Someone of the wiccan persuasion

Help me! I'm doing a project on wicca, and I'm far to lazy to go out and find a person to interview. The paper is on the religious worship spaces our chosen religion uses, it the last leg of a 3000 word paper. So if someone has a few minutes to answer some questions, I'd be very much obliged. Thanks in advance.

To know is to learn..........nothing is free.

[jackketch]

Wicca i know little about but i do know something about witchcraft.

Uhm the usual chosen place for worship these days tends to be in the living room of some twee bungalow in Surrey (preferably one with the house name 'Dun Ravin' or similar. Gnomes in the garden are a must.

Normally the circle is handpainted on the floor boards and the carpet simply rolled back for the ceremony.

Instead of being redrawn each time the circle is just 're-visualised' using the athane or a wand depending on style.

The most important thing mind, is to have the oven on in the kitchen for the garlic bread sticks after.

I got that far on my own. Thanks tho
The questions are more a kind of survey on how a user uses their own worship space, less about factual stuff more about habits and feel. My teacher is a kook.

[jackketch]

Originally Posted by mindovermusic

I got that far on my own. Thanks tho
The questions are more a kind of survey on how a user uses their own worship space, less about factual stuff more about habits and feel. My teacher is a kook.

habits?!

Well yes when worshipping outside brit witches do tend to wear fairly heavy dark wollen habits. Dancing in the noddy may be fine for Californian Wiccans but anyone stupid enough to prance around naked outside in England at night (except during the one week we call 'summer') will very quickly realise why witches like BIG fires.

Sacred flames of Beltane? Noooo surviving the sabbat without frostbite , yes.

Feel? Well witches tend to choose their sites based on what energies flow through them (and also tradition and of course how much dog poo there is). So the feel tends to be whatever flows from the land into them (usually these days various nasty toxins from the farmer's overuse of pesticides).

I've been a practicing witch since I was 16. I don't like to bring it up because SOMEONE ALWAYS trips, but if you need me to take your questionare I will. Just tell me when and were.

correct me if im wrong, but isnt one of the rules about wicca and witchcraft all together to be silent...you know about what it is....

Originally Posted by Alutrius Xavier

correct me if im wrong, but isnt one of the rules about wicca and witchcraft all together to be silent...you know about what it is....

Probably. Some witches cursed Shakespeare for using their spells in the Scottish Play. But there are a lot of books and websites so the rule is obviously not universal or well respected.

[LostCause]

I know a fair ammount about Wiccanism. What do you need to know? Otherwise, I would just wikipedia it.

Cheers,
Lost

[Rolloffle]

It's evil.

Crazy women think they can get power by summoning demons but infact they get used & consumed by the demons themselves.

Christianity is the true religion.

haha, sorry but I'm supposed to be neutral on this
seeing as I'm agnostic
but you can shove your dogmatic shit up your ass.
Christianity is a construct of uncertainty like all religions.

[Tyrant]

Cite your source.

[ArmsMerchant]

In my Wiccan period, I was fairly wealthy, had my altar in my study--which would have been the second bedroom of a two-bedroom town house.

I was a Solitary, which meant that I had less status at pagan conventions than, say, Gardnerians, but as a "metis Native American" (that is, half-breed red-skin), I had a lot of status in the eyes of members of the great Wannabee tribe.

[ArmsMerchant]

Originally Posted by Rolloffle

It's evil.

Crazy women think they can get power by summoning demons but infact they get used & consumed by the demons themselves.

Christianity is the true religion.

Incorrect on all counts.

Wicca is not "evil," good and evil being illusory. There IS no good and evil, only that which works, and that which does not work.

And they don't summon demons, nor are they all women.

Christianity is a religion of fear and denial. There is no such thing as a true religion.

ArmsMerchant, would you be willing to tell me about your altar and spell circle etc. I'm supposed to get 1000 words, but the teacher likes me, so I'm sure whatever you feel comfortable giving me will be fine. If you could put in stuff about the atmosphere (like the feeling of being inside your worship space), the lighting, feel free to go as subjective as you can. That would be lovely. Many thanks in advance.

[ArmsMerchant]

It was close to twenty years ago, so I don't recall a lot of details. It was set up according to the basic Ray Buckland "tradition." I used a black coffee table, had some crystals on it, used candles to mark the quarters on the circle.

I got the same sort of comfort you get from following any ritual, but never came close to experiencing unity consciousness, the "highest" state of consciousness. In fact, it was just the opposite, being keenly aware of how different it was from your mainstream religions.