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I was raised in a methodist church most of my early childhood, but i always wondered if there was something more than just God, because my father used to tell my sister and I these stories that sounded nothing like the ones that I learned from the bible while living with my mother's non-biological parents. I remember him talking mostly about Native American magick though, only breifly touching on Paganism and Wicca.
As soon as i attended a school in florida when I was 13, a group accepted me in when people pushed me away in other cliques. They said they delt with witchcraft, not just Wicca, but Dragon magick and other branches of interest, it was just one small group of a network that worked together,that even included influencial public officials.But they explained a lot to me, as well as my mother's 4th x-husband, who ,even though was arrogant, still told me the things he knew and saw while training to be a preist in Necromancy and Wicca.
I've moved back to my father's side of the family, and though my grandmother is quite religious with Christianity, I've managed to keep up with practicing scrying,keeping up with my book of shadows, checking my tarrot,cleansing my gemstones, and even conversing with a few who have studied different parts of the craft well.
^.^ Its all sucha beautiful thing, in my opinion.
Blessded be~

I was turning all prep and losing myself. A good friend of mine Kristiana, introduced me to fairy's Astral travel. And then they found out I was an Indigo. smile My old baby sitter (and family friend) Maddie-boo. Has been part of the craft since she was my age. So I joined. Krsitiana always thought it was evil. But the truh was I was just drawn to it smile

Wow, I can't believe I haven't posted here yet...but here goes:

I have always been interested in witchcraft since I was small, but I never really acknowledged my curiousity as something like a 'calling'. I was always extremely interested in shows and movies starring witches; things like "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and "Charmed". Almost every halloween I would dress up as a witch or something associated with witches, like a black cat. The summer of fourth grade I met a girl on a G.O. Girls--"Going Outside"--trip to Otter Cover here in Alaska. We became friends, and when we were walking on the beach alone she told me that she was Wiccan, and that I couldn't tell anybody because bad things might happen if I did. I asked her what a Wiccan was, and she told me they were kind of like Witches, except they worked more with herbs and less with witchcraft. She told me of rituals and spells that she did many times, and she taught me a protection spell. After we came back from Otter Cove, I asked another friend how you become Wiccan, and she said you had to be born in to a family of Wiccans to be Wiccan. I lost hope then, because I had been born into a Christian family instead of a Wiccan family. And so I forgot about Wicca, only hearing it mentioned in Christian discussions about Satanism, and once on a Scooby Doo movie. I continued to be interested in anything even hinting of witchcraft, but I didn't pay any attention to it. Up until eight grade, I had forgotten all about what Wicca was. Then I met a girl named Kat, and as soon as I saw her I knew there was something different about her. Everyone in my school was Christian, so I never heard any mention of how wonderful Wicca was, and is. I became friends with Kat, and soon after, she told me she was Wiccan. At that moment I was reminded of what that girl at the G.O. Girls trip had told me about, and I quickly jumped on this chance to learn more about it. Kat told me all she could of what Wicca was all about, and was surprised when I told her the reason why I thought I couldn't Wiccan. She quickly told me that you don't have to be born in to a Wiccan family to be Wiccan. After that she began teaching me about Wicca, and when I had a question she couldn't answer, I quickly found several books on Wicca and Witchcraft, and researched it on the internet. Soon I was conducting my own rituals and spells, and I felt so magickal. All I could think about was Wicca, and I found it hard to concentrate on anything else. After eight months of practicing Wicca in secret, I came out to my family and friends by buying a pentacle. My mom freaked at first, but after I explained, she was okay. My dad was perfectly fine with all of it, because he's more of a Earth worshipper than anything. I did my dedication ceremony on Samhain this year, and now I'm proud to say that I am Wiccan.

Wicca saved my life, so I guess I owed it to the God and Goddess to return the favor. 3nodding

A long time ago, I had a nasty encounter with a demon that nearly killed me. I hate getting into the details of it, but I ended up meeting a brother of a past life who got me through it.

Lucky I had been studying it before then, and had some basis of what to do. That served as the last step in my conversion, I think. 3nodding

I would have to say that I stumbled into Wicca. I have tried a few different religions... not necessarily by choice... and was disillusioned by the way they treat other people with different beliefs. I can't say I am totally Wiccan, but my beliefs largely revolved around Wiccan thoughts and beliefs. I had even taken a class in college that was about all religions, just to get an idea of what other people believed. I tried for a while to get some formal wiccan training, but my boyfriend at the time refused to allow me, saying it was against God and I was going to go to hell if I did it... to avoid trouble, I didn't take the classes, but I never stopped believing the way I do. Needless to say, I am not with that guy any more, but I am still mostly going it alone. I'd like to learn more, so that's why I am here.

I don't know exactly when I got into Wicca and Paganism. I think I got into paganism first and then discovered I had a really strong attraction to Wicca. It must have been in the 7th or 8th grade when I first wandered through the New Age section of my local bookstore and found out how awesome it was. About 9th grade is the first time I actually called myself Wiccan for the first time. I was just drawn to it, and growing up around Christian people I just felt really ackward and out of place. Never felt right. So here I am! ^W^

I was always really interested in magick. The more i learned the more it tightened it's grip on me. I finally decided that i wanted to pick up Wicca.

my familys never been what i would call deeply religous and my mum has always been in tune with nature and energy, shes not wiccan, she just understands how parts of earth work. I was brought up around it and always taught to have an open mind, then my friends and i started reading some books at intermediate which is like age 11 and i was intrigued but not really old enough to be bothered. So by the time i met my ex girlfriend who was wiccan i was very open to it and wanted to follow my own path with it. My girlfriend then finally showed me the celtic side to it and its now the celtic gods that i follow although i respect the existence of all gods in this realm. These days most of the people i hang out with are pagan or respect pagans in one way or another so its makes it easy to folow the craft.