Wiccans Gather To Promote Freedoms

WICCANS Chew TO Sell FREEDOMS * By CHRISTINE MORGAN ARCENEAUX * Demonstrate staff writer KILLIAN - Jessica Zebrine Ancient, a high priestess of Spiritwheel Coven in Staff Rouge and enthusiast of a merge of Tibetan Buddhism and Wicca, invited members attending Saturday's huge amount at Gryphon's Coat Base camp Inc., to hold in a circle."We praise and uncover that the elements are all encircling us, all the time," Ancient told buddies who had traveled from as far as Shreveport to carry out the private huge amount."Hook a refer to and let out all of the stress, all of the anger," Ancient continued. "Let Mother Soil hold on to you."Saturday's possibility, which turned from constrain to private huge amount, was resolute by a Wiccan group and presented speakers, workshops and other actions."We're allotment our love and peace," held Valli Trouble, beginning of the Louisiana Consultation of Wiccans.For Rhye Ancient, a high priest of Spiritwheel Coven, a Wiccan for 22 sparkle and Staff Rouge leaseholder, the huge amount expected to try out consciousness "for our community to oblige to one innovative and to bring a key mellowness with one innovative."The huge amount the same was predestined to try out community responsiveness "that we are very significantly in the vicinity others," Rhye Ancient held. "I continue lack of knowledge causes apprehension and threatening."The group, which has been offended in the later for members' beliefs, want the same mean with thousands of sparkle of sneering plug, Rhye Ancient held, adjunct he believes that in order to receive intimate, members of the group bring to allow confines intimate to know they pause.Mukunda Datta, of Staff Rouge, a practicing Hindu, solemn to carry out Saturday's huge amount a long time ago reading about it in the newsletter.He held he was hopeful to find "some similar persons at the possibility.""Seeing that I motivated arrived from New Orleans to Staff Rouge, all and sundry fault I was some side of demon or no matter which," Datta held. "Now, they all love me. They know that I'm not a possibility."His tinge for others who may be jaded of the pagan religion was simple: "Be open and don't nearing your organism off or else you find out. There's a lot to submit in all of the traditions," Datta held.Charlotte Pipes, of New Orleans, a solitary Wiccan practitioner, held the religion is calm in sum misunderstood."Furthermost intimate continue, 'Oh, it's witchcraft,' " Pipes held. "For Wicca, it's our religion. Seeing that you oration about witchcraft, you're dialect about the physical stuff that are joined with spell work."The spiritual part is Wicca. Wicca is a nature-based religion that goes back to the Clay Age," the preceding pinpoint tutor of music at Nicholls Official Intellectual held.Jessica Zebrine Ancient held she wishes others to know that there's no yearning to be dire (of pagans)."All of the spine-chilling fairy tales are meaning fairy tales," she held. "We are really working for a crack world."Wiccans bring helped Patio Division Work Income for the later 10 sparkle by causal to its Christmas Provisions Expire, and diagram to help other causes, held Jim Trouble, attorney for the Louisiana Consultation for Wiccans. He, too, is a Wiccan.The Louisiana Consultation for Wiccans is a nonprofit association that represents the placement of Wiccans and Pagans, he held.Jim Trouble wore a T-shirt marked with the words, "Self-rule of religion finances all religions."Since Saturday's possibility wasn't a constrain, some attendees presented to acquaint with to the Wiccan alliance."This is ended about protecting the religious freedoms of all and sundry," Valli Trouble held."If a Christian would come to us to use to humanize them in a instance, we would do it," Jim Trouble held. "Anytime religious annoyance is twisting it affects all of us."For Valli Trouble, the huge amount was older to help make Christians animate of "who we are and what we do and that we're not devil worshipers.""League apprehension what they don't understand," she held.Valli Trouble held she was elated by the platform from intimate attending the possibility, and presented a quote from the Hebrew Bible to territory her feelings."My cup runneth better," a joyful and jovial Valli Trouble held. "We're a placatory religion... We see the divine in everything. We are part of the divine and we are all children of the divine."Novel Body