whats wicca?

Answer 1

Their beliefs include:

Wiccan Deities: Beliefs differ: Most Wiccans believe that a creative force exists in the universe, which is sometimes called "The One" or " The All". Little can be known of this force.
Most regard the Goddess and the God as representing the female and male aspects of the All. These deities are not "out there somewhere;" they are immanent in the world.
Many regard various pagan Gods and Goddesses (Pan, Athena, Diana, Brigit, Zeus, Odin, etc.) as representing various aspects of the God and Goddess. The term "Wicca" normally implies that the person's religion is based upon Celtic spiritual concepts, deities, and seasonal days of celebration. Some Wiccans include beliefs, practices and symbols from ancient Pagan religions (e.g. Egyptian, Greek, various mystery religions, Roman, Sumerian) or upon Aboriginal religions (Native American Spirituality, Shamanism).
Some Wiccans are actually agnostics, who take no position on the existence of a supreme being or beings. They look upon the Goddess and the God as archetypes, based on myth.
It cannot be stressed enough that Wiccans have no supernatural being in their pantheon of deities who resembles the Christian-Muslim Satan.

Respect for Nature: Wicca is a natural religion, grounded in the earth. All living things (including stars, planets, humans, animals, plants, rocks) are regarded as having a spirit. Many Wiccan rituals deal with bringing harmony and healing to nature. Wiccans tend to share a great concern for the environment.
Gender equality: Wiccans celebrate the sexual polarity of nature. For example, the fertilizing rain is one manifestation of the male principle; the nurturing earth symbolizes the female. Females are respected as equal (and sometimes at a slightly higher rank) to males. A priestess is often the most senior person among coven -- a local group of Wiccans. They aim for a female-male balance in most of their covens (local groups), although men are typically in the minority.
Human sexuality: Sexuality is valued, and regarded as a gift of the Goddess and God, to be engaged in with joy and responsibility, and without manipulation. Wiccans generally accept the findings of human sexuality researchers that there are three normal, natural, and unchosen sexual orientations: heterosexuality, homosexuality and bisexuality. Some Wiccans celebrate "the Great Rite" which involves ritual sexual intercourse. However, it is consensually performed by a committed couple in private.
Afterlife: Wiccans have a wide range of beliefs. Some believe in ancient legends of a Summerland where souls go after death. Here, they meet with others who have gone before, review and integrate their previous lives on earth, and are eventually reincarnated into the body of a new born. Some believe that after many such cycles -- perhaps some as female and others as male; some lives with a high standard of living and others in poverty; some in positions of power and others suffering oppression -- that the individual accumulates sufficient experience to go on to another level of existence about which we know nothing.
Some see an individual's personality, memory, abilities, talents, etc. as functions of the human brain, which degrades and disintegrates at death. They no not anticipate any form of continuity after death.
Other Wiccans anticipate continuity after death in some very narrow senses: That the molecules that go to make up our bodies may in turn be incorporated in other living entities;
That our influences on children, friends, and society in general will continue to have influences on the next generations.


Three-fold Law (a.k.a. the Law of Return) The law states that:
"All good that a person does to another returns three fold in this life; harm is also returned three fold."

This belief strongly motivates each Wiccan to avoid attempting to dominate, manipulate, control, or harm another person.

Answer 2

Wicca is an earth based religion. Wiccans revere the earth and realize that we are not above it in any way, instead, we're part of it. Most Wiccans have gardens, and pets and recycle.

There's already a great explanation of deity and the afterlife on here so I won't repeat it.

We live by two laws.

1. Harm None. That includes animals. The exceptions are if you are defending your life or the lives of those you love and the immediate choice is you or them. And for the sake of food. All things are part of this life and humans are omnivores which means we require meat to function properly. But such is the cycle of life. Though there are some that refuse to eat meat and become Vegans.

2. The Threefold Law. Whatever you do comes back to you three times as strong as you sent out during your lifetime. This means that there is no Heaven and no Hell because you'll pay for whatever bad things you did during your lifetime.

Other than that, pretty much everything is up to the individual Wiccan. Some Wiccans are witches (spell casters), but some aren't.

There is no Satan in our religion. There is no Hell. We are not sorcerers.

Answer 3

Some say it stands for "Women In Constant Creative Action". Mostly, it's known as a religion based on ancient pre-Christian religions in which women played a leadership role in society. Wicca places emphasis on life cycles of both people and the planet. A surprising amount of people are Wiccans - they don't all wear black clothes and pentagrams!

An excellent book on the subject is "Drawing Down the Moon" by Margot Adler.

Answer 4

WICCA (sometimes called Wicce, Witchcraft, The Craft, or The Old Religion) represents an ancient religion of love for life and nature.

Answer 5

Wicca is commonly referred to as witchcraft. The followers of Wicca believe in an earth mother goddess and believes in earth oriented animistic forces. Wicca has a connection to Celtic religion as well.

It is not devil worship. It is is not sorcery.

Answer 6

Wicca is an earth-based religion, a modern re-creation of predominantly European pre-Christian paganism.

It focuses on an experience-based spirituality, rather than one book- and dogma-based, and places responsibility squarely on practitioners, rather than with abstract otherworldly rewards and punishments.

Answer 7

Wicca is a type of religous cult were the members believe in household faeries, dragons, and the like. They worship different spirits and believe in free living.

Answer 8

wicca believe they are white witches. I once asked a pastor of my spiritualist church about his thoughts on the power of crystals and runes. His reply was that there is but one power in this universe and that is God. so in reality what is wicca, nothing.

Answer 9

An Earth based religion pertaining to the energy that's all around us, and used to better themselves and people around them.

Answer 10

They believe nature is God. They accept all people for what they are and they believe in the good of people.