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2.3 KiB
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39 lines
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Wiccan Shock Value?
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To be quite honest <grin>, I couldn't care less why he chose or didn't choose
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to use the words! I use Witch and Wiccan because that's what I am. To me,
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Witch is a more hereditary title, it's something you ARE rather than something
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you DO. Wiccan has to do with my lineage, and the fact that most of my rituals
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are based on the information taught by Sanders and Gardner. Why SHOULD I
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change them? I've been using them for 5 years now, I'm quite comfortable with
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them, and have no negative feelings from them. People have,
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for the most part, been using them such at *least* since GBG began using them,
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possible earlier. I use the term coven because that's what my group is. I
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dislike the term Grove, and a group is just a group of people...it's such a
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generic term. We are a coven, pure and simple: a group of people who practice
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the same basic precepts together. That's what it means to me.
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Although I use a crystal ball, cauldron, tarot cards, and such
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other "witchy" implements, I tend not to overstate that fact. In fact,
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personally, I see my use of all but the cauldron as being *outside* of my
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practice of Craft. I've been taught that one can use whatever tools one feels
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comfortable with, however they are STILL only tools. I can certainly do a full
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Circle and be happy with it, even if I don't have an athame, or candles,
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or altar, or anything! Anyone who is bound to working with those things is
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definitely not being taught right IMNSHO. It's FINE to work with tools...I use
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them all the time, and I *like* using them. I enjoy the drama of ritual,
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which for me evokes a sense of child-like wonder which I find necessary for a
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good ritual. But I'm not bound to use them...and I teach that to my students,
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too. I had one recently get really upset because she had to do a Circle at
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home and had no athame. She was convinced that she couldn't Cast because of
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it. It took me quite a while to explain that it's only an extension of self.
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It's important, I think, to show the difference between using something because
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you LIKE to, and using something because you NEED to. I refer to my ritual
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tools, robes, and regalia as my Dumbo's Feather...meanwhile admitting that in
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*some* categories I still need that confidence booster <grin>!
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Allyson Taylor.
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