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Law of Three, The: A Wiccan belief that our actions, both positive and negative, will be returned to us three-fold.

Litha: The Summer Solstice, a Wiccan religious festival and a traditional time for magic. Also known as Midsummer.

Lughnasadh: A Wiccan religious festival celebrated on August 1st that marks the first harvest.

Magic: The movement of natural Energies to manifest positive, needed changes. Magic is the process of rousing energy, giving it purpose ( through Visualization ), and releasing it to create a change. This is a natural ( not supernatural ) practice.

Mabon: A Wiccan religious festival celebrated on the Autumn Equinox that marks the second harvest.

Ostara: A Wiccan festival celebrated on the Spring Solstice that marks the beginning of the return of evident fertility to the Earth.

Pentagram: An interlaced five-pointed star that has long been used as a protective device.

Personal Power: The energy which sustains our bodies.

Psychic Awareness: The act of being consciously psychic. In which the psychic mind and the conscious mind are linked and working in harmony.

Ritual Ceremony: A specific form of movement, manipulation of objects or inner processes designed to produce desired effects. In religion, ritual is geared toward union with the divine. In magic it allows the magician to move energy toward needed goal. A Spell is a magical rite.

Samhain: A Wiccan religious festival celebrated on October 31st, which marks the last harvest and the preparations for winter.

Scrying: The process of gazing at or into a shiny object, flame or water for the purpose of contacting the psychic mind.

Wicca: A contemporary Pagan religion with spiritual roots in the earliest expressions of reverence of nature as a manifestation of the divine. Wicca views Deity as Goddess and God; thus it is polytheistic. It also embraces the practice of Magic and accepts reincarnation. Religious festivals are held in observance of the Full Moon and other astronomical ( and agricultural ) phenomena. It has no associations with Satanism.

Witch: Anciently, a European practitioner of pre-Christian Folk Magic, particularly that relating to herbs, wells, rivers and stones. One who practiced Witchcraft. Later, this term meaning was altered to denote demented, dangerous beings who practiced destructive magic and who threatened Christianity. This latter definition is false.

Witchcraft: The Craft of the Witch. Magic, especially magic utilizing Personal Power in conjunction with the energies within stones, herbs, colors and other natural objects. While this does have spiritual overtones, witchcraft, according to this definition, isnt a religion. However, many followers of Wicca use this word to denote their religion.

Yule: A Wiccan religious festival celebrated on the Winter Solstice that marks the rebirth of the Sun.

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