NEO-PAGAN (Latin, neo: "new "): A term often applied to both revivalist and reconstructionist Pagan religions in order to identify their modern adoption, or foundation, by their practitioners.

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PAGAN WAY: An organization started as a movement responding to the high demand for applicants to covens in the 1970’s. Pagan Way provided an alternative to the traditional intensive screening programs, and year-and-a-day probationary periods with an open, nature-oriented system that emphasized celebration of nature over magick. Although the Pagan Way organization fell apart in the 1980’s, the rituals survived. Some covens run Pagan Way groups as training circles for interested persons and potential initiates. Those who aren’t initiated into the coven can remain in the Pagan Way group indefinitely, become solitaries, or form their own Pagan Way group.

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AURA: The life-energy field which surrounds all living things.

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CALL: Invoking Divine forces.

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CAULDRON: Linked to witchcraft in the popular mind, this symbolizes the Goddess, the waters of rebirth.

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CHALICE: A ritual tool. It represents the female principals of creation.

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DIRK: Ritual knife of the Scottish tradition.

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CONSECRATION: The act of blessing an object or place by instilling it with positive energy.

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CHAPLET: A crown for the head usually made of flowers and worn at Beltane.

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CHARGING: To infuse an object with personal power.

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CLEANSING: Removing negative energies from an object or space.

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INVOCATION: To bring something in from without.

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MICROCOSM: The world within us.

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MACROCOSM: The world around us.

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BANE: That which destroys life, which is poisonous, destructive, dangerous.

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BANISH: To magickally end something or exorcise unwanted entities. To rid the presence of.

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BIND: To magickally restrain something or someone.

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GAEA/GAIA: Mother Earth.

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GOD: Masculine aspect of deity.

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GODDESS: Feminine aspect of deity.

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GREEN MAN: Another name for the God

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ELVEN: Secretive tradition of the craft which works closely with elemental beings.

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