Wicca for One: The Path of Solitary Witchcraft

by Raymond Buckland

Book Overview

A comprehensive guide to the solitary practice of Wicca through every season of life, from becoming a witch to improving your life through magic to mastering spells, rites, traditions, and celebrations. Original.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806525541
• ISBN13: 9780806525549
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Citadel Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great book

This is the first book I picked up on Wicca. I found it easy to read and informative on the subject.

A Welcomed Addition to My Personal Library

I treasure Mr. Raymond Buckland's WICCA FOR ONE book, and I have found it to be such a useful guide, to all issues involving witchcraft, that I currently have forty-five bookmark tabs inserted throughout my copy of this most helpful book. Buckland skillfully navigates the reader through an expansive landscape of occult topics, but Buckland's perspective, his clarity of vision, on the genesis and nature of Wicca is a steady compass ensuring the reader is never at risk of becoming confused or lost. His justification of the solitary witch is satisfying, and the numerous tables contained in the appendices are sure useful. I salute you, Mr. Buckland!

Assistance to find your own Wiccan path with no pressure

I have read a few Wicca text's and I find it hard to finish the books due to depth of the information. This book I read with ease and had no problems finishing it. It is set out simple and isn't just one sided he discusses what other authors believe and don't believe. I found that this book really helped me carve my own path and directions of my own choice he just helps you find your own individual one. Great read and help.

Great for Beginning Solitaries

This is one of the first books I picked up to learn about Wiccan spirituality. It gives great advice for small spaced rooms, solitary rituals, and how to honor the gods alone.

Aged Master; Ever Young!

Amongst Wiccans today, Raymond Buckland needs no introduction, as he can fairly be called "the Father of modern Witchcraft in America". He is the author of many books, this one turning his attention to the situation of the solitary Wiccan, that is: one who is not a member of any coven. He is careful to point out that the path of the solitary Witch is far older than that of coven Witches, and it is one that is both justifiable and fully legitimate. Thus the book is affirming and thoughtfully helpful in the various facets of Wiccan practice that are presented for the Solitary. I particularly enjoyed his debunking of a number of supposed Wiccan "dogmas" and his generally liberating "take" on the Faith and Practice. Given his background in the Garderian Tradition of Wicca(and his age), his flexible approach here was very refreshing. There are also several very good appendices and a bibliography to take the reader further and deeper into the Craft. With his reputation, and the book's quality, this volume by Buckland should be read by every solitary Wiccan!

Wicca 101book...

This is probably one of the best Wicca 101 books that I have read. I had mixed emotions about the first chapter of the book. Buckland talks about TV witches and calls some questionable historical characters as possible witches. But then I proceeded to read the following chapters and I realized that the first chapter must be read without taking it seriously. I think what Buckland attempts is to reach the new wanna-be practitioner on a level that she/he can understand. The rest of the book is filled with plenty of content (no fluffy-bunny Wicca). The book has a good overview of Wicca (there is less focus on magic than in most of Wicca 101 books comming out these days) including rituals, Esbats, rites of passage, Sabbats, Divination, Healing, Prayer and Meditation, and Development. He also includes appendices of magical terms, magical properties of herbs, magical properties of stones, and magical alphabets. They are shallow overviews but more than I have found in many Wicca 101 books and enough for a begginer to decide if they wish to persue any of the topics with deeper study. I would give this book a 4.5 if I could because it is not perfect but it is a great introductory book to Wicca 101 and especially beggining solitary practice for someone who has never been involved with a coven.