| Eclectic Wicca | 92% |
| Reclaiming | 87% |
| New Age | 77% |
| Spiritualist Church | 69% |
| Gardnerian Wicca | 68% |
| Asatru | 61% |
| Chaos Magic | 60% |
| Ceremonial Magic | 58% |
| Theosophy | 56% |
| Folk Magic | 56% |
| Traditional Witchcraft | 49% |
| Vodou | 40% |
| Tradition | 2.55 | Eclectic |
| Ecstatic | 1.26 | Solemn |
| Magical | -0.67 | Spiritual |
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Traditional vs Eclectic measures your proclivity for borrowing practices from faith traditions outside of your own. Many modern pagans do not have a set faith tradition; by definition they are eclectic. Indeed many folks self-identify as 'Eclectic Wiccan'.
Ecstatic vs. Solemn measures the tendency to use movement, drumming, or dance in ritual practice as opposed to participating as an audience or employing sedentary practices such as quiet meditation.
Magical vs. Spiritual refers to the source through which you, as a magical practitioner, exert change on the world. Another way to label this axis could be Internal vs. External. Magical means that the practitioner creates change through their own will; Spiritual means that the practitioner calls upon the power of an external force to create change on their behalf.
The graph above attempts to show three variables in two dimensions. To do this, each variable is multiplied by a weight and the results summed and plotted on the graph. The result is that the X-axis is predominantly the Tradition-Eclectic variable, and the Y-axis is the Ecstatic-Solemn variable. The Magical-Spiritual Variable effects both axes, though has a stronger effect on the X-axis. The result is something similar to a Principle Components Analysis.
The list of traditions is calculated by taking the 2-norm (euclidean distance) between the position of your result and the position of each group. Because the graph gives a squished view of positions, the apparent distance between dots and the values in the list may be at odds. The list is the more accurate.
We are a small magical apothecary run by two traditional witches in the Appalachian mountains. We are both witches and scientists, though, and are interested in occult scholarship, folk practices, and the sociological landscape of modern paganism. This quiz is helping us get a better picture of the latter. Thank you for your participation!
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