Articles of Belief

Our Basic Beliefs

1. Right to Autonomy
All humans have the right to physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual autonomy.

2. Right to Marry & Love
All consenting adults have the right to love and marry on their own terms—regardless of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious belief (or lack thereof), culture, or ethnicity.

3. Right to Be Pro-Choice
Only the pregnant individual has the right to decide whether or not to have an abortion. No other person, institution, provider, or government has the authority to make that decision.

4. BIPOC Lives Matter
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color deserve equal rights, opportunities, resources, jobs, respect, and dignity. Their experiences are valid, and their voices and needs are essential.

5. Women’s Rights
All who identify as women deserve the same rights, opportunities, resources, jobs, respect, and dignity as anyone else. Women’s experiences are valid, and their needs are essential.

6. LGBTQIA+ Rights
LGBTQIA+ individuals deserve the same rights, opportunities, resources, jobs, respect, and dignity as hetero-identifying individuals. Their experiences are valid, and their needs are essential.

7. Zero Tolerance for Sexual Violence
Everyone has the right to live free from rape, molestation, harassment, and all forms of sexual violence. Consent is mandatory. Always.

8. An It Harm None, Do What Ye Will
You are free to live and practice your beliefs—so long as you do not intentionally cause harm to others.

Our Coven’s Practice

  • Follow the Wiccan Rede: “An it harm none, do what ye will.”

  • Honor the Cycles of the Moon as sacred rhythms that guide our spiritual practice.

  • Celebrate all Eight Sabbats of the Wheel of the Year:
    Samhain, Yule, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane, Litha, Lammas (Lughnasadh), and Mabon.

  • Live in Harmony with Nature to the best of our ability—physically, spiritually, and magically.

  • Respect Personal Boundaries in Ritual Spaces:

    No nudity is permitted during group rituals, Sabbats, Esbats, or other Coven activities. Members may work skyclad (nude) in private, alone or with consenting adults, but may not solicit other members to do so.

  • Believe in Karma and the Three-Fold Law:
    The energy we send out—whether good or bad—returns to us threefold.

  • Practice Eclectically:
    We draw knowledge from various traditions and sources to shape our unique spiritual paths and spellwork.

  • Recognize the Unity of Religion, Magick, and Wisdom—to live is to be connected to all three.

  • Honor Both Masculine and Feminine Energies, and celebrate sex as a sacred expression of life and pleasure.

  • Respect the Outer World (physical) and Inner World (spiritual/supernatural) as equally real and essential.

  • Respect Coven Leadership and the structure that supports our shared spiritual growth.

  • Strive for Growth and Development in the practice of Wicca and Witchcraft.

  • Reject Religious Supremacy:
    We do not tolerate ideologies rooted in control, righteousness, or the belief that one path is superior to others.

  • Remain Present-Focused, with an Eye Toward the Future, cultivating awareness and intention in daily life.

  • Do Not Worship Evil or Destructive Entities, including Satan or “the Devil,” as these are not part of our belief system.

  • Celebrate the Goddess in her three sacred aspects: Maiden, Mother, and Crone, during Coven rituals.

  • Celebrate the God in his divine aspects: Sun God, Horned God, Holly King, and Cernunnos, during Coven rituals.

  • Honor Personal Deity Practices:
    Members may worship other deities privately in their solitary spiritual work.

  • Recognize the Four Sacred Directions—North, South, East, and West—as divine Quarter Spirits.

  • Acknowledge the Afterlife as the Summerlands, a peaceful realm beyond time where the soul finds rest and renewal.

  • Use Sacred Circles to define and protect ritual space, creating a boundary between the mundane and the magical.

  • Adhere to the Four Core Aspects of Magickal Work:
    The Rede, Timing, Desire, and Cleanliness.

Principles of Beliefs by the American Council of Witches

Also known as “The Thirteen Principles of Wiccan Belief” and “The 13 Principles of Belief”

We practice rites to attune ourselves with the natural rhythm of life forces marked by the phases of the Moon and the seasonal Quarters and Cross Quarters.

  1. We recognize that our intelligence gives us a unique responsibility toward our environment. We seek to live in harmony with Nature, in ecological balance offering fulfillment to life and consciousness within an evolutionary concept.

  2. We acknowledge a depth of power far greater than that apparent to the average person. Because it is far greater than ordinary it is sometimes called "supernatural", but we see it as lying within that which is naturally potential to all.

  3. We conceive of the Creative Power in the universe as manifesting through polarity-as masculine and feminine-and that this same Creative Power lies in all people, and functions through the interaction of the masculine and feminine. We value neither (gender) above the other, knowing each to be supportive to the other. We value sex as pleasure, as the symbol and embodiment of life, and as one of the sources of energies used in magickal practice and religious worship.

  4. We recognize both outer worlds and inner, of psychological, worlds sometimes known as the Spiritual World, the Collective Unconscious, Inner Planes, etc.-and we see in the inter-action of these two dimensions the basis for paranormal phenomena and magickal exercises. We neglect neither dimension for the other, seeing both as necessary for our fulfillment.

  5. We do not recognize any authoritarian hierarchy, but do honor those who teach, respect those who share their greater knowledge and wisdom, and acknowledge those who have courageously given of themselves in leadership.

  6. We see religion, magick and wisdom in living as being united in the way one views the world and lives within it-a world view and philosophy of life which we identify as Witchcraft-the Wiccan Way.

  7. Calling oneself "Witch" does not make a Witch-but neither does heredity itself, nor the collecting of titles, degrees and initiations. A Witch seeks to control the forces within her/himself that make life possible in order to live wisely and will without harm to other and in harmony with Nature.

  8. We believe in the affirmation and fulfillment of life in a continuation of evolution and development of consciousness giving meaning to the Universe we know and our personal role within it.

  9. Our only animosity towards Christianity, or toward any other religion or philosophy of life, is to the extent that its institutions have claimed to be "the only way" and have sought to deny freedom to others and to suppress other ways of religious practice and belief.

  10. As American Witches, we are not threatened by debates on the history of the Craft, the origins of various terms, the legitimacy of various aspects of different traditions. We are concerned with our present and our future.

  11. We do not accept the concept of absolute evil, nor do we worship any entity known as "Satan" or "the Devil", as defined by Christian tradition. We do not seek power through the suffering of others, nor accept that personal benefit can be derived only by denial to another.

  12. We believe that we should seek within Nature that which is contributory to our health and well-being.