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Original Post:
by: NovisNox on Aug 27, 2017

So I've heard about this from a friend​ of mine who told me that she uses a Cingulum in her practice. She is ecclectic Wiccan and given that I don't practice Wicca but from what she told me it's apparently an integral part of her practice. Yet, I've never heard of it. I was hoping someone could provide some clarification on what it is exactly and what it's used for. I was able to find out some info online but I didn't find a very clear answer (or the answer just went over my head lol) to me it seemed like a coven tool but I don't know. Do they have a specific purpose in ritual work or something?

Here's what I read online [Wikipedia]:
"These are often given to a Wiccan upon their initiation, and worn at each subsequent ritual. Traditionally they are nine feet in length (nine being three times three, the magical number), and are used to measure the circumference of the magic circle so that it can be set up correctly.

In many traditions of Wicca, the colour of a person's cingulum indicates what rank of initiation they are; in several Australian covens for instance, green denotes a novice, white denotes an initiate of the first degree, blue for the second, and a plaited red, white and blue for the third, with the High Priest wearing a gold cingulum (symbolising the sun), and the High Priestess wearing silver (symbolising the moon)."