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Wicca and is
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.
Dianic Wicca, a largely feminist form of the practice, is named for her.
Today there is a branch of Wicca named for her, which is characterized by an exclusive focus on the feminine aspect of the Divine.
Dianic Witchcraft and Dianic Feminist Witchcraft, is a tradition, or denomination, of the Neopagan religion of Wicca.
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.
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.

Wicca and one
This category of religions includes syncretic or eclectic approaches like Wicca, Neo-druidism, and neoshamanism at one end of the spectrum, as well as culturally specific traditions, such as the many varieties of polytheistic reconstructionism, at the other.
Adherents. com estimates that there are roughly one million pagans worldwide ( as of 2000 ), including " Wicca, Magick, Druidism, Asatru, neo-Native American religion and others ".
While she admits to having a high regard for the mythic and gothic, she denies any solitary dedication to any one religion, including Wicca.
Since the publication of Leland's Gospel, Aradia has become " arguably one of the central figures of the modern pagan witchcraft revival " and as such has featured in various forms of neopaganism, including Wicca and Stregheria, as an actual deity.
On the other hand, the athame stands as one of the four elemental tools in Wicca ; traditionally standing for fire, as does the ritual sword.
Initially, when Wicca was still dominated by covens, " only one copy the Book existed for an entire coven, kept by the high priestess or high priest.
Willow is also one of the " nine sacred trees " mentioned in Wicca and witchcraft, with several magical uses.
In Wicca the boline ( also spelled bolline ) is a white-handled ritual knife, one of several magical tools used in Wicca.
This crescent shape is reminiscent of the sickle described in the Key of Solomon, a medieval grimoire which is one of the sources for modern Wicca .. Confusingly, an Italian version of the Key of Solomon has a hook-shaped knife called an artauo ( a possible root for athame ) and a straight, needle-shaped blade called a bolino.
Possessive invocation may be attempted singly or, as is often the case in Wicca, in pairs-with one person doing the invocation ( reciting the liturgy or prayers and acting as anchor ), and the other person being invoked ( allowing themselves to become a vessel for the spirit or deity ).
While most branches of Wicca understand the Goddess to have one Consort, in Feri She has two: the Divine Twins.
Alexandrian Wicca is similar in many ways to Gardnerian Wicca, and receives regular mention in books on Wicca as one of the religion's most widely-recognized traditions.
Historian Ronald Hutton records comments from British practitioners of Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca that distinctions between the two traditions have blurred in the last couple of decades, and some initiates of both traditions have recognized initiation within one as qualification for the other.
A besom is one of the tools used in Wicca.
Historian Ronald Hutton noted that the low magic of the cunning folk was one of the lesser influences upon the development of the Neopagan religion of Wicca and related witchcraft-based groups in the early twentieth century.
The historian Ronald Hutton would later relate that it was " one of the first three books to be published on the subject " of Wicca, and that the " remarkable feature of the book is that it remains, until this date, the only one produced by a prominent modern witch that embodies actual original research into the records of the trials of people accused of the crime of witchcraft during the early modern period.
In the 1970s and 1980s Valiente gradually became one of the most well respected and influential leaders of Wicca, meriting an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography.
His work Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, is one of the most successful books on Wicca ever published ; he was a friend of notable occultists and Wiccans such as Raymond Buckland, and was a member of the Serpent Stone Family, and received his Third Degree Initiation as a member of that coven.

Wicca and more
This was the first of a number of disputes between individuals and groups, but the increased publicity only seems to have allowed Gardnerian Wicca to grow much more rapidly.
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.
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.
Gardnerian Wicca is used to refer to the traditions of neopaganism that adhere closely to Gardner's teachings, differentiating it from similar traditions, such as Alexandrian Wicca or more recent Wiccan offshoots.
Gardnerian Wicca and other more traditional groups form their covens from male-female pairs.
Historically, the Christian church and lay-people have believed that more women than men are involved in paganism and witchcraft, which can be seen as far back as 1487 with the printing of the Malleus Maleficarum Several modern authors of Wiccan books state that, in current Wicca, the situation is the same.
Though Faery Wicca may draw inspiration from some of the customs practiced among the ancient and modern Celts, it shares more with other modern Wiccan and Neo-Wiccan traditions than with the " Fairy Faith " as it is known in traditional Gaelic cultures.
There are obvious risks associated with an entire group of people all wielding swords, while confined within a small ritual circle space nine feet in diameter ; this safety factor, as well as ease of use, may explain why the emphasis within Wicca is more on each witch's personal athame, rather than the ritual sword.
Duly, Budapest and her legal counsel set out to establish Wicca, and more specifically Dianic Wicca, as a bona fide religion.
Willow attempts to learn more about magic in the fourth season by joining her college Wicca group, only to be met by women who are ineffectual, whom she labels " wanna-blessed-bes ".
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.
As compared to Gardnerian Wicca, Alexandrian Wicca is " somewhat more eclectic ", according to The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism.
Wouter J. Hanegraaff comments that Crowley's works can give the impression that Wicca is little more than a religious and ritual translation of Jungian psychology.
To distract herself, she becomes more involved in magic, practicing spells with varying degrees of success, and trying to socialize with the campus Wicca group.
He also believed that Wicca, which had been a closed tradition since the 1950s, should become more open to newcomers.
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.
( Other early authors on Wicca and witchcraft, such as Paul Huson in his book Mastering Witchcraft, and Charles Cardell of the Coven of Atho, and Robert Cochrane of the Clan of Tubal Cain, generally saw the male priest or magister as being of more importance.
" Celtic " Wicca can be seen as emphasizing and elaborating on the facets of Gardnerian Wicca that practitioners believe to be Celtic, while de-emphasizing some of the more obviously non-Celtic facets ( such as the worship of deities from other cultures ).
While Thompson maintained the use of the term Witch and Witchcraft in her teachings and writings, by this time the term Wicca was becoming more fashionable to use in place of Witch / Witchcraft, as being a " less-charged " word.
In the US, Buckland soon read the books The Witch-Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Murray and Witchcraft Today by Gerald Gardner, which gave him an insight into the Witchcraft religion, or Wicca as it is now more commonly known.

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