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 Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:00 pm
ok. here's how i 1st got in2 wicca. i was at the library looking 4 a book 2 check out and was about 2 leave when i saw a book called book of shadows by cate tiernan. i checked out the book and when i went back 2 the library 2 check out the 2nd book, they didn't have it. so i decided 2 c if my school's library had it and they did. now it's been hard 4 me 2 stop reading about wicca. mostly all the books i check out have something 2 do with vampires or wicca. ninja
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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:22 pm
I just want to clarify this... you know those books are fictional, right? And that not everything in them about Wicca is actually true.
I'm only saying that because a lot of people seem to have been introduced to Wicca through that book series (myself included) and take every bit of information in those books to be true, when it's not. Some of it is true yes, but the majority of it is fiction.
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:22 pm
I got into Wicca because I have a couple friends who are Wiccan. x.x Kind of a boring reason... But I wouldn't have known about it without Kerry and Kyle. I knew Kyle for a long time, but I was never interested in Wicca so I didn't ask about it. But Kerry kept talking about it and interesting me so I started to ask lots of questions. xDD Then I borrowed a book from the neighbourhood library called "Wicca: A guide for the solitary practitioner" by Scott Cunningham. I'm going to bring it back tomorrow and see if my school has any Wicca books for me to read in their library on Monday. <3
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:32 pm
Shut up and Sleep With Me
I got into Wicca when my girlfriend started talking to me about paranormal things. She asked me questions and told me that I was a witch. She helped me to understand what exactly it was and now I'm very happy believing in something. She was born Wiccan... so she knew a lot.
Come on, why don't you sleep with me? 
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:39 am
How did I get into Wicca?
My philosophy teacher was a Wiccan. She was one of the greatest people ever. She influenced my life in a lot of ways, and because of the way she taught, I still use many of the skills I picked up in her class to this day.
She was proud of what she was and she even had 'alternative' Christmas cards that she'd send to friends (And unto us, the Sun is born). I asked her where I could find some more information and she reccommended me a few authors. I picked up some books and started reading.
I've been into it ever since. When I read the chapter on beliefs and things, I just felt a 'click' inside me, like this was a part of myself I'd just discovered. I got scared out of the religion by some cult-freaks who called themselves Wiccan, but a year later, I read my books again and thought 'sod them'.
I'm the one living my life, walking my own path, and let me forever be cursed if I make it a path I regret because of other people.
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:50 pm
I was brought up as a Catholic, not strictly, I went to church on Sundays when I stayed the weekend with my grandmother on my father's side. From grade 4-8 I attended a Catholic school and was forced to go to mass for each religious holiday, and participate in some of the activities. I was never baptised thanks Mom and Dad lol. My mother has always been kind of into the psychic thing and she always said that she was told by many people that she was psychic but her mother would never let her follow that (she felt it was the devils work, etc.).
My mom always told me that when I was a child I would sit on the end of my bed at night talking to 'people like monks or something'. I began seeing them again, and I did some research to find that I was seeing three monks from different abbeys. I have been able to see and contact spirits as long as I can remember, and when we moved into a new house I began making contact with a young girl named Sara.
At one point we had a psychic session with ourselves and some close friends. She told me that the three monks were my spirit guides which are only meant to be my 'babysitters' as I grow into the witch I am ment to be. She was also able to get a message from Sara that I was unable to recieve. We were sisters in a life before this one, executed for being witches together. She wished to leave me a rune, which is my inspiration for a great amount of study into runes.
Anyway in a nutsheel the psychic told me that she saw me at a witch fair drawing auras (which I can sometimes see) and that she saw me walking the Wiccan path. She recommended some books, in particular Scott Cunningham, and I immediately bought Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner. I knew this was right for me and I've been moving forward since. =)
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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 1:19 pm
For me it was, I think, a little less than five years ago. I was an atheist, the scourge of the planet to some people. I was unhappy, depressed, becoming a broken individual, a societal pawn as some might put it.
Around the time I speak of, I began to find myself as a furry, starting as your typical orange fox, but, upon meeting my first mate, it began to change. I, I dunno,our RPs took different directions and soon, tails split off and, I found myself as a kitsune. I was told many a thing what I truly am, or might be, of another world, that things I was told not to believe for years could in fact be true, and, something was telling me to not doubt it, that I wasn't being taken for a ride.
I have been mocked, ridiculed, threatened, insulted, to the point of where I was about to swear myself off, but, I always bounced right back.
I think I may be here to stay too.
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:35 am
Well, thanks to my parents, -rolls eyes- I was brought up Lutheran, and to be a proper, innocent, little Christian, which of course didn't happen. My friends and I actually came upon Wicca by looking through different websites, and seeing that there were books, and that everything that was said about Wicca started to make more sense as we went along. I think we began learning about it....back in the summer after our 8th grade year. Although, lately I've been very close minded about the religion and my connection to the Gods, so I'm still learning really basic stuff about Wicca, whereas my friends are way ahead of me. xD
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:45 pm
Now that I think about it, it all started when I was three, maybe four years old. I had these strange dreams about things that I didn’t understand, they covered topics that I had never heard about, such as global warming. In parts, I saw myself, [not as I was, but not how I am now… but I knew it was me] I was always wearing a necklace with a “little star” charm, but I know the name for it now. There was a group of 12 other girls that I was with quite often, we did “magic” sorts of things… There was also this woman in the dreams that I could see, but I couldn’t see; I felt like she was everywhere. I don’t remember ever hearing about Wicca for the first time, but it wasn’t until this past Halloween when I started thinking about it. [yes, I realize how lame that all sounds] I was sick, so I couldn’t go trick-or-treating with my friends, but they did stop by my house a few times. Anywho, with nothing to do I just googled Wicca and started reading everything I could. When I realized that it was what I already believed, it just made sense that it was the religion that I could not find. I kept reading and I soon found out that my close friend also had been reading about Wicca. That was when I really got into it and felt more comfortable because I had someone to talk to about it.
I guess the places that I heard about it the most were on T.V. shows, and I felt like it was not being portrayed correctly…
At the moment, I don’t consider myself truly Wiccan, but I do… I guess it’s just that I believe it, but I need time to truly understand it and learn more before I completely apply the name to my beliefs…
Ahhh that was really long and not completely on topic, sorry Dx
Edit: I was baptised, but my family is not religious at all. I don't even know what sort of church we would go to if my parents decided we should.
I guess I saw all religions as paths that lead to the same place, but all elaborated on the story to make it sound more interguing as time passed. Wicca seems to me like it is the right path for me to get to wherever all these religions end up.
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 8:59 am
I actually got into Wicca through a spiritual journey. I'm Native America, Oibwe, and I went on a spiritual journey once I felt empty...like all my spiritual energy was gone.
I had many visions and actually heard a voice calling to me, later, after much research, I found out it was Hekate, who is my patron Goddess, call me to her. That's when I started looking up her teachings and then found Wicca.
Internet played a big part in finding all this stuff out once I had my visions
)0( <3
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 3:07 pm
i grew up ssouthern baptish. and the rents were pretty strict but i did have a few nonchristian friends including some wiccans...who were the coolest...and i always wondered but with the noose so tight i couldnt do much then i left for basic training where they had to allow up 2 hours of religius service a week. and where they had an open circle so i went for the first time on astara. it was really awsome adn the poeple were awsome and and thought "hey why not go again next week". at the time i was "athiest" and searching to rekindle that spiritual element in my life without returning to the church. the next week was more a class where learned about wicca and i couldnt find anything i disagreed with in fact they were pretty much saying all the stuff that id come to belive on my own. so as soon as i got home i looked for a coven round her and celbrated beltain with them and will begin my year and a day soon
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 6:19 pm
Back in high school my friend showed me a book called Teen Witch and we started to get into reading all the Silver Ravenwolf books and got into it that way. She lost interest and i continued to study it on my own. Hmm makes me want to get out Teen Witch again, im feeling nostalgic =]
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 8:52 am
I got into Wicca when I was 14.
My friends mother was studying and practicing witchcraft and she leant me some books.
She only allowed me to read them in her house because she didn't want me trying things I wasn't prepared for.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:47 pm
As a child, I was taught about the threefold law as well as understanding the elements and animals around me. The ability to see past, present and future runs strong in the family. For twenty-four years, I have been practicing divination, traveling to the astral plane and practicing medition. I did not know that the beliefs and traditions in which I was taught in my family had a name until a friend introduce me to a book about wicca. Everything made sense after that. I have been practicing now for five years as well as started teaching my children.
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:35 pm
My story is kinda stupid. I first heard about Wicca and Wiccans while watching Scooby-Doo when I was six or seven. It looked kinda interesting and I asked my mom about it, but she didn't know. Then later I check out some books about it and became more and more interested. Then I found Blessed Be. I'm not sure if I want to be wiccan quite yet though.
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