As a Wiccan, your sense of Duty must and will be strong. When you take your first initiation and affiliation to the Goddess and God, you make very solemn and strong vows that you may never break. These vows are the foundation of your life, conduct, and duty.
In these vows, you promise ‘your mind to bring the knowledge and wisdom of the Goddess to all who seek Her; your heart to give love and compassion to any in need; your hands to heal and help all those that you can and to lead all those who seek the Goddess to Her; and your feet to walk the path of the Wicca and to help others to find it.
You can see how duty is born into the life of a Wiccan, and the duties are awesome indeed. But, awesome or not, they are the duties that you have as a Wiccan. And once you have learned to live your life by the Ways of the Wicca and the Wiccan Rede, the duties will be as easy as falling off of a log. It was done without having to think.
But there is an important fact that you must remember. We can help no one in any fashion unless we are asked first. It is strictly forbidden to do anything to or for anyone against their free will.
I’ll give you an example of this, a man that I once knew claimed to be a healer of one of the Far East techniques. He felt that it was his duty to go forth and do his healing on everyone that he came in contact with.
He would wave his hands around people, give people a stone that he felt a kinship with and force his energy into their bodies without permission, and when he had a woman on his ‘table’ he would take it as an opportunity to grope her breasts and other private areas-in the name of ‘healing’.
This man was living proof of the violation of free will. His actions were contrary to the very concepts that we of the Wicca live by. And, oh yes, he claimed to be a Wiccan. It is proof that it takes years to become one, and minutes to look like one.