Tag: priestesshood
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The Hippie Witch Life: An Apprenticeship In Retrospect
Categories: ArticlesThere’s a certain glamour about the hippie witch life that the uninitiated gravitate toward. The carefree, commune-dwelling, love-and-peace aesthetic is alluring. In the mind’s eye, the garden is always flourishing, the animals never get sick, the well pump never breaks, and the outside world is always accepting.
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Traditional Wicca, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Process
Categories: ArticlesTraditional Wicca is a priesthood. Initiates are empowered to make direct contact with Deity and become Deity’s agents in the material world. That’s it. That’s the religion.
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The Way: Walking in the Footsteps of the Great Teachers
Categories: ArticlesThe Way, at least as I currently understand it, is a practice that emphasizes the sorts of universal truths that underpin many of the world’s religions and philosophies-of-life: love one another, harm none, honor the divine, exercise compassion, help those in need, defend those who cannot defend themselves, safeguard all children, respect your elders, enjoy…
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Wiccan Priestesshood: Serving the Gods, Preserving the Craft
Categories: ArticlesWiccan priestesshood is a life-long undertaking, which is why it takes time for the proper person to become properly prepared for initiation.
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The Winding Path: A Reflection on My Path as a Priestess
Categories: ArticlesI was a month shy of seventeen years old when I decided I wanted to be a priestess. In my naïveté, I envisioned that it would consist of singing songs to the Goddess and tending to an altar and leading a coven and making special blends of oils and incenses and teaching people who wanted…