Several different versions of a Wiccan Charge of the God have since been created to mirror and accompany the Charge of the Goddess.

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.

The scholar of Religious Studies Graham Harvey noted that a poem known as the Charge of the Goddess remains central to the liturgy of most Wiccan groups.

Originally written by Wiccan High Priestess Doreen Valiente in the mid-1950s, Harvey noted that the recitation of the Charge in the midst of ritual allows Wiccans to gain wisdom and experience deity in " the ordinary things in life ".

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.

After her identity was revealed, she became well known in Wiccan circles, for instance the Neopagan bard Francis Cameron delivered a prose interpretation of her life and involvement with the Craft, written as if from her own point of view, entitled " Dafo's Tale ", at The Charge of the Goddess conference 2010, held at Conway Hall in London.

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.

Some other Wiccan covens are composed of women and men, and worship the God and Goddess, while Dianics generally worship the Goddess as Whole Unto Herself.

Wiccan beliefs of an ancient monotheistic Goddess were inspired by Marija Gimbutas's description of Neolithic Europe.

The Wiccan religion revolves around the veneration of a Horned God and a Goddess, elements of a variety of ancient mythologies, a belief in and practice of magic and sometimes the belief in reincarnation and karma.

Virtually all rituals in Wicca include the lighting of altar candles, where two main candles are often used to represent the God and the Goddess ; and the lighting of candles is a central theme at the Wiccan holiday of Brigid or Imbolc, which is also known as Candlemas or the Feast of the Waxing Light.

Some Wiccan traditions use the name " Aradia " as one of the names of the Great Goddess, Moon Goddess or " Queen of the Witches ".

An entire website, the Goddess Aradia and Related Subjects, is devoted to Aradia as a Wiccan goddess and a powerful spirit in Italian folklore.

* Covenant of the Goddess, a cross-traditional Wiccan group

This emphasis can be seen in the Sabbat rituals, which focus on the relationship between the Wiccan Goddess and God.

Stregheria honors a pantheon centered around a Moon Goddess and a Horned God regarded as central, paralleling Wiccan views of divinity.

* 1985: Judy Harrow became the first member of CoG ( Covenant of the Goddess, a Wiccan group ) to be legally registered as clergy in New York City in 1985, after a five year effort requiring the assistance of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

While many Neopagans are not Wiccan, and within Neopaganism the practices and theology vary widely, many Wiccans and other neopagans worship the " Triple Goddess " of maiden, mother, and crone, a practice going back to mid-twentieth-century England.

Other beliefs held by worshippers, such as Wiccan author D. J. Conway, include that reconnection with the Great Goddess is vital to the health of humankind " on all levels ".

The word is also used as a title of the Wiccan Goddess, The Lady ; Margaret Thatcher was informally referred to in the same way by many of her political colleagues when Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Adler is a Wiccan priestess in the Gardnerian tradition, an elder in the Covenant of the Goddess, and she also participates in the Unitarian Universalist faith community.

The tradition primarily honours Germanic deities such as Woden and Freya, and are seen as representations of the Wiccan deities of the Horned God and the Mother Goddess, and uses a minimal set of the usual ceremonial tools and a spear.

( Christ 2005 ) Those participants in Goddess spirituality who define themselves as Wiccan / en, usually follow what is known as the Wiccan Rede: " ' An it harm none, do what ye will ", (" an " being an archaic English word understood to mean " if ", or " as long as ").

The Wiccan afterlife is most commonly described as The Summerland.

Among the Wiccan Sabbats, Beltane is a cross-quarter day ; it is celebrated in the northern hemisphere on 1 May and in the southern hemisphere on 1 November.

Fire is one of the five elements that appear in most Wiccan traditions influenced by the Golden Dawn system of magic, and Aleister Crowley's mysticism, which was in turn inspired by the Golden Dawn.

This is still a matter of debate within the esoteric and Wiccan community.

Air is one of the five elements that appear in most Wiccan and Pagan traditions.

This is still a matter of debate within the esoteric and Wiccan community.

Water is one of the five elements that appear in most Wiccan traditions.

Earth is one of the five elements that appear in most Wiccan and Pagan traditions.

The earliest known Wiccan version is found in a document dating from the late 1940s, Gereald Gardner's ritual notebook titled Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical ( fomerly in the collection of Ripley's International, Toronto ).

Diana's name is also used as the third divine name in a Wiccan energy chant-" Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna ".

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

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.

Moreover, the Bricket Wood coven today is well known for its many members from academic or intellectual backgrounds, who contribute to the preservation of Wiccan knowledge.

As Gardner had no objection to this change suggested by the Brickett Wood coven, this collective decision resulted in what is now the standard eight festivities in the Wiccan Wheel of the year.

A partial summary of publicly known Wiccan descendants from Gardner is available here.

Since Magneto was the last person on Genosha, it seems that it ’ s now totally uninhabited, which is corroborated by Wiccan and Speed when they began their search for their mother, the Scarlet Witch.

In common Wiccan belief, he is associated with nature, wilderness, sexuality, hunting and the life cycle.

The Wiccan god himself can be represented in many forms, including as the Sun God, the Sacrificed God and the Vegetation God, although the Horned God is the most popular representation, having been worshipped by early Wiccan groups such as the New Forest coven during the 1930s.

There is some variation between Wiccan groups as to which sabbat corresponds to which part of the cycle.

( In Wiccan liturgy in the Book of Shadows, this conception of an unknowable supreme deity is referred to as " Dryghtyn.