What is Witchcraft?

Witchcraft is a spiritual system that fosters the free thought and will of the individual and encourages learning and an understanding of the earth and nature thereby affirming the divinity in all living things. Most importantly, however, it teaches responsibility.

We accept responsibility for our actions and deeds as clearly a result of the choices we make. We do not blame an exterior entity or being for our shortcomings, weaknesses, or mistakes. If we mess up or do something that harms another, we have no one but ourselves to blame and we must face the consequences of those actions.

We acknowledge the cycles of nature, the lunar phases, and the seasons to celebrate our spirituality and to worship the divine. It is a belief system that allows the Witch to work with, not in supplication deities with the intent of living in harmony and achieving balance with all things.

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Wicca

A modern Pagan religion with spiritual roots in the earliest expressions of reverence for nature. Some major identifying motifs are reverence for both the Goddess and God; acceptance of reincarnation and Magick; ritual observance of astronomical and agricultural phenomena; and the use of magickal circles for ritual purposes.

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Witchcraft

The craft of the witch – Magick, especially Magick utilizing personal power in conjunction with the energies within stones, herbs, colors, and other natural objects. This belief system also has nothing to do with Satanism.

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Pagan/Neo-Pagan/Paganism

General term for worshiping Wicca and other magickal, shamanistic, and polytheistic Earth-based religions. Also used to refer to pre-Christian religious and Spiritual belief systems.

What Witch Craft is not

Witchcraft or Wicca is not a cult. We do not proclaim ourselves to be spokespersons for the divine or try to get others to follow us as their leaders. We do not worship Satan or consort with Demons. Satan is a Christian creation and they can keep him.

We do not need a paranoid creation of supreme evil and eternal damnation to scare us into doing the right thing and helping others. We choose to do the right thing and love our brothers and sisters because it is the right thing and it feels good to do it. I suppose it’s a maturity thing.

We do not sacrifice animals or humans because that would violate our basic tenant of “Harm None.” Anyone who does and claims to be a Wiccan or a Witch is lying.

We have no need to steal or control the life force of another to achieve mystical or supernatural powers. We draw our energy from within, our personal relationship with the divine and nature.

We do not use the forces of nature or the universe to hex or cast spells on others. Again, “Harm None” is the whole of the law.