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- Wand
- Ritual tool representing Fire/Air.
- Waning Crescent
- The Moon is partly but less than one-half illuminated by direct sunlight while the illuminated part is decreasing. The Moon here is Mother/Crone.
- Waning Gibbous
- The Moon is less than fully but more than one-half illuminated by direct sunlight while the illuminated part is decreasing. Three days after the Full Moon. The Moon here is Mother.
- Waning Moon
- A phase of the moon in which the face of the moon is getting smaller (the time between a full moon and a new moon).
- Wards
- Mystical energy patterns designed to safeguard an area (or person) from negative influences. Wards, such as pentagrams, are often drawn in the air at the four quarters of a sacred space to enforce the protective energy.
- Warlock
- Antiquated term misused in reference to a male Witch. As it means ‘oathbreaker’ or ‘liar’, most Pagans find the term offensive.
- Watch Towers
- Originally from the Enochian branch of Ceremonial Magick, now incorporated into many “Traditions” of Wicca, these are the four elemental “directions” or “quarters” (corresponding to the appropriate points on the compass) called to protect the Circle during its establishment. Each of them have a correspondence between the compass point, an element, and (varying amongst different traditions) color associated with them.
- Water
- In most magickal traditions this corresponds with West, the color blue, the Psychic Mind, intuition and emotion.
- Water Witching
- Rhabdomancy when done for finding water.
- Waxing Crescent
- The visible Moon is partly but less than one-half illuminated by direct sunlight while the illuminated part is increasing. The Moon here is Maiden.
- Waxing Gibbous
- The Moon is more than one-half but not fully illuminated by direct sunlight while the illuminated part is increasing. Three days before the Full Moon. The Moon here is Mother.
- Waxing Moon
- The phase of the moon in which the face of the moon is getting larger (the time between a new moon and a full moon).
- Web Weaving
- Networking with other magickal people to gather information which will mutually assist each party.
- Weight Control
- Mass control and/or gravity control when done in a gravity well (on the surface of a planet, for example).
- Well of Segais
- The ultimate source of information on the Other Worlds.
- Wheel of Life
- A 'wheel' or symbolic circle divided into directional sections (North, South, East, West etc.). Each section contains a certain energy, which designates specific uses, meanings or the existence of certain energy patterns. The East represents fire, the sun and the place for communication as an example.
- Wheel of the Year
- The full cycle of the eight Sabbats in the Wiccan calendar. They Occur at the Equinoxes and Solstices (the Quarters) and on the days marking the midpoints between them (the Cross-Quarters.) A short list of the names:
Name(s) | Date |
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Yule | Winter Solstice |
Candlemas/Imbolc | February 2nd |
Eostar/Ostara | Spring Equinox |
Beltane/May Day | May 1st |
Litha | Summer Solstice |
Lughnassadh/Lammas | August 2nd |
Mabon | Autumn Equinox |
Samhain | October 31st |
- White Magic
- 1A used to refer to magic being done for “good” purposes 2A used to refer to magic being done by people of whom the user of the term approves.
- White Witch
- A witch who only practices white magick.
- Wicca
- A modern Pagan religion with spiritual roots in the earliest expressions of reverence for nature. Some major identifying motifs are: reverence for both the Goddess and God; acceptance of reincarnation and magick; ritual observance of astronomical and agricultural phenomena; and the use of magickal circles for ritual purposes.
- Wiccan Creed
- This is the moral code for all who practice Wicca and most who practices Witchcraft (also known as the Rede):
Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill:
And it harm none, do what ye will.
- Wiccan Trilogy
- The triple aspect of the Goddess, Maiden, Mother, and Crown.
- Wicce
- Synonymous with Wicca. In some circles, Wicce is used for women and Wicca is used for men. Plural of Witch.
- Widdershins
- Counterclockwise motion.
- Wine Moon
- The tenth Full Moon of the year.
- Witch
- A practitioner of the Craft. This term applies equally to either males or females. A practitioner of folk magick, particularly that kind relating to herbs, stones, colors, wells, rivers, etc. It is used by some Wiccans to describe themselves.
- Witchcraft
- The craft of the witch — magick, especially magick utilizing personal power in conjunction with the energies within stones, herbs, colors, and other natural objects.
- Witch Doctor
- African shaman.
- Witches’ Pyramid
- A creed and a structure of learning that witches follow: “To Know, To Dare, To Will, and To Be Silent.”
- Wizard
- Someone who practices magick but is not a witch.
- Wolf Moon
- The first Full Moon after Yule. Some traditions have their new year begin with Samhain, and thus the moon's sequence would be different, the first Full Moon would be the Harvest Moon, and continue on from there.
- Words of Power, Law of
- “There exist certain words that are able to alter the internal and external realities of those uttering them, and their power may rest in the very sounds of the words as much as in their meanings.”
- Working
- As in Magickal Working. The process of using magick to reach a desired positive goal.
- Worlds, Between the
- Other aspects and dimensions of the physical, spiritual, and psychological, etc.
- Wormhole
- A doorway through the time/space continuum, which used the natural folds of space to move great distances at high speed, also avenues to the fairy realm.
- Wort
- An ancient word meaning herb.
- Wyrrd
- Norse spiritual tradition, a magickal energy where everything is interconnected. This is the energy Rune masters use to see into the future.
- Wyrt
- The Old English word for plant or herb.
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