What is Wicca?

Wicca, otherwise known as Witchcraft, is a nature-based religion or spiritualway of life. Most Wiccan’s will tell you that nature is our ultimateteacher. As well as celebrating Divinity in the form of the Lord andLady (otherwise known as the God and Goddess) the majority of Wiccansaccept what is commonly known as the Wiccan Rede, which states the following:

Bide the witches’ law ye must, in perfect love, in perfect trust. Eightwords the Wiccan Rede fulfill: An ye harm none, do what ye will. Whatye send forth comes back to ye times three. So ever mind the rule ofthree. Follow this with open mind and heart, and merry ye meet, andmerry ye part Wicca is one of many spiritual paths one can venture down to find themeaningful and spiritual side of life. The beliefs of Wiccan’s can getvery diverse from tradition to tradition, but there are core beliefsthat can be seen within the majority of them. Most Wiccan’s believethat there is a type of divine energy that flows through everything withincreation. Many Wiccan’s view this over whelming concept of God as twosymbolic entities, a god and a goddess, who represent the male and femaleaspects of the Creator. This makes perfect sense seeing that throughoutnature there is male and female attributes within creation. Within various Wiccan traditions one will find references to multiplesof gods and goddesses. These different gods/goddess’s that are talkedabout seem strange to people unfamiliar to Wicca, but are symbolicallythe different aspects of the god and goddess representing the diversityof life (for example, Aphrodite of the Greek Pantheon would representlove). The different pantheons seen between traditions are simply differentculture’s interpretation of the divine. If you look at this idea asan ecological system when you remove a species out of any system it disruptsthe ecology and could potentially be devastating to that environment. So by denying someone the right to believe in the God, Goddess, or God’sthey chose as there deity could be crippling to the over all diversityin human spirituality.

The myths of some gods or goddesses seem to be somewhat on the dark side,yet keep in mind that opposites work together and are interdependentof one another. One could not exist with out the other such as day couldnot exist without night—good without evil. Neither one is free of theother. When it is day the dark is seen in shadow and when it is nightthe day is seen as the light of the moon and stars. For that which islight there is dark, and that which has good has evil. Both light anddark or good and evil should be embraced, for excluding one or the otherdisrupts the balance of the two as well as our spiritual self. Thisis why we should embrace all things for what they are and learn whatwe can from them. All things have something to teach us. The ultimategoal is balance with in body, mind, and soul.

"I'll get you my pretty, and your lil' dog too...hee hee hee"
--Chrystie and her Door Witch!