald Gardner.

The Dianic view is that separatism, in a world where gender roles were once strictly defined, is sometimes considered dangerous because it challenges what they see as patriarchal assumptions of Western culture ( Budapest 1980 ).

Zee is considered by her sect to be the honoured Mother of the American Dianic Craft and a primary proponent of modern separtist Goddess theology.

Faerie Faith is a Neopagan tradition that branched off from the " Old Dianic " tradition ( later renamed McFarland Dianic ) through the work of Mark Roberts and his high priestess, Epona.

" In the McFarland Dianic Tradition the Goddess was never born, and She never dies.

Duly, Budapest and her legal counsel set out to establish Wicca, and more specifically Dianic Wicca, as a bona fide religion.

Other forms loosely based on Gardner's teachings are Faery Wicca, Kemetic Wicca, Judeo-Paganism or " jewitchery ", Dianic Wicca or " Feminist Wicca " – which emphasizes the divine feminine, often creating women-only or lesbian-only groups.

The ideas that distinguish the McFarland Tradition as a “ Dianic ” tradition from other wiccan paths concern the focus upon the " Immortal Goddess in Her threefold aspects of Maiden, Mother and Crone ".

Earlier publishing: Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Creating Ritual in the Dianic Wiccan Tradition.

* Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Creating Ritual In The Dianic Wiccan Tradition.

Dianic Wiccans of the Z Budapest lineage worship the Goddess.

Originally lesbians formed the majority of the movement, however modern Dianic groups may be all-lesbian, all-heterosexual or mixed.

Dianic Wiccans as " positive path " practitioners do neither manipulative spellwork nor hexing because it goes against the Wiccan Rede ; other Dianic witches ( notably Zsuzsanna Budapest ) do not consider hexing or binding of those who attack women to be wrong.

The most noticeable difference between the two are that Dianic covens of Z Budapest lineage are composed of women.

* Dianic Witches, who may have been inspired by Z Budapest, the New York Redstocking's W. I. T. C. H.

* McFarland Dianic, a Neopagan Faerie Faith lineage tradition started by Morgan McFarland ; one of relatively few Dianic traditions which accepts male members.

Along with tarot divination, astrology is one of the core studies of Western esotericism, and as such has influenced systems of magical belief not only among Western esotericists and Hermeticists, but also belief systems such as Wicca that have borrowed from or been influenced by the Western esoteric tradition.

The Charge of the Goddess is a traditional inspirational text often used in the neopagan religion of Wicca.

The most well known version is that written by Gerald Gardner, and includes material paraphrased works by Aleister Crowley, primarily from Liber ALThe Book of the Law ( particularly from Ch 1, spoken by Nuit, the Star Goddess ), and from his Liber XV: the Gnostic Mass as well as Liber LXV ( Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, or the Book of the Heart Girt with the Serpent ), thus linking modern Wicca irrevocably to the cosmology and revelations of Thelema.

This is rather different to the modern version known in Wicca, though they have the same premise, that of the rules given by a great Mother Goddess to her faithful.

In Wicca and other forms of Neopaganism a Horned God is revered ; this divinity syncretises a number of horned or antlered gods from various cultures, including Cernunnos.

In the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca, the Horned God is sometimes specifically referred to as Cernunnos, or sometimes also as Kernunno.

One well-known example of a bitheistic or duotheistic theology based on gender polarity is found in the neopagan religion of Wicca, which is centered on the worship of a divine couple-the Moon Goddess and the Horned God-who are regarded as lovers.

However, there is also a ditheistic theme within traditional Wicca, as the Horned God has dual aspects of bright and dark-relating to day / night, summer / winter-expressed as the Oak King and the Holly King, who in Wiccan myth and ritual are said to engage in battle twice a year for the hand of the Goddess, resulting in the changing seasons.

Today there is a branch of Wicca named for her, which is characterized by an exclusive focus on the feminine aspect of the Divine.

An esbat () is a coven meeting other than one of the Sabbats within Wicca and other Wiccan-influenced forms of Neopaganism.

For this reason, Gardnerian Wicca is usually considered to be the earliest extant tradition of Wicca, from which most subsequent Wiccan traditions are derived.

In the UK and most Commonwealth countries someone self-defined as Wiccan is usually understood to be claiming initiatory descent from Gardner, either through Gardnerian Wicca, or through a derived branch such as Alexandrian Wicca or Algard Wicca.

Gardnerian Wicca and other forms of British Traditional Wicca operate as an initiatory mystery cult ; membership is gained only through initiation by a Wiccan High Priestess or High Priest.