wicca. comment.?

Question

opinions from wiccans and nonwiccans

Answer 1

Blessed be our Earth Mother and all her children.

Answer 2

Nobody knows what Gardner really intended when he began the Wiccan religion. Some say it was a joke, some say it was a serious spiritual quest, and others say it was just a sex club.

Some Wiccans say you cannot "be" a Wiccan if you are not initiated and lineaged and don't turn cartwheels around the waxing moon. If someone asks my religion I simply reply 'Wiccan.' Self-identifying as Wiccan to a non-Pagan just means that I most closely identify with that religion, and not that I follow one certain strict path.

Answer 3

wicca:
read Aidan A. Kelly, Crafting the Art of Magic. Book 1. A History of Modern Witchcraft, 1939-1964 (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Pub., 1991).

Answer 4

Wicca, not my thing but I do like them. I am a witch, not to be confused with Wiccan. We do have many of the same beliefs tho many of mine go back centuries rather than decades.

Answer 5

My opinionated comment on the topic at hand regarding the subject of Wicca ... Comment surely states that though there are many words to describe them all, it is still a single word and denotes the need to talk about in length and detail because without a single idea or description to visualize there is not such concept available to digress into a subject worthy of expaciation through the English language of explanation.

Answer 6

Do you refer to that previous question about Wicca being evil? Or do you want a comment on Wicca. I think it is a good alternative spiritual path for many seekers.

Answer 7

Here's my comment:

In the 19th century a romaticizing of things Pagan began. Godfrey Leland forged a spurious book called Aradia:Gospel of the Witches that implied that witches were pagans who worshipped Diana (and Lucifer). He plagarized materials from two previous books he wrote (Etruscan Remains and Gypsy Sorcery). Although the word Wicca isn't mentioned, it was the great-great daddy of the whole thing.
Later on quack anthropolgist Margret Murray hatched her own theory about the witches of the European witch trials actually being survivors of a Pagan cult in her books. These inspired Gardner to create his own witch cult witch he called "wica" (at first spelled in lower case and with only one "c"). Gardner insisted Witch meant "Wise one" claiming the word derives from the Old English word "wicce". "Wicce" actually means "to bend", and this is where the word "wicker" comes from. The word "wicked" also comes from "wicce" (as in a wicked person being "bent").
The word "witch" has a nefarious meaning in every language on earth,including English, but for some reason Wiccans still insist on calling themselves "Witches" (with a capital "W") and their religion "Witchcraft". They feel that the reason people are afraid of them is centuries of "xtian propaganda" meant to defame them. But even if they went to Vietnam ( a predominantly Buddhist country) and said they were a Phuy Tay (Vietnamese for witch), people would still be afraid of them. Of course, a tiny few Wiccans have stopped calling themselves witches, but most probably enjoy the shock value wether they admit it or not.

If there is any truth to the old saying "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.", that truth is found in the occult, and Wicca in particular. Silver Ravenwolf has written close to a dozen books on the subject of "The Craft", and claims she has been studying it since about 1969, which is almost as long as I’ve been alive. She has written a book on how to cast money spells, and includes a chapter on how to do so in her Teen Witch book. But the thing is, she doesn't particularly sound all that prosperous herself. Ravenwolf writes,

" For years I couldn't afford to go to a hair stylist (still can't, it's shop and chop for me). I got pretty good at stying my own hair from looking at magazine pictures" [SOURCE: Teen Witch, Llewellyn Publications, 2003 edition, page 145]

OK, she so rich she can't go to the hairdresser. Hey, get me a copy of that Prosperity Spell book!

Silver Ravenwolf seems to have inadvertently discovered that Wicca makes things worse, but won't ever admit it as such.
In Teen Witch she says

"A lot of people tell me how bad their lives have gotten after casting a spell and tell me they won't do Witchcraft anymore. I tell them their lives would have been much worse for not having cast the spell".

Don't you would think a lot of people would be saying things like "Hey, Silver Ravenwolf, my life has improved tremendously with Wicca!" if Wicca is as great as they claim? Instead it makes lives much worse, and even Silver Ravenwolf admits she hears this a lot!!!

My advice would be to rethink the whole thing and try reading C.S. Lewis instead. Christianity will give you "the peace of God that surpasses all understanding", rather than an ego trip.

Answer 8

What would you like to know? There are plenty of friendly Wiccans here who can answer your questions.

Answer 9

And here folks we have the serial "comment" asker. You give such a religion and he'll plug in his comment and press the button.

Answer 10

Tread lightly on this Earth. Blessed Be.