What do Wiccans believe in?

Answer 1

It depends on what's on the current Pagan best-seller booklist.

Answer 2

I believe that there is a sacred force that manifests in living things, which are all things in the natural world. This creative force, which has no gender, is imminent in all the natural world, and is also transcendent of the natural world. It is the Source of everything.

I experience this divine Source in maleness and femaleness, in light and dark, in community and individuality, in the cycle of life - gestation, growth, maturity, decay, death, and transmutation, in cold and heat, etc.

The God is one polarity, the Goddess the other.

This is the world view of of Wicca - not a fight between good and evil, but a dance between the Goddess and the God.

The balance of God and Goddess is ever-changing and yet follows a repeating pattern. At any moment, the God energy/force may be in ascendancy (Summer) or the Goddess energy/force may be (Winter), but the dance has a pattern that does not change.

We circle around and come back to where we started from.


Since the Divine is *manifest* in the natural world, we can learn about the Divine from observing that natural world. It is the primary source of our understanding, and the reason that Wiccans (and Pagans, generally) cannot claim to know the "one truth" or "one right way" - for just as there is no one right way to be a flower or tree or dog or bird or rock or cloud, there can be no ONE right way to experience the Divine or have a relationship with It.

We celebrate the Dance of the seasons, and the dance of our own lives, which also follow the pattern; we grow, and mature, and decline, and die, and change into something else.

Our holidays (holy days) mark the most important of the balance points, and also the seasonal changes: the solstices and Equinoxes, and the seasons of planting and harvest and fallowness. We gather also at full (and for some, dark) Moons, and we look inside ourselves and see what we need to work on.

We gather to celebrate LIFE.

Our altars are everywhere, for the entire Earth is sacred. Our names for the Goddess and the God are myriad, for They have been experienced in many cultures through the ages.

Our purpose is to align ourselves with the sacred pattern that exists in the natural world, to be an active part of the cycle of life, NOT to try to make the natural world conform to our convenience or greed or hunger for power.

I believe that there are natural consequences to our actions; these are the tools that we've been provided from which to learn. There is no divine punishment or reward; the Source is not petty enough to sit in "judgment" on my life. I am no more important than trees or birds or insects...and I am no less important than a star.


If you can be deeply moved by listening to uplifting music in your church or synagogue or a concert hall, then you know how I feel when I listen to birdsong or breezes or rainfall; if you can just NOT help but clap or tap your feet, then you know why I dance in celebration to drums and chants; if your eyes fill with tears of joy at knowing that you are loved by your God, then you know how I feel when my feet touch the flesh of our Mother; if you weep over the story of the crucifixion, then you know how I react to seeing people polluting and degrading the good green Earth that we live on.

The Divine is in all things in the Natural world. We don't own the Earth. She is not our possession, but our Mother.

Answer 3

This is a big question. You'll get a lot of different answers, as there are many sects of Wicca, just as you have many sects of Christianity.
I'll try to answer you from the Five Points of Wiccan Belief standpoint, with the understanding that this is a generalized statement with which all Wiccans may not agree:

1. The Wiccan Rede. The Wiccan Rede states "An it harm none, do as you Will," although occasionally it reads "and ye harm none, do as ye will." The word 'an' is an old English term which could be replaced with the more modern word "IF". In harming none, this also includes one's self.

2. The Law of Return: also known as The Rule of Three or Threefold Law, The Karmic Law, the Law of Balance and Issac Newton's Law of Action from the Laws of Motion. Put simply, "Every Action creates a re-action." Wiccans believe that the nature of their actions upon their environment affects the reactions of their environment to them. They believe that those who give good to their environment receive good from their environment, and those that do harm to their environment receive harm from it. Wiccans affirm a certain innate level of chaos in the way the universe works. Just as chaos mathematics shows that the slightest variance in the initial state of a system can bring about dramatically different results, Wiccans believe that the very nature of the universe is to present us with the challenges that allow us to grow into dramatically different individuals. The universe is not "nice".

3. The Law of Personal Responsibility: One is responsible for his/her actions. This results in the belief that life must be used as a learning experience. For some Wiccans, this life is considered a step on the ladder of reincarnation, and a chance to learn that must not be wasted. To other Wiccans, who do not believe in reincarnation, this life is seen as a precious gift that should not be squandered.

4. The Ethic of Constant Improvement- At its heart, constant improvement is growth, the bettering of one's self and one's environment by whatever means causes the least harm. It is because of this ethic that many Wiccans are active in the protection of the environment. For some, environmentalism is seen as a direct mandate from the creator/ix/s, for others it is seen as the logical step to a reincarnated life in the future (who wants to live in a destroyed environment?) and for still others, acting to protect the environment is the logical outgrowth of the Wiccan Rede.

5. The Ethic of Attunement, last of the Five Points and the basis for all of the ritual that many Wiccans perform. the Ethic of Attunement is the belief that the Wiccan should attempt to become "in tune" with his surroundings and himself. How this is done provides the variation from practice to practice. To some it is the belief that prayer, meditation, and magic(k) need be done to bring one's will closer to that of the divine. For others, it is merely the act of sitting and observing how the world works. To others, the recognition of moon phases, or ancestral holy days or the turning of the seasons. The way this "attunement" occurs is often seen as unimportant. It is more important that it, or the attempt toward it, occur.

I hope this helps give you an overview.
Many blessings on your own spiritual path..
Kallan

Answer 4

They believe in the imenence of Deity.

They believe that the Creator exists in everything and every one.

They cannot fully understand the Creator; so thay honor the god and Goddess to honor the masculine and femenine aspects of the Creator.

The believe the Creator is ultimate, and unknowable.

They also believe they can do majick, and become co-creators with the unknowable Creator.

Answer 5

It depends on what they want to believe in. Pretty much if you are going to hell you make up your one witchy god and worship it. It's a satanic worship.

Answer 6

I can tell you that they do NOT believe in Satan despite what fundies will tell you.

Answer 7

Nature spirits. Actually it is quite nice.

Answer 8

http://contenderministries.org/wicca.php


Note: wicca is directly of Satan....please don't let other websites posted here deceive you. Satan would LOVE for anyone thinking about joining this cult to do just that. Then you're on his path to hell.

Answer 9

that's a loded question. but here is a good start for you
http://www.religioustolerance.org/witchcra.htm