What "kind" of Wicca are you???

[Darkwater Stone]

What kind of Wicca do you practice?
Dianic?
Alexandrian?
Ecclectic?
any more?????
Is your path influenced by any particular paths such as Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity? ect?
Let's learn some more about each other.
Audios,

[Bix]

I guess eclectic with a huge dose of Ancient Greek practices influencing it. Hellenic Wiccan, I guess?

[Morgandria]

I believe what I am currently being taught is both Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca. My own personal workings tend to be flavoured by Irish reconstructionism.

[Darkwater Stone]

Thank you both for sharing! The whole purpose of this thread is to find others with like interests as ourselves!!

Keep on sharing!

[Elderbush]

I practice UEW.:)

[indigo rain]

i'm a correllian wiccan with egyptian influence.

[KEishin]

Alexandrian with a few Gardnerian elements.

[Raven Reed]

I am more of a wiccan offshoot. In coven I am Celtic, in practice I am eclectic.

[RedRaven]

Mostly Alexandrian, though never initiated. I love the work of Sanders and Farrar

RR

[Ursula]

hello!

i consider myself a green witch, but i'm very informal with it. i recently began reading The Craft of the Wild Witch, and now am more inclined to call myself a wild, green witch, as i identify so closely with the author's form of spirituality.

i have a coven with two other women. we each identify with an aspect of the Goddess: one with the maiden, another with the mother and the other with the Crone. we celebrate Sabbats together and have a wonderful time. we always spend a great deal of time in the middle of the ritual eating and talking and laughing like the wild women/witches we are. it's really lovely.

blessed be,

Ursula :fpeace:

[Darkwater Stone]

Good imput guys! looking forward to hear more!

[Lady Valkyrie]

I am a Christian Wiccan. Details about my beliefs can be found here...

My Christian Wiccan Beliefs (http://www.mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?t=113321)

[RedRaven]

I am a Christian Wiccan. Details about my beliefs can be found here...

My Christian Wiccan Beliefs (http://www.mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?t=113321)

please, for the love of God, dont get me started

[siouxj73]

I'm reasonably eclectic, but with a good amount of buddhist influence.

[Erincelt]

I am a lay member of the Lycian Tradition of Wicca. We are a heavily Masonic-influenced Tradition, with a (strictly) spiritual heritage to the Benandanti of old Italy. Our covens are built to emulate the cooperative development of a wolf pack, and we take that honorable beast as a totem for the Tradition as a whole. We're a bunch of crazy loons, to boot. :)

More information is available:
http://www.lycianwicca.org/
http://www.boniface.us/
http://www.seshen.com/

[SquareC]

In my youth I was initiated into a strictly Gardenerian Coven. I have since grown in my path and become much more eclectic. I have many Native American practices and beliefs incorporated in my practice, mostly because of my heritage. I have Cherokee, Comanche, Cheyenne and Iroquios ancestry. It affects my beliefs.

[Wiccanizer]

Ecclectic, solitary and exploring the darker side of the path right now. Some Buddhist infuences and a splash of Italian folk magic.

[Cryptic]

Good question, although I am not Wiccan. I am considered a seeker, but I like some aspects of Kitchen/Hedge Witchery. Hmm, for now, I am an Eclectic Solitary Mystic Deist.

[Kudzu]

Like Cryptic, I am also considered a seeker. I don't currently consider myself Wiccan since I am not yet Initiated, but I am seeking the path of British Traditional Wicca.

[Spacehap]

I really don't know what I practice. I practice some kind of wicca with some budist thron in but I really don't know what kind I practice.

[Spirited]

I am Eclectic. I consider myself a child of the Earth in general, rather than a country, when working with Gods and Goddesses. It feels nicer that way, like I'm at home anywhere :)

[Cyruss]

Gardnerian

[Valnorran]

Solitary ecclectic with a Celtic flavor. Dragon Tradition comes very close to describing me.

[Nacken]

I believe what I am currently being taught is both Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca. My own personal workings tend to be flavoured by Irish reconstructionism.

Now this confuses me. Your pardon but it sounds as if you aren't sure. There is Algard which is a mixture of Alexandrian and Gardenerian, and there are Alexandrian and Gardenerians separately But the people teaching and initiating would have put some stress on what degrees they had and in what.
I'm Alexandrian and Gardenerian BTW.

[Morgandria]

My high priestess is 3rd in both Gard and Alexandrian Wicca. My coven's initiates sometimes hold initiation in one, the other, or both.

I am looking forward to my student oathing, hense why I say "I believe" - I haven't been told, except for a couple of things, what is specifically Gardnerian, or specifically Alexandrian. I am, however, learning many things, and enjoying it.

[Cyruss]

Nacken, it doesn't sound like Morgandria has actually been brought in yet, hence the fuzziness of what specifically is Gardnerian or otherwise. Which is as it should be, of course.

[Morgandria]

Exactly. I have been outer-courted, so I am a member of my coven, but I have not yet been made a neophyte, so I am not privy to oathbound information yet. ;) Which is as it should be, of course.

[Cyruss]

Morgandria,

What coven are you with if you don't mind my asking? And where at? I don't see a location under your name as to where you are.

[Morgandria]

I am in Ontario, Canada - I don't care to be more specific than that. I am a member of Circe Argent.
http://www.circe-argent.com/

[MoonKnight]

Solitary eclectic.

[Nacken]

My high priestess is 3rd in both Gard and Alexandrian Wicca. My coven's initiates sometimes hold initiation in one, the other, or both.

I am looking forward to my student oathing, hense why I say "I believe" - I haven't been told, except for a couple of things, what is specifically Gardnerian, or specifically Alexandrian. I am, however, learning many things, and enjoying it.

Okay I understand now. When I first started, our HP showed us his degrees and allowed us to examine them. After I posted this I remembered that he told us that commonly the HP or HPS don't actually show students their degrees. But I felt better having proof that he was a third Gard and fifth Lexie. I know of one guy in our city who claims to be a 2nd and teaches, but his original teacher says he is only a first. Anyhow this supposed 2nd has his own coven and is providing people with illegitimate degrees. That's off topic, but I'm having verbal diarrhea.
Generally you can tell what is Gard and what is Lexie. For instance, Lexie's start ritual with everyone inside the circle from the beginning. With Gard, the HP, HPS, Maiden and Summ are in the circle and cut it open to let in laity after casting and invoking elements. Sometimes it is just the HP only inside. I'm just using this as an example because that is obvious from the beginning. Anyhow they are some specific cues, and some general style aspects that differentiate the two. Ask your teacher about these if you get confused.

[KEishin]

Morgandria,
What coven are you with if you don't mind my asking? And where at? I don't see a location under your name as to where you are.
Friendly FYI, many BTW folks aren't allowed to state that. It can be construed as a breach of certain dedicant oaths that say you can't divulge the location, names of the coven or any of its members. But every branch of the trad is different and what is acceptable and not differs, so I'm not finger-pointing. :)
(I certainly found that to be true when I was adopted into a another Alexandrian coven!)

[KEishin]

But I felt better having proof that he was a third Gard and fifth Lexie.
Excuse me?!?! Fifth degree Alexandrian? :lol:
That's what Alex used to give to people who annoyed him - the fifth degree, which was a bastardization of some OTO Stuff he picked up from Crowley and some 'secrets' of the craft. One of his HPS's told me so.

I have never heard of a version of Alexandrian Wicca that has five degrees and I'm conversent with most of the major lines.

I'm not doubting his veracity, but are you sure you heard that right?

[Cyruss]

Okay I understand now. When I first started, our HP showed us his degrees and allowed us to examine them.

What an odd thing to say. I can only assume that you're referring to lineage papers? Puppy papers as some call them?

After I posted this I remembered that he told us that commonly the HP or HPS don't actually show students their degrees. But I felt better having proof that he was a third Gard and fifth Lexie.

This I find odd also. Even if you were talking about lineage papers, they are no secret and to my knowledge no one is concerned about hiding them. Most temples I've seen have them proudly displayed on the temple wall. I have no comment on being a 5th degree Alexandrian as I'm not Alexandrian.

I know of one guy in our city who claims to be a 2nd and teaches, but his original teacher says he is only a first. Anyhow this supposed 2nd has his own coven and is providing people with illegitimate degrees. That's off topic, but I'm having verbal diarrhea.

Such practices are so rampant, and so many these days claim degrees and/or lineage that doesn't exist or is unverifiable, the term Fraudnerian is in common use in the Tradition.

Generally you can tell what is Gard and what is Lexie. For instance, Lexie's start ritual with everyone inside the circle from the beginning. With Gard, the HP, HPS, Maiden and Summ are in the circle and cut it open to let in laity after casting and invoking elements. Sometimes it is just the HP only inside. I'm just using this as an example because that is obvious from the beginning. Anyhow they are some specific cues, and some general style aspects that differentiate the two. Ask your teacher about these if you get confused.

The only comment I can make on this is to recommend that you be clear on what is generally accepted as "Core Gardnerian" and whatever your Coven may or may not do that is specific to your Coven only.

BB
Cyruss

[Cyruss]

Friendly FYI, many BTW folks aren't allowed to state that. It can be construed as a breach of certain dedicant oaths that say you can't divulge the location, names of the coven or any of its members. But every branch of the trad is different and what is acceptable and not differs, so I'm not finger-pointing. :)
(I certainly found that to be true when I was adopted into a another Alexandrian coven!)

Obviously both our mileage may vary, but conversely I've found no notable secrecy in the Craft about where one lives or what coven they are with. The only instance I can imagine where one "couldn't" divulge where they live or the name their Coven goes by would be if that specific Coven had included additional specific language in the oath that members of that Coven were required to take. And then, of course, that would apply only to that one Coven and it's members.

I guess since it's not my experience that Covens do this as a rule, and I've not personally met any of the ones that do, as I'm sure there are some, I didn't feel out of place asking or I wouldn't have.

Reminds me of a phrase Gardner used which I may not quote exactly right. "You're free to ask anything you like, but I'm free not to tell you... anything!".

BB
Cyruss

[KEishin]

Obviously both our mileage may vary, but conversely I've found no notable secrecy in the Craft about where one lives or what coven they are with. The only instance I can imagine where one "couldn't" divulge where they live or the name their Coven goes by would be if that specific Coven had included additional specific language in the oath that members of that Coven were required to take. And then, of course, that would apply only to that one Coven and it's members.
Exactly. As far as I know, the three main Lexie lines (and one of the Gard too, I think) in my area all subscribe to the secrecy material in the Ardanes, most of which are public, so I feel free to mention them.

I guess since it's not my experience that Covens do this as a rule, and I've not personally met any of the ones that do, as I'm sure there are some, I didn't feel out of place asking or I wouldn't have.
My first Lexie coven didn't care overly much; it was more you were supposed to set a good example as a representative of the coven by not blabbing somebody else's business. When I switched lines, all the rules changed, as they tend to do. Even coven leaders can get the rules and 'The Rules' confused from line to line.

Reminds me of a phrase Gardner used which I may not quote exactly right. "You're free to ask anything you like, but I'm free not to tell you... anything!".
Yep!

[Cyruss]

Even coven leaders can get the rules and 'The Rules' confused from line to line.

There was a time in my branch of the LI line we kept to 'the rules' as well. However, today we have a better context for the history behind them and that has resulted in a slightly relaxed position for most in regards to the Law. Rather than absolute adherance they're considered general guidelines and historical documents by most everyone in my line.

[aislin_ryann]

I am eclectic, influenced by the egyptian pantheon, but I am kind of a "wild witch" of sorts I guess. I am also starting to study shamanism. But I like my wiccan rituals, so I will probably always be very eclectic wiccan. lol

[ladyofthewillows]

I practice the craft.I am a pagan. I find it very interesting. I also read about other wiccan religions.

[DebLipp]

You might find this thread (http://www.mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?t=71459) interesting.

[cartweel]

Perhaps an illustration:

Imagine Aleister Crowley driving his big 'ol clunkity Ceremonial Magick truck, when the truck stalls over some train tracks. Then imagine the 'Wicca Express' being conducted by Jean-Luc Picard and Ru Paul. Now envision the train careening into Crowley's passenger side door while Therion himself is still trying to unlock the door.

The heap of tire, steel, and high heels that you're left with is about where I stand on such matters.

[Kestrel Firesong]

Correllian Wiccan...outer court now, studying for my first degree.