• our faith was almost or completely wiped out in the past and has since been reconstructed from ancient information sources.

• a duotheistic or polytheistic belief system (we recognize a Goddess and God, and/or believe in many deities).

• some of our current and past followers are solitary practitioners.

• some of our members have hived off to form other Tomarian Tradition covens, hearths or circles.

• we celebrate four main seasonal days of celebrations each year, associated with the equinoxes and solstices.

• we also celebrate four additional days, each between a solstice and equinox, the esbats.

• we prefer to conduct our religious rituals outdoors where practical.

• as with many other paths, we do not practice our religion publicly because of the danger of abuse from very devout but misinformed Christians who have associated us and other paths with an evil and non-existent form of Satanism.

• we have a minimal hierarchical structure.

• we have a concern for the environment.

• we feel close to nature and its cycles.

• we follow a behavioral code that requires us to avoid hurting ourselves or others.

All of the above are very common to most duotheistic and polytheistic traditions that exist today.   As is most of the Bible Belt and greatly in Oklahoma.  The Tomarian Tradition is run very similar to British Traditional Witchcraft (BTW).  We, like BTW, have been influential upon other Wiccans/Witches around us. For us, as well as in BTW, initiatory lineage is a part of our tradition.  This is also a byproduct of the area in which we live.  Oklahoma is, by nature of our Bible Belt placement, primarily British Traditional in nature.  Whether because its many traditions descended from BTW, or having been departed from it, or because they have a similar, but unlinked, place for initiatory lineage and many of the same traditional facets of BTW.

The Tomarian tradition, like many others in Oklahoma has an unbenonced conformity.  Because, no mater what is said, we are all primarily the same, generally speaking of course.  Once you look into someone, no matter who they may be, you see glimpses of yourself.  Each of us have our problems, not indifferent to each others. Every group or tradition has secrets, things they keep to themselves.  Each BTW group has some things they try to hide, pushed aside and cloaked in a veil of mysticism.  Even in this closed secular pagan community that is Oklahoma; There is one thing that separates each of us from one another.  And it's that fact, that one thing links us all together, or choices.  Our choices led us to follow our hearts and seek this path.  We all are walking to the same place.  Our roads are just a bit different.  If we all took the time to realize, we all share a common heartbeat.  We could grow even beyond our own dreams.

The Tomarian Tradition operates by a Code of Ethics, which all members (covens or solitary) are expected to understand and follow:

Because there is no centralized organization in per say in the Tomarian Tradition, and no single "orthodoxy", the beliefs and practices of Tomarians can vary substantially, both between individuals and between covens. Typically, the main religious principles, ethics and ritual structures are shared, since they are key elements of traditional teachings and published works on the subject.

As practiced by the founding Coven (TOTEM) and its followers, the Tomarian Tradition was and is a secretive and exclusive society of religious witchcraft, with entry to the society only gained through initiation by another Tomarian member. However, since the late 1990s other, non-initiated people have adopted the term "Tomarian" to describe their beliefs and practices, which vary from those of traditional, lineaged Tomarian to a greater or lesser extent. 

As practiced by lineaged and non-lineaged initiates, Tomarian is a variety of witchcraft founded on religious and magical concepts, and most of its adherents identify as witches. As such it is distinguished not only by its religious beliefs, but by its initiatory system, organizational structure, secrecy, and practice of magic.  Lineaged Tomarians generally will not proselytise, and may even deny membership to some individuals, since once initiated a person is considered to be a priest or priestess and is expected to develop the skills and responsibility that that entails.

Tomarian Witchcraft is only one variety of pagan witchcraft, with specific beliefs and practices. Members of Initiatory groups worship a goddess and a god; they observe the festivals of the eight Sabbats of the year and the full-moon Esbats, using distinctive ritual forms; and they attempt to live by a code of ethics. Other forms of witchcraft may also adopt some similar specific religious, ethical or ritual elements.

In the Eclectic Wiccan movement there is much more variation in religious beliefs, and secrecy and organizational structure play a less important role. Generally, Eclectic Wiccans will adopt similar ritual structures and ethical principles to initiates. A few Eclectic Wiccans neither consider themselves witches nor practice magic.

Many Wiccans, though not all, call themselves Pagans, though the umbrella term Paganism encompasses many faiths that have nothing to do with Wicca or witchcraft.

For most Tomarians, our path is a bitheistic religion. The Goddess and God are seen as complementary polarities and this balance is seen in nature. They are sometimes symbolized as the Sun and Moon, and from her lunar associations the Goddess becomes a Triple Goddess with aspects of "Maiden", "Mother" and "Crone". The God is the spark of life and inspiration within her, simultaneously her lover and her child. This is reflected in the traditional structure of the Tomarian coven.  A key belief in the Tomarian Tradition is that the gods and goddesses are able to manifest in personal form, most importantly through the bodies of Priestesses and Priests. The latter kind of manifestation is the purpose of the ritual of Drawing down the Moon (or Drawing down the Sun), whereby the Goddess is called to descend into the body of the Priestess (or the God into the Priest) to effect divine possession.

Other traditions have a monotheistic belief in the Goddess as One. While others many have a duotheistic conception of deity as a Goddess (of Moon, Earth and sea) and a God (of forest, hunting and the animal realm). This concept is often extended into a kind of polytheism by the belief that the gods and goddesses of all cultures are aspects of this pair (or of the Goddess alone). Others hold the various gods and goddesses to be separate and distinct. Still others do not believe in the gods as real personalities, but see them as archetypes. or as thought forms. A unified supreme godhead is also acknowledged by some groups. 

The classical elements are a key feature of the Tomarian tradition. Every manifest force or form is seen to express one of the four archetypal elements — Earth, Air, Fire and Water — or several in combination. We add a fifth or quintessential element, spirit (aether, akasha). The five points of the frequently worn pentagram symbolize, among other things, the four elements with spirit presiding at the top. In the casting of a magic circle, the four cardinal elements are visualized as contributing their influence from the four cardinal directions.

Tomarian morality is partly based on the (often misunderstood) Wiccan Rede: 'An it harm none, do what ye will'. This is usually interpreted as a declaration of the freedom to act, along with the necessity of taking responsibility for what follows from one's actions. Another element of Tomarian Morality comes from the Law of Threefold Return, which is understood to mean that whatever one does to another person or thing (benevolent or otherwise) returns with triple force.

Tomarians also seek to cultivate a set of eight virtues mentioned in Doreen Valiente's Charge of the Goddess, these being mirth, reverence, honor, humility, strength, beauty, power and compassion. In Valiente's poem they are ordered in pairs of complementary opposites, reflecting a dualism that is common throughout Tomarian philosophy. Some lineaged Tomarians also take note of a set of 161 laws, commonly called the Ardanes. 

Practitioners of lineaged Tomarian tradition may undertake rituals of self-dedication, and can work alone as solitary practitioners or in casual groups, rather than in organized covens. 

Within the Tomarian Tradition there are three degrees of initiation. First degree is required to become a witch and gain membership of a coven; those who aspire to teach may eventually undergo second and third degree initiations, conferring the title of "High Priest" or "High Priestess" and allowing them to establish new covens.

The Tomarian tradition is organized into covens of initiated priests and priestesses. Covens are autonomous, and are generally headed by a High Priest and a High Priestess working in partnership, being a couple who have each been through their first, second and third degrees of initiation. Occasionally the leaders of a coven are only second-degree initiates, in which case they come under the rule of the parent coven. Initiation and training of new priesthood is most often performed within a coven environment, but this is not a necessity, and a few initiated Wiccans are unaffiliated with any coven. Some of these "solitaries" do, however, attend gatherings and other community events, but reserve their spiritual practices (Sabbats, Esbats, spell-casting, worship, magical work, etc.) for when they are alone.

A commonly quoted tradition holds that the ideal number of members for a coven is thirteen, though this is not held as a hard-and-fast rule. Indeed, many U.S. covens are far smaller, though the membership may be augmented by unaffiliated Wiccans at "open" rituals. When covens grow beyond their ideal number of members, they often split (or "hive") into multiple covens, yet remain connected as a group. A grouping of multiple covens is known as a grove in many traditions.

Initiation into a coven is traditionally preceded by a waiting period of at least a year and a day. A course of study may be set during this period. In some covens a "dedication" ceremony may be performed during this period, some time before the initiation proper, allowing the person to attend certain rituals on a probationary basis. Some solitary Wiccans also choose to study for a year and a day before their self-dedication to the religion.

In typical rites, the coven assemble inside a ritually cast and purified magic circle. Prayers to the God and Goddess are said, the "Guardians" of the North, South, East and West are welcomed, and spells are sometimes worked. An altar is usually present in the circle, on which ritual tools are placed. Before entering the circle, some traditions fast for the day, and/or ritually bathe. After a ritual has finished, the God, Goddess and Guardians are thanked and the circle is closed.

A sensationalized aspect of the craft, particularly in the Gardnerian tradition, is the practice of working in the nude, also known as skyclad. However, we in the Tomarian tradition , individually in each coven decide which is appropriate for the given ritual and persons in attendance.  When we work clothed, we may wear robes, cords, "Renaissance-faire"-type clothing or normal street clothes.

Each person and group has a special set of altar tools in their rituals; these can include a broom (besom), cauldron, chalice, wand, Book of Shadows, altar cloth, athame (a knife used in rituals to channel energy), boline (or a knife for cutting things in the physical world), candles, crystals, pentacle and/or incense. Representations of the God/Goddess are often displayed. The tools themselves are just that — tools — and have no innate powers of their own, though they are usually dedicated or charged with a particular purpose, and used only in that context. For this reason, it is considered rude to touch another's tools without permission. 

Tomarians typically mark each full moon (and in some cases new moons) with a ritual called an Esbat. They also celebrate eight main holidays called Sabbats. Four of these, the cross-quarter days, are greater festivals, coinciding with old Celtic fire festivals. These are Samhain, May Eve or Beltane, Imbolc and Lammas (or Lughnasadh). The four lesser festivals are the Summer Solstice (or Litha) and Winter Solstice (or Yule), and the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes, sometimes called Ostara and Mabon.

The names of these holidays are often taken from Germanic pagan and Celtic polytheistic holidays. However, the festivals are not reconstructive in nature nor do they often resemble their historical counterparts, instead exhibiting a form of universalism. Ritual observations may display cultural influence from the holidays from which they take their name as well as influence from other unrelated cultures.

Tomarian weddings are commonly called "handfastings". Some observe the practice of a trial marriage for a year and a day, which some traditions hold should be contracted on Lammas (Lughnasadh), as this was the traditional time for trial, "Telltown marriages" among the Irish. This practice is documented in the fourth and fifth volumes of the Brehon law texts, which are compilations of the opinions and judgments of the Brehon class of Druids (in this case, Irish). The texts as a whole deal with a copious amount of detail for the Insular Celts.

Some perform a ritual called a Wiccaning,  the purpose of which is to present the infant to the God and Goddess for protection. Despite this, in accordance with the importance put on free will in our tradition, the child is not necessarily expected or required to follow a Pagan path should they not wish to do so when they get older.

The history of Tomarian witchcraft is clear in its beginnings. Our tradition is an amalgam of various matriarchal Pagan religions of pre-historic Europe, and modern neo-paganism. Some of our tradition has been invented or embellished by its members over the years. We have also incorporating elements from the practices of ceremonial magic.  Our founders were from both varied and diverse backgrounds which led to the eclectic mixture we now today call the Tomarian tradition. 

After retiring from adventuring around the globe, the founder of our tradition encountered others who shared his vision and they created the first Tomarian coven, Trinity of the Eternal Moon. 

It seems very likely that our founders rites and precepts were taken from other occultists and was not in fact anything new to the world. There is very little in modern witchcraft rites that cannot be shown to have come from earlier extant sources. The original material is not cohesive and mostly takes the form of substitutions or expansions within unoriginal material. Tomarian witchcraft can and has been describes as a patchwork.  A conglomeration or eclectic beliefs that was molded into what we now today know as the Tomarian tradition. 

"Somewhere between 1920 and 1925 in England some folklorists appear to have gotten together with some Golden Dawn Rosicrucians and a few supposed Fam-Trads to produce the first modern covens in England; grabbing eclectically from any source they could find in order to try and reconstruct the shards of their Pagan past."  We have done the same.

Rituals were created for self-initiation to allow people to identify with and join the tradition without first contacting an existing coven. 

In Oklahoma initiates of the Tomarian tradition begun to perform their own initiations, and a number of lines of Tomarian descent began to arise. From one of these (although it was originally claimed to derive from a traditional, non-Tomarian source) came the line known as TOTEM, Temple of the Expanded Mind.  

According to the traditional history of Wicca as given by Gerald Gardner, our tradition and those of others is a survival of the European witch-cult that was persecuted during the witch trials (sometimes called the Burning Times). Since then theories of an organized pan-European witch-cult has been discredited, but it is still common for Wiccans to feel solidarity with the victims of the witch trials.

In modern times, Wiccans have been incorrectly associated with black magic and Satanism, especially in connection with Satanic Ritual Abuse hysteria. Because of the popular negative connotations associated with witchcraft, many Tomarians continue the traditional practice of secrecy, concealing their faith for fear of persecution. Revealing oneself as Tomarian witch to family, friends or colleagues is often termed "coming out of the broom-closet".

In 1999 a group of conservative Christian groups was formed on the initiative of representative Bob Barr (R-GA), in response to Wiccan gatherings on military bases. The group asked US citizens not to enlist or re-enlist in the U.S. Army until the Army terminates the on-base freedoms of religion, speech and assembly for all Pagan/Wiccan soldiers.

Until April 2007 the United States Department of Veterans Affairs did not allow the use of the pentacle as an "emblem of belief" on tombstones in military cemeteries. The policy changed as the result of an out-of-court settlement following a series of lawsuits.

A "tradition" in Witchcraft usually implies the transfer of a lineage by initiation. There are many such traditions and there are also many solitary or eclectic Wiccans who do not align themselves with any particular lineage. There are also other forms of witchcraft which do not claim origins in Wicca. Traditions within the U.S. are well described in: Margot Adler's Drawing Down the Moon and Starhawk's The Spiral Dance.

Various novels, television shows and movies have depicted Wicca, including The Craft, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Charmed and even legal shows such as Boston Legal. Popular fiction, such as Cate Tiernan's Sweep and Balefire series, and Isobel Bird's Circle of Three also makes references to Wicca.