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I am new at being a wiccan, are there any good books you could recomend to help me get started?

Answer 1

Just because someone claims to be Wicca does not make them Wicca, as such it is not a good idea to ask for book recomendations from Wicca - I'd suggest specifically looking for BTW Wicca then at least it narrows it down to people who know what Wicca is.

As for book suggestions;

The Witches' Bible: The Complete Witches' Handbook - Janet & Stewart Farrar.
The Witches' God - Janet and Stewart Farrar
The Witches' Goddess - Janet and Stewart Farrar
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft - Ronald Hutton.
Witchcraft Today - Gerald B. Gardner.
Witchdom of the True - Edred Thorsson
Wicca: the Old Religion in the New Milennium - Vivianne Crowley
Advanced Wiccan Spirituality - Kevin Saunders
The Elements of Ritual: Air, Fire, Water & Earth in the Wiccan Circle - Deborah Lipp
What Witches Do - Stewart Farrar

I would strongly recomend you avoid books by Silver Ravenwolf, Scott Cunningham and Ramond Buckland, as what they write about is not Wicca but Neo-wicca presented as Wicca and as such they might confuse you until you are a little better educated about Wicca.

Answer 2

Hello there, and it is good to see you have an interest in Wicca. There are four good books which I would like to recommend to you, that may be helpful for you. The first is the Witches Almanac. It contains a calendar which also shows the phases of the moon, notes the Pagan holidays, as well as good times for planting, and harvesting crops. There is a horoscope for each sign for the whole year, and various stories, poems, tales, and recipies. Great little book. It comes out every year, and is very popular. You can find one at www.TheWitchesAlmanac.com Also, Llewellyn's Witches Datebook is a nice book, also has a calendar with phases of the moon, and has stories, poems and recipies as well. This can be found at www.llewellyn.com. If you are interested in learning about Pagans and Witches in America today, I would recommend the book Drawing down the moon by Margot Adler. The book explores people who practice Paganism and Wicca in America today, so you could possibly learn from their experiences. The last book I would recommend is Cunningham's encyclopedia of magical herbs or an equivalent encyclopedia of magical herbs. Make sure the book includes the names, preparations, and functions of the plants. Pictures of the plants in the book can help you recognize, and identify them in the wild. An old wiccan saying, called the wiccan rede, says, "an ye harm none, then do as ye will" This saying means we are free. Free to do what we will, so long as no one gets hurt. Good luck on your path, I hope that these books will be helpful for you.

Answer 3

Tessa, enable me to reply the final query first. Yes, Wicca IS truly. Wicca is a Religion and as such, we deliver honor to BOTH a Goddess and a God (despite the fact that there are exceptions to that (Dianic Wicca, being one)). We additionally recognize the Divine as being happen within the Natural international round us, which sort of offers non-Wiccans the impact that we worship Nature. It isn't Nature that we worship it's the Divine, and nature is best the conduit via which we accomplish that. Wicca don't worship idols, we worship in entrance of statues (once more there are lots of exceptions to this as good (Green Witches come to brain)). Christians don't worship the pass, they worship what the pass represents, it's accurately that equal precept in Wicca. We habits our ceremonies for the period of the whole moon (a few additionally the brand new moon), and 8 Sabbats that are unfold out over the 12 months (What many Wicca name the Wheel of the Year). These celebrations re-are living distinct levels within the lifestyles a while of the Gods and Goddesses and are performed in commemoration of those Divine parties. The Wicca respect the life of well and evil as inherent is ALL matters, the whole lot and every person has the capacity for BOTH (Even the Divine). Evil accordingly, is an quintessential aspect of the whole lot and one cannot have one with out the opposite. The key to that is stability, Wicca maintain the idea of stability to be probably the most middle standards of the universe and al which exists. So, to reply your first query, there's NO being that's completely well or completely evil, best the rationale of the character determines whether or not a factor or an movement is for well or evil. Therefore, as there's NO being assigned the character of complete evil (ie, a satan) it's not possible for us to worship the sort of being. NOw, as many member of Judeo-Christian-Islamic Faiths are so keen on mentioning in unequivocal phrases, "if you don't worship the god of sunshine and love, then you're worshiping the satan". They fail to detect that to be able to worship some thing or anybody, then worship MUST be the rationale. There isn't any such factor as unknowingly worshiping anybody. We can NOT worship a idea which does NOT exist to us, accordingly we do NOT worship the "Devil", because the "Devil" is NOT probably the most Divine being ideas which exists inside the Faith procedure of Wicca. It is as practical and direct as that. Does this make feel to you? Brightest Blessings, Raji the Green Witch

Answer 4

Try "The Idiot's Guide To Wicca And Witchcraft."

Seriously! It's not an insult. This is a real line of books on every subject you can think of. They're orange, unlike the "(Whatever) For Dummies" series, which is yellow.

This book reads very easily and explains the basics without getting technical or using a lot of craft jargon that might make anyone scratch their head in confusion.

Answer 5

The ones I personally recommend is Wicca Living Wicca The complete book of incense, oils and brews by Scott Cunningham Three of his best books in one book

Wicca for Men by A.J. Drew Not just for men but is a book detailing the importance of the God along with the Goddess in Wicca.
Wicca for One by Raymond Buckland
Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft by Raymond Buckland

Some people love Silver Ravenwolf's books while others hate her work. I have never read any of her books on Wicca and the one book I did read, I did not like it simply because as a 54 year old man, to me it read like a third grade novel. Nothing wrong with that if you like real simple books that read like that, but it just was not for me. However if anyone else likes her writings and get good from them, I will recommend them to anyone that wants to give her writings a try.

But I stick with those I mentioned because they are very informative and as far as I can tell sticks with Wicca traditions.

Witchvox,com has informative articles from time to time.

Answer 6

Merry Meet and welcome to the craft!

Some really good books to get you started:
"Wicca for the Solitary Practioner" by Scott Cunningham
"The Power of the Witch" by Laurie Cabot
"The Craft: A Witch's Book of Shadows" by Dorothy Morrison
"Witchcraft: Theory and Practice" by Ly De Angeles

I have to add my two cents in on Silver Ravenwolf and say to steer clear of her also. Her books are written to make money (imo) and not to really teach anything.

Links below if you need help in purchasing

Answer 7

The SPiral Dance, by Starhawk

Wicca: A guide for the solitary Practitioner, By Scott Cunningham

The Green Witchcraft Series, bBy Ann Moura

Avoid all things by "Silver RavenWolf" "DJ Conway," and "Konstantinos."

A lot of books not from Llewellyn are good, but if you're new, you may want to hold off a bit.

Answer 8

Wicca for One by Buckland
Wicca for the Solitary Practitioner by Cunningham
The Spiral Dance by Starhawk

Avoid Silver RavenWolf.

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Answer 9

The have a whole section at bookstores just for "New Age" religions. Wonderful books, anything you are looking for and then some.

Answer 10

The Spiral Dance - it's an essential.

Good luck honey.