I’m reading/doing this 13 weeks course, “Introduction to Wicca” (yes as well as The Magickal School training) from About.com. And in today lesson, the beginning or week 1, the first section was on the differences of Wicca, Witchcraft or Paganism. First off they explain that Paganism really isn’t just one religion, but many of them under what is called umbrella term used to describe not one but many different spiritual belief systems and Wicca is but one of them. The word Pagan translates roughly onto “hick from the sticks” which was originally used to describe people who lived in rural around the time that Christianity began. As Christianity spread, many of them country folks were often the last holdouts, keeping to their belief system or old religions. Therefore “Pagan” came to mean people who don’t worship the God of Abraham.
The next part of this section was on Basics of Wicca & Paganism, where they talked about “Making Time for Magic”. They suggest making a list of things I HAVE to and things I WANT to do., then set things to a daily, weekly, and monthly schedule. Then remember that if my spiritual study, rituals, and magic are of that important to me, then I need to find time and schedule them into my routine. They even suggest a daily study schedule would help.
Next they move on “Basic Principles and Concepts of Wicca”. They write that there is no “bible” for a set of rules to govern everyone and thing that is Wiccan. That every temple, coven and all the solitary Wiccans out there lives by what is right for them. Wiccans believe equally in both the God and the Goddess, there are some Wiccans who may honour a non-specific God and Goddess and then there the ones that honour Gods and Goddess by name, some even honour different deities for different thing. Like one set of Gods and Goddess for Sabbats, and yet another different set for Rituals and/or Magic use. The possibilities are endless, yet none of them are wrong or right.
Please note that I don’t take what I have written as the truth or that I believe it wholeheartedly. This is just what I read from About.com and wish to share it with my readers, so that if their wish to they can share their ideas and thoughts.
Will add more tomorrow, as the hour is getting late and I do have a doctor’s appointment in the morning for my leg. Will also share a very interesting tarot draw I got today from my Dragon Tarot deck.
Until we met again, may the Goddess watch over you this very night.
