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A Wiccan Responds to True Blood Season Four

A television drama is not the best source for learning about any religion, but it's probably the one with the biggest reach. This was my creed, and its people were murderous.

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Pagan and Wiccan Calendars for 2013

Yearly calendars are useful anyway for recording all of your important appointments and birthdays. Those created for Wiccans also include the Sabbats and the phases of the moon!

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Samhain: Celebrating the Arrival of Winter in Wicca

Samhain is a time of Otherworldly incursions. It's between the end of the light and the beginning of the darkness; and it's been popularized as Halloween.

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The Mother: Three-in-One Goddess of the Witches

The Triple Goddess is a major deity in Wicca. She is a single being, who is viewed as three divine women: Maiden, Mother and Crone.

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'Dark Mother Always Gliding Near...' - Death and Wicca

Wiccan funerals are all about honoring the dead, but not in a way that assumes that they've gone. In fact, a place is set there for them.

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The Meaning Behind Wiccan and Pagan Jewelry

Buying Wiccan or Pagan jewelry means entering a world of symbolism. Are you giving the right message to the witches around you?

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Ostara: Celebrating the Wiccan Spring Equinox

With the day and night of equal length, this is the time of the greening. The Goddess Eostre is free of the cold Earth and all is fertile.

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Blessed Be! The Wiccan Five-fold Kiss

Five kisses are part of the initiation ceremony for witches. 'Blessed be' became a code for Wiccans to identify each other in everyday life.

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Imbolc: Celebrating the Quickening in the Wiccan Wheel of the Year

In every pregnancy there is a moment when the new life is felt. When this happens to Mother Earth, we call it Imbolc.

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Initiation: How to be a Witch

Many initiates come seeking a world of witchcraft and spells. The reality of the Wiccan religion may not be the right path for all.

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Weight Loss Spells

Witchcraft doesn't usually cover such things, but it can if you add a healthy dash of ancient Weatherwaxian lore.

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Paganism in the UK Census 2011

On March 27th 2011, a census was taken in Cornwall, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The results are out with surprising faith alliances for Britain's Pagans.

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How to be a Wiccan: An Introduction into the Craft

Self-initiates into Wicca haven't the benefit of a coven to guide their path. As a High Priestess, let me point you in the right direction.

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Lammas: Celebrating the Wiccan Festival of First Harvest

Lughnasadh occurs exactly half a year after Imbolc. What happened to all of those seeds that you planted then?

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Wicca: The Wheel of the Year

Eight Sabbats and 13 moons make up the Wiccan Wheel of the Year. They each carry a spiritual and practical significance.

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The Mother Goddess at Midwinter

The Divine Mother holding Her baby is one of the world's oldest representations of the world in winter. This is the Goddess protecting the light and the warmth.

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Summer Solstice on Glastonbury Tor 2012

Glastonbury is the public epicenter of Paganism in Britain. I climbed its mystical Tor for the overnight Midsummer vigil.

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Beltane: Celebrating the Arrival of Summer in Wicca

Beltane is a time of fertility, renewal and fire. It's between the end of darkness and the beginning of light. The veil is very thin.

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