However, in some of the newer traditions of Wicca, and especially those influenced by feminist ideology, there is more emphasis on the Goddess, and consequently the symbolism of the Horned God is less developed than that of the Goddess.

Within, and especially outside of, specific areas of Wicca and Pagan, reasons other than tradition may be given to explain a preference for skyclad worship.

Some hippies embraced neo-paganism, especially Wicca.

Two of her novels, The Sea Priestess and Moon Magic, became influential within the religion of Wicca, especially upon Doreen Valiente.

The tunic, in one form or another, is also considered the traditional clothing of numerous Neo-Pagan religions, most notably Wicca, especially when combined with a cincture and a robe.

Today, the word rede is most often used by Neopagans, especially by followers of Wicca and Ásatrú.

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 Wicca is a female born religion based upon Women's shared Blood Mysteries.

* 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 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.

Some currents of Neopaganism, in particular Wicca, have a ditheistic concept of a single goddess and a single god, who in hieros gamos represent a united whole.

Some currents of Neopaganism, in particular Wicca, have a bitheistic concept of a single Goddess and a single God, who in hieros gamos represent a united whole.

The concept of spiritual possession exists in many religions, including Christianity, Buddhism, Haitian Vodou, Wicca, and Southeast Asian and African traditions.

The concept of the Book of Shadows was then adopted by other Wiccan traditions, such as Alexandrianism and Mohsianism, and with the rise of books teaching people how to begin following Wicca in the 1970s onward, the idea of the Book of Shadows was then further propagated amongst solitary practitioners unconnected to earlier traditions.

Since the twentieth century a number of magical practitioners, including adherents of the Neopagan religion of Wicca, have begun to utilise the concept of familiars, due to their association with older forms of magic.

* Triple Goddess ( Neopaganism ), a concept in Wicca and other Neopagan belief systems: sometimes a universal, global, " Great Goddess " who is threefold ; sometimes a single goddess as maiden, matron and crone ; and sometimes three sisters.

Wicca is primarily duotheistic-worshiping both a feminine Goddess and a masculine God-and does not include the concept of a divine child except at the winter solstice, when the God is seen as reborn from the Goddess.

Beyond the emphasis on public ministry, the Odyssean tradition is characterized by the following: it is an Eclectic tradition in its origins that has a strong British Traditional Wicca style to its forms of organization and initiation ; although it emulates British Traditional the tradition's approach to ritual is more flexible and may often be less structured than many British Traditional Wiccans would be comfortable with ; the tradition rejects the concepts of Neopagan monism and Neopagan monotheism ; the tradition does accept the base-line Wiccan concept of Neopagan duotheism but does encourage students and seekers alike to choose to affiliate with a particular Pagan pantheon and encourages the devotion to a deity ( or group of deities ).

Within the neopagan religion of Wicca, the triquetra symbolizes the Triple Goddess of the Moon and Fate ; and also her three realms of Earth, sky, and sea.

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 Gardnerian Wicca, the two principal deities are the Horned God and the Mother Goddess.

The gods of the Infinitum include beings similar to gods known in more conventional Wicca, such as the Horned God, Green Man, Mother Goddess, and Crone, and others who are very unique.

Zsuzsanna Budapest, widely considered the founder of Dianic Wicca, considers her Goddess " the original Holy Trinity ; Virgin, Mother, and Crone.

Gardnerian Wicca revolved around the veneration of both a Horned God and a Mother Goddess, the celebration of eight seasonally-based festivals in a Wheel of the Year and the practice of magical rituals in groups known as covens.

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.

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.

In Wicca " the Goddess " is a deity of prime importance, along with her consort the Horned God.

Within many forms of Wicca the Goddess has come to be considered as a universal deity, more in line with her description in the Charge of the Goddess, a key Wiccan text.

In traditional and mainstream Wicca, the Horned God is viewed as the masculine side of divinity, being both equal and opposite to the Goddess.

In traditional Wicca, the Horned God and the Goddess are seen as equal and opposite in gender polarity.

Symbols of several contemporary Pagan faiths: Slavic Neopaganism | Slavic • Celtic Neopaganism | Celtic • Germanic Neopaganism | Germanic Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism | Hellenism • Wicca • Roman polytheistic reconstructionism | Roman Goddess movement | Goddess Worship ( Wicca ) • Kemetism • Semitic Neopaganism | Semitic

Not all traditional Wiccans follow the Rede ; Gardnerians ( a sect under Wicca ) espouse the Charge of the Goddess as a guide for morality.