Thoughts on girlfriends and Wiccan theology?
My girlfriend is Wiccan, which I guess means that she’s in to witchcraft and stuff like that? I don’t think she has slipped me any Wiccan love potions, even though I love how wild she is in bed!
She has a lot of pluses when it comes to sex, but her leaving for meetings with her Wicca coven every other night is getting on my nerves. As I understand it, her leader is a male… Should that make me nervous? You know, meeting up in the middle of the night doing whatever those Wicca folks are doing?
Thoughts on girlfriends and Wiccan theology? Witches and witchcraft?
I don’t see a problem here… She has a mind of her own. She will do as she sees fit, being in to Wicca or not. Your girlfriend not shaving her legs, painting with her menstrual blood and getting involved in poor rhythmic drumming, should be minor issues if she also worships your man-meat, no?
Not to worry… Your girlfriend is not a witch — I bet she couldn’t bite the wings off a live bat even if one got stuck in her hair! Most Wiccans are into hot coco and blueberry muffins when they get home, and in from the cold (it’s a “magical” combination when you are frozen…)
Don’t worry about the dudes involved in Wicca (or her “leader” specifically). They are looked down upon by most senior female Wiccan practitioners. You often hear them refer to males as “our bitches” or “our main bitch” if one is the “High Priest”.
Wicca is not witchcraft — Wicca is a nature-based religion! The Wicca as practiced today is actually a new theology… It was made up in the mid 1950s by a retired British civil servant (Gerald Gardner) who wrote the books Witchcraft Today (1954) and The Meaning of Witchcraft (1959).
All Gerald Gardner did was to rehash bits of crap that were thought up by different people in the 1920s-1940s… Then he filled in the “blanks” with variations of different pagan beliefs… Yes, of course he also made up a lot of goofy stuff to further his goal of making a compelling story and theology (and as much money as possible).
So, yes, Wicca is really a theology invented by a retired British civil servant! Being a fiction writer made it very easy (and I bet very amusing…) for him to make it all up. Hey, it was the 1950s and people were extremely gullible and easily rattled back then!
As you can see (your girlfriend being one of them)… Some people today are still gullible and easily rattled, which is why Wicca is still around (however, often it’s merely a phase for Nouveau-hippies, tree huggers and teenage girls with their teenage angsts).
You will see many flavours (variations on the theme) of Wicca as the theology doesn’t have a centralized organization. Covens, priests, priestesses and even solitary Wiccans remove and add to “their” theology as they see fit (to suit their agendas and needs). It’s quite common for different covens to scrap things they deem to be too much work, or simply too ridiculous. Yes, some Wiccans add some “spooky” and “dark” elements in there to spruce things up a bit (especially when new members are initiated in to a coven or group).
However, it’s all in good fun, and as a generalization — it’s all relatively harmless. Yes, as in any structured group: you have to earn your stripes and kiss ass before being fully accepted. Newbies are generally looked down upon, but this is nothing unique to Wicca — it happens in every area of life.
Sure, there are of course crazy people involved in Wicca also, but again, not any more than any other organized or disorganized religion.
The covens mostly meet in the evenings for a reason: embarrassed and red faces can’t be seen that well in the dark or by an open fire…
However, I do agree with the Wiccan Rede: “An it harm none, do what ye will.”
Hope you learned something…
Don’t worry — just enjoy your wild-in-bed Wiccan girlfriend!
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