| Daemon - A Greek word for spirit.
Daily Devotions Acknowledging Deity in your life once or twice a day. Dancing - A practice of some Wiccans to raise power and create a state of semihypnosis. Spiral dances symbolize entering the Inner Mysteries, while the circle or round dance represents the circling stars in the heavens. Danu - Irish Mother Goddess. Days of Power - Generally speaking, these can be the holy days or New or Full Moons. Other days can be powerful for Witches because of eclipses, astrological alignments, or personal days of significance. Dedication - The process where an individual accepts the Craft as their path and vows to study and learn all that is necessary to reach adept ship. This lasts about a year and a day. At that point the individual makes a choice to either stay on the Wiccan Path and be initiated, continue learning till they are ready to be initiated or follow another path. It is a conscious preparation to accept something new into your life and stick with it, regardless of the highs and lows that may follow. Degrees - In Traditional Wicca, there are three degrees of initiation, earned by study and practice. Deity - A God or a Goddess, though also used to encompass ALL Gods & Goddesses in one concept. Deja Vu - Feeling of having previously experienced something actually being experienced for the first time. Almost always occurs without warning or explanation. It comes from a French word meaning "already seen" and is regarded by many as evidence of reincarnation. Demeter - Greek Goddess of the harvest and of grain, mother of Persephone. Demi-God - A being that is half divine. Deosil (pronounced dee-owe-sill) This word of Gaelic provenance means in the direction of the Sun or clockwise. Deosil is symbolic of life, positive magick and energies. Old spellings are deiseal and deasail. Destiny - Destiny is unlike fate, where fate you can control and make on your own. Destiny takes the form of things that are meant to happen, meant to be, either from the Devine or your karma, whether good or bad. Deva A nature spirit. Devoke A formal farewell in ritual, usually to the Gods or elements. Devotee - Individual who has devoted him or herself to a particular deity who acts as their spiritual advisor and patron. Most devotees choose their patron based on their tradition as well as a similarity of morals and other defining characteristics between themselves and the deity. Diana - Roman; Moon Goddess and Goddess of the Hunt. Diana is many faceted. She is a seductress (as she enchanted her brother Lucifer to beget Aradia in the form of a cat) as well as a mother figure for Witches. Invocation to Diana. Dianic - A segment of Wicca that has all female groups and Witches who worship only the Goddess. Dirk - Ritual knife of the Scottish tradition. Discarnate - Any spiritual entity without a physical body. Divination - The magical art of discovering the unknown by interpreting random patterns or symbols through the use of tools such as clouds, tarot cards, flames, smoke. Divine Power - The unmanifested, pure energy that exists within the Goddess and God. The life force, the ultimate source of all things. Doctrine of Signatrues - The theory that flowers, herbs, plants and other living things have a unique quality or vibration. Dogma - Dogma is an authoritative and precise statement of religious doctrine that is given as an unquestionable fact. Witches generally have a strong aversion to dogma. Doppelganger - A term used in pagan circles for an individuals astral body in the Astral Plane. Dowsing - To use a pendulum, forked stick, or L-rods to locate underground water, oil, or minerals. The pendulum is also used as a divination tool for yes or no answers and often to find the location of lost or hidden things. Dracomancer - A practitioner of magick who uses dragons in their workings. Drake - A dragon, generally refers to a young one. Drawing Down the Moon - A ritual performed during the Full Moon usually by a female Witch to bring the essence of the Goddess within the woman. Drawing Down the Sun - A ritual performed during the Full Moon and usually after the performance of Drawing Down the Moon, where the male Witch brings the essence of the God within the him. Dreamtime - The Shamanic concept of a world which parallels this one. Dressing a Candle - Anointing a candle, with oil or herbs in a certain direction. Druid/Druidess - A member of an order of priests in ancient Gaul and Britain who appear in Welsh and Irish legend as prophets and sorcerers; now a person who holds a strong understanding of nature and holds an attachment to divine energies and spiritual purpose to preserve it. Dryads - Greek; feminine spirits of the trees. Duality - The opposite of polarity. When used as a religious term, it separates two opposites such as good and evil and places those characteristics into two completely separate God-forms. Durga - Hindu Great Goddess, Divine Mother . |
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