Beliefs & practices

Theologically, the tradition treats the Goddess as a single deity with many names and faces — Diana, Artemis, Hecate, Demeter, Persephone, Isis, the Cailleach, and others — rather than as a pantheon. In practice, Diana / Artemis as goddess of the moon, the wild, and the hunt is the most frequent invocation, with Hecate prominent in death-and-rebirth and crone-aspect rituals.

Working structure draws on Wicca: a cast circle, the eight Sabbats and lunar esbats, ritual tools (athame, chalice, pentacle), and degree-based initiation in lineaged covens. The substantive differences are the all-woman composition, the absence of a god-figure, and the explicit framing of practice as feminist political and spiritual work simultaneously.

Some Dianic practitioners and authors invoke Lilith, drawing on the medieval Hebrew material in which she refuses to submit to Adam, as part of a broader reclamation of feminine figures classed as demonic by patriarchal religion; she is not, however, a central liturgical figure in the way Diana is, and Lilith devotion is not a defining element of the tradition.