Teacher: jwaters
Date: 9/10/95
Character reference from Ilana: I airy-fairy the jwaters form the start of the barricade. It is Julie words all over the place, unless sooner than tagged. Typos bear been ready like I noticed them, and I bear done some formatting, to make it beyond comprehensible.
Class Start: Sun Sep 10 20:56:28 1995
The arm is a basic simplification of Wicca, what it is, why the holidays, and why the moon revelry with an authority on some training I traditional this summer at a English Hamlet Works.
It was an incredible workshop, and we are allowable to measure the information, no vows of furtiveness were sworn.
Fully, I send to make a few announcements in advance we get started.
Fully, this summer I was privileged to be invited to a first-rate gather of witches from diverse unexpected traditions.
Contemporary were Gardnerians, Alexanderians, accommodation trads, eclectic, Dianic, you name it. The end of the workshop was to employee out information.
The person who educated the workshop actually was allowable to go to the rural community and study their ways... this is an English rural community that really does position and has skilled magic for more 1000 soul.
So wicca did not start with Gardner no significance what you may bear been told.
They do not summon themselves wiccans, nor what they practice wicca, it is perfectly a way of life... a life of shadowing the gods, and the torment of the seasons.
A lot of what I bear to measure is based on that, and my own work as a witch for
14 soul. If you bear any questions about information, ask me once.
While wicca/witchcraft/craft is, is thus.... a way of existence in ventilate with the gods, and the earth, a celebration of life. That is what we do. The wheel of the blind date that we indication is about the resonance of the land, and we as the guardians of the land.
We "wiccans" chose a life of learning to be in ventilate with community cycles, of the magick that is life. That is why we say we bear "magick" in our blood. To the same extent you are in ventilate to the cycles, your magick works....
The torment begins with the Deal in, that existence that is past human agreement
... the light of the divine that is within all of us. From that Deal in award are two archetypes for lack of a manager word... the God and the Divinity.
The torment of the blind date celebrates the surprise of the God, his growing to wisdom to buddy with the Divinity and impregnate her with himself, so that he may be untrained another time. For us, the blind date starts at Samhain, which is wonderful widely on
10/31, or if you are taking part in astrology, like the Sun is at 15 degrees of Scorpio, which is a psychic opportunity. Samhain is a sharp harmonious time... the God has died and gone taking part in the criminal world, the Divinity is desperate, she is having a baby and brave with life, but missing. It is the dark time of the blind date, winter is upon us, a time to meditate on what we exigency in the coming blind date. At Samhain it is widely to
"scry" for your expectations blind date. Contemporary are diverse methods to do that, and it drive be assorted class at a once time.
It is any widely at this time to make peace with someone that has approved more in the hold close year-as the darken involving the worlds is very thin after that.
Unadventurously you do not do magic from Samhain cultivate Yule... as this is Premeditated a time of rest.
As the wheel turns, we come to Yule, widely wonderful at the winter solstice, like the sun reaches 0 degrees Capricorn, on all sides of 12/21 or so. At Yule the God is untrained another time to the Divinity, the sun (son) earnings to the east, the days start to get longer, and we can see that yes inevitable skip drive come another time and bring with it light. (As a feature honor it has perpetually been interesting to me that the xtians wrap this holiday for the surprise of their "son")
Yule is a signify of celebration, in England, the stone circles were hand-me-down to substantiate the alignments, guaranteed stone circles covered each one, the record well unambiguous of course is Stone Mass which marks the summer solstice. Next Yule we any bear the Divinity somehow becoming younger. *laugh* I wish I had her secret!
That's a tall story relations *grin*
Unadventurously in the Hamlet, every January the people got a new duo of shoes, no significance how wicked they were, and their old ones were burned in the fire of 12th night. This was so any bad luck or smash up of the sharp blind date would not pursuit them with the return of the God. Decently a skillful brief tradition that you may exigency to use... up to you, you do not routinely bear to bum your shoes even though, equitable employee them to Benefit or everything, so they are no longer in your grip.
The when holiday is Imbolc, widely wonderful on 2/2... of if you are an mystic like the sun reaches 15 degrees of Aquarius, assorted psychic opportunity.
At Imbolc, this is the time like the God has been weaned, and is starting to become a callow man. Its a Sabbath that is sacred to Brigid whom diverse of us nearby consign.
*sigh* I despise net splits... oh well.
It is the time of weaning of the callow birds as well, and we by a long shot know skip is nearby. Unadventurously if you exigency some recipes, I bear some... masses of milk products are hand-me-down at this time. Imbolc for me expressly is very noticeable. It is a time of "light".
Unadventurously we are now back in the period of existence moral to use our magick to its fullest command. The dark time of the blind date has approved us by in the manner of another time and we bear survived the uncompromising get trapped in of winter. Imbolc is on a regular basis hand-me-down as a time of initiations taking part in covens for that contemplate. Of people initiations taking part in finer degrees...
The wheel turns another time and we are at Ostara... Surge Equinox.. widely wonderful like the sun reaches 0 Aries, on all sides of 4/21-4/22. At Ostara the god and the goddess are callow lovers... zip has been consummated yet, it is that heroic fresh sympathetic of callow love at its best.
*smiles* Why do you believe we all grow to fall in love in the skip time?
This is the time of the blind date like you can put taking part in action all community campaign you ended the whole time the dark time... the gestation existence is more and everything is gorged with new life. Ostara is a very pale Sabbath, masses of jovial making and flirting, as it want be, the sexual nerves involving the God and the Divinity has begun, and the progress of life has begun yet another time.
In the rural community, they had masses of games that they played, so sexual in form *blush* but very guileless as well, for community who are nosy, I drive be radiance to measure community once.
The wheel turns another time and we are at Beltaine!
Yeah Beltaine *laugh* We *ALL* know what that Sabbath is about!
Beltaine is widely wonderful on 511, or astrologically like the sun reaches 15 Taurus, yet assorted psychic opportunity. At Beltaine, equitable indistinguishable Samhain, the darken involving the worlds is very thin.
Ack-thin *laugh* Sony for the typos, form you can sect I am really perform this, no macros!
At Beltaine, for community of you who do not know, the God and the Divinity buddy
*smile* A child is conceived, which the Divinity carries for the rest of the blind date, payment surprise to another time at Yule to the God.
In the rural community, A Beltaine maid was chosen to act as the Divinity, and she had her inventiveness of four men in the rural community to be the God for her. She was perpetually a virgin. The four men would boxing match for the appropriate to be the God. The one who was the title holder, was brought to the Beltaine maid, and they enacted the sacred rite of love involving the God and the Divinity With interest a child would be conceived and thus stop the resonance of the land.
A child conceived of this blend was called a merry-be-got and deliberate blessed by the gods... the whole rural community normally helped to representation in the rear the child. Fulfill ample that the religion that we practice is very sexual in form, it is about resonance. The resonance of the earth, and of ourselves...
Beltaine is a time of the celebration of love. Sincerity involving two people, a public passion for that miniature... sometimes for a years. A selection of people get handfasted on all sides of Beltaine for this contemplate.
The wheel turns another time and we are at MidSummer... or Summer Solstice, widely wonderful like the sun reaches 0 bane of on all sides of 6/21-6/22. At Midsummer, the land as at its peak of resonance, the day is the information day of the blind date. The Divinity is beginning to substantiate her pregnancy with God, another time a very radiance time... but a tad sharp harmonious, as we know the days win begin to get Shorter
Midsummer's Eve widely is a time to see fairies if you bear "the background".
in spite of that I cynical it may possibly be an rationalize for lovers to go off for assorted night in the plant.
At midsummer the Divinity in her mother individuality is in her full good name. The land is luxurious, and the people drive not go starving this winter. Contemporary is a lot of feasting and celebration, as award is at all Sabbaths...
Contemporary is assorted subject that begins at midsummer, that of the Holly Ruler and the Oak Ruler, which drive be assorted #wicca 101 class. While that is about, is that this is the time of blind date like the God begins to denomination taking part in the Homed God, as he prepares to expenditure himself for the land.
The wheel of the blind date turns another time and we are at Lammas. Lammas is widely wonderful on 8/2 or if you are an mystic like the sun reaches 15 Leo, another time, assorted psychic opportunity.
Lammas is the reap time... In addition coven break up at Lammas after that at any other time. At Lammas is like the God sacrifices himself for the land. If you are starchy you may not exigency to find this when part. Unadventurously in advance we became "dressed"...one of two things would happen at this time...
if the crops had done amiss, the Beltaine Ruler would be sacrificed literally!
His put together would be comparatively plowed taking part in the fields in hopes that when soul reap would be manager.
If the reap had been good... this was done considerably, as a blood expenditure was obliged. The Beltaine Ruler was express more to the women of the rural community... he was hard at it to hold close domain to be harvested... he was wrapped in wheat shafts, and a cut was ended down his halt, from throat to groin... Leaden adequate to the edge that he would percolate.
The blood drive dampen the wheat that was united to his put together. He would "die"
symbolically and be hard at it not in by the priestess. He would be nude of the wheat, and that wheat would be express to the people to charlatan in their fields...
Past the whole time the early evening the event who was the Beltaine King/now Lammas Ruler, would rejoinder in the rural community with a jug of wine and a chill out of cash.. the fruit of the reap... The people would view a sip of wine and eat of the cash and understand the expenditure of life that brings beyond life.
So Lammas is a time of reap... comparatively. A time like you can representation prematurely to community things that you began at Samhain... that gestated until Imbolc..and that you bear worked with to come to reap time.
Contemporary is beyond to Lammas, that may possibly be a #wicca l0l all to itself in my result.
The wheel turns another time and we are at Fall! Equinox... widely wonderful like the sun reaches 0 Libra.. or on all sides of 9/21=9/22...this month *smile*.
This Sabbath is about the hold close reap... community overdue crops bear been brought in and we bear dealt with the expenditure of the God at Lammas. It is a time to start looking prematurely to what we send to make it candid the winter, a time of give instructions.
It is any a time of beauty... existence beholden for all the gods bear brought taking part in our lives. The Divinity is success corpulent in her pregnancy, and we know that the God drive be reborn, The God is preparing to enlist taking part in the otherworlds, which he does at Samhain, and... This is the time of the Homed God is all his good name.
They had an interesting celebration for this in the Hamlet... Somewhere someone was chosen to be the Homed God, no one knew who he was... he had a concealment and a apex of hors evidently... homs that is.
The people would all bring together for the celebration and the Homed God would amble along with them utterly revealed barrier for his concealment. The people would neighboring out to abut his privates, stop luck for the coming winter. One lucky person was chosen by the Homed God, and he took her off to the plant for... *laugh*...well you know.. this *IS* a resonance religion. So it is a time to ask the Homed God for his strength and protection of the coming blind date *smile*.
The Divinity is cautiously spinning taking part in the Crone which she drive become fully at Samhain with the God goes to the criminal world. And so the wheel earnings to Samhain and the torment begins another time.
One of the things that drive be commotion in #wicca l01 is an heavy-duty study of each Sabbath, out of action with incenses, herbals, suggestions for rituals... Fashionable the torment of the blind date, we any bear the cycles of the moon, which are wonderful every 28 days coarsely....
But as overdue as it is, I am separation to open this up for questions... and we can do the moons assorted night... Fulfill ask your questions one at a time, so I bear time to crack them...
I would ask you to do everything indistinguishable...
* jwaters raises her hand.
And we drive view them one at a time... Go on if you drive help me put away up with who is when I drive pleasingly estimate it.
One beyond thing about the Hamlet in advance I open this up for ponder...
It really did and does position... it is *YOUR* pedigree as a wiccan/witch... It is indistinguishable Camelot in a way... a place that DOES position.. wherever magic is very real, and skilled manuscript. And no *laugh* I can't sect you how to get award, we were not express that information... the people of the rural community indistinguishable their inactive life...
They deserted public this information with us as they did not exigency their traditions to die out, and it was time....
So with that supposed.... questions?
Character reference from Ilana: I abbreviated the comings and goings, to make this beyond comprehensible, as questions and answers are any plus point reading openly. I any took out the non- Wicca 1O1 relevant notes, about Julie success back, and net-splits, and the order of hands. Moreover, I drive be disappearing the jwaters-- (and other names) so you can sect the answers from the questions.
Highmage- -Julia: it's not a concern, a debt
jwaters-- Uh oh *laugh* Fully Highmage
Highmage-- I'd indistinguishable to acclamation Julia for her heroic chat
* iwaters blushes, Thank you
* Highmage applauds Julia
* Mimick applaudsH
kalic-- why all the tricks at midsummer? I was any told to help someone who asked on midsummer. intensely at night. why? My mother is an herbalist and drops things indistinguishable that all the time.
jwaters-- Kalic: Exclusively being it is a time of denomination in the pay packet, the days begin to bud shorter...If you mom told you do that, I without doubt would.. Part of
*YOUR* accommodation tradition
jwaters-- kalic: I help someone anytime they ask *shrug*
DarkLore-- To the same extent does Wicca 101 meet? (Perpetually on Sundays?)
jwaters-- DarkLore, Perpetually on Sundays... every other Sunday for now, until some people start volunteering to teach *laugh*... So send me your stuff relations...
You all bear Piles to measure
Mimick-- well.. one of the things I find poorly to organization with is all the "we neediness do it this way". I find that the gods don't really inconvenience so crave as we go on their names in our songs our behavior or beliefs.
jwaters-- Mimic: Exactly, I am deserted expressing some of what I scholar from the Hamlet stuff.. A selection of of it I drive use in my own magick circles...
jwaters-- Arnalthea: You had a question?
* Arnalthea nods. Is it prospective to inhabit Wicca and a preceding existing religion.
jwaters-- Amalthea: In my result yes, wicca is of one mind with record religions, I even know, support it or not, some christian wiccans,... a tad unexpected, but it works for them...
* Amalthea nods, I bear some wiccan-other friends, but I depression it to be a good concern.
kalic-- how noticeable do you believe tattoos are. Fulfill re your communiqu.
jwaters-- kalic: I believe tattoos are Okay noticeable... what you slice on your put together becomes a part of who you are
jwaters-- Any other questions about tonight? Contemporary drive be a lot beyond detailed information opportunity... my transcript are calm down existence in black and white in a cohesive cut
kalic-- I bear special tattoos and my mother rubbed them with thyme she any supposed that my tattoos substantiate beyond and won't say what it can you domain what she meant?
jwaters-- kalic: Hmmm. lacking knowing *why* you got them or what they were, I can't say-can we chat about them secretly
jwaters-- Kindliness everyone for existence nearby, and I representation prematurely to the when #wicca
101.... it drive really be on the moon cycles *laugh*
Bokki-- Samhein force on a Sunday night this blind date.... drive award be a Wicca 1O1 that night?
jwaters-- Bokki: No, I drive be perform a Samhein ritual that night in event...
jwaters-- Kindliness everyone, entrust to see you another time