#wicca beginner

[wiccashire]

New notebook🕸🍂 for all my witchy notes⭐!

[beeblogz]

Wicca beginner

Hello! I want to start learning about Wicca and stuff like that. anyone have any where I can start? or any help? 

[womanpodcast]

Wicca love...

[author-ayshen-irfan]

Happy Beltane  🔥 Even if you don’t celebrate it, I hope that today is fruitful and passionate  🌼

[sleepywitch-hippie]

A fun way to learn about crystals as a beginner!

I’m still very much a beginner, but my favorite way to learn about crystals is going to my local witchy shop and grabbing a crystal that really speaks to me (I usually pick one I’m not familiar with yet) and I take it home to do research! It’s really fun to read up on the crystals and think about what drew me to them :)

[princessbewitchin]

Ritual robes

As the name suggests, I'm talking about ceremonial attire, whatever you wear for rituals and stuffz. It's not a topic I've seen floating around Tumblr at all so I thought I'd touch on it briefly.

When I started on my witchcraft journey, yonks ago, I was very much under the impression that dressing up was mandatory. You're basically not doing it right if you haven't made your own full length tunic, with a cord belt, from high quality cotton, in purest white. You can't turn up to anything without it. Either that or you have to be skyclad. In fact, being skyclad is what terrified my friend out of joining covens and groups for a long time. The thing is, it's not necessary at all but a personal choice or a choice of the group you're working with.

The robes are worn during any ceremony or ritual of any importance. This can be the sabbats, full moon rituals, and initiation ceremonies (and more). They're usually black or white, but can be any colour that you feel is the right one for you or your purpose.

Robes are part of separating the you who does the ritual from the you who goes to work every day and comes home to Netflix and pizza. It's a bit like when we cast a circle, what we are doing is entering a sacred space. Your robe is supposed to be something that isn't warn at other times, it's totally a sacred space within its self. It also consecrated you. It sets you as a sacred being. When working with a group it can connect you more with everyone around you. Doing something like wearing special clothes makes the moment special and helps you feel the magick of the moment.

I have a vintage, white, night dress and a black mini dress, both I only wear during rituals. I'll fill my hair with flower garlands and wear loads of jewelry. I choose them for the purpose. I'll tend to wear black if I'm trying to access inner powers and delve into myself. I'll wear white if I'm trying to celebrate something or call on assistance from somewhere. I've gone for late night walks in just my little black robe - no shoes or anything in mid winter, just to feel my inner witch, the one that owns the night and the wind and the cold ground under my feet.

Personally, it's about feeling sacred to me.

(this was meant to be my day five post for saltwaterwitchery's thirty days of witchcraft, being a post about my outfit of the day. I went to work today, and because my clothes could get torn I am just wearing the most awful things I own including a top my mum bought by mistake and gave to me before I moved house. I honestly look like a frumpy, flowery, old lady with no style right now.)

[pendulum-reader]

College cats

So as a college student I am allowed to bring my cat with me to the dorms, I had to go through a long processes. Not only does he help me but he’s also my familiar which is nice.

[lunadavorio]

Hi! I’m really interested in the whole idea of Wiccan in general. I know this is pretty vague (sorry), but do you have any advice about how to really start learning about the practices and whole vibe of Wiccan, or some starting materials/concepts I should know about?

Dear anon,first of all, thank you for your trust. I’ve received a lot of these messages -and that’s the reason why I always answer with so much delay- and it moves me to know that people rely so much on my advice.I’m afraid to disappoint you, but I’m not sure I’m the right person to go to when in search of guidance. I’m not wise, nor very experienced: I’ve never stopped feeling like I’m groping in the dark, especially when it comes to my Wiccan practice.In a way, we could try and turn this into my first advice that I am going to list:✨ YOU’LL NEVER STOP LEARNING ✨which can be translated into a more frightening, yet simple “you’ll never stop feeling clueless about everything”. When you start getting into the Wiccan path, you might get the feeling you need to reach some destination and you want to arrive there as fast as possible. In truth there is no finishing point. You just walk and walk and learn and experience new things and change your perspective on the things that you have encountered in your past, and that’s one of the most beautiful aspect of it.Second thing, but that’s very personal and it worked for me but it doesn’t mean that it should be the same for you:✨ YOU’LL FEEL IT WITHIN YOURSELF ✨and with “it” I mean that sense of divinity that literally shook my life at some point, and I could feel it in the wind, in sunrays, in seawaves, in the softness of my cat’s fur and in the smells of the apples in the autumn, which -I KNOW- are the most random things but it’s true! At some point I knew, I knew there was something more, and discovering Wicca as a religion was actually only secondary to that. I remember I found out about it on a magazine and I was like “oh wow, I knew that already, I thought I was the only one”.What happened next was something that I want to include in this “guidance list” -which I’m sure it’s the worst guidance list that was ever written EVER- and that is:✨ R E A D I N G ✨like *a lot*. It’s something you can’t do without. There is no other way: in order to walk on your feet, all by yourself, you have to know what other people had -and still have- to say about Wicca, their perspectives, their point of views. To me what worked the most were website and forum (blogs weren’t a thing back then), where people posted their essays or abstracts of books on the matter. I remember I kept writing on a notebook the things I considered important the most, and that helped me memorize at least the fundamental of Wicca, the basis on which Wicca is built.But it didn’t end there. I kept going forward, always finding new ways of feeling the sense of divinity and to get in touch with the Gods. And that, of course, could also be another advice, which is:✨ ALWAYS KEEP EXPLORING ✨Be curious. Don’t just stand above the ash of other people words. Find new ways, your ways of getting in touch with the universe and all there is in it. There is no right way, there are no rules.Well, except for one. And to that, the only one rule that you should follow in every aspect of your life:✨ AS LONG AS YOU DON’T HURT ANYONE DO WHATEVER YOU WANT✨There are no limits. Try, fail, try again, who cares? If your heart is pure and is in the right place, don’t be afraid of anything, not even of offending the Gods. You won’t, if you act righteously. That’s the only thing that matters.I hope I could be of any help.It’s been so long since that message was sent, that the anon won’t probably ever read my answer. And that’s a shame in a way -for me because I should have written it earlier. I’ll try to do my best in the future.Lot of love,let the Gods bless you.