Our Basic Beliefs

1. Right to Autonomy

   All humans have the right to physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual autonomy.

   2. Right to Marry + Love

Consenting adults shall be able to marry and love on their own terms, regardless of sex, gender, identity, religious affiliation or lack thereof, culture, or ethnicity.

3. Right to Pro-Choice

It is solely up to the person who is pregnant to decide whether or not to have an abortion. No other person, entity, provider, governance/government shall decide if a person can have an abortion or not.

4. BIPOC Matter

People identifying as black, indigenous, and/or people of color deserve the same rights, opportunities, resources, jobs, respect and dignity as non-BIPOC identifying people. BIPOC People’s experiences are valid and their needs are essential.

5. (Trans)Women’s Rights

People identifying as a woman deserve the same rights, opportunities, resources, jobs, respect and dignity as non-Woman identifying people. Women’s experiences are valid and their needs are essential.

6. LGBTQIA+ Rights

People identifying as LGBTQIA+ deserve the same rights, opportunities, resources, jobs, respect and dignity as hetero-identifying people. LGBTQIA+ people’s experiences are valid and their needs are essential.

7. Sexual Violence Zero Tolerance

All humans have the right to be free from rape, molestation, sexual harassment, and any other forms of sexual violence. Consent is mandatory.

8. An it Harm None, Do What Ye Will

Do whatever you want as long as you are not purposefully / intentionally harming another person.

Our Guidelines and Principles

Adhere to the Wiccan Rede: An it harm none, do what ye will;

Acknowledge the cycles of the moon;

Celebrate eight (8) Sabbats — Samhain, Yule, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane, Litha, Lammas, Mabon;

Live in harmony with Nature to the best of our ability;

No nudity in rituals, sabbats, esbats, or in other group/coven work or activities. Members May work skyclad ("naked") in privacy of own home, alone or with consenting adults. May not solicit other members of Spirit Night Coven to work skyclad;

The belief in Karma and the three-fold law: three times bad and threes times good, when working magick;

To be an eclectic Wiccan, meaning we pull information from many different sources to develop individual Craft and spellworkings;

Belief that religion, magick, and wisdom all go hand-in-hand. To live is to be united;

Acknowledge masculine and feminine forces and sex is the embodiment of life and pleasure;

Recognize the outer world (physical world) and inner world (spiritual and     supernatural world) as valid and essential;

Respect those in leadership roles within this Coven;

To strive for growth and development in the practice of Wicca and Witchcraft;

The only animosity towards other faiths is the factors of control and righteousness, or the belief in there being only one path or that their path is superior to other paths;

Be concerned and focused on present and future;

To not worship negative, evil, or destructive deities, or "Satan" or the "Devil”;

Celebrate the Goddess and her three aspects: maiden, mother, crone at Coven rituals;

Celebrate the God as Sun God, Horned God, Holly King, Cernunnos at Coven rituals;

May worship other deities in solitary activities;

Acknowledge North, South, East, West as divine Quarter Spirits;

Acknowledge the afterlife as the Summerlands where time does not exist;

The use of circles to mark the boundary of a sacred space;

Acknowledge and adhere to the four aspects of performing magick: Rede, Timing, Desire, Cleanliness

Principles of Beliefs by the American Council of Witches

Also known as “The Thirteen Principles of Wiccan Belief” and “The 13 Principles of Belief”

We practice rites to attune ourselves with the natural rhythm of life forces marked by the phases of the Moon and the seasonal Quarters and Cross Quarters.

1. We recognize that our intelligence gives us a unique responsibility toward our environment. We seek to live in harmony with Nature, in ecological balance offering fulfillment to life and consciousness within an evolutionary concept.
   

2. We acknowledge a depth of power far greater than that apparent to the average person. Because it is far greater than ordinary it is sometimes called "supernatural", but we see it as lying within that which is naturally potential to all.
   

3. We conceive of the Creative Power in the universe as manifesting through polarity-as masculine and feminine-and that this same Creative Power lies in all people, and functions through the interaction of the masculine and feminine. We value neither (gender) above the other, knowing each to be supportive to the other. We value sex as pleasure, as the symbol and embodiment of life, and as one of the sources of energies used in magickal practice and religious worship.
   

4. We recognize both outer worlds and inner, of psychological, worlds sometimes known as the Spiritual World, the Collective Unconscious, Inner Planes, etc.-and we see in the inter-action of these two dimensions the basis for paranormal phenomena and magickal exercises. We neglect neither dimension for the other, seeing both as necessary for our fulfillment.
   

5. We do not recognize any authoritarian hierarchy, but do honor those who teach, respect those who share their greater knowledge and wisdom, and acknowledge those who have courageously given of themselves in leadership.
   

6. We see religion, magick and wisdom in living as being united in the way one views the world and lives within it-a world view and philosophy of life which we identify as Witchcraft-the Wiccan Way.
   

7. Calling oneself "Witch" does not make a Witch-but neither does heredity itself, nor the collecting of titles, degrees and initiations. A Witch seeks to control the forces within her/himself that make life possible in order to live wisely and will without harm to other and in harmony with Nature.
   

8. We believe in the affirmation and fulfillment of life in a continuation of evolution and development of consciousness giving meaning to the Universe we know and our personal role within it.
   

9. Our only animosity towards Christianity, or toward any other religion or philosophy of life, is to the extent that its institutions have claimed to be "the only way" and have sought to deny freedom to others and to suppress other ways of religious practice and belief.
   

10. As American Witches, we are not threatened by debates on the history of the Craft, the origins of various terms, the legitimacy of various aspects of different traditions. We are concerned with our present and our future.
    

11. We do not accept the concept of absolute evil, nor do we worship any entity known as "Satan" or "the Devil", as defined by Christian tradition. We do not seek power through the suffering of others, nor accept that personal benefit can be derived only by denial to another.
    

12. We believe that we should seek within Nature that which is contributory to our health and well-being.