https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2jo2lj1XQM

I appreciate the support and I hope you all enjoy!

Hi everyone! I’ve already posted this in the r/Wicca community but thought I’d also try my luck here ! My name is Laurice and I’m an anthropology student at the university of Leipzig:) I’m currently writing my bachelors thesis on gender and Wicca and I would love to do a little digital ethnography! So if there are any non-binary/ non-cisgender/genderqueer Wiccan practitioners that would be interested in talking to me about the intersection of gender identity, Wicca and ritual please feel free to send me a message! I will let you know my current question that way and everything else you might need to know ! We would be chatting in messages or could schedule one call depending on what fits better :) Also if you have any literature recommendations or other feeds I could visit that would also be welcome ! Thank you so much

I’m only just starting to look into everything and wondered what are some Wiccan things that you do day to day?

If ANY of you on here could help me with this, it would be life changing. This has caused me extreme distress and I would do anything to finally fix it.

I started meditating about 5 years ago. I had done it before but not as deep as I was going. I don’t know if it was the technique or what but the method I was doing was training me to go longer and longer without a single thought.

It was simply sit down, and feel your body. That was it. If you have a thought, let it go and focus on the feeling of your body.

So longer and longer I would go without a thought over the coming months. I did this for sleep. I’ve always had insomnia since I was in middle school. And it worked! I was finally beginning to get to sleep on my own (I usually had to take an otc sleeping pill).

But something started to happen the longer this would go on. Over time, and I SWEAR this was real and I’m not making this up and it has caused me extreme distress, over time as I would meditate I would start to hear sounds. The TV would start clicking. Almost as if it would if it was cold and then got hot. Same with the knocks in the walls. The knocks would sound like an old house readjusting to different temperatures. That’s what the sounds sounded like.

Ok no big deal. Just a click in the tv or a creek in the walls. But the more I meditated, day after day the more these sounds would pick up in activity and I noticed that I wasn’t hearing them when I wasn’t meditating. Maybe once a day I would hear the sounds. So the sounds seemed to be related to my meditations themselves.

But I kept meditating, it was weird but it wasn’t anything distressing. But as the days went by I would put myself into such a deep state that when I heard a sound, I would jump out of my state real quick like you would if somebody jump scared you. And they seemed to be getting louder.

Around this time a new phenomenon started happening, I started having involuntary movements. Now when I was in that state of no thought I had sound activity picking up to jump scare me and now my arms and legs would randomly jerk. And again it seemed to only happen when I meditated. And at first the involuntary movement was light but as time would go on, my arms, legs and head would jerk more and more violently. And the weird thing was all of this stuff would affect my meditation and immediately take me out of the state I had cultivated.

But I kept meditating daily. The next thing that started happening was I would start to realize the knocks on the wall weren’t the only sounds I was hearing. I was hearing furniture moving in the other room. And now this activity was not only happening when I meditated but all the time when I was alone in my house. It got so bad one day, I was taking a shower and I thought I heard someone break into my house, it sounded like somebody kicked my front door open. And I get out of the shower to look and nothing. It got to the point where I was hearing all these noises all the time that I couldn’t tell if someone else was in the house or not.

Worst of all, the scariest part was it would also pick up its activity when I would read. It would make a noise the exact time when I would “get into the book” effectively preventing me from being able to read. It felt extremely creepy like there was a ghost deliberately tormenting me that was able to tell when my mind would get into any sort of state. It felt like a conscious entity that was sent to torment me and prevent me from going any further or any deeper into a meditative state. It also seemed to purposefully try to make me feel like somebody was in the house when I was alone.

There was an incident where I heard this super strange noise in the middle of my living room and my cat jumped almost out of her skin she got so spooked.

This activity never happened when I had someone else in the house with me.

This caused me so much despair and distress that I began to drink as alcohol was the only thing that made it stop.

It’s been 5 years since all of that and I am now sober for a month. First time being sober since this happened. When I started drinking because of all of this, I began to drink every night so I could sleep and at least have a couple hours every day to be free from the torment.

But I am ready to start practicing spirituality again and meditating, but I HAVE to know what all of that activity and torment was all about. What it was. What caused it. And how to prevent it.

PLEASE this is real, the scariest part about it that most people think it’s not real. I experienced something that should be impossible. So I had no clue who to talk to about it or how to solve it. I was very alone and trapped with this thing that shouldn’t exist.

Hello my fellow Wiccans! I am trying to make a iceberg video detailing the subjects and facts about this beautiful ancient religion. I have 5 tiers out of 6 filled and I was wondering if anyone knows of any obscure or little known facts about the craft? Please and thank you!

I am writing my B.O.S. and the next chapter is about Angels. I am searching for anyone who has knowledge about specific frequencies, sound or melodies for every Angel so we can make a ritual of it.

The Angels are: Ariel, Azrael, Chamuel, Gabriel, Haniel , Jeremiel, Johiel, Metatron, Michael, Rafael, Raguel, Raziel, Sandalphon, Uriel and Zadkiel.

In the attachment the sigils for these Angels in the same order.

Blessed Be

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Hello r/TraditionalWicca,

I am starting to downsize and clear out and I think it is time to pass along some of my well loved books. Please comment down below and I would be happy to mail these books to randomly selected commenters.

I have:

• Traditional Wicca; a Seeker's Guide by Thorn Mooney
• Witchery by Juliet Diaz
• The Circle Within by Dianne Sylvan
• Wicca by Harmony Nice
• Rebel Witch by Kelly Ann Maddox
• Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham
• Grimoire for the Green Witch by Ann Moura
• Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft
• The Candle Magic Spell Book by Bridget Bishop
• Magical Power for Beginners by Deborah Lipp
• By Rust of Nail & Prick of Thorn by Althea Sebastiani

I know this must be a very common thread, but I'm looking for some slightly more specific book recommendations than just beginner books (although beginner is good).

Specifically, I'm looking for book recommendations for men who are interested in witchcraft. So many of the books I have or have come across are very much aimed at women, even a witch market I went to recently was mostly women's clothes and other things aimed towards women and despite my partner having looked forward to it, he ended up not particularly enjoying himself.

He wants to learn about witchcraft and it interests him, but I'm not sure where he should start or where to direct him. One of my books he tried to pick up talked about how the Goddess and the God are equal, but the Goddess is more important - it felt like Animal Farm where all the animals are equal, but some are more equal than others!

Also, are there any male witches that can offer their perspective on this?

Hi there, I’m a research student at Nottingham Trent University conducting interviews on Wiccans who have had a parent that was also a Wiccan or a Pagan. If you or someone you know has parents who are also Wiccans & would be interested, please contact me either here or on my email. I’ve attached an information sheet on the specifics of the interview however if you have any additional questions, I’m happy to answer them any way I can. Thank You!

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Hello everyone and happy summer! I am currently a thesising student and I created a survey for my project! The topic of the survey is on religion and personality. The survey will only take 10-12 minutes to complete. If you are interested, I have attached a link to it! If you have any questions please feel free to reach out! Thank you!

https://ncf.iad1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_efH68iGKFuRyJ3o

What are the requirements of creating your own Traditional Wicca?

For example: you made a coven named Golden Girls Coven....and you call the Tradition you follow the Golden Traditional. But no one follows these values except for you and those in the coven. At least until they hive off to form their own coven within the same teachings and tradition.

Does that make sense?

Can anyone here give a suggestion on the best way to be able to see people’s auras and how to read them?

Also book recommendations strictly for how to see auras and read them would be great.

Somebody I work with is really getting to me, and always hanging around me. How do I make it that they aren’t (but of course not in a way that negatively effects anyone). I’m at my tether

* If this link is not allowed, I apologize. Please feel free to delete it*

Hi all, my name is Lindsey. I have been practicing Paganism for about five years now. I am also a psychology doctoral student. My doctoral research is on our community and our experiences as Pagans. Below is a link to my survey. It takes about 20 minutes and is completely anonymous. If you could please take it, I would greatly appreciate it. You are welcome to participate if outside the US, but will need to put your country instead of state.

https://marshall.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1CaWYyRUIbgGLWu

https://youtu.be/Kt-gPCqkX4A

Paging u/Gardnerians

Thank you.

Hello! I'm a baby witch who's still trying to figure out what paths, practices, and schools to invest my time into, so I'm looking into different traditions to see if they align with my magickal goals and interests. Wicca seems cool, so I'd love to hear from those who practice it if they think it can offer what I'm looking for.

So my primary interests with the occult are summoning, communicating and working with various spiritual entities (angels, demons, saints, deities, and whatever else is out there), gaining knowledge of this and other worlds that I wouldn't be able to obtain through conventional studies, train my mind to see reality as it truly is, necromancy, and glimpse other planes of reality.

I'm primarily interested in these things from the pov that they are "real," so not just tricks of the mind. So far I've mostly been studying Thelema, Goetic/Solomonic, Kabbalah, and Enochian magick, but I'm happy to learn from any tradition that can assist me in pursuit of the aforementioned goals.

So, that being said, do you think Wicca would be worth looking into for me at this point? Also, are any traditions besides the ones I mentioned that you think would be worth looking into? Thanks for reading, and have a blessed day!

Hi. I'm a new-ish Seeker (UK based) preparing to contact covens. I'm doing so by journalling, developing my solitary practice a little more (I appreciate I may have to "unlearn" some of this, or at the very least set it aside and treat as separate to coven work, but currently I find it helpful as I consider my relationship with Wicca and the Gods to have some solid practice to engage with), and generally trying to put in words my self understanding and reasons for Seeking this path.

I've got a copy of Witchcraft Today; but I've seen some other things by Gardner that I'm unsure if I should buy or read ahead of engaging with covens. The Gardnerian Book Of Shadows for one- is this worth reading or was it leaked and thus things changed to avoid the oathbound practices being avaliable to the public? Basically I want to have as much understanding as I can going forward, as when I reach out to a HP/HPS I want to be able to show I have an understanding, have done relevant research, and respect the Tradition. What i dont want is to give myself glaring misconceptions where that can be avoided. So, what should I avoid and what should I read? Thorn Mooneys book has been invaluable and I'm currently working through the questions she poses for Seekers; but I'm an academic by trade and I need recommended respected texts for anything I approach.

Any guidance would be absolutely welcomed. Thank you all for your time.

Does anyone live in Alaska, more specifically the interior and interested in a new coven member or to start one?

familiar tax

Moved away from my coven years ago. Finally started seeking in Colorado, but not finding much except for eclectic groups.

If anyone knows of any resources please share them with me

If you are part of a coven that would be open to meeting please reach out.

Thank you!

Hey all. I think it's been since deleted, but I caught a post this morning on the Gardnerian Seekers and Initiates Facebook group about a "declaration" of what Traditional Wicca is floating around? Evidently it has signatures of various members of the community who are committing to a specific interpretation of Gardnerian work. Was curious if anyone had more info on this?