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Dianic Witchcraft and Dianic Feminist Witchcraft, is a tradition, or denomination, of the Neopagan religion of Wicca.
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Dianic and Witchcraft
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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.
Dianic and Feminist
* 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.
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.
Dianic and is
Dianic Wicca, a largely feminist form of the practice, is named for her.
A hereditary witch, Budapest is frequently considered the mother of modern the Dianic Wiccan tradition.
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 Wicca is a female born religion based upon Women's shared Blood Mysteries.
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.
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.
In Wicca, ( especially Dianic Wicca ) the concept of an Earth or Mother Goddess, similar to the Greek Gaia, is emphasized.
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.
Dianic and tradition
* McFarland Dianic, a Neopagan Faerie Faith lineage tradition started by Morgan McFarland ; one of relatively few Dianic traditions which accepts male members.
In the latter part of the 20th century, feminism was influential in the rise of Neopaganism in the United States, and particularly the Dianic tradition.
* Dianic tradition
Worth area of Texas ( in 1999, the name of the tradition was changed to the McFarland Dianic Tradition ).
It spoke to their beliefs and practices, and they adopted the name " Dianic " for their tradition.
The McFarland Dianic tradition ( previously known as Old Dianic ) was founded by Morgan McFarland and Mark Roberts in the early 1970s.
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 ".
The The McFarland Dianic Tradition is a vibrant, living tradition that encourages creativity and at the same time provides a structure and a sound foundation for personal growth.
In the U. S., new variants of Wicca developed, including Dianic Wicca, a tradition founded in the 1970s which was heavily influenced by second wave feminism, rejecting the veneration of the Horned God and emphasizing female-only covens.
One initiate of both the Dianic and Gardnerian traditions, who used the pseudonym of Starhawk ( 1951 -), later founded her own tradition, Reclaiming Wicca, as well as publishing The Spiral Dance: a Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess ( 1979 ), through which she helped to spread Wicca throughout the U. S.
Dianic and Neopagan
She became active in the Neopagan community in the San Francisco Bay Area, and trained with Victor Anderson, founder of the Feri Tradition of witchcraft, and with Zsuzsanna Budapest, a feminist separatist involved in Dianic Wicca.
Dianic and religion
Duly, Budapest and her legal counsel set out to establish Wicca, and more specifically Dianic Wicca, as a bona fide religion.
Dianic and Wicca
The revival of Dianic Wicca was practiced on Winter Solstice 1971, in which Zsuzsanna Budapest led a ceremony in Hollywood, California.
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.
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.
Dianic and .
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.
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