In nonwiccanwitch , sarasuperid asked: "What does initiation mean to you?"  The one quick thing I can add to the discussion is to point out that my favorite description of initiation is the Twelfth Step from the Twelve Steps programs (Alcoholics Anonymous, and its descendants).
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps,
we tried to carry this message to ( Read more... )

The standard model of cross-gender initiation assumes that people come in two genders.  However--as I prove by existing--that doesn't completely cover it.  The following is my current thinking on cross-gender initiation when third-gendered individuals are involved ( Read more... )

While this is in response to a sentence by wyndy_wytch, it is not about wyndy_wytch, since I've never met her. It's about a position that I disagree with.

"I mean to know the Wiccan Gods I would need to have been initiated into Wicca which I haven't been. "

As far as I can remember, neither Gerald Gardner nor Doreen Valiente ever wrote anything that ( Read more... )

One of the dedicants recently emailed the initiates of Little Circle on the Plain, asking for some work before initiation.  This post is my email to the initiates, discussing the dedicant's request.  I'm posting it here because I think it says some meaningful things about how I see initiation and about my relationship with LCoP.( Here are my thoughts... )