Wicca

Sep
2008

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Wicca is a Pagan, earth-based religion. It honors Nature and all life as Divine. If you want an even better–and more detailed–account, go to www.witchvox.com. Or you can just type in Wicca on Google and a bunch of links will pop up.

ANYWAYS.

I’m here to express my feelings about deity. To worship a Goddess, and a Goddess only, or to worship a God and Goddess?

See, I believe in balance; I think it’s vital. So, does that mean that a Goddess needs a God? Or is the Woman Figure in complete balance with herself, expressing independence and nurturing to the world?

I believe that the way one worships deity is a personal choice; and my personal belief is that perhaps the Goddess doesn’t need a God, her consort. She can just be all facets of existence.

In prehistoric times, a God was also worshiped because he was the facet of the Aggressor, the Hunter, the Man. And the Goddess was the Mother, the Nurturer, the Life-Giving Mother of All.

But isn’t there an Artemis in Grecian-Roman mythology? She was a hunter. She was portrayed as a “wild woman”, and never took a man. Some even say that she had many female lovers.

So, why not be a “Goddess-only-Wiccan”? (That is called “Dianic Wicca”) Using the Creation Myth story as “she gave birth to herself” or the Mirror thing. I think it’s more magical that way.

But what about symbolism? The use of magic relies heavily on symbolism; duality, as well. The elements–Fire and Air are masculine, and Water and Earth are feminine–have dualistic nature as well.

Well, with all that aside(I’ll figure it out later, haha), all the symbolism aside, why do so many make authors portray that a Goddess and a God? Does a woman need a man? No, she doesn’t. And a man doesn’t need a woman either. Every human being has all that they need within themselves; happiness, health, love, peace…it’s all there. If you try to look for something outside, you will never find it within.

Thanks, and Blessed Be.

9/2/08

Okay, so read this agian, and I realized that I failed to put in a thought about something that I really needed to say! xD

The Goddess: The absolute Dual Nature of everything. She is compassion and mercy, wrath and fury. She is a loving mother and a fearless warrior, Queen and peasant girl. The sun and the moon, the wind and rain. Every woman is also the same.

Women are powerful creatures, and without us, there would be no life. <3

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Thanks for the insight. I’ve always been interested in Wiccan beliefs and feel a bit more enlightened after reading this.

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by goldstardyke on September 2nd, 2008 at 12:00 PM

I agree, great insight. Wicca is not something you hear about a lot and I’m glad to learn about it. Thanks for sharing!

Laurens last blog post..Sarah Palin? Honestly?

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by Lauren on September 2nd, 2008 at 6:52 PM

The great open secret of pagan religions is that there is only one overconsciousness, that is neither male or female, and that is both and all in between. The Goddess is emblematic of all femaleness, and the God is of all maleness, but they are actually one and the same thing. We seperate the divine into the form that is most approachable for us as human beings, but that doesn’t actually mean that they *are* that humanly approachable form.

The God and Goddess also have little *direct* relation to the bodily sexes: they are symbolic. The Morrigan, the Irish goddess of war, is identified with the Maiden aspect of the three-part goddess, but she is hardly a little girl. Same with Diana/Artemis.

Its not really a case of authors protraying some kind of patriarchal binary as it is them attempting to embody masculinity and femininity in recognisable forms. The God can be represented as a virile man, a masculine butch, a wise male elder, or anything else masculine, really. The goddess can be represented by the fierce Blood Crow Morrigan, or by the Virgin Mary. In my opinion, they are both important and should be inclusive. As a butch myself, I find both the God and Goddess in the forms I worship to be extremely empowering.

Any privilage assigned to each aspect of deity – such as associating ‘male’ with power and ‘female’ with nurturing – is very much our cultural association, not the reality of deity. To deny that men are a part of life is really just as bad as denying that women are. Seeing as Wicca and other forms of Celtic paganism are essentially religions of life, I think maleness should be celebrated as much as femaleness is, even if we are not ourselves men. It can be easy to forget, when exposed to negative examples of maleness and masculinity in our world, that men are also responsible for life and that a God figure is a celebration of their virtues, strengths and positive powers as well. Everything in balance

Dion.

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by Gwydion on September 4th, 2008 at 8:34 AM