Beginners Guide To Wicca And Witchcraft

Homosexuality In Wicca

Throughout most branches of wicca, all sexual orientation including homosexuality are considered healthy and positive, provided that individual sexual relationships are healthy and loving. Sexual orientation is therefore not considered an issue. Although , a key figure in Wicca, was arguably homophobic. This historical aversion is not now commonly held. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are almost always welcomed in individual communities, covens, study groups, and circles. Many LGBT Neopagans were initially attracted to Neopagan religions because of this inclusion, in which their relationships are seen on an equal footing. Many Wiccans cite the Charge of the Goddess, which says "All acts of Love and Pleasure are My rituals". Therefore all forms and expressions of sexuality, as long as they are otherwise healthy and consensual, are accepted.
Since Wicca focuses on the importance of male-female polarities, its acceptance of homosexuals is focused on the view that homosexual individuals embody (spiritually) aspects of both polarities. A view similar to that of the Native American tradition of Two-Spirited individuals.
The Gardnarian reconstruct was based on little knowledge of the ancient past. In a Sumerian piece, The Descent of Inanna, one of the oldest religious texts in the world, millennia before Hindu and Egyptian, the Goddess has been lost to the world and all the plans of the Gods have come to a halt. No procreation is taking place at all; neither plant or animal. Ereshkigal, Inanna's sister, Queen and Goddess of the Apzu, held as if dead. Neither men nor Gods could help her. No heterosexual could resist Ereshkigal's beauty and seductions, and heterosexuals had no magic of their own. It was then that word, the logos, the zikru, was created. As all homosexual wiccans should know, the reminder, repeated as often as you like is: "Dingir Enki in the wisdom of his heart created the word, created "he who is glorious (shining) in his coming forth, the masculine homosexual."
According to the Pagan Federation of Canada: 'Over the last few decades, many people have thought that the emphasis on male/female polarity in Wicca excludes homosexuals'. However, this source goes on to make the case for the validity of LGBT orientations even within traditional Wicca, suggesting that gay men and lesbians are likely to be particularly alive to the interplay of the masculine and feminine principles in the Universe.
Dianic Wicca (also known as Feminist Witchcraft and/or Feminist Spirituality), claimed to be a branch of Wicca (despite not being in line with Wiccan beliefs) practiced almost exclusively by women, most of whom are heterosexual, preferring to practice their spirituality with other women in pursuit of Women's Mysteries. Some Dianics, of course, are lesbians, just as there are lesbians in other Wiccan denominations. Dianic Wiccans worship a goddess but not the god, and form female-only covens, for the most part. There are some mixed-gender Dianics, specifically the McFarland Dianics, who practice in either all female or mixed-gender circles, and who may or may not include the god in their workings.
Since the nineteen eighties, a number of all-male or "Mithraic" circles have been formed. These masculist circles worship both the god and the goddess, but tend to emphasise the role of the god in their lives. It is thought that these circles may have been formed In response to Dianic Wicca.
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