What do Wiccans believe?

Answer 1

Wicca is a very complex faith which embraces widely varying practices and many different Traditions. The following, however, is what I consider to be "the basics".

Wicca is about 60 years old, with roots in Masonic practices, ceremonial magic, and the Romantic era's ideas of classical religions. Its founder was a British civil servant named Gerald Gardner.

http://www.geraldgardner.com/essays.php

It is in many ways a postmodern faith, embracing religious relativism, and one that resonates powerfully for increasing numbers of people.

The central tenet of the Wiccan religion is the Wiccan Rede: "If you harm none, do what you will." This is a deceptively simple "commandment" which can take a lifetime to contemplate and to master. Many Wiccans also believe in the Law of Threefold Return, sometimes called the Rule of Three: “Whatever you do, for good or ill, will come back upon you three times over.”

Wiccans honor Deity as both male and female, God and Goddess -- or at the very least as Goddess. Many Wiccans believe that the universe is the body of God/dess, and therefore that all things contain Divine energy and that the world itself is sacred. Some Wiccans are polytheists (many God/desses); others are duotheists (God and Goddess, of whom all other Gods and Goddesses are simply aspects); others are monotheists (God and Goddess Themselves are simply aspects of an unknowable Source).

Wiccans generally do not believe that God/dess is separate from the world; therefore, we have no concept of salvation, since God/dess is present to all and always. Many Wiccans believe that God/dess is too big to fit inside one religion -- all religions/spiritual paths are ways of reaching the same goal, and atheism and agnosticism are honorable perspectives on the mystery of life.

Each Wiccan operates as their own priest/ess. We do not have a distinction between clergy and laity. Therefore, each Wiccan is responsible for their own personal development and for forging their own relationship with God/dess. Some Wiccans practice in covens, which are generally initiatory and require a long period of study (traditionally a year and a day) before entering. Others practice in loosely affiliated groups of solitaries, which are Wiccans who practice outside of traditional coven structure. Others simply practice alone.

Wiccans do not usually have churches. We create sacred space as and where needed, by casting "circles" of energy which function as temples. When inside those circles, we invite the spirits of the four Platonic elements (air, fire, water, and earth) to join us, as well as the Goddess and the God (or at minimum the Goddess).

Wiccans have celebrations which are timed to both the solar and lunar calendars. The solar festivals -- held at the solstices, the equinoxes, and four points in between them -- are called sabbats.

http://paganwiccan.about.com/library/basics/blsabbats.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_the_year

The lunar holy days are called esbats, and are held at the full moon each month, and sometimes at the new moon as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esbat

Many Wiccans practice witchcraft, which we see as working with the Divine energy that permeates the world to bring about change. In accordance with the Wiccan Rede, the vast majority of Wiccans will not curse or perform magic to bring harm upon anyone else.

A relatively objective (non-Wiccan) set of articles on what Wiccans do and believe:

http://www.religioustolerance.org/witchcra.htm

Another useful article:

http://www.religionfacts.com/neopaganism/paths/wicca.htm

A good site by Wiccans:

http://wicca.timerift.net

An explanation of the religion by a Wiccan:

http://www.uri.org/Wicca_Portrait.html

And the US Army Chaplains Handbook excerpt on Wicca:

http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_usbk.htm

If you're looking to do some reading, I'd recommend "Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner" by Scott Cunningham, and "The Triumph of the Moon" by Ronald Hutton. I advise you to stay away from anything by Silver Ravenwolf, for reasons outlined in the following essay:

http://wicca.timerift.net/ravenwolf.shtml

Answer 2

Wicca is the biggest of the Neopagan religions. Wiccans have great reverence for the Earth and for his or her Goddess and her consort, the horned God. Their considerable rule of habit is the Wiccan Rede which forbids them from harming human beings, consisting of themselves, different than on occasion of self-protection. Many, perhaps maximum, are solitary practitioners. Others style small communities of believers, observed as covens, groves, etc. because of the fact of centuries of spiritual propaganda and incorrect information, many conservative Christians, and others, associate Wiccans with Satanists even nonetheless the two concept systems are as distinctive as Christianity and Atheism. Our essays on Wicca are very distinctive from those on Christianity. Wicca is an extremely decentralized faith; many Wiccans improve their own ideals, rituals, and different practices. The latter regularly are actually not person-friendly outdoors the solitary practitioner or Wiccan coven. So we describe the ideals and practices that maximum Wiccans carry in easy. maximum of Christianity is extremely centralized interior denominations whose ideals, rituals, and different practices are properly documented and obtainable to us. So we describe the variety of Christian ideals in great component.

Answer 3

What Does Wicca Believe

Answer 4

Wicca is a very spiritual belief based on nature. They believe God is both male and female. They use the elements Wind ,Air, Fire, Water. They also use candle magic, herb magic

Answer 5

Wicca is a very spiritual belief based on nature. It has nothing to do with Satan worshipping as Wiccans do not believe in the devil or the Christian god. They worship many gods and goddesses based on nature. Look it up. :)

Answer 6

Essentially one must believe that we have an intrinsic relationship with nature. Nature needs us and we need it.

Answer 7

Could you BE anymore vague?

What do we believe concerning what? Deities, ethics, magic, rituals, holidays... ?

Since I really don't know what you're looking for, I shall refer you to wicca.timerift.net , because it has general information.

Answer 8

That's a pretty broad question.

Answer 9

They believe in creating spells and what not. I think they just play too much D & D.

Answer 10

A load of CRAP!