Wiccan Purpose?

Question

As a wiccan, what is your purpose in life? To simply worship the God and Goddess? To bring others to them? To help yourselves? To worship nature?

Answer 1

Basically it's:

1.Do no harm - this seems to apply to spells only. Try going on a Wiccan forum as a newbie. They are very senstive or shall I say paranoid to outsiders. You will be subject to a reverse witch hunt.

2. Believe in a male and female gods - my lord and my lady (I am serious) hehe

3. Pick a god/godess of your choice to worship- these can be Greek or Egyptian. There is a large selection to choose from.

4. Believe in reincarnation

5. You go into trances and connect with spirit guides/animal guides.

Now here is the catch 22 while you believe in reincarnation and asking your god/godess for help with all your spells. There is no
strong belief within the Wicca community that the soul survives after death. So if you do reincarnate it's pot luck.

6. The spells- the only part most people really care about. If those
ridiculous spells of hair of rabbit sprinkled with rosemary and lavender oil and burried under a full moon on the first day in the start of autum worked. There would be a lot of lucky people wouldn't there?

To appreciate the craft, you have to have a strong love of fantasy and make believe. Enjoy role playing and dressing up. It helps if ypu have one of the following: you're a teenager/goth/ dark and angry/ have a lot of issues. Most important easily lead and will accept anything.

Oh yeah a love for nature but remember being a witch is the most important thing. A spell can solve all your problems and make your future bright.

Answer 2

Your question is loaded, Ryan! What does it mean to "worship"? At that, what does it mean to "simply worship"? Since you're adressing this question to Wiccans, you infer that some comparison to other religion is your intention. By your egocentric language you again infer that the comparison intended is to Christianity.

Your other questions seem to indicate:
1) You find simple purpose in your own religion.
2) You assume that conversion is the goal of all religions.
3) You imagine non-christians to be inherently selfish.
4) You unwittingly consider yourself to be above "nature".

Now, the tenor of your questions also seems to indicate that you are not a consciously mean or spiteful person, but rather have a very positive outlook on life. My assesment is therefore that you are from a Christian background, but not a particularly devout one. I am guessing that you're an unconfirmed Lutheran. You probably don't go to church very often, if ever. You're young and single, and probably will have a Church wedding someime in the next few years to a girl with a similar background.

So is everything I have just said an expression of my own Vanity?

Yes, Ryan, there is purpose without God. Wiccans don't need the deities they worship to be real, they only desire to honor something greater than themselves, to observe and be part of the amazing natural world, and to observe traditions that bring a sense of the sacred.

Answer 3

I am no longer Wiccan, but I still follow a similar path.

I can tell you right now that you will likely get as many different answers as you get answers at all. Each Wiccan defines their own path to some extent, and thus lives their own purpose, unless they follow a specific tradition.

For me, my purpose is (and was while I was Wiccan as well) to LEARN. Simple as that.

Learning is an ongoing process in any Pagan faith. You never stop learning, because there will always be something more to learn. The more you learn, the more you will remember in your next life, and the more you will be able to add to your spiritual knowledge (the knowledge that is carried with you from lifetime to lifetime). Once you have learned everything you were meant to learn, you become one with the Divine. Although, this idea also varies from Wiccan to Wiccan and from Pagan to Pagan.

Answer 4

They think they are doing good for what they call "mother earth". It is a way of escaping the real truth in the Bible, as the wiccans don't believe in sin and satan, so they think they are free from these things. However they do believe in evil, as they protect themselves from it with pentagrams and such. When I was lost, at first, I found wicca and it seemed more like fun than a religion. I later learned it was not what God teaches us. In fact it is evil and a blasphemy to God. Most wiccans get very offended when people say that they are pretty much tied up with satan. They are afraid of the truth. I was one of them. They say they worship God, but two gods cannot be present, as one will leave. This is when satan steps in, only the wiccans don't believe it. Who do you think the horned god is? satan himself! The wiccan faith is very confusing. All I can say is I am happy I found the Lord God and am saved from this terrible dark path to hell.

Answer 5

Wicca and other pagan religions are not evangelistic usually. In fact they are often quite the opposite because they are not often accepted as religion by some others. Wicca, as well as other Pagan religions carry the credo "Do as ye will lest ye harm none"....which, i believe means that you may do the things that make you happy as long as you are considering how your actions are going to affect others and that it is not a good idea to do something with the intention of causing strife to anyone or anything else.
I think, in the end, if you try to live your life from a place of love and use prayer or meditation to stay focused on being a good person everything else will fall in to place

Answer 6

Their purpose in life is not to practice Wicca. They worship the way they believe just as most people do. They celebrate nature and the seasons. They also worship the horned one, and the goddess, although who or what exactly the horned one or the goddess is, they never explain.

Answer 7

While I pride myself on being a tolerant person, there are always some things I just find ridiculous. You want to go down to the occult bookstore and buy Wiccan and pagan stuff, that is your right. I understand, say, African folk religion and spirit worship in the form of Shinto and Native American beliefs. Those beliefs are about the supernatural, meditation, a love of nature, a love of the ancestors, belief in good and evil and the afterlife, etc. That I can understand.

I do not know why they hang out in the religious section. Stuff comes in waves around here.

I thought I would lose my patience, now I just ignore it, avoid it or report the hate mongerers. There are waves of anti-Christian, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic garbage around here. I would like to know why someone who follows a minority Protestant religion, Jehovah's Witnesses, Pentecostalism or Unitarianism, for example, is given a hard time.

I want to know why Jews and Muslims must be really subtle about their beliefs. None of these people are into the occult. I don't get that. It is okay to be a witch and wrong to be a minority Christian, Jew or Muslim. Makes no sense to me. I have known Sikhs, animists and Buddhists. Nothing wrong with their beliefs.

Answer 8

I'm not Wiccan myself but I have several friends in the Craft Traditions.

Most of them have described their life purpose as to learn and help other beings learn.

That always struck me as pretty noble.

Answer 9

i am a Celtic Pagan (which is close to Wicca)

my purpose in life. is to help as many people as i can to find a religious path to enlightenment. I do not care what path they walk, just that they find a belief that progresses the spiritual growth of their soul. i hav probably put more on the path to Christianity than i have taught the ways of nature.

Answer 10

One of the things and the asspect that upset Christians etc is the use of spells. Reason for upset is removal of free will if effective makes me wonder if drug dealers in the same league (in that respect only)