Wiccans only...?

Question

How do you know when you are ready to start practicing rituals and spells?

Answer 1

If you are practicing solitary, it's simply a matter of choosing a point at which to start practicing. Whether or not you are ready is something that will only become apparent through trial and error, and BECOMING ready is a matter of practice. Therefore, mistakes are going to happen. :-) Don't worry; the Deities won't think any less of you for any errors you commit while learning.

I would recommend that you practice "setting up" and "taking down" sacred space -- including the inviting of the quarter spirits and the Goddess and God -- many times before you start building things like spellwork into your ritual contexts. This is the ritual format that's often used around my neck of the woods:

1) Establish intent.
2) Construct ritual outline.
3) Set up temple.
4) Purify participants.
5) Ground and center.
6) Create sacred space.
7) Summon the Quarters.
8) Invoke the God and the Goddess.
9) State intent and raise energy.
10) The working.
11) Simple feast.
12) Farewell to the Goddess and the God.
13) Farewell to the Quarters.
14) Release the space.

I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have about various steps in the process; please feel free to email me via my profile.

As for spellwork, that's a bit trickier. In my opinion spellwork should be done in sacred space whenever possible -- part of the purpose of casting a circle is to preserve and concentrate the energy that one raises to put into a spell. A good form of practice for spellwork is performing energy visualization exercises, including cleansing various objects such as candles and stones of any stray energy that might be clinging to them, as well as putting energy into those candles and stones ("charging" them) after they have been cleansed.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

When you truly feel that you fully understand what you are doing, and why you are doing it.
Also, if you don't feel certain that you are in control of your spell, then don't do it.

As others have said, I can't stand all these wannabe-witches who watch TV shows like Charmed, and then think they can start casting spells to make the boy they fancy love them, etc.

Magic is not some toy to be played around with.
Remember, spells and rituals can be very powerful, and if you don't know what you are doing, it can cause all sorts of things.

But when you are ready, you will know :)

Answer 3

I encourage you to dabble! Go for it! Just be very careful what you wish for, and don't harm others or yourself. Stay far away from love spells and job spells because you are taking away someone else's free choice. Spend time in nature. Whisper your spell on the wind. Hug a tree and do a ritual around it. Call your animal and fairy friends to come get to know you.

I think you'll either get frustrated and start looking for a teacher to help you, or you'll have some amazing success and then will hopefully go looking for a teacher to help you. That's what happened to me 20 years ago! ;) Spend a lot of time asking questions! And don't let people call you names like fluffy bunny. That is rude and childish. Lots of good books out there, but nothing replaces having a good teacher and getting some real experience. Beware of "armchair witches" who sit on their wide behinds popping pimples and being snotty to others and not actually doing the work! ;)

Answer 4

Actually you first have to understand that rituals are like a small get together with the elements. You don' treat them like u can control them, u treat them like u would another person. And meditating to clear your mind would help.

Spells are another thing. They depend on the concentration u put into that spell. Remember that spells can go astray and could lead to something that you didn't want. Read about white, black, and gray (yes there really is gray magic) magic first before performing one.

Remember you are a part of nature and it is a part of you. You can never seperate the two.

Answer 5

Tessa, enable me to reply the final query first. Yes, Wicca IS truly. Wicca is a Religion and as such, we provide 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 show up within the Natural global round us, which form of offers non-Wiccans the influence that we worship Nature. It isn't Nature that we worship it's the Divine, and nature is simplest 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 go, they worship what the go represents, it's accurately that equal precept in Wicca. We habits our ceremonies throughout the entire moon (a few additionally the brand new moon), and 8 Sabbats which can be unfold out over the yr (What many Wicca name the Wheel of the Year). These celebrations re-are living specific levels within the existence a long time of the Gods and Goddesses and are performed in commemoration of those Divine parties. The Wicca appreciate the lifestyles of well and evil as inherent is ALL matters, the whole thing and all people has the potential for BOTH (Even the Divine). Evil as a result, is an essential facet of the whole thing and one are not able to have one with out the opposite. The key to that is stability, Wicca keep the notion of stability to be one of the crucial middle standards of the universe and al which exists. So, to reply your first query, there may be NO being that is entirely well or entirely evil, simplest the purpose of the person determines whether or not a factor or an movement is for well or evil. Therefore, as there may be NO being assigned the character of whole evil (ie, a satan) it's unattainable for us to worship this sort of being. NOw, as many member of Judeo-Christian-Islamic Faiths are so keen on declaring in unequivocal phrases, "if you don't worship the god of sunshine and love, then you're worshiping the satan". They fail to observe that with a purpose to worship some thing or any individual, then worship MUST be the purpose. There isn't any such factor as unknowingly worshiping any individual. We can NOT worship a notion which does NOT exist to us, as a result we do NOT worship the "Devil", because the "Devil" is NOT one of the crucial Divine being principles which exists inside the Faith procedure of Wicca. It is as sensible and direct as that. Does this make experience to you? Brightest Blessings, Raji the Green Witch

Answer 6

You just know....try a lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram and just see how you feel after doing it....reading books is only the tip of the iceberg. Until you actually do it and you have a reasonable understanding of what the ritual represents will it be able to affect a change in your subconcious (the seat of Magick)

Answer 7

After you know WHY. It pains me to see little fluffies casting circles when they don't even know why they're doing it, or why they'll have to banish them after the ritual.

As far as magic, I think knowing *how* is more important, because you've probably got the *why* part down already. You should know the theory behind it; the flow of energy, etc.

Answer 8

I take it you are solitary. Rituls can be as formal or as simple as you want. They can be siad with the calling of quarters, circle casting and the whole nine yards or just simply sitting an meditatin on the season.

Scot Cunningham has good suggestione in his books. Raymond Buckland also has good ideas.
BB

Answer 9

Well, if you have taken the time to find an competent, knowledgeable Elder to teach you, you are ready when they tell you that you are, that is if you are really interested in doing it right.

Of course, you can choose to blunder through on your own as some here have said, doing who knows what kind of damage to your life and to that of those around you, like someone trying to learn Kung Fu from a book.

Answer 10

Geez-louise, try a bible, you can pray to the real god and saviour Jesus any time, no need to be a level 5,6, or 7

he will listen to anything you have to say,

no need to appeal to that creature he knocked into the grave 6000 years ago