Wiccan near me is a search term used by individuals interested in finding Wiccan practitioners or resources in their local area. Wicca is a contemporary pagan religious movement that draws on ancient pagan practices and beliefs. It places emphasis on the worship of nature and the divine energy inherent in all living things. People who are curious about Wicca or looking to connect with others who share similar beliefs often turn to the internet to find Wiccan communities, stores, or events near them. With the growing popularity and accessibility of Wiccan practices, there are various online platforms, directories, and forums available that can assist individuals in their search for Wiccan resources. Using the search term "Wiccan near me" can yield results such as local Wiccan communities, covens, or pagan meet-up groups.

Wiccans

Wiccans, some of whom self-identify as witches, and other Pagans are a small but growing presence within the United States. Many Wiccans practice their faith individually or in small groups. [1] Although estimates of the number of Wiccans are unreliable, a 2014 Pew Research Center survey found that roughly 0.3% of Americans identified as Wiccans or Pagans. [2] Twenty-first century estimates for Wisconsin have ranged as high as 5,000 to 10,000 practitioners. [3]

While many Wiccan groups, sometimes called covens or churches, in the Milwaukee area have historically remained hidden for fear of persecution, other groups have had a visible presence. [4] Circle Sanctuary, founded in 1974 and located near Madison, is among the nation’s most influential Wiccan churches. [5] Since the 1970s, many Milwaukee-area Pagans have been members of Circle Sanctuary, benefitted from its resources, or participated in its events. [6] In Milwaukee, congregations have included the Temple of the Wyccan Rede, First Wiccan Temple of Our Lady, and the Temple of the Four Winds. [7] Groups often meet in homes or parks. [8] The Milwaukee Pagan Unity Council and the Fellowship of Alternative Beliefs sponsor events and festivals for the broader Pagan community. [9]

Many shops in the Milwaukee area have served the Wiccan and Pagan communities. Historically, these stores have been located in many parts of the city (including downtown, the East Side, South Side, and Bay View) and suburban Waukesha. [10] Often these shops provide spiritual services and introductions to local Pagans. [11] Since the advent of the Internet, local Wiccan and Pagan communities also have formed online. [12]

Footnotes [+]

1. [1] “What Do Pagans Do?” The Pluralism Project, accessed January 30, 2017.
2. [2] “Other Religions,” Pew Research Center, December 12, 2012, last accessed June 6, 2017; Pew Research Center, “America’s Changing Religious Landscape,” May 12, 2015, 159, last accessed June 6, 2017.
3. [3] Tom Heinen, “Pagans Ready to Put Pride on Display,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 20, 2003; Tom Heinen, “Finding Faith in the Longest Night,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 21, 2001; Nahal Toosi, “Rite of Passage: Wiccan is New State Prison Chaplain,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 6, 2001.
4. [4] Molly Snyder, “Interview with a Witch,” OnMilwaukee.com, October 31, 2006, last accessed June 6, 2017; Murphy Pizza, Paganistan: Contemporary Pagan Community in Minnesota’s Twin Cities (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014), 3.
5. [5] “History of Circle Sanctuary,” Circle Sanctuary, accessed January 30, 2017; “Circle Sanctuary,” Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft and Wicca, ed. Rosemary Ellen Guiley, 3 rd ed. (New York: Facts on File, 2008), 65-66.
6. [6] For examples, see posts and comments on “In Memoriam: Bruce Parsons (1947-2010),” Circle Sanctuary, accessed January 30, 2017; “In Memoriam: De-Anna Alba (1952-2012),” Circle Sanctuary, accessed January 30, 2017; “In Memoriam: Gloria Villanueva (1948-2008),” Circle Sanctuary, accessed January 30, 2017; “In Memoriam: Julie Wichman (1963-2012),” Circle Sanctuary, accessed January 30, 2017.
7. [7] Aidan A. Kelly, A Tapestry of Witches: A History of the Craft in America (Tacoma, WA: Hierophant Wordsmith Press, 2014), 123; “Wiccan Believers to Mark Spring Festival This Week,” Milwaukee Journal, April 26, 1980; Jo Sandin, “No Candy, No Brooms,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 31, 1997.
8. [8] Sandin, “No Candy, No Brooms;” Snyder, “Interview with a Witch;” Jackie Loohauis, “Milwaukee Witches,” Milwaukee Journal, October 28, 1986; Jo Sandin, “Two Made One in Eyes of Goddess and Man,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 20, 1998.
9. [9]Milwaukee Pagan Unity Council, accessed January 30, 2017; Fellowship of Alternative Beliefs’ Facebook page, accessed January 30, 2017.
10. [10] Molly Snyder, “New Occult Shop Crystallizes on East Side,” January 20, 2009; Selena Fox, comp., Circle Guide to Wicca and Pagan Resources (Madison: Circle, 1980), 103; Kathy Flanigan, “Charm School,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 25, 1999; “About Us,” Ascended Gifts, Llc., accessed January 30, 2017.
11. [11] “Contemporary Resurgence in America,” Pluralism Project, accessed January 30, 2017; Kelly, A Tapestry of Witches, 123; Snyder, “New Occult Shop;” Jonathan Nightshade, comment on Aidan Kelly, “The Gardnerians, 1963-1972,” Aidan Kelly: Including Paganism (blog), Patheos, November 10, 2012.
12. [12] “What Do Pagans Do?”; for examples of local Internet groups, see “Milwaukee Eclectic Pagans,” https://www.meetup.com/Milwaukee-Eclectic-Pagans/, accessed January 30, 2017; “Wiccans of Wisconsin,” Wiccan Together, accessed January 30, 2017; Milwaukee Pagan Alliance’s Facebook group, accessed January 30, 2017.

For Further Reading

Fox, Selena. “Women in the Wiccan Religion and Contemporary Paganism.” In Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, edited by Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether, 809-818. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006.

Kelly, Aidan A. A Tapestry of Witches: A History of the Craft in America. Tacoma, WA: Hierophant Wordsmith Press, 2014.

See Also

• Commercial Landscapes
• Digital Milwaukee
• Peoples

Hail and Welcome!

This is TAWN’s final official posting. Networking was one of the main goals of TAWN. To that end, I have compiled the last networking lists for both the groups and the vendors and they are herein attached. While TAWN brought so many of us together, our time together does not have to end. Groups can reach out to other groups for joint rituals or gatherings. Everyone can support and shop our pagan friendly businesses as we are how they survive. It has been my pleasure to serve you.
Blessed Be,
Gwyn

TAWN GROUP NETWORKING LIST 2020
Here is the list of groups that to the best of TAWN’s knowledge are active as of November 2020:

Desert Henge Coven
(www.desert-henge.com)

Circle of Sage Coven
(By invitation only – [email protected])

Mother Earth Ministries-ATC
(Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/Mother-Earth-Ministries-ATC-263852920528/?ref=br_rs)

Sonoran Sunrise Grove, ADF
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/SSG.ADF/)

Tucson Area Vampire & Otherkin Community – TAVOC
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/TucsonOtherkin/)

Pagan Night Out Tucson
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/557094524821853/)

Hearths Gate Coven
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/1490711001165610/?ref=group_header)

Hearth’s Gate Kindred
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/hearthsgate/)

Southern Arizona CUUPS: A chapter of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/SAZCUUPS/)

Adventure Wicca
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/AdventureWicca/)

Web of Life Animist Church
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=187707288626588&ref=br_rs)

The Ancient Crystal Skull Synergy
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/SynergyCrystalSkull/)

Dearbhfine nLamha Oscailte
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/LamhaOscailte/)

Canyon View Circle
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/128190257583986/)

Tucson Pagan Sand Witches
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/TucsonPaganSandWitches/?ref=group_header)

Tucson Witches
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=943454459114430&ref=br_rs)

Tucson Pagan Connection
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/tpconnection/)

Phoenix Pagan Pride
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/PaganPridePhx/)

Arizona Pagans
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/46204631902/?ref=group_header)

Arizona Witches and Pagans
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArizonaWitchesandPagans/?ref=group_header)

Pagans of Arizona
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/878107602213350/?ref=group_header)

Wiccans & Pagans of Arizona
(Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/356463517743053/?ref=group_header)

TAWN VENDOR NETWORKING LIST 2020
Here is the list of pagan friendly vendors that to the best of TAWN’s knowledge are active as of November 2020:

Mystic Candles & Metaphysical
http://www.mysticcandles.org/
www.mystictucson.com

Tarot by Tish
https://www.facebook.com/tarotbytish/

Author Ashleen O’Gaea
https://www.facebook.com/OGaea-the-Writer-147653502320/
http://www.AshleenOGaea.com

Dry River Witches Shoppe
https://www.facebook.com/DryRiverWitchesShoppe/
www.dryriverwitches.com

Spirits Child
https://www.facebook.com/spiritschildtucson/
http://spiritschild.com

Purple Sky Incense
https://www.facebook.com/purpleskyincense/
http://squareup.com/store/purple-sky-incense

LaZia Native Arts
https://www.facebook.com/la.zia.900/

An Cailleach Casta Apothecary
https://www.facebook.com/AnCailleachCasta/
https://an-cailleach-casta-apothecary.square.site

Clever Kim’s Curios
https://www.facebook.com/cleverkimscuriosities/
http://cleverkimscurios.com

The Ninth House
https://www.facebook.com/TheNinthHouseShop/
http://www.theninthhouseshop.com/

Boxer’s Rebellion Martial Arts
https://www.facebook.com/boxersrebellionmartialarts/
https://www.boxersrebellionmartialarts.com

Metaphysics World
520-327-7449
2940 E. 22nd St.

TAWN would like to invite you to “A Celebration of the Life of TAWN,” its farewell zoom as it is completely shutting down. This is not a ritual. This is a wake or celebration of life. We are coming together to reminisce about our own enjoyable times with TAWN. Please feel free to share this with others who have interacted with TAWN. We look forward to your short amusing stories of TAWN experiences.

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TAWN meetings are on hold until further notice. No cauldronlucks, no business meetings, no public rituals and no Finale planning meetings. Check here and the Facebook page for updates.

TAWN is in transition. It’s the end of an era for TAWN. We are transitioning to an online only forum and community network. The website will remain for an undetermined amount of time. The Facebook page will be the main source of the networking. It is our hope that the Pagan community will continue to offer public rituals and gatherings which we will be happy to advertise and share with those who visit the TAWN Facebook page or website.

We will be having TAWN’s 2020 Fall Festival Finale at Himmel park as an information only festival. We ask that our beloved Pagan vendors bring plenty of business cards and consider hosting a workshop or presentation. We are asking that all Tucson area covens, groves, and otherly named Pagan groups come out and represent. Stay tuned for more information.

TAWN T-shirts are now available for sale at the Cauldronlucks. TAWN logo T-shirts are now only $10. TAWN yearly T-shirts are $5. See you at the next Cauldronluck, 2nd Sunday of the month at La Madera park, 2700 E. La Madera Drive.

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Sizes Available: as of 1/12

TAWN LOGO: 3XL-4, 2XL-6, L-4, M-4, S-5, 3XL/V-2, L/V-4, M/V-1, S/V-2

2017 Always Something Brewing: 2XL-4, XL-5, M-4

2015 (The pagan symbols one): 2XL-3, XL-9, L-5, M-3, S-1, child S-1

2014 Between the Worlds: LS-3, M-1

2013 Walk Talk/Strut Stuff/ Be Seen: XL-3

2011 Bringing Elements Together: YM-1, YM-1

2006 Celebrating Our Diversity: YL-1 blue, YS-2 rust & 2 teal

Carol Garr is TAWN’s ritual coordinator. She requests the help of the community to volunteer to lead one of our public rites, whether for traditional Sabbats or any other celebrations you wish to share. Dates, times, and locations can be arranged around your schedule. All respectful Pagan/Heathen traditions welcome. Whether you’re solitary, or in a coven, grove, or other group only competence and reliability are required. Please contact Carol directly at [email protected], (520) 883-4444, or FB messenger.

Carol has been busy as a subject matter expert at several federal prison events around the country. She was invited to present an all-day program on Wicca for the Life Connections Program (LCP) Religious Diversity Appreciation component. The inmates were from numerous faiths, and she did so on 3 different occasions in 2014, 2016, & 2018. Then in 2019 she presented a 1-day segment on Wicca for the Bureau of Prisons Professional Chaplaincy Training course in Colorado. It was an honor to help guide chaplains in their work so that they will be better able to understand and serve the Wiccan inmates in their institutions.

Since 1988, TAWN has been southeastern Arizona’s hub of Neo-Pagan, Heathen, and Polytheist communication and education. Understanding and good will among local Pagans/Heathens and between the Pagan/Heathen community and the general public is our goal. We’ve worked for over two decades to build and maintain a spiritual, educational, and social network based on our respect for each other and a deep reverence for Nature.

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