Wiccans. Casting circles. Why do they do this? When a person in the Wiccan religion casts a circle, it is for a religious reason. They create 'sacred space' where they feel they are protected from negative energy forces that may come to attack them while they are engaging in their worship. Thus, before they worship, they cast a circle, by using a ritual. This ritual involves calling up the guardians of each direction, and asking that guarding to stand guard. As they do this, they point their wand, and visualize the drawing of a circular shape on the ground. Once this is done, (and the procedure depends on what group is casting the circle), then those in attendance may begin to commence at their worship time.
Traditional Witches do not gather for religious reasons. Instead, COVEN 1658 encourages you to find the religion of your choice if this is important to you, provided that it is a religion that embraces good only. This religion's duty is to teach you how to remain protected from the forces of spiritual evil. If you follow the instructions of your religious faith, then only you can know for sure if you are protected from unseemly spiritual forces.
COVEN 1658, instead teaches you to place yourself under the protection of the force of 'All-Good'. You can do this by stating such, and asking for protection before you work any kind of spell. You can also pour a salt circle around your standing area whenever you cast a spell, or you can bless salt to the purpose of protecting you in the name of 'All-Good', and then, wrap this salt in a square of fabric and keep it on you.
when evil comes your way, you can tell it that it must be bound and cast away from you in the name of 'All-Good', and order it into the presence of the Highest Divine, who will know what to do with this negative entity. You yourself must never interact with any force of evil. these forces are very dangerous. Send this entity or entities away from you and into the judgment of the only force that can manage it, the 'Highest Good'.
Further, whenever you cast a spell, after you set it up, create a salt circle around it. This can be done with actual salt, or by allowing a long cotton string to lay in salt water until it absorbs up all the salt and dries. the string can then be laid around the spell as a salt circle. Further, you can add salt to water and boil it with a special prayer added to the boiling water, asking for protection from the Highest Good, and then sprinkle that water around yourself and the spell.
Finally, put yourself under the protection of the Highest Good every morning and every evening. This is a simple prayer you ask for in common words. You can also do this at any time. If you do this, you will be inside a sphere of protection at all times, and this sphere will be endowed over you by the Highest Good.
As you can see, the reason Wiccans cast a circle is to set up a religious worship area. COVEN 1658 does not teach religion, thus, there is no reason for us to do this. We do, however, take the reality of evil entities very seriously, and we protect ourselves at all times from all evil forces with the powers of the Highest Good. We further encourage our members to investigate the specific instructions of the religion of their choice to further protect themselves from evil and harm.
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