Are Wiccans Real?

What is Wicca and is it Real?

Founded in England in the 20th century, Wicca is practiced by hundreds of thousands of people around the world to this day. It is a duo theistic belief and centers around two deities. The Horned God is typically masculine and is represented as having the head of a beast with horns. In modern day practice, the Horned God is focused on less, and is oftentimes mistaken for Satan by those who do not understand Wicca. The second deity is called the Triple Goddess, and represents femininity within the belief. In modern day Wiccan practice, the Triple Goddess has taken more of a central role, and is said to embody femininity, sexuality, and the life cycle of the woman. She is represented in three phases, The Maiden, The Mother, and The Crone, which coincide with cycles of the moon and are based on a cycle of a womans life.

Many who hear about Wicca picture witches stirring a boiling cauldron in the woods and worshiping the devil. This is not the case, and Wiccans are actually very in tune with nature, life, beauty, and embracing the connection between the inner self and the natural world.   However, a part of Wicca is indeed spell casting, and this is often misconceived by the outside world as being evil or attempting to control existential forces outside of the realm of the living.

Spell Casting in Wicca

Spell casting does play a significant role in Wiccan belief. There are many sources online purporting to be Wiccan practitioners, and toting everything from spells for beginners, to highly advanced love spells and more. Interestingly, Wiccans are just regular people who decided to begin practicing the art, which means that these spells are indeed simply made up and shared across the web. Indeed, one of the most common types of spell (both in movies and in real life) is the love spell. There are countless sources online that claim to have everything from love spells to make someone love you, to love spells that make it easier for someone to fall in love with you. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the biggest consumer of these love spells are teenage girls. Many of these would be practitioners grow out of the fad, but some remain true and are convinced that the love spell they cast in high school is responsible for their marriage to this day. While opinions differ, most “real” Wiccans will say that a true love spell is one that draws your significant other to you, and does not/cannot make someone fall in love with you. According to them, attempting something that bends free will is against the rule of nature, and is forbidden and not practiced.

A Real Wiccan Practitioner Tells All

In an interview with a real practitioner of Wicca, we learn a little bit more about what the draw is to this old belief system, and why people are so secretive about practicing it.

Determining the Costs for Website Design and Development

It’s a common question that has been asked over a million times by business owners and freelancers across the world. That question is “How much does web design cost?” Unfortunately there isn’t one set answer for any company; however we can go into the details about how this cost is estimated and how you can figure out a little bit on your own how much it’ll cost you to make a website for your company

The first thing that needs to be considered is what type of website you’re trying to get built. If it’s meant to sell products, that’s called an e-commerce website. These typically cost a bit more than other websites because it takes more time to upload lots of products to your website.

If you know whether your website is meant to be a blog, a service-type website (such as for a dentist or plumber) or an e-commerce website, that would be a great place to start. Tell this to your web designer.

The next thing to ask is how many pages you need your website to be. For service websites it typically includes a home page, about page, service page (sometimes a few service pages) and a contact page. A simple layout with 5 pages shouldn’t ever cost you more than $5,000. You can also find services that are much less expensive that will only run you about $500 (and in some cases even less, depending on how much you care about quality).

If you have an e-commerce website, that can run you anywhere from about $1,000 as much as $30,000, depending on how many products you need uploaded and the quality of the website. Someone with 10,000 products is likely going to end up in the higher price range.

Another very important factor to consider is content and SEO. Your content is something you should provide if you want to save money. It could cost you a fortune to hire someone to write content for you and to purchase stock images. In fact, you could spend tens of thousands of dollars on content alone! So by providing your own content, you can help speed up the process of the web design and also save some money.

As for SEO, this is typically an ongoing service that charges anywhere from $500/mo to $10,000/mo depending on how competitive your market is. One way to avoid monthly fees is to do your own SEO and track it with Majestic SEO or a similar service.

If you’re looking for a new custom design that would require a lot of web development, you’re going to end up in the higher range of web design costs. Simple WordPress templates, or a Joomla website will cost you much less and provide you with almost the same quality of work. On average, a website will cost anywhere from $2,000 – $20,000. The more work you give your web designer, the more he’s going to charge.

Probably the best way to find out the cost for a new site is to simply ask a web designer for a quote. Some people are hesitant on doing this due to the belief that they’ll receive a lot of sales calls. It should be noted here that you aren’t likely to run into that with web designers.

If you’re thinking about hiring a company overseas to do your web design, we encourage you not to do this. Hiring a company overseas can be very risky and can cause you a lot of trouble in the long run. There are many companies who do this, but they do it primarily through large white-label companies that provide overseas web design as a service to web design companies.

If you hire a freelance web designer overseas to take care of your web design, you risk the possibility of them stealing your credit card information, your personal information and much more. You also risk the possibility of making an advance payment and not receiving anything in return. Another major risk is that the person designing your website might provide you with the same website they had already built for another, or even a low-quality website etc. The list goes on.

Be safe in your web design ventures. Don’t work with a company solely on the criteria of price and web design costs. Find a reputable company that appeals to you, contact them and see if they seem like the guys to do the job for you. Having a good quality web designer on your team is priceless!