wiccans only please, or someone that can answer a wiccan question?

Question

I just baught "Wicca a guid for the solitary practitioner" by Scott cunningham, what can a expect to learn from it? is it really as good as i have heard? did it help you? do you think it will help me?

i dont know i heard she was a fluffy bunnie

Answer 1

I have Scott Cunninghams books in our coven library. They are well written. His book Living Wicca was the last book he wrote before he crossed over, also well written. It is the sequel to the one you have. As knowledgeable as you seem to be about the Craft, you may find his work a bit unchallenging. They are still well worth reading.
Many "old school" Witches find him to be a bit of a fluffer and many people were angry when he first published books suggesting Wiccans could be solitary. The book about his life "Whispers Of The Moon" by David Harrington is great.

Silver Ravenwolf has quite a bit of good information in her books. She mixes many different working traditions so she can be excessive and has gotten very commercial. She is infamous for tweaking the pointy little hats of other Witches. I wouldn't call her a fluffy bunny.

Fluff Bunny: A term used to describe Wiccans (particularly those new to the Craft), who only see the happy, light, positive side of magick.
I thought I would include these link for you about fluffy bunnies.
http://pagandiversity.com/fluffy.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/12stepBunny/
http://www.seshen.com/WiccanWitch/fluffy.html
http://wicca.timerift.net/fluffy.shtml
http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/index.php?page_mode=4&guild_id=325
http://quizilla.com/users/thunderk1ss/quizzes/THE%20Fluffy%20Bunny%20Pagan%20Test!/
http://quizilla.com/users/Tephareth/quizzes/Serious%20pagan%20or%20fluffy%20bunny%3F/

As always, read everything, take nothing as gospel, and you will certainly find the way that suits you best.

Blessings )O(

Edit: Once again the stalker of Wiccans, bitter Dr. Zoom Zoom has chimed in with his copy and paste answer that most of us know by heart.

Answer 2

Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner gives a general overview of the religion. It gives the gist of it so to speak and I think it can help a lot of people decide if Wicca is the right religion for them before they decide to pursue it further.

No part of it stands out as going into great depth or detail but it does cover a wide range of subjects and provides incentive for further research.

Scott Cunningham can come off as a little fluffy but not to the point where it detracts from the book's informational content. Anyone with a half deserning eye can easily see beyond it.

Years ago, when I first discovered Wicca, this book helped me better understand what it was and was really my first big stepping stone into the religion.

I think that if this is the first or at least one of the first books you haved read on Wicca then it will be a great help to you if you intent to practice Wicca or if you simply want to learn about it for whatever reason.

I notice that some people are recomending Silver Ravenwolf. I advise against spending money on her books. They offer very little information on the religion itself and it's nothing you can't learn from just about any other book on the subject. In fact, I feel like her books are written for people who want to pretend to be witches because most of her books contain pages and pages of spells and correspondances without any basic theory behind them. She also tends to bash Christainity and makes it out to be the "enemy" of Wicca.

Please forgive any spelling mistakes, the spell-check doesn't seem to be working for me.

Answer 3

You heard right, Silver Ravenwolf is the worst of the money-grubbers. She does things like telling teens to lie to their parents.

Scott Cunningham writes nice books. You made a good first choice. He tends to be a little anal, but that's OK. Unfortunately he passed away a few years ago, so there's no new books by him. But he is a name you can trust. There aren't a lot of others- there's a lot of fluffy bunny garbage out there.

Another good name: Isaac Bonewits. he might be a little advanced, but "Real Magic" is on the reading list I give my students on the rare occasions I have one.

Another very good book is "Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religions" by Joyce and River Higganbotham.

Good luck and blessed be. If you have any other questions feel free to contact me.

Answer 4

You'll learn some basic ideas behind the beliefs and workings. It's a decent book for a solitary to get started with. To Ride a Silver Broomstick isn't bad either... but, personally, I see that her later writings appear more to be for $$ than anything else. Just don't get hung up on all of the basic books. You'll find, after a while, they all pretty much say the same thing. But, again, you would do good to start with the book you now have. If you have questions, research it. Research anything that appears "too good to be true".

Answer 5

There are two books in that series, they are simple and easy to read, they have a basic foundation for solitary practise. Basically a good start so you have some understanding of Wicca when you start to get into the "heavier" reads, such as Buckland and Farrar.

Answer 6

sure, there's a distinction. you would be the two a Wiccan and a witch, those 2 words are actually not an identical between the biggest sore factors between Wiccans is the flawed utilization of the words "Wiccan" and "Witch". Too many human beings use the words interchangably, presuming that they the two mean an identical element. they don't. Wiccan Wicca is a faith, and somebody who follows that faith is termed a Wiccan. in specific circumstances it rather is perplexing to correctly define Wicca, and not all Wiccans will define themselves an identical way. watching the 8 Wiccan Sabbats, honoring the Gods and/or Goddesses, bobbing up sacred area for rituals, to call some. Many classic Wiccans additionally sense that belonging to a coven is likewise a call for and that people who prepare their faith as a solitary, shouldn't communicate with themselves as Wiccan. for my area, i'm nonetheless undecided on that ingredient. everyday Wiccans additionally prepare magick, and consequently are additionally witches. you would be unable to be a "organic Wiccan" from now on than you would be a "organic Christian". Witch The prepare of witchcraft isn't linked with any faith, consequently you would be a witch and yet additionally be a member of any style of religions (or none). making use of the organic energies interior of your self, alongside with the energies of herbs, stones or different factors to make adjustments around you is seen witchcraft. nonetheless the abilities and presents that are area of witchcraft could be inherited from mothers and fathers or grandparents, you're actually not immediately a witch in simple terms because of the fact your grandmother would have been one. using magick takes prepare, adventure and discovering. On a ingredient word, a male witch is termed a witch, not a warlock. Pagan collectively as i'm explaining terminology, i assumed i might throw in "Pagan" besides. Paganism refers to one among those non-Christian/Jewish/ Islamic religions that are oftentimes polytheistic and are oftentimes nature-based. Wicca is in simple terms one Pagan faith, yet there are others including Santeria, Asatru, or Shamanism. many human beings do not unavoidably become conscious of with a particular faith, and in simple terms use the wide term "Pagan" to define their religious course. Pagan religions are distinctive and break free one yet another, and it is going to not be assumed that they are in simple terms diverse names for an identical faith.

Answer 7

I'm an ex-Wiccan, so my answer is no it won't help you. You won't have magical powers. You just made Llewellyn a little bit richer though. Here's an answer I've given before on this subject:

OK, first, read about the lives of famous occultists:

http://usminc.org/famous.html

Then decide if it's worth persuing. If you want to wind up broke and forgotten, go for it!

If there is any truth to the old saying "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.", that truth is found in the occult, and Wicca in particular. Silver Ravenwolf has written close to a dozen books on the subject of "The Craft", and claims she has been studying it since about 1969, which is almost as long as I’ve been alive. She has written a book on how to cast money spells, and includes a chapter on how to do so in her Teen Witch book. But the thing is, she doesn't particularly sound all that prosperous herself. Ravenwolf writes,

" For years I couldn't afford to go to a hair stylist (still can't, it's shop and chop for me). I got pretty good at stying my own hair from looking at magazine pictures" [SOURCE: Teen Witch, Llewellyn Publications, 2003 edition, page 145]

OK, she so rich she can't go to the hairdresser. Hey, get me a copy of that Prosperity Spell book!

Silver Ravenwolf seems to have inadvertently discovered that Wicca makes things worse, but won't ever admit it as such.
In Teen Witch she says

"A lot of people tell me how bad their lives have gotten after casting a spell and tell me they won't do Witchcraft anymore. I tell them their lives would have been much worse for not having cast the spell".

Gee Silver, you would think a lot of people would be saying things like "Hey, Silver Ravenwolf, my life has improved tremendously with Wicca!" if Wicca is as great as they claim. Instead it makes lives much worse, and even Silver Ravenwolf admits she hears this a lot!!!

Why? Because sometimes, things are just as you think they are. Most average people will tell you the occult deals with black magic and demons, and demons are evil beings who wish us harm. This is how it is my friend. The occult is evil, and brings bad happenings into a person's life, and Wicca is an occult religion. When you stop trying to rationalize it with inaccurate data and just use common sense you will realize this. Some occultists are of above average intelligence, and I think part of the problem is they have book smarts but not common sense. There are two forces at work in this universe: the counterfeit and the genuine. Wicca’s source of power is not the genuine. There’s just simply no way Wicca (and thus the copycat Neopagan religions) can be created from the black magic writings of “The Great Beast 666", the bizarre sexual practices of Gardner, the spiritual “guidance” of the Watchers (fallen angels) and still be a source of good!

None of the people who have answered your question can make it work either, Don't delude yourself. It's an incredible waste of time and money, and it's spiritual poison.

Answer 8

join the yahoo group spiretyal occultis(sp) and they can help you out.

having not read the book i cant tell you what to suspect but theres a gooc chance it BS. raven wolf is a good author so they her books.

is what as good as you herd? the book i dont know but as for wicca, yes it can be good with proper trainning.

did wicca help me? no i dont really like wicca, i just dont really agree with the ideas behind it, i my self have also tried druidaty and a few other and have now became a karbala ceramonial mystic who cant spell worth crap.

it will only help if you want it too. i find my studdies more enjoyable then cathalism that i grew up with, i still beleve in god and jesus but i do things in my own way with the karbalic tree of live and ritual magic.

Answer 9

Very much so. Ravenwolf is considered a little fluffy, and she is pretty biased towards Christians. I have a few of her books, but you should never limit yourself to just one author. Read everything, and decide for yourself.

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Answer 10

Yes, it helped me alot but, if you want even more help buy Silver Ravenwolf's book "TO RIDE A SILVER BROOMSITCK". That one helped me.And don't forget Raymond Buckland's "Complete Book Of Witchcraft".That's my almost number one.