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Wicca for Life is a step-by-step guide to Wicca as a lifestyle: practical, easy to read, and
no-nonsense in its tone. Buckland demystifies topics such as initiation and spellcrafting, and gives down-to-earth advice on how to embrace Wicca as a spiritual path for today. This book will be valuable on anyones shelves as both a reference tool and as a handbook to living a fulfilling magickal life.
Shelley Rabinovitch, author of The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism
Wicca for Life presents a comprehensive guide to Wicca for both established followers and newcomers to the Craft, designed to carry the modern Witch through every season and aspect of life. From Wiccas ancient beginnings to its current practice worldwide, Wicca for Life encompasses the rites, rituals, and customs every practitioner needs to know. Written by Raymond Buckland, the leading U.S. authority on Wicca, this essential resource has been exhaustively researched and organized to provide guidance for Witches at all levels of skill and experience.
Wicca for Life features a detailed reference to color symbolism, magical alphabets, chants and songs, and the magickal properties of herbs, as well as advice on how to:
Develop natural psychic abilities and healing tendencies
Focus powers and sharpen Wiccan wishing
Block curses and open up channels for positive energy
Learn to balance the dimensions of home, using elements of feng shui
Cope with crises and ward off negativity
Improve relationships with family, friends, and lovers
Within these pages, a Witch can begin the journey into the ways of the Craft or discover new ways to enrich the daily practice of life-affirming Wiccan magick.
no-nonsense in its tone. Buckland demystifies topics such as initiation and spellcrafting, and gives down-to-earth advice on how to embrace Wicca as a spiritual path for today. This book will be valuable on anyones shelves as both a reference tool and as a handbook to living a fulfilling magickal life.
Shelley Rabinovitch, author of The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism
Wicca for Life presents a comprehensive guide to Wicca for both established followers and newcomers to the Craft, designed to carry the modern Witch through every season and aspect of life. From Wiccas ancient beginnings to its current practice worldwide, Wicca for Life encompasses the rites, rituals, and customs every practitioner needs to know. Written by Raymond Buckland, the leading U.S. authority on Wicca, this essential resource has been exhaustively researched and organized to provide guidance for Witches at all levels of skill and experience.
Wicca for Life features a detailed reference to color symbolism, magical alphabets, chants and songs, and the magickal properties of herbs, as well as advice on how to:
Develop natural psychic abilities and healing tendencies
Focus powers and sharpen Wiccan wishing
Block curses and open up channels for positive energy
Learn to balance the dimensions of home, using elements of feng shui
Cope with crises and ward off negativity
Improve relationships with family, friends, and lovers
Within these pages, a Witch can begin the journey into the ways of the Craft or discover new ways to enrich the daily practice of life-affirming Wiccan magick.
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Appendix
Full Coven Initiation
T his is a larger version of the Initiation given in chapter 3. There we were dealing with the coven leader and the neophyteonly these two people were involved. But when there is a full coven, be it a family group or any other coven, then it is good to involve as many people as possible. So here is the Initiation ritual with full participation. Again, I will assume it is a male who is being initiated. Feel free to adapt this ritual for the number of people you have in your coven.
I will name the participants: High Priestess, High Priest, Initiate, Maiden, Squire, Gatekeeper, and Witches 1, 2, 3, and 4.
All are properly prepared. The High Priestess and the High Priest stand in front of the altar, which has all of the tools on it. Along with the regular tools are a container of anointing oil, a blindfold, a nine-foot length of red silken cord, and a scourge. The initiates own athame also lies on the altar, to one side. The candles are alight beyond the Circle, but not the four quarter candles around the Circle nor the altar candles, which should be white. The wine goblet is full.
The other Witches, with the exception of the Gatekeeper, stand in a Circle around the altar. The Gatekeeper stands just inside the Circle, to the east, with the Initiate opposite him, on the outside of the Circle. (See the note below, regarding the Initiates appearance.)
The High Priestess (HPS) rings the bell three times then takes up her athame, kisses the blade, and holds it high in salute.
| HPS: | Hail, Lord and Lady. Here I do build a temple of life in which to honor you. Assist us as we lay down the foundation stones on which to build our cone of power. |
HPS lowers the blade and walks over to the east point in the Circle. She points the tip of the blade at the line drawn on the ground and slowly walks around the Circle, directing energy as she goes. She continues until she returns to the point where she started. There she raises the athame in salute and describes a pentagram in the air. She kisses the blade and returns to the altar.
Witch 1 now walks over to the east point in the Circle, taking with him a lighted taper. He lights the east candle.
| WITCH 1: | Here is light at the east, where the life-giving sun rises each day. Here is erected the Watchtower of Air, standing guard over this temple of the gods. |
He returns to the Circle and passes the taper to Witch 2. She takes it and moves around to the south, where she lights that candle from the taper.
| WITCH 2: | Here is light at the south, where fires rise up to warm and illuminate the earth. Here is erected the Watchtower of Fire, standing guard over this temple of the gods. |
She returns to the Circle and passes the taper to Witch 3, who moves around to the west and lights that candle from the taper.
| WITCH 3: | Here is light at the west, where waters move gently to give the moisture of life to the earth. Here is erected the Watchtower of Water, standing guard over this temple of the gods. |
He returns to the circle and passes the taper to Witch 4. She moves around to the north and lights that candle from the taper.
| WITCH 4: | Here is light at the north, where the earth forms a solid foundation for all life. Here is erected the Watchtower of Earth, standing guard over this temple of the gods. |
Witch 4 goes to the altar and puts down the taper, then returns to her place in the Circle. Standing before the altar, HP lights the altar candle(s).
| HP: | Here is light that I bring into the temple. Let it light the way through the darkness of ignorance to the world of knowledge. Light to life, in all things. |
HPS dips the tip of her athame blade into the bowl of salt.
| HPS: | Salt is life. Let this salt be pure and let it purify our lives, as we use it in this rite dedicated to the God and Goddess in whom we believe. |
She takes three pinches of the salt and drops them into the water. Moving her athame blade across to the water dish, she dips it in there.
| HPS: | Let the sacred salt drive out any impurities in this water, that together they may be used in the service of these deities, throughout these rites and at any time and in any way we may use them. |
She mixes the water and salt with the athame blade, stirring in a clockwise direction three times around, then lays down the athame and picks up the dish of salted water. She hands it to the Maiden, who goes to the east point of the Circle and raises the dish.
| MAIDEN: | I use this sacred liquid now in the building of this, our sacred temple. I dedicate it to the gods, in love and light. |
Lowering the dish, she starts to walk slowly deosil around the Circle, dipping her fingers into the water and sprinkling it along the line of the Circle. She returns to the east point and raises the dish briefly in salute, then returns to the altar. She puts down the salt dish.
HP takes up the censer and passes it to the Squire, who goes to the east point, where he raises the censer.
| SQUIRE: | The fire of this censer, with the fragrance of its smoke, serves to cement the foundation of this our temple, dedicated to the Lord and the Lady. |
He lowers the censer and again passes along the line of the Circle, swinging the censer so that the fumes and smoke pass along it. When he returns to the starting point, he again raises the censer in salute and then returns to the altar.
HP replaces the censer and takes up his athame. All raise their athames in salute and describe a pentagram in the air.
| HPS: | Lord and Lady, God and Goddess, I invite you to enter into this temple we have constructed to venerate you. |
| HP: | Be with us here and witness these rites we hold in your honor. |
| ALL: | So mote it be! |
All kiss their blades.
HPS dips her forefinger into the water and marks a cross within a circle on the forehead of the High Priest, followed by a pentagram over his heart, saying:
| HPS: | Here I do consecrate you in the names of the Lord and the Lady. Let us be here in peace and love, with honor to all life. |
She gives the dish of holy water to the High Priest, who then does the same to her. He dips his forefinger into the water and marks a cross within a circle on the forehead of the High Priestess, followed by a pentagram over her heart, saying:
| HP: | Here I do consecrate you in the names of the Lord and the Lady. Let us be here in peace and love, with honor to all life. |
All of the Witches, including the Gatekeeper, in turn move around and stand before the High Priestess or High Priest. HPS consecrates the male Witches, and HP consecrates the female Witches. Each returns to his or her place after being consecrated.
The Maiden rings the bell three times three, or nine times in all.
HPS, taking up her athame, faces the east where the Initiate waits outside the Circle. She points the tip of the athame at the Initiate.
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