The Black Oak Coven Initiation of a Wiccan High Priest
Kevin Wikse depicted amid the ordeals and mysteries of his nine-day initiation into the Third Degree and High Priesthood of Wicca. 9/26 Update I would be willing to wager that my account of my initiation into the Third Degree of Wicca—its mysteries, its priesthood, and what I discovered on the other side of that threshold—may be one of the most widely read and shared personal accounts of Wiccan initiation ever written. With more than 500,000 reads, it has certainly traveled farther than I ever imagined when I first put fingers to keyboard. Whether it is the most widely read, I cannot prove. Whether it is the most polarizing? Well... spend five minutes on Reddit and decide for yourself. 8/24: Contextual content. The following occurred in 2003, high in the San Bernardino Mountains of California. I first published my experience in 2013 (on an older blog; it didn’t appear on Might & Magick until 2019). But it wasn’t until 2024 that I discovered—to my absolute delight —the long-term ...