questions about wicca?

1) Ignore the fundies saying you’ll go to hell and are opening yourself up to demons. They don’t believe in either.

2) Get the book: Wicca, a Guide for the Solitary Practitioner by Scott Cunningham (Amazon.com used books is a great resource)

3) Avoid Silver Ravenwolf, DJ Conway and most Llewellyn books

4) Do NOT pay for lessons over the internet. You can’t ask for references. Do NOT give out personal information to anyone over the internet. Get a PO Box.

5) www.witchvox.com http://wicca.timerift.net/

6) Learn and keep learning about various paths in paganism.

7) I wouldn’t be a good resource beyond this. I haven’t been a Wiccan in decades and I am no longer a pagan/Heathen.

8) get the book: "Drawing Down the Moon" by Margo Adler (an older book that's a little dated, especially concerning Asatru but a good resource) - it gives an overview on a lot of pagan traditions.

Hate to rain on your parade but unless you are 18 or older no responsible group will accept you. I strongly suggest you get a hold of a Scott Cunningham book or two. My personal favorite thats in my library is "A Guide to the Solitary Wiccan".

It is also a must-have for anyone with a good comparative religious library simply as reference material.

It will explain a lot of the craft in an informative manner. Although I am a solitary wiccan, I also urge you to also read and discover other paths as well. The more you learn along the way, the more you will understand.

Happy travels to you on the road to your own personal discovery.

Books:

Wicca: Guide for the solitary practitioner - Scott Cunningham

The Complete Idiots Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft - Katherine Gleason and Denise Zimmerman

I have both these books and loved them both. Easy reads.

http://wicca.timerift.net/wicca101/index.shtml

Popularly recommended and reputable site.

"Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner" (<- @ Radio Jingles, is this what you meant?) by Scott Cunningham is great. There is also a book called "When Someone You Love is Wiccan", I forget the author's name, but you might want to get it for your family.

http://wicca.timerift.net/ is the site that I always recommend to the curious or to newcomers to the faith. The woman who runs it really knows her stuff and relates it in an easy-to-understand way.

Also, which books have you been studying? Some of the Wiccan resources out there are just plain bad.

ETA: Including the Frosts, who have been recommended by another poster. In one of their books they advocate child sexual abuse, and their claims to have introduced Wicca to North America are outright false.

Spirit of the Witch by Grimassi

http://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Witch-Spirituality-Co...

It's a solid book to understand, explained as simple as possible, the origins of of what you would call Wicca. I would caution you though, that the 'Old Religion' i not what wicca is today, and knowing what I am about to say is offensive to some, i apologize for it: Wicca is not what you think. If you want to understand what they claim to be their origins you have to go into pre-Christian religions. There, I believe, is your best bet on understanding spirituality and human nature from a much different perspective.

Not really. I mean the best way to "learn" is to follow the wiccan rede. There are several different denominations of wicca such as gardenarian, dianic, eclectic etc. I found Scott Cunningham's books to be helpful myself but its a very personal religion.

These are good suggestions, but I think it is very helpful to know mythology. Joseph Campbell's "Primitive Mythology," turned me into a pagan at once. "Patterns in Comparative Religion" by Mircea Eliade is a gold mine of rituals performed all over the world. Similarly I never really grasped wicca until I read his book on Shamanism.

This craft is largely self taught for many people; a such be prepared to have a long reading list. That's just background information.

Beware Aleister Crowley. He is quite an authority on the Tarot, but he was sadistic and despicable, IMO. The Frosts write readable and useful books about Wicca, and Tantra too.

Read up on it.

http://www.witchvox.com/

http://www.religioustolerance.org/witchcra.htm

http://wicca.timerift.net/wicca101/index.shtml

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/index.htm

Not everyone thinks it's dark or evil. Quite a few people think it's new age ecclecticism that just borrows whatever sounds cool from other religions and traditions, and is at least half teenagers experimenting with "spirituality" and magic(k).