So many times we hear people say that for them finding Wicca was like going home. But I’m curious. If that’s the case, where’s the floor plan for this home? What does home look like? In other words, what actually is ‘home’? 

I think this is important because what I think is home is not necessarily what someone else thinks is home and yet we all seem to be talking about going to the same home. Is it the same though? Let’s take the analogy a step further to illustrate my point. I live in a house on the side of a hill that has four bedrooms, two living areas, gorgeous wooden floor boards, hideous cracks in the kitchen ceiling, a tiny and very useless laundry and has views across to the sea to die for. It’s a huge house and I quite like it. One of my friends lives in an apartment on the fifth floor of a building in the centre of the city that’s very modern, has views over city rooftops, is tiny, is concrete, is worth more than double my house but is a quarter the size. Yet another friend lives in a hundred year old house with a kitchen the size of my wardrobe but with the most amazing cathedral ceilings and an atmosphere and feeling about it that I utterly adore. We all like our own homes and are comfortable in them but each one of them is different. What’s even more important is that none of us would trade with each other for anything!  

So we’re all ‘home’ but that home is really different for each of us. Surely Wicca as ‘home’ is just the same isn’t it? What I see as being my Wiccan home is probably going to be slightly different than what you see as being your Wiccan home. Our life stories and experiences are different and this has led each one of us to a different space in our lives that helps direct what our Wiccan home floor plan should be like. While as Wiccans, we all tend to believe in the basic fundamentals of Wicca (that our floor plan will all show walls, subfloors, windows, a roof, a bathroom of sorts, a kitchen etc), we will each have preferences about the exact details of that floor plan (the size of the kitchen, cedar windows versus aluminium, two bathrooms instead of one, beige carpet in the lounge instead of exposed floorboards, ducted heating instead of a log fire). So we all have the fundamentals of the floor plan like the Rede and a belief in deity but how we individually vary and express our Wiccan floor plan may be different. The question is, is this Ok? 

For me, the answer to that has to be yes. Inclusive Wicca clearly states that each person has the right to their own relationship with deity and that this is as it should be. I firmly believe that not only do we have that right, but that we also have the responsibility to manage that relationship. In other words, not only do we have our own Wiccan floor plan, but we’re also the sole architects of that floor plan. We can inherit a floor plan given to us by our Wiccan teachers but we have the responsibility and ability to modify the floor plan to meet our own needs. I guess the art of that modification, of being your own architect, comes after learning about the fundamentals of Wicca and from learning about your own needs so that you’re then best trained and qualified to begin drawing up your own Wiccan home floor plan.  

So Inclusive Wicca says we’re all Wiccan architects either qualified or still in school training to be architects. My two questions to you at this point are simple. What does your Wiccan home floor plan look like and are you ready to take responsibility to draw it up? 

Smiles and blessings, Amethyst