I have a question for Pagans and Wiccans please.?

Question

What is the role of males in your beliefs?
I'm not asking to be mean, I honor your beliefs. I just honestly want to know more about you, and since I am male it seems a good place to start. BTW, what does the VT mean?

Vile Temptress, wow, being male you know I love that!

Answer 1

In Wicca as I was taught, men and women are equal and complementary. We have both Priests and Priestesses, although in most covens the leader is the High Priestess rather than the High Priest. This is also reflected in our view of the Gods, where the God is honored as the consort of the Goddess. Both are essential, and one cannot exist without the other.

And "VT" means "Vile Temptress". It's a joke that got started when a Christian made a lot of posts about women being "vile temptresses" several months back, and some people adopted the term as a badge of honor.

Answer 2

I'm going back about 6 years so I'm a little rusty o nthis.

Depending on your branch, either the pantheon represented has equal male and female representatives and certain roles are assigned each which allows worship of male positive power alongside the femionine. Others shy away from male influence in order to create what they see as a void because feminine power isn't represented enough in human spirituality. In structered Witchcraft the male is typically second highest up under the high priestess, and plays the role of the Consort? (double check that) in rituals.

As for private, hedge or eclectic wicca male influence is typcially downplayed due to the huge feminine influx in recent times. Rather than buck against the trend male practitioners typically try to balance things out and keep both a feminine and maculine entity powerful within themselves, much like the symbol of the chinese yin yang the two forces are incomplete without each other and exist in equal amounts in all people (or should) regardless of physical gender.

Again, this is going back a while, I havn't practiced in over 5 years but check out your new age store or local coven if you're friendly with them.

Answer 3

Wicca is very strongly about gender equality. Part of the reason that Wicca sometimes looks very woman-oriented is because Wicca emerged at a time when genders were most definitely not equal. In earlier decades there were also women who followed a single goddess and sometimes labelled themsevles as Wiccan. However, such people now use a variety of other terms such as Goddess Spirituality to describe their beliefs, as the male/female polarity is really very central to Wicca.

Remember that many of the early authors and public faces about Wicca were men: Gardner, Buckland, Sanders, Stewart Farrar, Cunningham, etc. I think it's unfortunate that authorship of Wiccan materials has become an almost entire feminine profession, with the male writers often feeling a need to write books distinctly for men because, yes, men are feeling kind of left out.

Answer 4

Similar to the role of women... I mean technically I don't think a guy can be a high priestess or a maiden, but... that's pretty much it concerning those sorts of things. Obviously in many pagan religions, the differences between men and women are emphasized, but er... well you get my point. We don't hold women over men or vice versa, however paganism usually isn't this sort of unisex "men and women are exactly the same" thing.

I'm always happy when I see guys who want to be pagan... it seems that sometimes we have a shortage of them because women come into it thinking it's all about "the goddess within us". Which it isn't.

Answer 5

The role is the same, spiritually. Each chooses his/her own path. But Paganism does seem to have more active women than men. In my neck of the woods we have several husbands who are atheist. They camp with us and hang out. They even build fires for us. (Try to stop them. You can't.) Many of them join in drum circles and discussions. They are there to be with family and friends. The Pagan menfolk may preside over the ritual as High Priest along side a High Priestess. They may call quarters, drum, fire spin, sing, play guitar, teach a class, or play any other role in the group. It is a shared experience. I guess I'm just trying to say, they are not left out.
...unless the group are Dianic Wiccans. They do not allow men and that's their prerogative.

Answer 6

Honestly I am still pretty "young" in my belief but as far as i can tell there is no difference between the roles of the sexes. not sure about the vt thing..kitty

Answer 7

The role of males in my path is no different from that of females. There really is no difference in roles between the sexes.

Have no idea about VT, sorry.

Answer 8

As a Wiccan, men are the brothers, sons, fathers, cousins, lovers, husbands and friends of my community as well as members of it.

Answer 9

Women occupied top jobs, and males were there just for progeny (Give Kids). The goddess was worshipped, and they dominated a peaceful way of life.

That was until, some males had ego problems, and being stornger physically, they preceded to dominate women, therefore bringing nothing but chios to our world.

This is of course a personal opinion. You may check for it's authinicity online at google.com under "The Godess" or "Womens' roll in the old civilizations" Any civilization!