| I knew she was a Wiccan priestess, and she seemed so open and so comfortable with what she was. |
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| Spiritual commitment isn't just being Wiccan a few times a month at coven meetings. |
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| It seems to me that there's a great deal of borrowing from paganism and Wiccan cultures. |
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| My background is fairly eclectic and I consider myself to be a Witch, although not of the Wiccan variety. |
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| I learned later that a couple of Wiccan groups and a Shamanic Drum circle use the same area for activities on the weekends. |
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| Only towards the end were they written to fit a full-blown Wiccan coven with high priestess and high priest. |
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| He was initiated as a Wiccan at the Spring equinox seven years ago, on a mountainside near Manchester where he then lived. |
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| Well, if you're a Wiccan, and don't care if other traditions are mislabelled as being the same as yours, you need not do anything. |
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| To the Wiccan, the five points of the pentagram represent Air, Fire, Water, Earth and Spirit. |
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| If we keep speaking out when a movie falsely uses a pentacle or a talk show falsely references a Wiccan term, there is a chance for a better and brighter tomorrow! |
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| The date mattered to her as a Wiccan who practised ancient nature-based beliefs. |
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| The male Wiccan god is given horns, representing the horned animals that ancient humans hunted. |
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| The Wiccan moral prohibition against causing harm applies to economic harm as well as to physical and spiritual harm. |
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| You don't need candles, an athame, and a herbal garden to be a Wiccan. |
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| The question of sanctity versus profanity is one which every Pagan, Wiccan, or Witch confronts and comes to terms with at some point on their spiritual path. |
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| The law of threefold return was introduced in the Wiccan rede, developed ostensibly by Gardner and Valiente IIRC, and likely ghostwritten by Crowley. |
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| You might be Wiccan or Pagan, either that or you're unreligious. |
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| Infants in Wiccan families may be involved in a ritual called a Wiccaning, which is analogous to a Christening. |
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| An unattributed statement known as the Wiccan Rede is a popular expression of Wiccan morality, although it is not accepted by all Wiccans. |
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| Other Wiccan conceptualisations have portrayed her as a Moon Goddess and as a Menstruating Goddess. |
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| There is also a common Wiccan belief that any Witches will come to be reincarnated as future Witches, an idea originally expressed by Gardner. |
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| Common Wiccan spells include those used for healing, for protection, fertility, or to banish negative influences. |
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| The Wiccan Rede was most likely introduced into Wicca by Gerald Gardner and formalised publicly by Doreen Valiente, one of his High Priestesses. |
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| In Valiente's poem, they are ordered in pairs of complementary opposites, reflecting a dualism that is common throughout Wiccan philosophy. |
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| Perhaps the most significant of these is an initiation ritual, through which somebody joins the Craft and becomes a Wiccan. |
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| The first known Wiccan wedding ceremony took part in 1960 amongst the Bricket Wood coven, between Frederic Lamond and his first wife, Gillian. |
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| It is most notably practiced in the Wiccan and modern witchcraft traditions, and no longer practices in secrecy. |
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| It is an orthopraxic mystery religion that requires initiation to the priesthood in order to consider oneself Wiccan. |
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| At a Starbucks coffee shop in Hillsboro, Oregon, a barista contends she was fired not because of tardiness but because of the Wiccan necklace she wore. |
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| Most followers celebrate a series of eight festivals equivalent to the Wiccan Wheel of the Year, though others follow the ancient Roman festivals. |
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| The Threefold Law was an interpretation of Wiccan ideas and ritual, made by Monique Wilson and further popularised by Raymond Buckland, in his books on Wicca. |
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| The Wiccan writers Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone have postulated that Wicca is becoming more polytheistic as it matures, tending to embrace a more traditionally pagan worldview. |
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| While duotheism or bitheism is traditional in Wicca, broader Wiccan beliefs range from polytheism to pantheism or monism, even to Goddess monotheism. |
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| Some Books of Shadows are passed from one Wiccan to another, usually upon initiation, but the vast majority of Books of Shadows today are composed by each individual Wiccan. |
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| Department of Veterans Affairs refused permission to include on the plaque a Wiccan symbol, a pentacle inside a circle, for Stewart's professed religion. |
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| There are also Unitarian Universalist, Baha'i, Sikh, Jain, Shinto, Confucian, Taoist, Druid, Native American, Wiccan, humanist and deist communities. |
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| This growing demographic was soon catered to through the Internet and by authors like Silver RavenWolf, much to the criticism of traditional Wiccan groups and individuals. |
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| I can still remember the high priestess of the first wiccan coven I was in, over 20 years ago, showing me how to use a sword in ritual. |
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| She includes her wiccan religious beliefs and indicates that her religion is what helps center her. |
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