Getting Started
Notes from page 7
Wicca is sometimes mistaken to be exclusively derived from European and British pagan cultures—however, it has just as many African, Middle Eastern, East and Southeast Asian influences.
The Modern Witchcraft offered here is eclectic, syncretic, intersectional feminist, progressive, egalitarian, and radically inclusive.
It reconciles the divine paradox: in Spirit we are one; yet in the God/dess’s family, all diverse distinctions we bring to the party are a sacred gift we’re here to fully celebrate.
Elemental Witchcraft lays a foundation for a magickal practice with the goal of:
Figuring out who we are as individuals and where we fit in the cosmic scheme of things
Figuring out what is “true”
Recalibrating our moral compass
Establishing personal sovereignty
Internalizing our source of empowerment
Developing our divine relationships
Healing ourselves so that we can endeavor to heal the earth and her people
Transform the toxicity of the patriarchal dominator culture into the cooperator culture of the God/dess
Unlocking our human potential through the integration of our physical, mental, emotional, will, and spiritual bodies
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Eclectic: Keeping what one considers to be the best elements from a variety of established systems; forging a new system from their many parts.
Syncretic or Syncretism: Results from the attempt to blend and reconcile varying and sometimes opposing principles and practices within philosophy and religion.
Patriarchy: A social organization marked by the supremacy of males in leadership in which the father is head of the family with descent and inheritance through the male line (patrilineal), and family residence remains with father's family or tribe (patrilocal).