From the editor: In a world where Wicca is something one does as a solitary or with his or her coven, this book demonstrates how Wicca is something one experiences with kith and kin. In a religion which many would focus on the darkness of the Burning Times, this book focuses on a modern context for pre-Christian fertility religions.

This book shows us the potential for a modern Wicca based on the lives of the pre-Christian Pagans (meaning country dweller). This is a Wicca where the structure is founded on the natural bonding of a couple, rather than the solitude of the solitary practitioner or the artificial confines of a loveless coven. Where archetypes are more than just names, they are living examples of how we can better understand and strengthen our relationships, thus build a world view based on love rather than objectification.

Includes not only rituals for Hand Fasting, Wiccaning, and Hand Parting but a discussion of how these sacred rituals have been almost trivialized in Wiccan culture and what steps we can take to return their sanctity. This book explains why Wiccans declare sexual union The Great Rite, explains the sanctity of this union, and warns against its trivialization. Most important, by examining Wiccan ritual, this book demonstrates how our rituals imitate life and how the living of that life is infinitely more important than what one does in formal circle. Where a circle is cast, a home is built. Where athame is brought to chalice, a union is forged.

Pages: 224
Special Interest: Relationships, Couples, WitchCraft, Wicca, Occult, Magick, Family, Studies & Application, Ritual, Sorcery.