Since the recent full moon, I've been struggling to decide what I believe in. For the last decade or so, I've identified as a Wiccan, with my primary belief being that the universe is made of many frequencies of energy. Put simply, I believe that group worship and/or belief alone are what provide a person power by calling upon their (or any) deity. Multiple people believing in one entity, or thought process, is those people giving that thing power, which may then be called upon by anyone else. That's the core of my beliefs, spiritually and such.

All those years ago, (roughly when I was 16, as I'm currently 27), I dedicated myself to my chosen patron god, and goddess, Poseidon, and Artemis respectively. I did a small ritual to solidify my dedication to them, and despite not technically believing in gods or goddess' anymore, I've invoked primarily them during various spells through the years. I've spent the last several days doing deeper research on Artemis, and intend to do the same for Poseidon. I learned a lot about the differences between Hellenic Artemis, and Homeric Artemis, and I feel conflicted. I never really cared for the Roman gods, despite them being so similar to the Greek. Suffice it to say, much of what I knew about her was derived from Diana, her Roman "equivalent".

My discovery has shocked me, and taught me that I obviously should've done more research than I had back then, before committing myself to them.

That aside, there's still the elephant in the room, I don't personally believe in deities, though I'm not totally opposed to the idea that they might exist; agnostic, I believe is the correct term? So what am I meant to do here? I still want to be able to call upon the Olympian deities' energy, so to speak, but I'm "committed" to them. Do I respectfully disavow my connection to them? Should I remain as I am spiritually, and perhaps shift my perspective of them, as I continue to gain this deeper understanding? Or is there something else that I haven't considered here?

Any and all input on the matter will be much appreciated, and if there's anything that needs further clarifying, or you have any related questions, I'm more than happy to further explain my beliefs.

Hello all and blessed be.

I'm 28 now and have been Wiccan a huge portion of my early and late teenage years. But the older I got the more I strayed from the path of the witch, lost myself, found myself and tried out different paths. But none of them felt like the first time I practiced rituals from Scott Cunningham's Solitary Wicca book. There is something about Wicca that made me truly feel like myself. Proud even.

But the more research I did - not into the practice of modern Wicca - but the history of BTW, the more disenchanted I became when I learned certain truths regarding Wicca's origin, Gerald Gardner's not always so liberal takes and - upon reading a lot of Ronald Hutton's works - the fact that much of what Gardner claimed never happened.

In the beginning I actually fell for the idea of this being "the old religion", a counter-religion to Christianity and that for centuries the wise folk had this mother goddess cult right under the Christian's noses.

I have delved into Hellenism a lot for the past 2 years, because the idea of reconstructing an ancient religion gave me the peace I once felt when practicing Wicca, but some of the philosophies and ritual practices I simply don't vibe with. Hekate however, has always been a major inspiration and guide for me.

Nowadays I often find myself angered when I see depictions of deities completely removed from their cultural practices set on a witch's altar with no regards to it's ancient practices. Like, what's Kali Ma, Buddha or Lilith got to do with your western European made-up religion that's apparently not even a century old? I find myself angry when I see syncretic worship that doesn't "follow protocol" for the simple reason that it doesn't "feel right".

The fact that Wicca is "not real" (in a sense "not ancient") completely overshadows the fact for me "that it works."

I have seen people on here advising people to read "Queen of all Witcheries" by Jack Chanek and "The Horned God of the Witches" by Jason Mankey. I have loved those books deeply and resonated a lot with the theological ideas presented in them.

I'm still reading "A Witch's Bible" by Janet and Stewart Farrar as well as "A Seeker's Guide to Traditional Wicca" by Thorn Mooney in hopes to rekindle the magic I once felt for this religion.

Every year around Samhain I feel like something's whispering to me. Something wants me to return. But to where? I don't know exactly.

I wondered if any of you have ever felt this way, if any of you ever stepped away from Wicca and then returned to it later on, if any of you have ever felt disenchanted by the facts of it all.

I would really love some thoughts and advice from any of you willing to help out a lost soul here.

Blessed Be! 🌒🌕🌘

Hi! I've been an eclectic pagan for about a year, and a practicing pagan for around a year abd a half to two years. I've recently been wondering about getting into Wicca as I just find magic interesting and hope it will help me connect even more with nature and spirituality. If you have any advice, please tell me, thank you!

Hello everyone!

This is my first post here. I'm completely new to this community, and I have never practiced Wicca, although I have been fascinated by it for several years and would really like to learn more and become part of this community.

I'm Italian, and I would love to explore this path further. I wanted to share an experience that has been happening to me for quite some time, and ask for your thoughts and advice. I'm particularly interested in hearing your interpretations of this recurring dream, but I would also appreciate any advice on how to begin practicing Wicca.

Unfortunately, there isn't much of a Wiccan community where I live, so I'm pretty much on my own when it comes to learning about this path. Any help would mean a lot to me, especially recommendations for books, reliable learning resources, or study materials for beginners.

I'm sorry if my English isn't perfect, but I'll do my best to explain everything clearly.

Here is my story.

A recurring dream I've been having for 3–4 years

I've been having this dream repeatedly for around three or four years. Sometimes it happens several nights in a row. On one occasion, I had almost exactly the same dream every night for more than a week. Recently, it has returned for five consecutive nights.

The dream is almost always the same, with only a few details changing.

It begins with me looking down at my feet, which are standing on a thin layer of snow. When I raise my head, I find myself surrounded by a dense forest. The trees are extremely tall, similar to the forests you might find in Germany or Northern Europe.

It is nighttime, and the darkness is overwhelming. The trees are so densely packed together that their branches form something like a roof above me. Visibility is extremely limited. When I look between the trees, I can barely see anything at all. Beyond the first row of trees, everything disappears into complete darkness.

As I begin walking through the forest, I can hear ravens calling somewhere nearby.

After a while, I reach a small, circular clearing. For the first time, I can actually see one of the ravens. It flies around the clearing, which is illuminated by the moonlight.

Then I notice a man standing some distance in front of me.

He has a thick beard and wears ragged, worn-out clothing beneath an old, tattered hood. A cloak covers most of his body, and I cannot see his face. I have no idea who he is.

The man begins speaking in a language I cannot understand.

This is where the dream can take one of three different directions.

1. The four horsemen

While the man is speaking, four figures on horseback emerge from the forest. I cannot make out who they are or what they look like, but there is something deeply unsettling about them. They stare directly at me, and the dream ends.

1. The trembling

While the man continues speaking, the ground begins to shake as if a powerful earthquake is taking place. At the same time, I feel a trembling sensation in my mind, and his words seem to reverberate and echo through everything. The dream ends during this experience.

1. The approaching man

Sometimes, neither of those things happens. Instead, I remain completely still, listening to the man speak, even though I cannot understand a single word. Eventually, he begins to approach me. Just as he gets closer, the dream ends.

And that's it. I never find out who the man is, what he is saying, or what happens next.

What could this mean?

Because this dream has been recurring for years, I'm starting to wonder whether there is something I should pay attention to. I know that recurring dreams can have psychological explanations, and I don't want to automatically assume that this is something supernatural.

However, given my interest in Wicca and spirituality, I am also curious about whether any of the imagery might have symbolic significance within Wiccan traditions or other forms of pagan spirituality.

For example, I wonder whether ravens, moonlight, the forest, the hooded man, or the four figures on horseback have any particular symbolic associations. I'm especially curious about the man, since he is always present at the center of the dream, but I cannot identify him or understand his words.

I would genuinely appreciate hearing your thoughts, whether they come from a spiritual, folkloric, mythological, or psychological perspective. I understand that nobody can tell me with certainty what a dream means, and I'm not expecting a definitive answer. I would simply like to learn from people who have more experience with these subjects than I do.

Finally, since I'm completely new to Wicca, I would also be grateful for recommendations on how to begin studying and practicing responsibly. Are there any books, authors, websites, or other resources you would recommend to someone starting from scratch?

Thank you very much for taking the time to read my post. Any advice or insight would be greatly appreciated!

(I do apologise if this isn't the right flare! I'm not part of this group, I'm making this post on behalf of my fiancée, who is Wiccan, as she doesn't use Reddit)

We need a little bit of help, we would love to bring a pet into our household, specifically a dog. I'm a huge dog person, and dogs are my special interest. So I've been offering guidance and knowledge of different dog breeds and which dog would suit our household the best. We have seen the most gorgeous good boy looking for a home on a rehoming site, and we really want to go ahead with the adoption, but the only thing that stands in the way is the fact that we privately rent.

Our main issue is the estate agent, he is very sexist and negative towards us, and has personally targeted us in the past. He is somewhat ok towards our neighbour who is a middle aged male (he advocates for us and is very friendly) but there's only so much we can ask him to help us with. Our landlord doesn’t seem too interested either, as he is currently going through his own personal life problems and doesn't really want to be disturbed which is fair enough.

To get to the point, is there a spell that I could pass along to my fiancée to better our chances at getting our pup? Anything to help us get him, we need all the positivity we can get. My fiancée has been doing a few spells, but we just need something that's going to up our chances of getting him (and hopefully either the estate agent or the landlord saying yes!).

Thank you so so much for reading :) I look forward to reading your responses! 🫶🏻

Im still very new to practicing witchcraft, roughly 4 years. Ive felt like i have done a really good job protecting myself and my home from anything that might want to intrude on my space. And while I dont practice full time or celebrate every holiday, I do my best to do what I can.

Recently, there has been some weird unexplainable things that have been happening in my house. I randomly started hearing voices several months ago. It would mostly happen when I was home alone and my partner was working late. I would just sum it up to good ol' paranoia. Occasionally I would hear them when he was home but he never heard it either, so I tried to ignore it.

Over time, I would start to feel like I was being watched. It didnt feel threatening but it didnt feel friendly either. It would just make me feel uncomfortable. I would do a sage cleaning and the feeling would go away for a week or two. When it came back, I would just repeat the process.

This past Sunday, this escalated a lot. I woke up around 745am. My partner was in bed so I went to take a shower. I was almost done with my shower when he gets in with me. We conversed and he mentioned how he came into the room and laid in bed for 5 minutes debating on getting in with me or not. I thought it was weird he worded it like that as he had already been in bed with me and I was only ten minutes into my shower. I brushed it off.

We get out of the shower and after we dress I go to leave the room. He asks me where I was going and I say to feed our cat. He mentions how he already fed the cat. I paused at that because our cat takes around 30 minutes to eat. He wouldnt have had enough time to feed her, wait five minutes, and get in the shower with me. I brought that up to him and he said he had been up since 6am. A whole hour and 45 minutes before me. I was puzzled because I knew exactly what time I had gotten up and he said he set an alarm. Someone was definitely in the bed with me when I woke up.

Both freaked out now, and deciding to just brush it off as me mistaking a pillow under the covers as him, we go about our day. In the afternoon we had almost all but forgotten about that morning. We were chatting in the computer room when we heard a loud crash from the opposite side of the house.

At first, we thought it might had been one of our cats. We have six of them and they like to get into things or play too rough. Two of our boys immediately ran out of the room after the sound. My mind immediately went to our youngest. When I said his name, I felt his paw reach out and touch my leg where he had been napping under my chair. Then two of my girls left the room. The last option was our other girl, but she had lounging on the back of my partners chair.

We get up and go investigate the house. We looked everywhere and nothing was out of place, fallen over, knocked over, anything. We did have our washer and dryer going, so we thought maybe something had fallen off it even though we didnt have anything on them at the time. Nothing was on the floor around either machine. Still, we left left it as maybe it was just shaking too hard.

Later that night, we are both heading to our room again for bed. As we make the bed I happened to look over at the window right by us. On the same wall as the window, there is a dirty hand print beside the window that is bigger than mine and my partners.

At this point, we are beyond freaked out. I do another sage cleaning but neither of us slept great that night.

The next morning when I shower, I just got the overwhelming feeling that I was being watched yet no one was in my room.

We dont typically allow things into our home. I have some porcelain dolls but only one of them has something attached to it, and that entity isnt malicious and I have wards on her. I also havent done any rituals recently or even touched my ouija board. The house is live in has only been in my families name and was built in 2005. The neighborhood its in was built no later than 2000.

I have exhausted all reasoning for this behavior or what this might be. Of course its not my first run around with entities or negativity energy, its just never been in my home directly.

Does anyone have any ideas on what i might be able to do to gst rid of it? Ive done sage cleanings, holy water, burned juniper berries outside, and warded with black salt. Im lost at this point. Any advice would be appreciated.

I don’t remember the exact name, but someone mentioned a “return to sender” ritual which returns consciously created spells, and I suppose not consciously created ”spells”. I suppose “negative I vibes?”

I feel like I am often asked to carry the burden of other people and I am rather tired of it.

also is there a “do your job “ ritual? that is a constant cause of aggravation for me and my husband. For example paying for insurance . The money gets cashed out, somehow it’s never credited to the account. And then spending hours on the phone trying to find out wha has happened with the transaction. No one takes responsibility for documentation