Showing posts with label wicca. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wicca. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Elven Star

The Elven Star is found in some branches of the Faerie tradition of Wicca. Also called Seven Pointed Star or Faerie Star represent a gift from Faerie to humans to bridge the understanding between the Mortal human realm and that of Faerieland. Its different names can be associated with many other magical traditions. The 7 pointed star is known as a gateway symbol, a Gate or entrance between our world and that of Faery, the Otherworld. Each point on the star represents a gateway or path of the Higher Self to prepare one for entrance into Faery.

Horned God

The Horned God symbol is one of the two deities found in the neopagan religion of Wicca. He is often given various names and epithets, and represent the masculine energy of the God in the religion's male-female polarity, the other part being the female Triple Goddess.
It is a symbol of an archetype, as often seen in Cernunnos, Herne, and other gods of vegetation and fertility.
It is believed the Horned God represents sexuality, vitality, the hunt, logic and power. But, he does not exploit his attributes nor will he let them be exploited. He is considered to be gentle, tender and compassionate in a masculine manner.
Many modern Pagan and Wiccan groups accept the idea of a horned nature deity as the embodiment of masculine energy.

Seax Wica

Seax Wica is a tradition or denomination, of the neopagan religion of Wicca which is largely inspired by the iconography of the historical Anglo-Saxon paganism founded in the 1970s by author Raymond Buckland. It is inspired by the Saxon religion of old, but is specifically not a reconstructionist tradition. The symbol of the tradition represents the moon, the sun, and the eight Wiccan sabbats.
The tradition honours Germanic deities such as Woden and Freya, and are seen as representations of the Wiccan deities of the Horned God and the Mother Goddess.
Runes are significant and regularly discussed. Even non-members can attend rituals as long as everyone in the coven agrees to it.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Triple Goddess

Sometimes called the Triple Moon, this symbol represents the three phases of the moon: waxing, full, and waning.
According to Robert Graves' The White Goddess, it also represents the three phases of womanhood, in the aspects of Maiden, Mother and Crone, each of which symbolises both a separate stage in the female life cycle and a phase of the moon.
This concept represents the feminine part of Wicca's duotheistic theological system, her masculine part is the Horned God.
Many other neopagan belief systems follow Wicca in their use of the figure of the Triple Goddess, and it continues to be an influence on feminism, literature, Jungian psychology and literary criticism.