going to start practicing Wicca/witchcraft

aubrieta · 2019-12-27T19:57:56.5000000

dont fuxk with me or ill hex you tehe;p but mostly white magik

aubrieta said:
Turncoat said:
What are your feelings on the right hand vs left hand path?

How about your feelings on gender roles within the faith?
If feel definitely that I'm neutral as a person, chaotic neutral and am more suited to practice both instead of one exclusively

Here I'll link you some conceptual basics about it: Wiki link.

I admire the right hand path, but I find myself constantly following the left hand path instead. In shorthand, Right Handers tend to be "doers" who try to change the world in front of them, while Left Handers are closer to "receivers" and tend to just try to exist within it. As this link puts it:

https://www.spiritualsatanist.com/essays/satanism/lefthandpath.html:
It has been said that the left hand takes in and receives energy and the right hand exudes energy.

By classic gender value standards, women culturally tend to be seen as more left-handed while men more right-handed. For Buddhism:

Wiki:
In Buddhist tantra, the right hand symbolises the male aspect of compassion or skilful means, and the left hand represents the female aspect of wisdom or emptiness.

It's a concept present in most forms of faith, whether as a dichotomy within it or from the faith itself choosing to only take one of the paths. For an extreme media example of it, in Bioware games and Star Wars Media in general, the Right Hand Path is essentially The Dark Side while the Left Hand Path is essentially The Jedi.

not sure about the gender roles yet need more experience

Alright, essentially there's three disciplines of Wicca that have stood out to me within US culture:

Gardner: He claims to have found one of the last Wiccan groups in his lifetime and to have been inducted into it within the traditional practices, but the path has to be full of skew from the only real account being taken coming from one man's published book about it.

The practices go in accordance to a "God" and "Goddess" being central to existence as a balance, with other dieties with more classical god portfolios who basically report to them. Within these practices, a woman could only be invited by a man and a man only invited by a woman, and they'd copy the holy texts by hand off of the one who inducted them. These rituals involved much more nudity and sex than the later splinter groups, and are the closest thing to a "Real" Wiccan. They were also much more communal, much more social and "one with the Earth"-ish in a more human-nature sort of way as opposed to the cultural regression you'd see otherwise from technology and being "on the grid".

Dianic: As a splinter faith, they reject the tenants of gender balance and insist on only worshiping the female portions of it. This is largely a counter-cultural response towards how older Wiccan practices aren't as cool with homosexuality, and is largely what people began to assume Witchcraft was through the media as we approached the 90s and beyond.

Internet: Through shows like Buffy and Charmed, we saw a strong surge of "Witches" who burned candles and cast spells in a more escapist, literal fashion. Instead of the classic Wicca spells which are more about tilting the ethereal scales through physical practices through larger communities of people, these people instead sit in their rooms and look online for spells to cast, alone, based purely on a sense of "intention" and little else. A subset of this group are Technopagans... which I mostly blame on characters like Willow. These witches to me are "fakes", falling into New Age spirituality trends while thinking themselves masters of their own domains. Their spells are wish fulfillment based around karmic ideas, and otherwise kinda just has people wing it as they go.

There's also the "Wiccan" presence in the music industry right now, but that's more about sound design hypnosis and power tripping than anything spiritual. They're closer to the darker paths within Satanic practices and some older reinforcement-themed cults imo.

, but so far I like the idea of traditional masculine/feminine god/goddess energies to be identified separately but both incorporated in rituals

You should look into it's histories and practices, it's a hell of a journey.

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