Wicca

Tradition·Founded 1954 CE·est. ~1 million worldwide

Wicca

Branch

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle All 2 →
T The Goddess. Maiden, mother, crone — the moon's phases worn as faces; in the circle she is not discussed but drawn down. Domain Moon, earth, sea; the cycle itselfStanding Worshipped; drawn down into her priestess in the circle Meet them — context →
T The Horned God. Antlered lord of the wild and the harvest, who dies with the year and returns with it — the Goddess's consort in the wheel's long story. Domain Sun, forest, hunt, harvest — dying and returning with the yearStanding Worshipped; the Goddess's consort in the wheel's story Meet them — context →

Core Tenets

3 — a sample of the center, never the sum All 3 →
The shared center — held across the tradition
An it harm none, do what ye will. The Rede: one line of ethics with a whole cosmology of consequence behind it — many add the threefold return. Go deeper — context →
The divine is Goddess and God. Polarity at the center: the Great Goddess of moon and earth, the Horned God of sun and wild — most Wiccans read all deities through these two. Go deeper — context →
Held by most — broad, but not universal
The circle is the temple. No buildings needed: cast the circle, call the quarters, and any ground becomes sacred for exactly as long as the rite lasts. Go deeper — context →

Cosmos & Afterlife

how reality is built, and what follows death
After death

Reincarnation, with rest in the Summerland between lives

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