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		The Goddess and God
				The Goddess The goddess is the dominant figure of Wicca and most pagan religions.  She is the energy of the earth, hence the sayings "mother earth" and "mother nature".  The goddess is deemed holy because of her ability to produce life, and is by many considered the original divine being.  The earth and the universe is considered the "womb", where things have the possibilty to grow. From the mother, all life springs.  She is the producer, the creator.  This belief comes from natural observation; all females harbor and produce life.  She is represented by the moon, and is believed by many as the creator of the God. She represents all female aspects of life, and is a spiritual enity that is within every creature.  Her energy is simply gray; there is both positive and negative engergies.
	What is the meaning of gray energy?  Well, take for example the eruption of a volcano.  Ash and molten rock spew over the area causing fire and the destruction of everything around.  In spite of this destruction, without the eruption, new land could not be created nor could new minerals be instilled upon the soil.  In the long run, the volcano creates the opportunity for new life.  See how that was both positive and negative?  The goddess tends to be more of a symbolical rather than literal meaning.  Her energy is vast, just like the energy of the earth and universe.  She is represented through a cresent, a chalace (or wine glass), the left hand, the moon, and a circle.  She is the dominant energy, but could not be complete without her counterpart: the god.
		The God The god is not the typical "all creating" god of Christianity.  Rather, he is an equal counterpart to the goddess.  He is considered the sun, the sky, the mountains and the untouched forests.  He fertilizes the goddess to wield life.  Just as there can be no males without females, there could be no females without males.  He is the controller of fertility. He separates day from night, controls summer and winter, and maintains balance in the order of life.  The sabbats and estabats (the pagan holidays) are celebrated in part due to his waxing and waning movements through out the year.  He is thought to be reborn every year on the first day of winter, because winter is the shortest day of the year, which means that the sun is the briefest.
		He is reborn, grows from infancy (winter, which the days are slowly getting longer), and then puberty (spring), in which all things become fertile again.  He then mates with the goddess during this time, impregnating her with his seed (sex is simply a part of nature and should be treated as such) and makes it possible for life on earth to do the same. He reaches adulthood, marking the first day of summer, and then begins to slowly age.  Harvest time, usually July, August, and September, is the result of his fertility from his strongest time of life; his early to middle age.  He becomes an elder by the first day of fall, dies on the first day of winter where the goddess gives rebirth to him. The god here again is more symbolical than literal for masculine energy.  He is represented by the athame (knife), wand, two horns, the sun, the right hand, and a pyramid.  He represents the hunt, physical means, and anything regarding a masculine nature.
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