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Wiccan belief does not encourage dwelling on the afterlife. Instead it encourages living Wiccan Sexuality: fully and well in the here and now. This world is not one to escape in hopes of a Wicca is at its heart a fertility religion and as better world to come, rather it is one in such it is closely tied to those actions of which we should be trying to create a better creation present in the natural world. This place today. Wiccans view sex as a sacred that does not make the death of a loved one act, one which represents the joining of the any less painful.

We acknowledge that pain Lord and the Lady in the Sacred Marriage and loss at Samhain every year when we which is the source of all life. In fact, in the hold our festivals to honor our ancestors and Charge of the Goddess one of the most our beloved dead.

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For to us, mean that sex is confined to the marriage death is part of a great cycle from birth, to bed or that it requires the blessings of the life, to death, to birth again. What it does require is that the participants approach it with respect for the As military chaplains you may be required Divinity present in each other.

The family of the deceased In Wiccan belief, one of the greatest may well request that the service include transgressions is to interfere with the free some of the forms of Wiccan ritual, such as will of another. Therefore it would be casting a ritual circle or calling upon the wrong to force someone into having sex particular Gods of the deceased.

To better with you whether that force is physical understand the forms of Wiccan ritual I power or emotional blackmail. If a couple vowed at the time of policy that permits the free practice of their marriage to remain faithful to each Wicca, this does not mean that everyone in other, then violating those vows is insulting the military feels that way. One does not to the Gods in whose presence the oaths take off their prejudices simply because they were taken.

Some couples, however, choose put on a uniform. Soldiers can be put under to have a more open relationship, permitting tremendous pressure by peers and their the partners to engage in sex with others. In chain of command if their religion becomes Wiccan belief this is acceptable as long as known. Of spiritual support. And, sadly, some Wiccan note is that this does not imply that sex is groups will not open their doors to military OK only if the individuals in question are personnel. Some posts do have command- married, nor does it even stipulate that the sponsored open Pagan groups where they parties involved be of the opposite sex.

However, for most Wiccan certain rules and regulations within the soldiers and their families they will be military system governing the forced by circumstances to practice alone appropriateness of sex between members of with no source of spiritual guidance or help the Armed Forces, and these rules and in times of crisis. It may be helpful for the military chaplain to develop ties to Alone. And if and misunderstanding. There is a popular myth in the Wiccan community that claims that once there was a golden age of peace and prosperity in a Goddess worshipping society.

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In fact, historical and archaeological evidence indicates that our forebears lived in a very dangerous world, threatened by wild beasts, U. Army Photo natural disasters, and warring tribes.

The Warrior was not the berserker, not the Every person in the military today is there hardened killer, not the raider that preyed on because they volunteered to serve. For the others. No, the Warrior was he that picked Wiccan soldier this can sometimes cause up a weapon in defense of his home and kin. In may feel that military service is wrong and times of peace he would tend his herds and that response to military service may raise fields and live in harmony with his doubts about whether being in the military neighbors.

But when his clan was violates the basic tenets of Wicca. Thus the Warrior was a position of civilian Wiccans are coming from you must honor and reverence, for he was the one who also understand where the roots of Wicca placed his living body between his kinfolk lie. Much of what we now know as the and that which threatened their survival. Both the anti- Many centuries have come and gone since war movement and the influx of pacifist our ancestors worshipped in the old ways, ideas from Eastern religions contributed to a but the truth is that the world remains a very suspicion of all things having to do with the dangerous place.

Now we are threatened military. Our very survival they wanted to build. Not all of this as a people and the continuance of our way misapprehension about the military has been of life requires that we sometimes fight to vanquished, as is clearly demonstrated to defend it. It should be remember that the anyone who has read Isaac Bonewits' Rede does not preclude our acting in self- position on policemen and soldiers. To those defense when threatened. It is through words that we connect will be called upon in time of crisis to place to our Gods and it is through words that our their life on the line.

But if our words cannot be trusted to mean exactly what we say then It is a sad commentary that the modern those words lose their power. Our Wiccan soldier must then find himself or connection to our Gods is damaged. Our herself reviled by the very people he would magic will no longer work. Therefore die to protect. Yet this happens, and the Wicca teaches us to be honest in all things, doubts raised by those that do not and to never give our word unless we mean understand the importance of the Warrior to keep it.

Wiccans also realize that when they take an oath they are making a promise to their Gods. And once that promise is made, our Gods expect us to abide by what we have vowed. The Gods do not look on one with favor who makes a practice of reneging on their word. Of course Wiccans are also very pragmatic folk and they understand that life is often difficult.

While we would never advocate violating the oaths of service that the U. Army photo Wiccan soldier has taken, we also understand that sometimes those oaths The Power of Oaths become very burdensome. The Wiccan soldier would benefit from the same sorts of Sometimes it is hard being a soldier or the advice you would give to any soldier. Facing the hardships of Remind them that the current situation is deployment, the long separations, even the temporary and that when their term is up everyday hassle of long hours and low pay is they will be able to return to the civilian a trying situation that everyone in the world.

If the situation is creating undue military must face. There will be times hardship what measures within the military when those burdens seem too much to system can be used to relieve some of the continue to bear and a soldier may consider stress on the soldier and his family? Faith and magick resources can they bring to bear to help? Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications. Like the United States itself, the U.

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