How does one become a witch?

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The foremost thing that anyone who wants to become a witch should know is that putting Wicca into practice means transforming oneself. The search for knowledge and control becomes the search for control over each one’s dealings and knowledge of each one’s inner self; the light side as well as the dark.

There are basically two necessities for those looking to become a witch. The first necessity is internal and is linked to your soul, your character and your heart. The other necessity is external and is associated with training.

Witchcraft which is also known as the Craft of the Wise is a down-to-earth, optimistic religion which is committed to worshipping the God and the Goddess. Witches are required to honor and show respect to all living beings. Witches are reliable, modest, caring, sympathetic and forbearing in their contact with others. The craft necessitates that witches follow a certain system of behavior – are self-disciplined in their dealings, no matter if the dealings are on a religious, magickal or ordinary level. Hence the first thing a would-be witch should do is study oneself. Identify your weaknesses as well as strengths. Tackle your weaknesses and build your strengths even further.

The secret to becoming a witch is knowledge which you can gain through training. You can choose to attend a course like Old Witchcraft; you can do this in person or on the Net where you can work together with your instructor and fellow students. The second option is training your self. You can get plenty of information in the form of books as well as on the Net. Keep an open mind and question whatever you read, always depending on your instinct when trying to review the information available to you. Yet another option you have is to join a coven. However, you must be careful while selecting a coven as one needs to be at ease with the ethics, practices and dealings between the other members of the coven.

One of the top ways to be an even better witch is to act on your knowledge. Try to incorporate divinity and magick into your day to day life. Write some devotional lines to your goddess or god and say them each morning when you get up or before going to bed at the end of the day. Change your altar so that it reflects the year’s turning wheel. Try to comprehend every element. Study a new pantheon. Try to mediate every single day but once a week at the least. You should try to apply the Wiccan Rede which goes “An it harm none, do what thou wilt”, to your daily life besides “What comes around, goes around” and “Do unto others as you want them to do to you”. Read all you can about Wicca and experiment with various divination techniques and see which one works best for you. As you learn and practice new things, pay full attention to the moral side of what you are learning. Make sure to develop a tough set of ethics and let these be the base for any work that you do.

Wicca is a religion which can pervade every facet of your life if you want it to. There are countless ways to learn and practice as a witch if you are ready for it. The modern opinions of witchcraft are that it is a pantheistic religion that comprises of respect for nature, belief in others’ rights and satisfaction in one’s own religion. A good witch focuses on the positive and good things in the spirit and life and denies any link with the devil.

A good witch is supposed to use common sense. There is no doubt that you will come across something that conflicts with what you already know. You must think for yourself what the real truth is. Also there is a lot of freedom as to which religious path you might choose to follow as your own. You even have Christians who practice magick but still venerate the Christian God.