AboutErin Dragonsong Expertise I can answer questions on the spiritual aspect of Wicca, and Wicca as a path for personal development and spiritual enlightenment. My interest is in the Truth that lives within all religions, rather than the dogma of any one path. Still, I believe Wicca offers perhaps the greatest potential for the spiritual evolution of humanity at this time.
Also specialize in divination, magick and manifestation, accessing the Divine Within, and the planetary evolution now underway.
One aspect of this is Energy Fields: we can often get caught up in emotions/physical situations that do not reflect our own situation but a need of the morphogenetic field. Something needs healing, and we pick it up as our own mood or illness or what have you, so that we can heal it within ourselves and then offer that healing back to the world. This can be a dangerous situation, if it is out of control. Check in with me to find out if what you are feeling or experiencing is your own, or an energy field you're caught in.
I have an extended collection of practices for every spiritual need. I won't offer spells.
Experience I've been a practicing Witch for 25 years. I've studied Reclaiming skills, Goddess spirituality, and some faerie magick - though I'm pretty much a novice in this. I am a High Priestess and an ordained minister. I am a student of many different spiritual paths, including yoga, Sufism, Vipassina, Native Spirituality, and more. I let the wisdom and experience of these traditions inform my practice of Wicca as spiritual devotion.
I have been doing divination, particularly tarot, palmistry, and psychic readings for almost as long, professionally and personally. I have developed very successful ways of manifesting desires. I'm vitally interested in the New Sciences, and their implications for Wicca and spirituality.
I have extensive experience with spiritual development and spiritual healing - much of it developed as a synthesis of the great practices and truths of many religions - and teaching these to others.
Organizations DIMC (Wiccan Circle), Friends of Radha, Universal Life Church; United Communities of Spirit (Global Interfaith Initiative)
Publications We'moon; Sea, Sky & Dreams; Flagstone; DEEP
Education/Credentials Radha Yoga (Hatha, Hidden Language, Kundalini, Dreams); various other training courses in healing and spirituality. Christian studies. Vipassina meditation, Mantra, Mandala meditation, etc.
Counselling, Massage and Postural Healing, Facilitation, Teaching Adults, Non-Violent Communication
Expert: Erin Dragonsong Date: 6/30/2008 Subject: A Question. . .
Question Hello . . . I don't know if this is the category I ask this in or not, but . . . Is there a specific name I should call the God and Goddess? Are there names for different occasions, or what? Right now, I just call the Goddess Gaia, and I don't have a name for the God. Is this right, or wrong?
Sorry for the babble,
Samantha (WolfeMoone)
Answer Hi Samantha,
There is no specific name you need to use for the Goddess and God. Whatever makes you feel connected to them is perfect.
Most Wiccans and Pagans do invoke different deities for different purposes. Hecate and Demeter may be invoked in the dark times of the year or month. Artemis/Diana and Persephone/Kore are often invoked for spring and new moons.
As well, if you are doing a spell for abundance, you may want to invoke Gaia, Fortuna, Lugh, or Lakshmi, for example. A spell for protection may call upon Durga, Kali, Artemis/Diana, or Vishnu the sustainer.
(Still, we tend to have our own matron/patron deities as well, that are almost always invoked. For instance, if you have a special personal connection with Bridgid or Saraswati or whomever, you probably want to invite them to any Circle you cast. Maybe not every public ritual, but your private ones.)
My suggestion is to do some research on the deities before you start calling them. Many of them have different interpretations.
For instance, Durga is seen both as a Mother Goddess, and as a fierce destruction Goddess. When you read about her, you can see that her terrifying aspect is part of her Mother-protectiveness. But if you didn't know this much about her, it can be confusing: is she the nurturing mother or the devouring mother?
And Persephone, in patriarchal mythology, was kidnapped and raped by the God Hades. This seems to be a twisting of the older mythology of the Goddess descending voluntarily to the Underworld, where She resides as Queen.
Studying the deities, and getting to know them in magickal circumstances, helps you be clear exactly whom you are inviting. It also, not incidentally, creates a stronger connection with the Deities, which can only increase the power of your magick.
If you are wondering what you "should" call the God, might I suggest exploring what He means to you? Do you relate to Him as all-Father, creator, lover, son, Corn King, Green Man, Sun God, Horned One…? As you create your own relationship with the Divine Masculine, names will follow.
Many women primarily relate to a Goddess, however, and many men primarily to a God. You don't necessarily need to invoke both, depending on what kind of tradition you are following.
My last suggestion: don't worry about "right" and "wrong." These are concepts that don't really apply in Wicca/Paganism. There is no such thing. You can do a little research (as you've done by asking this question) and then decide what seems right to you. For today, anyway… it may all change as you go along.
