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when you put it that way it sounds like:
knock knock Hi my name is Lee and How would you like some Christianity or maybe some God and i have a very nice Bible im sure you will love that i will give you for free.
I think this may be concerted blasphaous. but truely i have been looking for christian dropshiper and some of the sites are just this bad and worse the first thing they want is money!!! I (not God/Jesus/ Holy Spirit) will save your soul from hate for the miracalous prise of $50.
it reminds me of the Bible story of when Jesus tore down the Temple!!! It makes Christians look greed and stupid lame!! Sorry off track but just so you know some of us are not that way. i would hate for anyone to think of me that way.
ok back to learning! what is The Charge of the Goddess? and is the Wiccan Rede a book or Poem. By the way I like the Poem. I dont know who the name are or if they are names but i like it just the same but that will be my next questions
who are they or what are they?

The Charge of the Goddess is a poem, written by a woman named Doreen Valiente. You will also find adaptations and variations on her work done by other people.

The Wiccan Rede sometimes is a phrase used to refer to the main tenant of Pagan/neoPagan/Wiccan spiritual beliefs, which is summed up as "An it harm none, do as ye will." As Fiona mentioned, it refers to not only not harming onesself, but all life and creatures, on emotional, spiritual and mental levels. The Wiccan Rede goes with The Law of Three, which is expressed as the belief that all energy you put out into the universe will come back to you threefold.

Although I don't consider myself a Wiccan, I do try to adhere to the Wiccan Rede and the Law of Three in my life.

I liked the Wikipedia page on The Wiccan Rede. If you read there, you'll see it's both a belief and a poem with that title.

ok. i got another question... what is Magic and why is it spelled like Magik (dont think i spelled that right but spell check gave the first and nothing to the second) and can you give an example?

i got two books today!!! one is the truth about witchcraft today by Scott Cunningham so far i am on page 19. and A charkra & Kundalili workbook. I am a Reiki Master and i believe this is the same thing that Jesus instucted His decipals to do by laying on of hands of course my church does not believe in touch therapy. so i am underground you may say they know it and we agree not to being it up unless they do. I was not taght that Reiki was a Religain in and of it same of was for one only and not the other. the only reason i bring it up is that i have notices that some of the site talk about Charkras and auras and you guessed it I have more question and i dont know any one that pracices it here because my teacher moved and i was her only student at the time. so...*BIG SMILE*
What side gives and which side takes? right= give and Left= take unless it is the back side right? i havemy note from my class but i write worse then i type and tend to right backward or get the concepts backwards. and the Chakra's go bottom to top going conception up through the stages of life. Right to Being, right to have, right to feel, right to love and be loved, right to speek, right to see, right to know. did i put them i the right order?leave some out? I use Rieki no myself and i pay more attene to my breathing and trying to relax and feel were the energy goes... this book i have is a bit other my head. I dont even know what Kundalini is?

my hubby thought it was a mispelling of the proper name for the first part of... he is not use to my unique ways of thinking or all this new words (of course my brain likes to play dancing letter) and process info and looking at the world. altho his is just as off the beaten path as i am we have been together 2 year and just now opening up and trusting each other with inter thought and feeling on a deeper level. its wierd in a way i did not thing he would understand me so I kinda did my Quest underground until one day i said some thing about some thing i learned and he thought nothing about it an contributed to the convertation!!! WOW he can talk for hours and know we can debate and challege each other!!! balanced at last (An alll the Angals sing).

There seems to be debate on the spelling of magic vs. magick. I just stick with magic, changing the spelling does not change the meaning for me. Reiki would be considered a form of magic. Magic is not the evil thing some make it out to be. When I hear my Christian friends talk about prayer in a group, singing in church, candles burning, the positive energy... that to me is magic. Positive energy flowing.

I feel the same way as Rae, she said this well. If I had to describe myself I would probably be a pagan witch.

"Magick" is an Olde English spelling, hahaha..... Really, it is, and some folks use the term to separate the spiritual practice from "magic," the performance kind, which is what a magician does with cards.

I can't talk much about Reiki, although I have friends that practice it. I was taught that if you are right-handed, energy flows in through your left hand and out via the right, and that it's reversed for lefties, but my sister who practices acupuncture says that sometimes you find people whose polarities are reversed.

I consider myself a witch and an alchemist, spiritually. I chose to indentify with the term witch, because so many people have such stigma about the word and so many bad pre-conceived notions. Recently, I found a community that uses the metaphor of alchemical transformation for spritual growth, and I've been enjoying my work with them.

I have a quick question about the blood thing... I understand not wanting to give away any piece of yourself to a place where you cannot control it, but do Wiccans believe in donating blood and/or organs? I realize that with Wicca and Paganism (unlike more dogmatic religions), every practicioner makes their own choices on things like that, but what is the general attitude?

Megan,

I've not heard of nor encountered any religious stipulations against medical procedures and practices occuring in Paganism or Wicca. I've met people that had objections to something specific, but those were always personal choices, not something stipulated by the belief system.

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LOL, my children would definitely agree with that one! (Although, I do tend to think about dialysis, when taking out the blood temporarily to cleanse it is a good thing...)

This thread is very interesting! I never knew there was so much I didn't know about Wicca. I think people (including me) get most of our ideas from movies and shows like "The Craft" and "Charmed" and even "Buffy" (I do miss that show). It's hard to know what is accurate.

hi Megan, that is another Question i as going to ask. The geranl way of thinking in my religain is blood donating with in family and friend is fine same as organs like kidney part of a liver,pancess or a lobe of a lung that will save someone is ok but.. taking a organ from someone you dont know or do know that has died is alittle inke. but if it was someone that i loved i am not sure i could stand by and watch them die when there is blood or an organ right there that could save them. as for myself i would rather die then pray that someone die so i cant live. and i would take a blood transfution from someone i dont know if there was no family or friend that could donate. and i was a blood donater until i have to take insulin. im Chirstian (Nazernerne) so this probly does not answer your quistion. sorry