Wicca is one of the most misunderstood religons there is, most do not even know that it is a religon to begin with. Those that follow it are called Witches, yes the same that were burned at the stake, the few that were real, during the Spanish Inquisition, and we all know in Saliem, Mass. Wiccan's though do not practice black magic, magic yes, but they never use them for evil.
Rule Number One of Wicca is Harm None, and as the background you see that it is all pentagrams? The second most misunderstood thing in this religon. The Pentagram when it has but ONE point upwards means protection, and is a sign for Wicca itself. If you ever see someone wearing a pentagram with One point up, don't worry, they would more likely do you good then harm. But if someone wears TWO points up, even I would stare and make comments, because Two points up means, evil, black magic, satanisim, though I do not believe there is a Satan it's as good of a word as any.
I was born and raised Christian, but now I consider myself Wiccan haveing been practicing this religion only 6 months now, a short time, but I strongly believe in it. In this time I have seen how close minded the christian religon is, I can not say so for the people, everyone is their own person. I will not put anyone down for their beliefs because in my mind, every belief is correct in some way. We can never be sure what is truly the true path. Believing though that your path, has to be true is ignorant to the truth to me, no matter if you are Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Hindu, Musslem, Wiccan, or anything else. Now I will try not to prech but I think I'm slightly too late, I appologize for doing so, it's not something I normally do. I am just writing this section to increase awareness, and maybe make it so I don't have to fear telling what I believe because of how someone will react. I've heard horror stories of Wiccan's coming out of the closet, it is almost as bad as homosexuals when they do, and I understand there blight though I am heterosexual.
Back to a few of the beliefs.. Wiccan's believe in dieties like most religions, the God and the Goddess, which sometimes are given certain names, it all matters on the practitioner. The God and the Goddess do not care what name they go by, because they always know who you are speaking of. Unlike some religons that make a diety that is pure evil, and one that is pure good, the God and the Goddess both have evil sides, but they only show them when needed. Wiccan's embrace both sides of them, but only call upon the good of course, know that when it is needed the evil feared side will be shown. These dieties are within everything, the plants, the earth, the sky, and us. We are not complete without them and them without us. For anyone that is interested a few good authors to read are Cunningham, Buckingham and Farrar/Farrar. Those are some I have read and have found very informative. The Best distributer I have found is Azure Green.
I can not go on and on about the beliefs because I would take way to much space and no one would be able to get through it all. This was just an introduction. I hope that the people that did not know about Wicca learned something and maybe a few got interested. That of course is a person's own choice.