Focusing on the solitary practitioner, Cunningham encourages you to make your own path within the Wiccan tradition, and offers simple suggestions, from recycling to visiting the park, that heighten your spiritual awareness of the mundane world. With Living Wicca, Cunningham goes beyond the mechanics of the faith and emphasizes the importance of making Wicca a part of your everyday life. “Living Wicca is the perfect companion to Cunningham’s Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, containing the same concise and comprehensible style that makes the first book so enjoyable. Learn how to create your own rituals and symbols, develop a book of shadows, and even become a high priest or priestess.Īlso covered in this Scott Cunningham classic are tools, magical names, initiation, the Mysteries, and the importance of secrecy in your practice. Discover the power of Wiccan prayers throughout the day and how you can use them to make yourself aware that the God and Goddess are everywhere. Living Wicca takes a philosophical look at the questions, practices, and differences within Witchcraft.

He suffered from several infections and died in March 1993.

In 1990, while on a speaking tour in Massachusetts, he suddenly fell ill and was diagnosed with AIDS-related cryptococcal meningitis. He also believed that Wicca, which had been a closed tradition since the 1950s, should become more open to newcomers. Learn the meanings of over 120 Wiccan symbols and how you can magically use them. Let the wise words of Scott Cunningham guide you toward a new level of practice. In 1983, Scott Cunningham was diagnosed with lymphoma, which he successfully battled. Cunningham practiced a fairly basic interpretation of Wicca, often worshipping alone, though his book series for solitaries describes several instances in which he worshipped with friends and teachers.

Living Wicca by Scott Cunningham