http://koti.phnet.fi/petripaavola/wiccan.html

Here is some information on the basic principles and core beliefs of Wicca.

01. Wicca is an oath-bound mystery religion, each Wiccan should either be Dedicated or Initiated as a Wiccan to be considered a Wiccan by their peers and/or the general Wiccan community. Self Dedication or Initiation is customary in order to be considered a Wiccan.
02. Wicca’s ethical basis is expressed in the Wiccan Rede ("An it harm none, do as ye will"), and the Threefold Law ("What ye send returns three times over").
03. Wiccan’s are polytheistic, honoring a variety of gods and goddesses.
04. Wiccan’s are also dualistic, seeing individual deities, at least to some extent, as aspects of one God and one Goddess.
05. Wiccans are also pantheistic to some degree or another, viewing divinity as immanent within the natural world.
06. Wiccan’s show religious devotion to the Goddess and/or God (depending upon Tradition).
07. Wicca encompasses aspects of witchcraft and the practice of magick even though many Wiccans don’t outright practice witchcraft itself.
08. Wiccan Ritual usually involves casting a circle as the basic setting for spiritual and magical work, as well as emphasizes the Platonic four elements of earth, air, fire and water and some form of gender polarity, be that theologically in the image of the God and Goddess, and/or mundanely in the physical gender of participants as well.
09. Wiccan’s more often than not incorporate some form of the "Great Rite" (union of the God and Goddess), frequently symbolized in the blessing of the ritual wine by the conjoining of the athame (ritual knife) and chalice (ritual wine cup).
10. Wiccan’s believe in the wheel of the year and the cycles of life, death and rebirth.
11. Wicca as it is known today with two cc’s came into being in the mid 1940’s, it was popularized in the mid 1960’s. But Wicca itself originates from Pre-Christian pagan belief system from all over Europe. Some (not all) Traditions in Wicca also incorporate the use of ceremonial magic, high magic and even Alchemistry which also predates Christianity.
12. Wicca is not a gender based religion so both male as well as females may be Wiccan.
13. Wiccans usually follow a base Tradition such as Gardnerian, Alexandrian, Dianic, Celitic, Discordian to name a few, but there are many who prefer to be what’s called Eclectic.

Everything or anything above these beliefs and principle defines the path or tradition itself.

I hope I have brought some light to the issue and to your question.

Always in Light and Love

Nyjh

but wicca is much like a combination of many pagan religions, expressing them in an ample way (is what i think), but today’s religions are also paganism so it doesn’t matter

You convert through group initiation or self-dedication…
I suggest you study Wicca (Not Wiccanism) for a Year or more before you convert.

Good luck on your path!

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Don’t listen to Nathan L, he is an idiot!
Also, just a warning, do NOT read any book by Silver Raven Wolf, She is also an idiot

~Laura

EDIT: And the rules are mainly the Wiccan Rede. The most famous line is:

Do as thy will, harm none.

That includes yourself, emotionally and physically.

REad the whole thing here:

http://www.wicca.com/celtic/wicca/rede.htm

Rules. Well in Wicca there are no dogmas. Most of us follow the Wiccan Rede (google it for it’s entirety) "Harm none and do what thou will". Many follow the Law of Three (what you put out there comes back on you threefold). Depending on if you follow a specific tradition might determine if there are more "rules".