Can someone please explain to me about Wicca religion?

Answer 1

Ignore any negativity from people. They are just ignorant.

Wicca is a Neopagan religion and a religious movement found in various countries throughout the world. It was first popularised in 1954 by a British civil servant named Gerald Gardner[1] after the British Witchcraft Act was repealed. He claimed that the religion, of which he was an initiate, was a modern survival of an old witchcraft religion, which had existed in secret for hundreds of years, originating in the pre-Christian Paganism of Europe. Wicca is thus sometimes referred to as the Old Religion. The veracity of Gardner's claims cannot be independently proven, and it is thought that written Wiccan theology began to be compiled no earlier than the 1920s. Various related Wiccan traditions have since evolved, or been adapted from, the form established by Gardner, which came to be called Gardnerian Wicca. These other traditions of Wicca each have distinctive beliefs, rituals, and practices. Many traditions of Wicca remain secretive and require that members be initiated. There is also a movement of Eclectic or Solitary Wiccans who do not believe that any doctrine or traditional initiation is necessary in order to practice Wicca. The 2001 American Religious Identification Survey estimated that at least 134,000 adults identified themselves as Wiccans in the US, and there has been some speculation that Wicca will be the third largest religion in the United States by 2012 (possibly fourth due to Atheists/Agnostics)[19] due to large numbers of students converting. [2]

Answer 2

Check this site and it's links, it will fully answer your question.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/witchcra.htm


In a nutshell, the Wiccan do not worship, but revere the gifts of the Earth, the elements, and those who lived before. Earthly elements, rituals, and incantations are used like prayer to the theistic faithful. Many modern-day superstitions and rituals can be credited to wiccan belief such as throwing salt over your shoulder when it has been spilled of keeping a penny in your shoe for luck with money. The list goes on and on...
Most practicing "witches" are very tuned to nature and have knowlege of natural remedies for common maladies.
There is nothing to be feared of those who practice wicca, they are ordinary people who simply choose a different spiritual path than most. You probably know someone who practices wicca but they don't advertise the fact because of the stigma Christian society has placed on it.
Good luck and many blessings to you on your spiritual journey.

Answer 3

we are a nature based religion. un-like what most people think we aren't all spell casting witch's. we believe in Goddess AND God. some Wiccans believe in more the none god some don't . we basically are a peaceful nature based religion in believe in three times bad and three times good. we don't have any written rules. we do have a Wiccan Reed which sums up to " and ye harm none do what ye will" that is the closest thing to a rule we have. good luck. if you want more information search Wicca on the Internet. ~*~Blessed Be~*~

Answer 4

It's earth based with the sun and moon as influencers. I Do like the prayer: Bide the Wiccan Law ye must, with Perfect Love and Perfect Trust. Eight words the Wiccan rede fulfill 'And ye harm none do what ye will' What ye send forth comes back to thee, and always mind the rule of three. Follow this with mind and heart and merry you meet and merry you part.

Then the say ' Blessed Be!' So don't confuse them with satanist or the Church of satan. They're like woodland folk, homeopathic remedies and such.

Answer 5

For more detailed explanations start with www.witchvox.com.
Books are great, Phyllis Curott, Scott Cunningham......all excellent authors. Just be careful of what you read. Some of it is so * High Episco-pagan*

Blessed Be

Answer 6

peaceful
beliefe in a goddess
whatever you do you get it back 3 times
spells work
believe in the 5 elemtns fire air water earth spirti
pentagram is for protection
www.fionahorne.com or get a book

Answer 7

Wicca is for bored little girls with no boyfriends.

Answer 8

Yeeees,

Most Pagans and Wiccans do not actually worship any Gods or Goddesses, at least not in the Christian way - - - we're not looking for salvation or any beyond-life favors. We engage in rituals to celebrate the Deities whose ways we enjoy, or with whom we have personal agreements, or that we are trying to learn about or contact; and we engage in these rituals sometimes to appease Deities whom we may have offended or to contact and make new personal agreements with other Deities. We rarely consider that any of these Deities created the world or are responsible for all of fate, we consider that they are part of existence, part of the season turning, part of the moon rising. There's a 'nameless' Deity whom almost every Wiccan and quite a few Pagans revere just called the Goddess, and She is a part of all life everywhere. One of the reasons that we do not worship them in the Christian, or Judeaic, or Muslim way is that we have been taught and recognize that they and we are actually equal in ultimate power, just that the focus of their existence is metaphysical and the focus of ours is physical, and that they need to interact with us just as much as we need to interact with them. In discussing these things with Wiccans, you will discover a more reverent, sacred attitude that may disagree with some of these statements, but keeping looking deeper, and you might find that my perception is close to correct.

There are belief-branches, but rarely does anyone in anyof these branches say or have the attitude that 'we are right and they are wrong' - - - the different traditions or ways are considered choices that are like different flavors of food that are all ultimately nourishing. There are some traditions that are more dogmatic or judgemental than others, of course. Listing the traditions is difficult - - - you might do internet searches for 'Wicca Traditions', 'Pagan Traditions', etc.
Two very widespread Wicaa Traditions are the Gardnerians (based on the work of Gerald Gardner) and the Alexandrians (based on the work of one of Gardner's students). A whole different Pagan/ Ceremonial Magick tradition is based on the work of an English metaphysical group at the turn of the 19th-20th century called: "The Golden Dawn". Another whole different Pagan traditon is called "Feri". Most Pagans create their own unique traditions by choosing parts of other belief-systems that they enjoy or that they find effective, these are called Eclectics. Then there are Witches, who aren't focused on religion but on worthwhile folk magic, and the Mages who have a variety of 'ways', like Ceremonial Magick (focused on worthwhile rituals) or (another = ) Chaos Magick (focused on worthwhile spontaneous magick). This may not have clarified your understanding, but it gives you some places to start researching more.

Most Wiccan Groups and many Pagan groups have a rite of entrance that is nothing more than a social ceremony that they call initiation. Many more have a kind of dedication rite. But some have serious initiation rites, in which the person involved goes thru a simulated 'death', changes and begins learning to do magick purposefully (whether there is a spiritual focus or not). Most Wiccan groups have some version of the 'three degrees' strata of spiritual development, spending at least a year and a day in each degree. What is involved in each varies with the tradition, but almost uniformly only 3rd degrees can be High Priests or High Priestesses. In our rites generally the High Priest does not pray to any particular God so much as invoke that God and temporarily become that God's mortal incarnation, and the same with High Priestess and the Goddess involved.

Some Wicca groups claims to be inheritors of the 'Old Religion' that existed in Europe long before Rome and Christianity....which is dubious/ debatable. Whether we can claim direct connection or not, the myths, fables, and parables that Pagans tend to revere and value come from one or another ancient civilization - - - Celts, Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Hindi, Sumerians, Sufi, etc.

There is an awareness of an ancient time when humans were civilized along Matriarchal lines, where men roamed thru the wildernesses, hunting, mining, wandering, etc, and women lived in villages, had domesticated animals, raised children, owned land, were leaders, judges, bankers, etc. The men would 'visit' the women for as long as they were welcome and there were few long-term relationships. The most essential 'magic' was the miraculous apparent capacity of women to create children all by themselves, among whose results were that inheritance went not to a man's son (for who could tell for sure which was actually his own son) but to his nephew, his sister's son. Some parts of Judaeism continue this.

Then the men discovered that they were necessary to procreation, seemingly felt 'tricked' or betrayed by the women and conquered them, beginning the sequence of Patriarchal civilizations that have continued for thousands of years, including results of valuing sons over daughters, direct inheritance, devaluing of women in almost every way, primogeniture, etc.

The Goddess is Life, all life everywhere. Whether She created all things in the beginning or not is not important, She Mothers and nurtures all of life now, She is a direct source of wisdom for all stages of human understanding. She is seen as having three personnae (reminiscent of the Christian Trinity) - - - Maiden, Mother, and Crone. There's some kind of link between Her and the ocean, between Her and the Moon...

Deities are contacted in a variety of ways, but usually a celebration occurs either on a Full Moon, a Dark Moon, or a Celtic Holy Day (the soltices, the equinoxes, and the points halfway between them, (called the 'eight-spoked wheel of the year'); usually the High Priest, High Priestes or both hosts the gathering, cleanses the area, casts a circle (draws it in the air going clockwise, often with a magical tool called the athame (ah-thah-may), sometimes chanting things), and sets a guardian (a person who will not participate in the celebration, but will cut open and closed the circle gate to let people in and out, and who will challenge those who would participate at the beginning to ensure that they were invited, that they know what they are doing, and that everyone's intent is harmonious with each other); before facing the guardian and entering the circle, people are often cleansed and/ or blessed with charged water or salted water or sprigs of sage and/or incense. Often ritual phrases such as "Merry Met, Merry Part", or "Perfect Love, Perfect Peace" are exchanged.
Once everyone is in the circle and it is closed, the High Priest or the High Priestess or both will begin the service, which usually includes contacting or honoring the God and the Goddess (or the Lord and the Lady, or even specifically Named pairs, such as Isis and Osiris, or Kernunos and Caer Idun), having people summon Elementals (usually Air, Fire, Water, and Earth) or open 'gates' at the edges of the circle to the Elemental Realms (Air = usually East, Fire South, Water West, Earth North;; but different traditions vary widely on the number and direction of the Elements). Then the 'work' of the ritual is done - - - participants make wishes, or express problems that they need help with, divination and/or channeling is done, and a bunch of other things are also possible (Wiccaning a baby, handfasting for a year and a day, etc). The Deities and Elementals are invited to "Stay if you Will, but go if you must, and know that You are always in our hearts", the guardian opens the gate, the people leave the circle, the circle is un-made and the area cleaned up. Usually the people share a meal ("cakes and ale") and/or some celebratory songs,,, usually ending with hugs and everyone's appreciation of everyone else's participation.

Deities can usually be contacted when in circle by calling or chanting their name. If you do this without a definate place for the Deity to 'show up' (called 'evocation'), She / He will probably make Himself / Herself known within the person calling (which can be disconcerting).

We definately believe in Deities powers, its just that they seem to value our physicalities almost as much as we value their metaphyical nature and abilities.

I hope that plethora of data answered your rather vague question.

Answer 9

Its a made up thing for people who were picked on in school.

Answer 10

no