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What is Wicca all about?

When you think of Wicca you may think of the "dark side", Witchcraft or the Occult. It always seemed to be associated with the Emos of Gothic people. I used to fear it but that was before I understood it.

Contrary to what some whish to believe, Wicca is a very peaceful, harmonious and balanced way of thinking and life which promotes oneness with the divine and all which exists.

Wicca is a pagan, nature-based religion popularised in 1954 by Gerald Gardner, a retired British civil servant, who at the time called it Witchcraft and its adherents "the Wica". He said that the religion, of which he was an initiate, was a modern survival of an old witchcraft religion which had existed in secret for hundreds of years, originating in the pre-Christian paganism of Europe.

Rather quickly, splinter groups began forming, or "hiving off," resulting in myriad "traditions" or "trads" within Wicca and Neopaganism in general. Many books that have been published in the last fifty years (see Llewellyn, Weiser, New Page) are about Eclectic Wicca and becoming a magical practitioner. Gardner mingled theology and magical science in his tradition.

Wiccans believe that the spirit of the One, Goddess and God exist in all things. In the trees, rain, flowers, the sea, in each other and all of natures creatures. This means that we must treat "all things" of the Earth as aspects of the divine.

The ‘must have’ book for anyone interested in Wicca:
Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner (Llewellyn’s Practical Magick)