[simoneaugie]

You can have a fire. A candle will do. Even a symbol of a candle will be adequate. If your mom may have an unexpected reaction to you cleaning, lol. You and your friends could clean and rearrange your room. You can decorate with what flowers are in bloom this time of year. It's a time to clean up inside as well, to give up unhealthy habits. Symbols of these can be burned in a cauldron safely placed where it will not catch anything on fire.

[BiWiccanAndProud]

Thank you ^.^ you guys are a lot of help

[anamia]

Hi. I was wondering if anyone here had experimented with HooDoo at all?

[Synnen]

Hoodoo isn't really even close to Wicca, you know.

[Kia]

Can a wiccan do a money spell for me? Anyone here?
Thanks!

[Synnen]

1. Most Wiccans won't do a spell for someone they don't know.

2. Soliciting spells from someone YOU don't know can have karma coming back to bite you in very interesting ways.

3. Casting a spell for money takes more energy than just getting off your butt and going out and EARNING it. Money unearned is bad karma anyway.

4. Anyone offering to cast you a spell without a LOT more details is probably going to rip you off---and the spell probably wouldn't come out the way you wanted, even if it DID work right.

Forget spells. They don't work like they do in the movies, and they certainly aren't like the genie in Aladdin. Just WORK for what you want.

[anamia]

Haha yes I realize... but of all the threads, I thought this one might be the best one to get an answer on.

[squeaks77]

P.S. Someone told me the other day that I shouldn't call myself Wiccan just cause I continue to celebrate holidays that are not Wiccan, like Christmas and New Years. They said that the Wiccan New Year is Samhain and there is no reason for me to celebrate the more known New Year. It didn't hurt me or anything, but it did kinda tick me off. This isn't a common view is it? Just out of curiousity....

I've never been told that, but I'm pretty solitary for that very reason. NO ONE tells me what I can or can't do or can and can't believe in! And what kind of person stops giving their family and friends Christmas gifts when they convert?
I can think of a reason to celebrate December 31.. . PARTY!! DUH!! :D
But the easiest answer for that is to call yourself "Pagan" because that's a very broad term.

[BiWiccanAndProud]

Hey guys Ostara's coming up! What are you all going to do? I'm excited cause my wiccan friend who was in the system is finally out! YAY!! I FINALLY HAVE SOMEONE TO CELEBRATE WITH!! *does happy dance*

[simoneaugie]

Ostara is a good time to tell all my neices, nephews and to remind my daughters why this particular holiday is called Easter. Everyone who celebrates, insisting that I do, Christ's rising from death should know the original Ostara myths.

[BiWiccanAndProud]

Lol you, really I find the reason behind the bunny really funny XD but it is nice to know. I wondered all the time when I was growing up mormon why there was a bunny on that day. I told my sister though and she said I was lying >.<

[Roy02780]

Merry Meet all.
I am a wiccan that started on my own. I taught myself. Read every book that I could get my hands on. I live Im Ma. And In my Area there is a very large following. I am of the Saligon tradition with its lineage is the Cabot tradition. I was a solitary for like 5 years but was around the Salgion Coven members so when I felt I needed to know more and needed to see a ritual I got myself invited to there open circles. I went to them all for ab out a year until I felt I was ready and that I found out enough about the coven to actually join. My Advise is not too join just any coven. Research it out fully. Get to know the people involved it them. Anyone can call them a high preistest or Hi priest . Be leary of anyone that asks for money to join. There usually are coven dues but they are like 5 bucks a month and used for supplies within the coven. There are a lot of people out there trying to make a quick buck by teaching classes when the best teacher is yourself. You know what feels right and you know what you should be doing. HARM NONE. Is what you should base all your magick on. Which means do as you want as long as you are not Manipulating anyone or hurting anyone. And the self gain thing is perfectly OK. Just ask for only what you need and don't be greedy because greed comes with a cost as well. I hope this helps.

[Roy02780]

I've never been told that, but I'm pretty solitary for that very reason. NO ONE tells me what I can or can't do or can and can't believe in!! And what kind of person stops giving their family and friends Christmas gifts when they convert??
I can think of a reason to celebrate December 31 . . . . PARTY!!! DUH!!! :D
But the easiest answer for that is to call your self "Pagan" because thats a very broad term.

That is nonsense, All wiccans have family that are not wiccan and of course we induldge in Christmas ( yule) and easter (ostara) Hollowen (saimhain) .Actually were lucky we have two holidays per there one. Party party. And if you read a lot of books all these holidays All these holidays were orig pagan holidays but they changed the name to easter and christmas when the Catholic religion was formed. There symbol was a star . On some old churches you will even see gogoyles and other pagan symbols. Most of the really old churches were built by pagans.

[Synnen]

Roy... I never said spells didn't work.

I said they didn't work like they do in the movies and that people should be VERY wary of who they're asking to do spells for them, and who they are doing spells for.

Please read more carefully.

I've been a practicing witch, both solitary and in covens, for the last 15 years. I've read, I've worked with different covens, and I've learned a LOT over the years.

[Roy02780]

Roy...I never said spells didn't work.

I said they didn't work like they do in the movies and that people should be VERY wary of who they're asking to do spells for them, and who they are doing spells for.

Please read more carefully.

I've been a practicing witch, both solitary and in covens, for the last 15 years. I've read, I've worked with different covens, and I've learned a LOT over the years.

I'm sorry I must have missunderstood or mabey I read it to fast. My bad. Your right they don't work like they do in movies. But you know I find the more you know the harder it is to work a spell. To many factors. I remember when I first started. They worked like a charm but the more factors you add to them the harder they are to work. Do you find that the more you know the harder it is to work a spell?

[Synnen]

Aside from self protection, Circle casting, purifying, and banishing spells---I hardly work them anymore.

I've had a couple backlash on me with unintended results--bad phrasing on my part in the casting. I've had one where Karma was a b!tch to me. And while I've had many successful spells, I just find the effort of most spells isn't worth it. Simple spells are easy, I can whisk most of those off with barely a thought and a phrased word--disspelling, self-protection (like Mirror spells), cleansing (basic stuff, on myself and others), good-will (like blessing the guy in the car that cut me off with a better day)--stuff like that is easy.

When I want a pretty specific outcome, though--that's where I fumble. Too many thoughts, and you're restricting the scope and power of the spell. Too few thoughts on it, and it's basically uncontrollable--you end up unleashing any doubts you have along with the spell, and since you KNOW what can go wrong with it, you end up having doubts of some kind even if you try not to.

So... I've learned that words and elbow grease tend to work better most of the time for the kinds of things that people always want you to cast spells for--money, love, fame, blah blah blah.

I've gotten to the point where when my friends ask me for a spell as a boost for whatever--aside from "I'm having a really bad day can you just send some good energy my way"--I just have a series of small amulets I cast the equivalent of a self-confidence spell on, and give THAT to them. They then have more faith that they can do it, and so they DO do it.

[Roy02780]

I never have done a spell for anyone. It only works good when you have the need for it and I really don't have the need or the feelings to work a spell for anyone else. And I agree with you fully. I don't do spells anymore either. I find its too much work. Simple ones are OK but I've also had a bad outcome on a spell that went bad. We learn from out mistakes...

[LostCity]

Wiccan and proud here also!! FYI!!

[jammixmaster]

Excellent. Its nice to find a place where Wiccans and Pagans came come and "meet" in peace. I would like to ask the entire thread a question: What Wiccan tradition do you guys follow? Are you in a coven or solitary?

[BiWiccanAndProud]

Solitary personaly, but I used to practice with my friend till she moved away