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Wicca/Wiccan religion?

what exactly is the Wicca/Wiccan religion? what is it All About -their beliefs, traditions, etc. i really dont identify with any religion right now and i have been researching several and i came across this one one but i dont really know what it is can you help me out with this? thanks!

Merry Meet Charlie,

Here is some information on the basic principles and core beliefs of Wicca, I hope they help out.

01. Wicca is an oath-bound mystery religion, each Wiccan should either be Dedicated or Initiated as a Wiccan to be considered a Wiccan by their peers and/or the general Wiccan community. Self Dedication or Initiation is customary in order to be considered a Wiccan.
02. Wicca’s ethical basis is expressed in the Wiccan Rede ("An it harm none, do as ye will"), and the Threefold Law ("What ye send returns three times over").
03. Wiccan’s are polytheistic, honoring a variety of gods and goddesses.
04. Wiccan’s are also dualistic, seeing individual deities, at least to some extent, as aspects of one God and one Goddess.
05. Wiccans are also pantheistic to some degree or another, viewing divinity as immanent within the natural world.
06. Wiccan’s show religious devotion to a Goddess and/or God (depending upon Tradition).
07. Wicca encompasses aspects of witchcraft and the practice of magick even though many Wiccans don’t outright practice witchcraft itself.
08. Rituals in Wicca usually involve casting a circle as the basic setting for spiritual and/or magical work, as well as emphasize the Platonic four elements of earth, air, fire and water. Rituals also include some form of gender polarity, be that theologically in the image of the God and Goddess, and/or mundanely in the physical gender of participants as well.
09. Wiccan’s more often than not incorporate some form of the "Great Rite" (union of the God and Goddess), frequently symbolized in the blessing of the ritual wine by the conjoining of the Athame (ritual knife) and chalice (ritual wine cup).
10. In Wicca we believe in the wheel of the year and the cycles of life, death and rebirth.
11. Wicca as it is known today with two cc’s came into being in the mid 1940’s, it was popularized in the mid 1960’s. But many of its core aspects and practices originate from Pre-Christian pagan belief systems from all over Europe.
12. Some (not all) Traditions in Wicca also incorporate the use of ceremonial magic, high magic and even alchemy which also predates Christianity.
13. Wicca is not a gender restricted or based religion so both male as well as females may be Wiccan.
14. Wiccans usually follow a base Tradition such as Gardnerian, Alexandrian, Dianic, Celtic, Discordia to name a few, but there are many who prefer to be what’s called Eclectic.
15. And finally, most Wiccans seek to walk lightly upon the Earth in order to bring the least amount of harm as possible. This includes concepts of recycling, restoration of parks and greenways, and many tax exempt groups even register with cities to clean highways and byways once a month. Basically many if not most Wiccans “Think Green”.

Everything or anything above these principle and beliefs defines the path or tradition itself that one follows in Wicca. I hope my blurp has helped some.

Blessed Be

Nyjh

Links:

http://www.wicca.com

http://bluemoonwicca.org/choices.html

http://www.paganpride.org

http://www.cuew.org/whatiswicca.html

http://www.ozwicca.com/whatis.htm

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