Welcome to
Love Spells
We provide you with free top quality information and
reviews of all all things love, witchcraft and Wicca.
I have a lifetime of experience of practicing love spells
(and others) as well as providing non-magickal help in
matters of the heart. I've personally helped countless
people in matters of heartache as well as guiding them on
their own personal journey with witchcraft and especially
wiccan practices. (see About Me)
What is
Wicca?
Wicca is a variety of witchcraft founded on religious
and magical concepts, and most of its adherents
identify as witches. As such it is distinguished not
only by its religious beliefs, but by its initiatory
system, organisational structure, secrecy and practice
of magic. Initiatory Wiccans tend not to proselytise,
and even deny membership to some individuals, since
once initiated a person is considered to be a priest
or priestess, and expected to develop the skills and
responsibility that that entails.
Initiatory Wicca has distinctive ritual forms, involving
the casting of spells, herbalism, divination and other
forms of magic. Wiccan ethics promote free will while
requiring that magical activities not harm oneself or
others, as expressed in The Wiccan Rede; some also believe
in the Threefold Law of Return
Many Wiccans, though not all, call themselves Pagans,
though the umbrella term Paganism encompasses many faiths
that have nothing to do with Wicca or witchcraft.
Rituals
Recommended Suppliers
In typical rites, the coven assemble inside a ritually cast
and purified magic circle. Prayers to the God and Goddess
are said, the "Guardians" of the North, South, East and
West are welcomed, and spells are sometimes worked. An
altar is usually present in the circle, on which ritual
tools are placed. Before entering the circle, some
traditionsattribution needed fast for the day, and/or
ritually bathe. After a ritual has finished, the God,
Goddess and Guardians are thanked and the circle is
reopened.citations needed
Tools
Recommended Suppliers
Many Wiccans use a special set of altar tools in their
rituals; these can include a broom (besom), cauldron,
chalice, wand, Book of Shadows, altar cloth, athame (a
knife used in rituals to channel energy), boline (or a
knife for cutting things in the physical world), candles,
crystals, pentacle and/or incense. Representations of the
God/Goddess are often displayed. The tools themselves are
just that — tools — and have no innate powers of their own,
though they are usually dedicated or charged with a
particular purpose, and used only in that context. For this
reason, it is usually considered rude to touch another's
tools without permission.
The Book of Shadows is a traditional book of Wicca,
containing the core rituals, practices, and wisdom of a
Wiccan tradition. It is normally copied by hand from that
of one's initiator (High Priestess or Priest), who copied
it from his or her initiator.
Ritual
attire
A sensationalised aspect of Wicca, particularly in
Gardnerian Wicca, is the traditional practice of working in
the nude, also known as skyclad. Though many Wiccans do
perform rituals skyclad, at least on occasion, others do
not. In other situations Wiccans may work robed, often in
white or black. Cords are worn, indicating rank, among
other things.citation needed Some wear normal clothes. Even
renaissance-faire-type clothing is not uncommon. Still
others wear robes with stoles which represent their
tradition and/or standing within the tradition.
The
Elements
The classical elements are a key feature of the Wiccan
world-view. Every manifest force or form is seen to express
one of the four archetypal elements — Earth, Air, Fire and
Water — or several in combination. This scheme is
fundamentally identical with that employed in other Western
Esoteric and Hermetic traditions, such as Theosophy and the
Golden Dawn, which in turn were influenced by the Hindu
system of tattvas.
There is no consensus as to the exact nature of these
elements. Some hold to the ancient Greek conception of the
elements corresponding to matter (earth) and energy (fire),
with the mediating elements (water, air) relating to the
phases of matter (fire/earth mixtures). Other exponents of
the system add a fifth or quintessential element, spirit
(aether, akasha).
The five points of the frequently worn pentagram symbolise,
among other things, the four elements with spirit presiding
at the top. The pentagram is the symbol most commonly
associated with Wicca in modern times. It is often
circumscribed — depicted within a circle — and is usually
(though not exclusively) shown with a single point upward.
The inverse pentagram, with two points up, is a symbol of
the second degree initiation rite of traditional Wicca. In
geometry, the pentagram is an elegant expression of the
golden ratio phi which is popularly connected with ideal
beauty and was considered by the Pythagoreans to express
truths about the hidden nature of existence.
Each of the four cardinal elements (air, fire, water and
earth) is typically assigned a direction, a color, and an
elemental race. The following list shows a common
categorisation, but different traditions of Wicca may use
different "correspondences":
* Air: East, Yellow, Sylphs
* Fire: South, Red, Salamanders
* Water: West, Blue, Undines
* Earth: North, Green, Gnomes
Some variations in correspondences can be explained by
geography or climate. It is common in the southern
hemisphere, for example, to associate the element fire with
north (the direction of the equator) and earth with south
(the direction of the nearest polar area). Some Wiccan
groups also modify the religious calendar to reflect local
seasonal changes; for instance, most Southern Hemisphere
covens celebrate Samhain on April th and Beltane on October
st, reflecting the southern hemisphere's autumn and spring
seasons.
If You're serious, in need of
Real Help (Magickal and
non-magickal) or just
curious then search our
Recommended Spells and
Suppliers
