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Witchvox Article:
Formal Training In Wicca
Author: Jenny Schumaker [a WitchVox Sponsor]
Posted: April 9th. 2006
Times Viewed: 630
When I first set out to learn Wicca a few years ago (OK, so now it's closer to ten years than to one, that doesn't mean I'm getting old or anything, and I'm NOT at all sensitive about it) I imagine my experience in formal training would have been seen as very, very strange, but perhaps not so much now.
Like most people I grabbed a book, and then another. I was lucky in my choices—I started with “Drawing Down the Moon” and went next to “Spiral Dance.” I was lucky enough to have Witchy friends who held circles and were willing to include me in their group. And I was lucky enough to find a little place on the internet (with which I was just starting to get familiar) that offered training in a tradition and that was entirely online. Huh? An online coven? If I recall, there was an episode of “Buffy” from way back, where Giles had the hots for a teacher who was a cyber-Pagan, and I remember asking a friend “What the heck is a cyber-Pagan? How silly is that??”