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What led you to become a Wiccan? Why did you feel it was right for you? What have to been doing since? How long have you been involved in Wicca? Im New to Wicca and still researching and finding answers. i know that it feels right to me but i want to gather all the knowledge that i can. Please Tell me your experiences and thoughts Blessed be!

   Someone close to me introduced me to it.. at first I didnt know anything about it but he shared a little of information about it and I thought that Wicca was a peaceful and loving religion.

   I always felt iffy about christianity and never was really into it 100%. So I tryed out being Wiccan. I didnt have a computer at the time so I couldnt research anything.. All the information was what he told me. I was Wiccan but I wasnt committed to it.. now I am. Then, I was mainly Wiccan for him but now I am doing it for me. I see what a beautiful and harmless religion Wicca is and I am glad I have found myself in it.

   Its been a couple months since I have been serrious about Wicca and I am loving every minute of it.

I think when it really comes down to it, most religions have lots of common threads. I believe in the Christian God, and Allah, and Yaweh, Jahova, Vishnu, Shiva, Aradia, Artemis...and so on. I just like picturing them the way that I do. I think they're all part of the same force, but I choose to see them as a God and a Goddess because it is easier for me to make outer connections with the world that way. I think at it's most basic form, this 'all' is Divinity, everything and nothing, and I have believed that all my life.

What Wicca has done for me is to show me how to connect with my spirituality, how to connect with the earth, and how to treat others. It has also given me the oppertunity to research hundreds of Dieties from other cultures - and it is a mind blowing experience!

For a long time i questioned the christian religion ever since i was about 9 or 10 i didnt really believe in it's teachings,when i was about 13 i began researching  different religions and beliefs i believe all deitys god/goddess ect. are the same just seen as singular or multiple,given different names and worshipped for different things,I personally believe in the goddess and god because of the equality its shows between sexes also its shows the unity needed to create life,i first learned about wicca this febuary,at first i was skeptical because of certain movies ive seen e.g the craft and also charmed which blow magick waaay out of proportion in my opinion,but as i learned more about the wiccan religion and beliefs it just felt right to me so i told my parents (who knew for quite a while i'd renounced the christian faith) that i wanted to follow the path of wicca,at first they didnt want me to but i explained it to them and now they're mostly ok with it.

The world of magic chose me the day I dived into believing it. Once you believe your life changes and your perspective grows. It all comes down to the day you chose to believe in something greater then yourself and the world you see.

Thank you guys for telling me your experiences i first found out about wicca when a friend and I started to read a series about it. I know weird huh? but it just seemed to call to me, so I finally delved into research whenever i could i.e. In the middle of the night, at school, Barnes and Noble! Haha well eventually I decided that I was going to try to stick with it, it felt right to me and i knew that I didnt necssesarily agree with the Christian faith, it seemed to "Iron grasp"  for me, like you werent allowed to live your life without rules and regulations and if those rules were broken there was horrible punishment. Kinda scary sometimes. Anyway, my friend and i talked about it and I told her and another close friend that i was going to start heading down that path, that i felt this was the way my life was supposed to go. They were perfectly fine with it. Im still trying to figure out how to tell my parents. Well anyhow. My friend and I were doing a mabon meditation the other night and she told me that she was going to head into wicca as well. That ever since she had started to research and everything it called to her. She is what is commonly known as a Christian Wiccan. in my book thats cool. haha so now here I am!

There are some that don't support your path and some that do. The ones that do are true friends and the ones that are trying to protect you, either they're scared or clueless to your path. Some are just not true friends and will do anything to stop you from being happy. At the end of the day, your personal well being and happiness is important! You come first, they come second.

You are welcome, Timmy.. and its good to hear that youre following the right path..

I have relatives that are Pagan, though they wouldn't teach me anything as they believe its a personal journey, aka: they're very solitary. But that wasn't really a main factor in why I felt Wicca was my calling.
I was always interested in magic/fantasy/etc, and my Aunt practices Wicca, I grew up around her a lot, and was always interested in what she was doing. My mother has a keen interest in natural remedies, I don't think she's wiccan though.
I managed to find a bookshop selling books about wicca, so I bought Scott Cunningham's Wicca: Guide for the solitary practitioner. I was, immediatly interested. In fact, I spent most of my time researching everything I could.

Since then I've balanced things out, I focus on school, work, and Wicca equally, and its really working out for me. I feel SO much better, knowing that I've found my calling.
Anyhow, that's my story

Merry meet,

My grandparents used to tell me that wicca was evil and murderers use it as an excuse to kill people. I researched it when I was 3 and found it to be one of the most beautiful religions in the world. My grandparents flipped out, but they couldn't stop me. Wicca is my life now and I dedicate all of my free time to it and to helping others be wiccan too.

Blessed be,

Angel

Angel, childhood is a very young point to start researching spirituality, typcially you have to learn about several paths before your really know what's right for you - or what they all can teach you. Have you looked at any others?

A few months ago I was starting a new roleplay. I don't remember what it was called. It was your basic mystical boarding school roleplay. I decided my character would be a witch. When I began looking for pictures I started to see pictures with pentagrams. Some of them depicted women in circles with candles alight. A few sported the logo "Blessed Be". I remembered how my mother and grandmother had both been pagan at some point in their lives, and I decided to start researching. I've never been a devout Christan. To tell you the truth I've never been a long time practitioner of anything. My parents never imposed any specific religion on us, so we never grew any devotion to a specific deity or deitys. Recently I had given up budhism, and was back to my everlasting search for something to believe in. The more I researched Wicca the more I grew to like it. The ideas were things that in a general sence I had believed all my life, and something just felt right about it all. There was a certain tangability to it. That was something that I had searched for, and been reaching for for as long as I had been jumping religions. When I cast (and I did very early on) I could feel the energies I was welcoming into the space. I could feel everything, and it felt good. Like a loving embrace. It felt like I was being welcomed instead of the other way around. It had never been liek that before between me and any deity. The relationship felt so close, and so connected. It still does. That is why I chose wicca, and I could not be happier with my decision.

chi, I have been brought up in a multicultural community for my whole life and I am certain wicca is the right way for me. I have always been a little ahead of my age anyway.

Thanks for your concern.

happy samhain

Sorry, it's just that you said you were raised in a narrow Christian way but you also claim it was very multi-cultural. Most people who feel their religion is right for them don't think out of the box that their religion encourages them to challenge, thus they miss the point. For example, the best Christians I know aren't the ones who read the bible all the time, they're the ones that donate to charity and find Gods love on earth... Likewise, the best Wiccans I know are the ones who care for the earth and it's beings, but don't openly claim to be Wiccan and throw the Rede around. No matter what Reiligion you choose, it's spirituality that helps you grow as a person. Ideally, the two would go hand in hand but with so much hate and fear in thw world putting yourself under a religious label usually delays your spiritual growth... it takes a whole lifetime to know what your faith really means to you, and how you want to live, regardless of what you call yourself.

What I meant was that I was raised a Christian but my friends are all different religions and so I grew up in a school with lots of different religions to learn about.

I at first was a Christian but decided to break away from the religion because there were some things that just didnt add up to me. I didnt like the whole men are above women and thought that both sexes are equal and shouldnt be unbalanced. Other than that i questioned alot of other things about Christianity so i decided that I was going to give it up to pursue a religion that was right for me. That is about the time remember one of my best friends telling me about Wicca so then i decided to research it. After it checked out I decided to follow the path and decided to do an initiation upon my Year and Day. Wicca has taught me alot about balance, equality, and treting all things with compassion and love. For that i shall stay a Wiccan for years to come.:)

For me I was actually introduced to it by a best friend who I eventually fell in love with. However she eventually not only left my life but she left the path from what I heard. I started when I hit the age of 14 and I of course didn't know what I was doing. My ceremony started when I decided to do my first true private circle casting in my room. I cast multiple circles because my reasoning was that the three circles or seven circles would be stronger. The entire time I wanted to empower a stick to be my wand and the air for that was so strange all I could think was that I would do it somehow. I made my own words to say to the Goddess and God. I put the blessings of both of them into it. And after closing my cirlces I went outside and originally the moon was covered by clouds when I went in for the night. This time however there was a ring around the moon like someone had cut a perfect cirlce in the clouds and the moon was shining through. I was so scared that I had angered them that I redid the whole thing and ask them to take away what I had done. I of course was young and didn't know what it was I had done, I had assumed that they were angry with me. I never doubted myself again when it came to the craft and I know some people may not believe me but I know I saw what I saw. It was not something that you imagine about the sky, I really saw the moon in pure view with a ring in the clouds allowing the entire moon to be shown. I also remember a chill running down my back.

I also had a few dreams of a particular dream dealing with a house that I could only see the back, the staircase, and a few of the rooms. There was a lake behind there and a fountain but I never saw the front of this place. Sorry for straying off topic. I lately been trying to practice but really I am on a government facility called Job Corps so I am being watched and they are so paranoid about us that they would probably call the white coats on me or something. In the end I still love Wicca, I love the Goddess, God. Ironic enough my Wiccan name was given by a couple of awesome Wiccan best friends who said they wanted to give me a name that meant protector but instead they gave me Adonis. Who was loved by Aphrodite and Persephone and is described as dying by a boar from Artemis and spends half of his time with Aphrodite (First 6 months) and the Persephone (Last 6 months ). Thanks for listening to me ramble, blessed be.

Well when I was three my papoui and I came to America where he became a christian in the church of christ faith. I was basically brought up in that faith. But to be honest I did not like it very much. I always thought about things in the bible that contradicted each other. Like how a male God birthed the world ???

Anyway when I was a seventh grader in jr. high I met a girl named Kerinza she and her boyfriend were wiccan. Her boyfriend all his life had grown up with his mother who was wiccan. When I first found out about thier religion I was currious not really intrested. They both had wanted me to make them some drawings that were wiccan related. As an artist I always study my topic before attempting to draw something related to it.

So the more I researched wicca the more and more I started liking it. The eighth grade year both of my friends were off to high school, my being a year younger I was left behind. However I would take Kerinza on many camping trips with me and papoui year round where I learned more and more about wicca and eventually became wiccan devoted at the end of my jr high year. Have been devoted ever since

I had known for awhile that my step-grandma was Wiccan, but I never knew exactly what it was. One day, she calls me into the kitchen. She hands me a book, and I said, "What's this for?" She just smiled a bit, and told me it would be nice to have another witch in the family. She didn't pressure me to read it or anything, but I found that I loved it!!! I talked to her about it, but she said that she wanted me to learn by myself, rather than her teach me. She said it would be better, and make my belief stronger, if I could find everything out for myself. I spent the summer reading a couple of the books, since I live with my dad and step-family during the summer. They didn't have a computer, so Grandma Diana and her books were the only resources. When I got back to Mom's place, I told her the first place we were going was Barnes and Noble. Ever since then, I've been a proud Wiccan. Pretty much everyone knows, and my best friend has shown an interest.

I have always been into Philosophy and RS but I was brought up an atheist. I always felt that there may be something that I could truly believe in and I found that out to be Wicca. I first discovered Wicca when I was around 11 and I visited my friends and family in America, I went to the Salem Witch Museum and they had a wheel of the year on the wall and had a little bit of information on Wicca. A few years later I went to Glastonbury and bought a Wicca book. It seemed right and fitted my beliefs, and I still follow it now