May 09 2008
What is Wicca?
What is Wicca
Recently I was part of a discussion about this question. As a trained, but not actively practicing, Wiccan priestess, I have found myself disappointed with my own answer. lol
Wicca is a young religion with very old and wonderful roots. It is often referred to as the gateway, or entry level ‘pagan’ path. This is mostly because it is one of the most prevalent and well known of the pagan paths. This does not mean that it is less than other paths, or that it is lacking in any way.
The only real trouble with Wicca, that I can see, is that it shares some of the same roots as Christianity and that makes it both more comfortable for new comers to the pagan path, but also very uncomfortable to those same people as they grow. This only happens however when those that have explored Wicca only do a very cursory or ‘scratch the surface’ exploration.
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