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ACOLYTE:
A beginner or novice denoting the lowest rank in a group in many magickal orders.
ADEPT:
A master or skilled practitioner of the magickal arts of the occult. In some
Craft traditions, it designates a particular stage of initiation.
AFFIRMATIONS:
The willing of repetitive Positive aspects of life brought
about by actions of
AKASHA:
The life energy that permeates the universe and represented by the 5th element
(center). It is the energy out of which the universe was formed - brought about
by the union of the Lord and the Lady!
AKASHIC RECORDS
ALCHEMY:
The Science of transmutation - of both Matter and Spirit [changing from one
energy level to another]
ALEXANDRIAN TRADITION:
A Wiccan religious tradition which traces its linage
to Alex Sanders of England, who died in 1988. Alex and Maxine Sanders were the
founders; The Alexandrian tradition is an offshoot of Gardnerian Wicca, but
also includes traces of Ceremonial Magick, Egyptian Classical religions, Qabala,
and the teachings of Aleister Crowley.
ALGARD TRADITION:
A Wiccan religious tradition founded in the late 70's by Mary Nesnick, of N.Y.
City. Their Book of Shadows includes a combination of Gardnerian and Alexandrian
components.
ALRAUN:
an image or talisman made of rowan wood.
ALTAR:
a table or any flat surface made of wood or stone used to hold the symbols and
tools during the performance of religious and magickal rituals. Druid Altars
are made of a flat stone laying across two upright stones.
AMERICAN TRADITION:
This Wiccan tradition is an offshoot of Gardnerian
Wicca, founded by Ed Fitch and several Southern Californian Gardnerians in the
late 70's. The tradition includes Gardnerian material and additional material
supplied by the founders. This tradition is sometimes known as Mohsian, after
two of the founders whose last name was Mohs.
AMULET:
a magically empowered object that deflects or sends away specific, usually negative,
energies. Generally, a protective object. See Talisman.
ANAPHRODISIAC:
a substance, such as camphor, that reduces sexual desires.
ANGLOSAXON:
Ruling Class of England from the 5th to the 11th century AD.
ANIMA / ANIMUS:
Jungarian concept that ANIMA - is the buried feminine element within a man's
psyche, and that ANIMUS - is the buried masculine element within the female.
This then fits to the Pagan views that Self and/or Soul, is both male and female,
and with the concepts of reincarnation.
ANIMISTIC:
the belief that all forms of Nature have a Divine Spirit within.
APHRODISIAC:
a substance that produces sexual excitement.
ARADIA:
ARCADIAN TRADITION:
A Male oriented worship of the Horned God, less
sexist than Dianic Wicca, as most Arcadian groups admit women.
ARCANA:
ARCHETYPES:
extremely basic forms within the human psyche; the archaic racial memories
AROMATHERAPY:
ASPECTS:
the taking on the qualities, attributes, or characteristics of something such
as Diety, etc. Ex.: Luna is an aspect of the Moon Goddess. Orion is an aspect
of the antlered or Horned God.
ASPECTING:
when a person during a ritual or magickal exercise, manifests ASPECTS of God
or Goddess, with/in themselves.
ASPERGER:
a bundle of fresh herbs or a perforated object, used for purification by sprinkling
consecrated water during or proceeding ritual.
ASSOCIATION OF CYMRY WICCAE:
One of the oldest Witchcraft associations in the
U.S. Founded in 1967, it provides member Churches, Covens or Groves with a Federal
I.R.S Tax Exempt status. It has included every major Wiccan tradition in its
membership at one time or another. It consists of member Witch and Wiccan churches
whose traditions derive most of their religious philosophy from Celtic sources.
See also WELSH TRADITION and Y TYLWYTH TEG.
ASTRAL:
1) The realms of existence parallel to physical reality but slightly apart from
it. In these realms, time and space may be traversed by the nonmaterial body.
A wide variety of entities inhabit the astral planes; elementals, phantasms,
ghosts and the conscious or dreaming presences of living individuals.
ASTRAL BODY:
a duplicate of and existing within the physical body, but made of a substance
not physical. However, this body can sometimes leave the physical body, and
in some cases can temporarily create a separate physical body.
ASTRAL PLANES:
various worlds of other dimensions which are coexistent with the earth plane.
ASTRAL PROJECTION:
Out-of-Body-Experience; transferring the consciousness from the physical
body to the Astral Body. The act of separating the consciousness from the physical
body and moving it about at will.
ASTROLOGY:
1) the belief that the relative positions of planets, planetoids and stars,
can influence events behavior surrounding us. 2) the method used in calculating
these related happenings. ASTRONOMY is the strict physical science.
ASTROLOGY, NATAL:
refers to calculating the planetary influences at the time of the subject's
birth.
ATAVISM, ATAVISTIC:
refers to characteristics of all living organisms,
that has a hereditary characteristic trait or deformity which shows up after
having skipped a generation or more. Such as a hybrid seed that reverts to the
original plant [wild ancestor].
ATHAME:
aTHAYme; the Witch's traditional magical tool, the consecrated, black-handled
dagger, a personal knife, usually made of steel and double bladed or edged;
with a black handle. Double edged to Symbolize that power works both ways: healing-
harming, creation- destruction; light- dark. Both sides necessary - both sides
needing to be controlled. The black absorbs power. The owner often engraves
magick symbols into the metal. A magickal tool associated with change; linking
it the Element of Fire, and its phallic nature links it to the God. It's direction
is South.
AURA:
the colored energy field that surrounds living tissue.
AUTUMN EQUINOX SABBAT:
Alban Elfed Mabon Sabbat; also see GWYL HYDREF.
AVATAR:
an advanced soul, who chooses to return to a physical body, in order to teach
less evolved souls.
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