10 Questions You Should Be Able to Answer After a Year

1. How would you define Witchcraft?
   • How would you define Wicca?
   • What would you say if asked?
   • Are you able to discuss the history of the Craft and how Wicca relates to Magick?
2. Upon what premise does the moral foundation of the Wicca rest?
   • Do you consider yourself a practitioner of the dark arts or the white (or light) magickal arts?
   • Why do you think this?
3. Explain what is meant by divination.
   • Explain what is meant by the following terms:
     • Aura reading
     • Palomancy
     • Crystalomancy
     • Magick mirror
     • Runecasting
     • Iching
   • Have you found a favorite method of divination?
   • What is this method?
   • Have you become skilled at this, and how skilled?
   • Do you consider yourself a Master of the Art?
   • Are you practicing this form of divination for yourself and others on a regular basis, and if not, why not?
4. Are you thoroughly familiar with some form of the healing arts?
   • What do you know about the following:
     • Color or sound therapy
     • Aromatherapy
     • Herbal healing
   • Which of these have you studied enough to have become quite familiar with the healing art?
   • Are you a Master of the Art?
   • Do you intend to become a Master?
   • Have you begun your hand-written herbal or other log of your healing practice?
5. Have you accumulated all your magickal tools?
   • How many of these tools have you made yourself?
   • What was given to you?
   • Why did this object become a part of your magickal collection?
   • Are these tools all consecrated?
   • Why are they consecrated?
   • Are you knowledgeable enough about the uses of all these tools to be able to explain their uses to another?
6. If someone, a friend perhaps, comes to you for help in the following areas, can you help them?
   • The areas might be love, health, wealth, protection, uncrossing, legal aid, self-help or development.
   • Could you devise a spell to help him or her? Would you? Why? Why not?
   • Could you include all the proper correspondences, talismans, stones, crystals, candles?
   • Would you be able to cast the spell during the correct phase of the Moon, the most auspicious day of the week and hour of the day?
   • Have you kept accurate records of your magickal work in your Book of Shadows or hand-written Magickal Diary? If not, why not?
7. Are you able to explain the Sabbats and Esbats?
   • Can you perform an impromptu ritual for each?
   • Have you begun your personal hand-written Book of Shadows?
8. Are you familiar enough with any of the Pentagram Rituals to explain them to others?
9. Have you composed at least two complete Sabbat rituals and a full or new Moon ritual, incorporating all the proper correspondences; astrological timing, proper god and goddess forms for the particular ritual, the correct candles, scents, invocations, etc?
10. Can you explain why Wicca is important to you and why you wish to become a Witch and Wiccan?