Trinitarian Wicca

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Trinitarian Wicca is a polytheistic reconstructionalist mesopagan Wiccan tradition; Gnostic/Kabballistic Goddess-reclaiming Trinity, influenced by the Alexandrian & Dianic Traditions.

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Trinitarian Wicca is not fundamental!

Christian Wicca: the Trinitarian Tradition is the name of the controversial self-published book by Nancy Chandler (Pittman) released in 2003. This is the first book that brought the practice of Christian Wicca out of the Christian broom closet, into print, and into the public’s eye. Unfortunately, it also brought anger, bias, and skepticism from both sides, but primarily a lack of acceptance from the Pagan Community. Since the onset of the ChristoPagan movement in the late 1990′s, the use of term Christian Wicca continues to be received with mixed emotion because the public seem to miss the actual name of the tradition, Trinitarian Wicca.

The project started in October of 1999 and Christian Wicca was the term used in Yahoo-Groups to gather like-minded individuals. Author Nancy Chandler developed the tradition of Trinitarian Wicca from her coven training in both the Alexandrian and Dianic traditions of Wicca. After being introduced to the Hebrew Goddesses (Dianic) and a Ceremonial Magick approach to the male aspect of God (Alexandrian), she found the juxtapositions to be obvious. A non-fundamental view of Christian Deity was easily inserted into Wicca rituals and theory. Most NeoPagan books make a point to illustrate the similarities to Christianity in a negative way, i.e. Christmas is really Yule, Easter is really Ostara, Halloween is really Samhain, and Mary is really the Goddess of Christendom, etc. So, reverse engineering this concept was not difficult. By 2002, this Wiccan tradition had developed its name,Trinitarian Wicca, based on the original Trinity of Ancient Christianity: the Father, the Mother, and the Solar Son Jesus.

Regretfully, while the term Christian Wicca was more descriptive, it was inaccurate and became a serious albatross around the neck of the project for years in the making. Oddly enough, the intended name of the tradition has always been in the subtitle of the book, Christian Wicca: the Trinitarian Tradition, yet continues to be overlooked: The termChristian, was originally was intended to identify the pantheon of choice by Trinitarian Wiccans. When asked, the author explains, "Christian Wicca is used in the same manner as Celtic Wicca, referring to the Celtic deities called upon by the Wiccan practitioners. It is that simple. We have the same theology as other, set in Wiccan ritual structure, and honoring the same belief system as most other forms of Wicca."

Trinitarian Wicca is not only the correct name of the path, but it is also far less controversial. However, by the time the book came out, the working title Christian Wicca had become popular in the magickal Christian community. The publisher suggested using a title/sub-title name for the book in take full promotional advantage of this trending topic. From a marketing viewpoint, this was an understandable choice, as it was impossible to explain the concept of Trinitarian Wicca without using the term Christian in the definition.

A decade later, Christian Wicca has now become the umbrella term for practitioners of eclectic Wicca mixing varying degrees of Neopaganism and Christianity; however, not all of them are truly Wiccan, nor are they associated with Trinitarian Wiccans. By 2012, many sects of magickal Christianity began to spring up, mostly solitaries who have opted for the term Christian Witch, reflecting a New Age approach to Jesus-magick that doesn't focus on reclaiming the Goddess, finding cosmic balance of Deity, the emphasis of the Wheel of the Year, and the Lunar Mysteries.

Trinitarian Wiccans are polytheistic and work exclusively with a multi-Goddess inclusive Holy Trinity. Do not let the term Trinitarian confuse you with the Orthodox Christian definition. The Triple Goddess and the Triple God are static concepts in Neo-Paganism; this approach promotes the reclaiming the Goddess to Her rightful place in the Trinity of Pre-Nicean Christianity. Trinitarian Wiccans view the Holy Trinity as a Social Trinity which embraces Tritheism. This is the belief that the Trinity consists of three separate deities, each with individual wills, powers, personalities, and energy signatures. This Trinity is immanent, not transcendent, and is capable of a personal relationship with humanity. This tradition is not eclectic, nor is it ChristoPagan; however, Trinitarian Wiccans are polytheistic MesoPagans. Trinitarian Wiccans are reconstructionists devoted exclusively to Deities of pre-Nicaean Christianity. Due to patriarchal Christianity’s focus on eliminating the Feminine Divine from cultures worldwide, the Trinitarian Pantheon includes deities from the Kabballah, Gnosticism, and significant Pagan Deities absorbed into the saints of Catholicism.

Trinitarian Wiccans celebrate the Wiccan Wheel of the Year, observing the 8 Sabbats, the 13 Esbats, and upholding the Wiccan Rede. For Trinitarian Wiccans, there aren’t any trappings of patriarchal Christianity. The Christian Bible poses no conflicts for Trinitarians, because they work directly with the Gods and Goddesses, free of the dogma of organized religion. Concepts such as the original sin, salvation, baptism, heaven, hell, and satan are not sources of conflict for Trinitarians; these are fundamental Christian concepts not Wiccan concepts.

There is nothing fundamental about Trinitarian Wicca.

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Comment by Gypsy Valentine on April 4, 2013 at 4:23pm: I'm sorry that I get pulled away for months at a time... I am reviving Delinquent Records, USA and it is far more time consuming than I remembered. Also, I am working with my mostly all-female band Vampette. I think everyone is mostly Pagan, Christo-Witchy, Satanic, or irreligious - which is awesome. Because while I am the author of Trinitarian Wicca and I believe what I write, I just don't do the "playing gee-tar for Jeezzus thang" at all. I don't know, it's like two separate worlds to me. I do compartmentalize very well.

Comment by Gypsy Valentine on January 19, 2013 at 8:39am: The January Moon is the Wolf Moon, and Trinitarians observe tis moon by honoring the Sumerian daughter of the Moon, Inanna: affiliated with the Canaanites, and part of the metamorphosis from Inanna to Ishtar to Astarte, to Asherah... if you lay out the similarities betweein these godddesses, it's easy to understand how they traveled the whole scope of the Middle Eastern Goddess Concepts.

Comment by Gypsy Valentine on January 19, 2013 at 8:33am: I really don't understand Wiccans who can't understand Judeo-Christo-Wiccans, Pagan Jews, Jewitches, Jewish Christianity, Christian Judaism, etc. Actually the most strange to many people are Jewish Christianity and Christian Judaism - you can WiKi that one if you don't believe that it was a huge part of the pre-Nicean Trinity.

Comment by Gypsy Valentine on January 19, 2013 at 8:27am: By the way, the Kindle version of the 2003 book is now out, complete with an index that links to the chapters (woo-hoo) and correction of spelling and grammar. That was all I was allowed to do without changing the name and the ISBN number. Check it out if you have time: http://www.amazon.com/Christian-Wicca-Trinitarian-Tradition-ebook/d...

Comment by Gypsy Valentine on January 19, 2013 at 8:21am: Follow me and Build our Tradition on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrinitarianWicc

Comment by Gypsy Valentine on December 7, 2012 at 9:40pm: I have been trying to post some CORRECTIVE information on Trinitarian Wicca on some of the video's slamming Christian Wicca and Trinitarian Wicca on You Tube - there are too many people posting stuff about the tradition that doesn't know anything about it. It makes me so angry! One girl said she hasn't found any books on it! "The other day when I went to Barnes and Noble book store, there wasn't a section for "Christian Wicca" books, which should be between the books on Christianity and books on Wicca in the New Age section." Really? No! Really? *Throw the Dirt in on Me!*

Comment by Gabriel on October 20, 2012 at 10:56am: Blessed be finally a place with people with beliefs similar to mine.... Im Gabriel 20yrs old from Texas... HMU sometime!! ;)

Comment by Greenwood the Bard on September 16, 2012 at 9:14am: A meditation on the Magdalene:
"Mary's ointment was wasted when she broke the vase and poured it upon her Lord. Yes; but suppose she had left the lointment in the unbroken vase? Would there have been any mention of it on the Gospel pages? Would her deed of careful keeping be told all over the world? She broke the vase and poured it out, lost it, sacrificed it, and now the perfume fills all the Earth. We may keep our life if we will, carefully preserving it from waste; but we shall have no reward, no honour from it, at the last. But if we empty it out in loving service, we shall make it a lasting blessing to the world, and we shall be remembered forever."
Dr. J.R. Miller

Comment by Gypsy Valentine on June 18, 2012 at 10:03pm: Recently Trinitarian Wiccans have decided to comfortably accept the catagory of MesoPagans as outlined by Issac Bonewits. We are not Monotheistic Pagans as Mr. Bonewits commented, (which to me seems like be Henotheistic). However we are Polytheistic Christians working with the Christian Pantheon, just as any Greco-Roman, Celtic, Norse Pantheon may be accessed. The Wiccan Wheel of the Year is our format of ritual. It doesn't get much simpler than this, unless you make it complicated on your own.

Comment by Greenwood the Bard on September 30, 2011 at 9:27am: "a means to bridge the gap for many practitioners who feel trapped between two worlds."

Precisely the "forbidden fruit" for which I have been searching! I'm not a Wiccan - in the same way that many Jews who convert to Jesu as their Messiah label themselves Messianic Jews, if I was forced to label my path it would be Messianic Druidry. Look forward to locking horns with the many Christians and Pagans who don't believe such things can exist. We are proof that it can!