wiccan culture help?

[darksoul]

recently I have been wanting to look more into wiccan for years Ihave been interested and would like to learn more about it....would anyone be willing to share any info?

 

[Chiska]

darksoul,

Do you have specific questions? Or would you like to know how to get in touch with Wiccans that may be in your area? From my understanding, many covens are rather quiet about their activities, but there are groups who are more public than others.

Hopefully, somebody with more information will jump in and help you find sources of information.

I am not of Wiccan bent, so am not much help in that regard.

 

[fractalgranny]

hi there ...

do you mean the specific wiccan religion, or witchcraft as it is often practiced by wiccans? here's a nice overview

http://wicca.com/celtic/wicca/faq.htm

i don't identify as wiccan; i'm one of those weird eclectic buddhist-christian pagans however, if you're looking for specific sites, or books that might be useful to read, i probably have a few suggestions.

is there anything specific you're feeling drawn to?

 

[darksoul]

I have been wanting to learn more of the beleifs perhaps find someone close who might be able to teach me a lil but am just curious for any info i could possibly find on it in order to start to learn the ways...not sure if that makes sense or not

 

[darksoul]

hi there ...

do you mean the specific wiccan religion, or witchcraft as it is often practiced by wiccans? here's a nice overview

http://wicca.com/celtic/wicca/faq.htm

i don't identify as wiccan; i'm one of those weird eclectic buddhist-christian pagans however, if you're looking for specific sites, or books that might be useful to read, i probably have a few suggestions.

is there anything specific you're feeling drawn to?

im drawn to the fact that they are very attuned to the earth and everything it offers not so much the witchcraft of it thank you ill look at that site

 

[fractalgranny]

you may also find druidry interesting http://druidnetwork.org/beliefs/articles

if you are drawn to some of the activist/ecological aspects of paganism, you will like starhawk http://www.starhawk.org/. starhawk is one of the more important "movers and shakers" in the field

some more sites

http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/beltanemayday/p/GreenMan.htm
http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/bookofshadows/a/PowerAnimals.htm
http://www.rosewicketwiccacoven.co.uk/herbs.htm

oh, and so much more ...

would love to hear what you think once you've read these links and perhaps others!

blessed be.

 

[darksoul]

thank you so much I will definitively book mark these and read up on them tomorrow

blessed be

 

[AJ]

Wicca dates from the 1950's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardnerian_Wicca
the tradition was founded by Gerald Gardner in his book or books.

Perhaps you are more thinking along the lines of hedgewitchery
which is more solitary and nature based?

 

[WolfyJames]

I really wonder what you mean by Wicca darksoul... It's just that a lot of people think Wicca are things that it's not and confuse it with Paganism, because Wicca is the term they most often see or hear about. Paganism is an umbrella that contains a lot of Pagan faith like Wicca. A good example would be to compare it to something else: Paganism is like Christianity and Wicca like Catholicism. In other words, all Wiccans are Pagans but not all Pagans are Wiccans. Wicca is a pagan religion created by Gerald Gardner in the 20th century.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism_(contemporary)

 

[greatdane]

AJ you seem really knowledgeable about this

And great thread, Darksoul! I knew Wicca was relatively young, but wondering if hedgewitchery kind of comes from the same place and time and just is a branch of Wicca? I know very little about either.