Comments on: My Newest Pet Peeve: The Anti-Wicca-ites http://sitarahaye.com/2009/06/26/my-newest-pet-peeve-the-anti-wicca-ites/ A Witch's Word -- Spiritual Writings For The Modern Witch Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:27:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Sorcha http://sitarahaye.com/2009/06/26/my-newest-pet-peeve-the-anti-wicca-ites/comment-page-1/#comment-3838 Sorcha Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:52:45 +0000 http://sitarahaye.com/?p=434#comment-3838 I hadn't realised that so much of what I do is Wiccan, but if this is Wicca, what do you consider Pagan? Any good site/books to look into? I hadn’t realised that so much of what I do is Wiccan, but if this is Wicca, what do you consider Pagan? Any good site/books to look into?

]]> By: Sitara Haye http://sitarahaye.com/2009/06/26/my-newest-pet-peeve-the-anti-wicca-ites/comment-page-1/#comment-3770 Sitara Haye Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:00:59 +0000 http://sitarahaye.com/?p=434#comment-3770 I'm glad you enjoyed the site and found some information useful! Please keep checking back as I tend to write like a woman possessed. :-) I’m glad you enjoyed the site and found some information useful! Please keep checking back as I tend to write like a woman possessed. :-)

]]> By: Tarot cards http://sitarahaye.com/2009/06/26/my-newest-pet-peeve-the-anti-wicca-ites/comment-page-1/#comment-3763 Tarot cards Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:33:22 +0000 http://sitarahaye.com/?p=434#comment-3763 Hmm Well I was just searching on Google for some Tarot readings of some Tarot reader and just came across your blog, generally I just only visit blogs and retrieve my required information but this time the useful information that you posted in this post compelled me to reply here and appreciate your good work. I just bookmarked your blog Hmm Well I was just searching on Google for some Tarot readings of some Tarot reader
and just came across your blog, generally I just only visit blogs and retrieve my required
information but this time the useful information that you posted in this post compelled me
to reply here and appreciate your good work. I just bookmarked your blog

]]> By: Emma http://sitarahaye.com/2009/06/26/my-newest-pet-peeve-the-anti-wicca-ites/comment-page-1/#comment-2997 Emma Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:29:53 +0000 http://sitarahaye.com/?p=434#comment-2997 Personally I never called myself Wiccan because I always understood Wicca to be an initiatory, coven-based mystery cult. As someone pointed out to me somewhere else, how can I claim to be Wiccan when I do not have the oath-bound information about Wicca? Such as the names of the Lord and Lady. I can only know outer-court information, and what is the point of that? Personally I never called myself Wiccan because I always understood Wicca to be an initiatory, coven-based mystery cult.

As someone pointed out to me somewhere else, how can I claim to be Wiccan when I do not have the oath-bound information about Wicca? Such as the names of the Lord and Lady. I can only know outer-court information, and what is the point of that?

]]> By: Kat http://sitarahaye.com/2009/06/26/my-newest-pet-peeve-the-anti-wicca-ites/comment-page-1/#comment-2385 Kat Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:36:26 +0000 http://sitarahaye.com/?p=434#comment-2385 Hey Sitara...I, too, am a solitary. Though I have dealt with the stigma of others' ignorance about the terms "Wicca" and "Witch" (and even the question of what the heck "Celtic" means to me), I identify myself as a Witch who follows a Celtic Path of Wicca (though not "Celtic Witta"). As you identiyfy with the Egyptians, so I will the Goddesses of the Welsh pantheon. I'm self-initiated, well-read and well-studied, and the sheer protectivism of some who follow the Path amazes me. Thank you for voicing this! Hey Sitara…I, too, am a solitary. Though I have dealt with the stigma of others’ ignorance about the terms “Wicca” and “Witch” (and even the question of what the heck “Celtic” means to me), I identify myself as a Witch who follows a Celtic Path of Wicca (though not “Celtic Witta”). As you identiyfy with the Egyptians, so I will the Goddesses of the Welsh pantheon. I’m self-initiated, well-read and well-studied, and the sheer protectivism of some who follow the Path amazes me. Thank you for voicing this!

]]> By: Sitara Haye http://sitarahaye.com/2009/06/26/my-newest-pet-peeve-the-anti-wicca-ites/comment-page-1/#comment-2075 Sitara Haye Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:17:47 +0000 http://sitarahaye.com/?p=434#comment-2075 There is a serious divide occurring due to semantical differences that somehow we need to transcend. It may just take enough people getting to the point of saying, "You know, I get your complaint, but seems kind of selfish to put the label ahead of the work, don't you think?" We'll get there! :-) There is a serious divide occurring due to semantical differences that somehow we need to transcend. It may just take enough people getting to the point of saying, “You know, I get your complaint, but seems kind of selfish to put the label ahead of the work, don’t you think?”

We’ll get there! :-)

]]> By: Anastasia http://sitarahaye.com/2009/06/26/my-newest-pet-peeve-the-anti-wicca-ites/comment-page-1/#comment-2021 Anastasia Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:51:23 +0000 http://sitarahaye.com/?p=434#comment-2021 I find this article very interesting...Maybe because here in Russia we have just the opposite problem. Everybody wants to call himself/herself wiccan, and oh God! I wish they didn't!!! There is a number of wiccan groups in one of the Russian social networks, and usually I'm really shocked by the things those "wiccans" write there.Wicca is not very popular here,because a limited number of people knows what it is, and I suppose it'll never become popular or at least respected with all those stupid teenagers who want to be cool and unique and call themselves witches and wiccans when they are NOT. As for me, I don't really like to call myself a wiccan, but not because I'm ashamed of being one. On the contrary, I don't want to discriminate Wicca itself by calling myself its adept, because I'm not very experienced, I know almost nothing of it, I'm still learning. So I think you should be glad that all those "P-A-G-A-N-S" with their low self-esteem don't call themselves wiccan, because a wiccan is a wise, mentally adult person (even if he/she is still a teenager), and not a cowardly one. I find this article very interesting…Maybe because here in Russia we have just the opposite problem.
Everybody wants to call himself/herself wiccan, and oh God! I wish they didn’t!!! There is a number of wiccan groups in one of the Russian social networks, and usually I’m really shocked by the things those “wiccans” write there.Wicca is not very popular here,because a limited number of people knows what it is, and I suppose it’ll never become popular or at least respected with all those stupid teenagers who want to be cool and unique and call themselves witches and wiccans when they are NOT.
As for me, I don’t really like to call myself a wiccan, but not because I’m ashamed of being one. On the contrary, I don’t want to discriminate Wicca itself by calling myself its adept, because I’m not very experienced, I know almost nothing of it, I’m still learning.
So I think you should be glad that all those “P-A-G-A-N-S” with their low self-esteem don’t call themselves wiccan, because a wiccan is a wise, mentally adult person (even if he/she is still a teenager), and not a cowardly one.

]]> By: lee http://sitarahaye.com/2009/06/26/my-newest-pet-peeve-the-anti-wicca-ites/comment-page-1/#comment-1926 lee Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:19:05 +0000 http://sitarahaye.com/?p=434#comment-1926 Well, one of the reasons I no longer call myself Wiccan is because of all the crap I hear from BTW about who is a 'real' Witch or Wiccan. I have nothing against Wicca and I certainly honor GG, but i consider myself to be Neo-Pagan, as in a 'new Pagan'. I embrace ecclecticism, which is another dirty word these days! Just found your site and have to say i am enjoying it! Well, one of the reasons I no longer call myself Wiccan is because of all the crap I hear from BTW about who is a ‘real’ Witch or Wiccan. I have nothing against Wicca and I certainly honor GG, but i consider myself to be Neo-Pagan, as in a ‘new Pagan’. I embrace ecclecticism, which is another dirty word these days!

Just found your site and have to say i am enjoying it!

]]> By: BETH http://sitarahaye.com/2009/06/26/my-newest-pet-peeve-the-anti-wicca-ites/comment-page-1/#comment-1915 BETH Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:36:28 +0000 http://sitarahaye.com/?p=434#comment-1915 I am looking at the Wiccan beliefs because of my daughter and have told people I am not Wicca myself because I do not understand the need to label the neutral power that emanantes through our world as either male or female. The effects of the power is determined by whether it is utilized for good or evil, not whether sexism has distorted it. When "talking" to people on the Internet about my experiences I have been asked, "Are you sure you're not Wicca?" I am looking at the Wiccan beliefs because of my daughter and have told people I am not Wicca myself because I do not understand the need to label the neutral power that emanantes through our world as either male or female. The effects of the power is determined by whether it is utilized for good or evil, not whether sexism has distorted it. When “talking” to people on the Internet about my experiences I have been asked, “Are you sure you’re not Wicca?”

]]> By: Sitara Haye http://sitarahaye.com/2009/06/26/my-newest-pet-peeve-the-anti-wicca-ites/comment-page-1/#comment-1635 Sitara Haye Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:30:11 +0000 http://sitarahaye.com/?p=434#comment-1635 Thanks so much for the email letting me know your comment hadn't posted. Your situation is similar to others that have posted on this thread. Thanks so much for the email letting me know your comment hadn’t posted. Your situation is similar to others that have posted on this thread.

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