Why this lesson explains rather than instructs
These are the parts of Wicca people hear about and rarely get told the truth about. They belong to initiatory coven practice, and some of their forms are oathbound. You should know what they mean. Pretty Little Wiccan does not hand out DIY versions of other people's initiatory rites.
Drawing Down the Moon
In traditional Wiccan ritual, the High Priest invokes the Goddess into the High Priestess, who then speaks and acts as her within the rite. It is the central devotional moment of much coven practice, and the associated text known as the Charge of the Goddess was largely written by Doreen Valiente, drawing on earlier occult material including Charles Leland's Aradia.
Drawing Down, outside covens
Solitary practitioners sometimes adapt the broader idea as a devotional invitation rather than full possessory invocation. Traditions differ about whether that is meaningful or merely borrowed vocabulary, and Pretty Little Wiccan takes no side.
The Great Rite
A ritual enacting union, understood as the joining of Goddess and God. It is performed in two forms: symbolically, by lowering an athame into a chalice, which is the common and public version; or 'in true', as actual sex between consenting partners, in private. The symbolic form is what most Wiccans have ever encountered.
Consent, plainly
The Great Rite in true is between existing partners, in private, and freely chosen. No group, teacher or initiator has any business proposing it to a student, and no tradition requires it of you. Any pressure in that direction is abuse using religious vocabulary, and you should leave.
Skyclad practice
Skyclad means working naked, and Gardnerian practice in particular has used it, with various explanations offered about equality and about energy. Many covens do not work skyclad; many Wiccans never have. It is not a marker of seriousness. Nobody should be pressured, photographed, or told their practice is lesser for wearing clothes.
The scourge and the athame
Gardner's material includes a scourge, used lightly and symbolically in some initiatory rites, which is why it appears in old tool lists. It is included here as history and context. It is not a beginner tool, and this app does not teach its use.