I absolutely love being pagan. I love being Wiccan. Yet as a man in a Wiccan world things are a little different.

Each morning I get up and ground and center myself. I find that if I don’t then I am scattered all day long.  I also make an offering each day to the God and Goddess. These are all just little things that I do to try and keep my head clear and to bond with the Lord and Lady. Occasionally, as I see or feel the need, I will perform some kind of magick. All of this is great for me in my solitary practice and I find the more magick that I do the better results that I have. Which again is exactly what I think we are all striving for. Now, being as I am actively involved in a coven, my personal practice helps for things like raising energy or being comfortable with the thought of using magick. But the topic I wanted to address today was being a Male Witch.

I have one coven brother currently, maybe someday there will be more. But in the mean time, he lives in Michigan and the rest of us are here in Arizona. When we get together as a coven I get to see and be with all of my wonderful coven sisters, Truly a better set of ladies I think you would be hard pressed to find, I am the only source of Maleness. Now I am 100% comfortable in my own skin. I have no "male issues" or "sexuality issues" or anything else like that to deal with. I am married, my wife is in the coven as well, and we have five kids, yes we almost have enough for a full coven of our own.

I am very comfortable with the thought process of and practice of worshipping a Goddess. In fact, in my solitary practice, I tend to focus more on the Goddess than I do the God. I feel very comfortable with my knowledge of the male mind and psyche, and I have always been drawn more towards a desire for a relationship with the Goddess. What I find as the only man around, is that a lot of the conversations tend to head off into the more "feminine" direction of things. Not talking about the Goddess or the Divine Feminine, or anything like that. Some of that does go on but things tend to turn much more towards specific womanly issues.

Feelings and emotions are discussed in great detail and length, and I must always be on guard not to do the "typical" guy thing and crack a joke. Monthly menstrual cycles, ovulation, and amounts of flow have been discussed lots and lots. Oh how I love my Sisters! You see as a man in a religion that is focused on the feminine, a Goddess, women as High Priestesses, there at times seems to be a theme that men take a back seat. My outlook on this, and this is the point I am getting at is completely different.

Without the God, with out the male counterpart, the monthly cycle, ovulation, the ability for the Goddess to give birth to the God each year, would be impossible. Just as without the Goddess the God could not go on with the cycle of his life. Now I am not trying to say that my sisters make me take a back burner, nothing could be further from the truth. I am just as involved and participate in just as many ways as they all do, we really are evenly yoked when it comes to the magickal workings we do. I am talking about more of Wicca as a whole not just my coven. It is the general thought process that goes into being Wiccan from the get go, a mind set. It is almost as if because so many people turn to Wicca as an escape from their main stream religion, specifically women whom are held back by mainstream beliefs, that in the process of rebelling they want to turn away from anything that even in a basic form resembles their old ways. This being mainly, a masculine and all controlling God, no mention of a Goddess or a counter part.

For me this approach is just as closed minded as the "mainstream" beliefs and churches. Why do things have to be all or nothing, why deal in absolutes? We celebrate the wheel of the year and the cycles of life that it represents. With out the Goddess there would be no wheel, and without the God, there would be no reason for the wheel to turn. They are two parts of the same whole, they are separate, yet together as one.

I believe that it is the duty of each and every person that follows a Wiccan path, regardless of the tradition, remember that and pass this knowledge on, That it takes the energy, magick, and body's of both Men and Women to make it all work. I love you all and hope to see you soon.

Blessed Be

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