Why did you chose Wicca

[KaiAidan]

Well if we are going to try to get to know each othera good question is why we came towards the Wiccan path, for me it was when as a teenager I began a novel that I was writting it was about a witch. As i researched for the novel I started to realize that Wicca sounded like I feeled, I mean I went to church every sunday as a kid but that was because my family made me, I did not really believe. But Wicca has made be believe in somethihng

Bright Blessings,
Kai Aidan

[Mesonnia]

When I was younger my uncle came to live with us. He showed me many things I had not been told to me while I was at Catholic school. He taught me much about tarot, astrology, chakras, crystals and guardian angels. After he moved out I started research of my own and stumbled onto Wicca.

The rest of the story in ancient history, I fell on live with it, it became what I am and what I do.

Blessed Be
Mesonnia

[Wicca Chick]

I was always atheist (hmmm i doubt thats spelt right!) so i didn't have any particular belief, so i didn't need to 'convert' or anything. But than i had no basis of any belief, morals, etc. Basicaly, i had no reason to live....life seemed kinda pointless. But anways, to the actual question.

I heard about the Salem Witch Trials and i was really fascinated with it! I mean, who isnt, right? I went online to do some research and while researching about the Witch trials i found out aobut Wicca & Witchcraft. It seemed to be everything i was looking for my whole life....something to live by and believe, respect earth, loving animals and everything and life, a reason to live (as reincarnation is the belief!)

I fell in love with wicca...every aspect of it, from the celebrations to deities, although i'm not so crazy about the magick part sometimes (cuz i always meet people who are just in it for that and it pisses me off - a lot!). Well, i dont even use magick a lot! Well i'lll stop rambling on now....that's about it! Lets hear about the rest of you!

[KaiAidan]

well of course its speeled wrong but tathism is where I was heading also before I became drawn towards the wiccan path, hey better an athist who doesnt believe anything than a person who has a belief system and condems people of other systems lol

[DarkRain]

well...i stumbled acrost it by accident...i was doing a random online survay (i was bored) and i found this survaty that by answering q's bout your personal beleifs...would deturmine the religion that would fit u best...and one of the things that came up was wicca...and i was drawn to it something just made it fit...it just felt right...hmm...maybe this poem i wrote about it will better explain...

Lost in this world
A little boy grew up
Without friends
An outcast

Latter in life
The confusion grew
Until his thoughts
Were foreign to him

Drowning in a sea of ignorance
He developed his talents
But in his mind
He knew there was something missing

Feeling detached
Form all he ever loved
He hurt himself
To numb the greater pain

Then one day
He found the thing
He had been missing
All in a new religion

It fascinated him
With its philosophies
That he already believed
And he then was whole

By complete accident
He found himself
It was an accident
...Or was it??

[Mesonnia]

A lovely poem, thank you for sharing. I love hearing how people stumble onto the path, everyone has such a unique experience but we all understand the feeling of "rightness" once it is found.

[Wicca Chick]

DarkRain, that is such a nice poem...thank you for sharing! Its so meaningful! You're quite the poet arent you?
Its not an accident...i'm sure it was meant to be. Yes, finding wicca made me feel ...whole... too.

[Faery]

MM
ARG! was that poem meant to send shivers down ya spine? That poem was excellent! I wish I poetic as that.

Well I explained some of it on the old M.B I'll go into more detail ay?
Well how did i stumble on wicca. Man armm... Well I always thought there was something different about me. Since i was little I loved nature and its creatures. I hated seeing animals slaughtered and when people kill a bug or something silly like that, I could basically feel it's pain. I also had really bad nightmares when I was younger mainly of the old times etc... Getting eaten.... what not....

Any who as I got older things began to change... My dreams came more meaningful... and i recieved images in my head... I prefer to call them visions then 'preminisions' (how ever ya spell it) I then some how came a across wicca... I don't know how I just did. I asked my sis and bro about it... and they said it's about balance etc... I researched it etc and though wow this could explain a lot! I then felt i for filled the missing hole in my life... and feel as though I now love my self more... as b4 i didn't.... shalt go into into detail.

~BLESSED BE~

[SilverDragonLily]

I began studying Wicca after a friend gave me a website link to it. i knew nothing about it but that my one friend was into it...and that was very little because i think she wavers toward the witch aspect. thus i didn't know anything about a God and a Goddess or the Sabbats and Esbats...but everything i read made so much sense to me! i began just researching it and studying it...and I began realizing how beautiful this religion was and how inspiring...also i liked the fact that the Goddess was a part of me and I a part of her...i have low self esteem now and especially then but knowing that and imagining that i was part of someone beautiful and important made me feel the same way also, it inspired me and made so much sense. soon i was feeling more confident and it showed! my on friend who had been studying-but quit- even noticed and agreed that she even felt this way when she was Wiccan
I chose Wicca because to me it makes so much sense to me and it also makes me see that even i am beautiful because i have a connection with the Goddess...and ever since then i love reading the inspiring stories and read poems...it just fits me. and i think that it opens my mind and my heart and i feel like i grow spiritually by following Wicca

[KaiAidan]

well for those reasons Silver many Wiccans have begun the journey through Wicca Wicca just makes sence lol

[Liam]

when i was 15 i found out that i was originally meant to be an abortion baby. as to be expected, learning of this hurt, a lot. at the time i was a Roman Catholic. so i did as i suppose any catholic would and i prayed that god would make everything ok. i tried to maintain my faith, but slowly i felt like i was abandoned by god. this feeling continued to grow by the day. soon i basically became a faith seeker. over the course of about three years i researched all kinds of religions, hoping i would find the one that was right for me. one day(i forget when exactly) i was having a discussion with my friends about religions. at some point he mentioned how he lived by the Wiccan Rede and the Three Fold Law. at the time i had no idea what they were or even what Wicca was. when he explained them to me they made perfect sense. so with that little bit of information i began to research Wicca. i bought books on the subject, and read all i could find. i became totally enthralled with it. even though i have only really been Wiccan for about three months i have never felt a greater happiness. all the questions i had before have been answered. i feel like i have finally found where i belong

[Syri Whiteflame]

only three months? that's about like me (only maybe it's only been two *shrug*)
well ... when i was little, like before school age even, my grandmother used to take me to church on saturdays (seventh day adventist) and i liked it there just fine, but i suppose the religion never left any impression with me since i was so young. we moved after a couple years and i forgot all about religion. lol i still remember, one day a friend of mine asked me what my religion was. i said christian, and she said me too i'm catholic what are you. and i was like ... *blink* ... chrisitain ... lmao i didn't even know there were different kinds of christians. so after that my reply was always 'my family is christian, but i'm not anything'
when we moved back here (near my grandmother again) she started taking us kids to chruch. we only really went because a) she bugged us about it b) we liked the youth group leader and c) it was an excuse to get together with another of our friends (long story there i won't get into).
anyway, i started reading the bible and all this, but i just couldn't ... well i couldn't connect with it. i mean, it was interesting, but i find all religions interesting. infact i study them as a hobbie. but then there are also some points i seriously disagree with in the bible and amongst christians. so rather than becoming a chrisitain all it really did was make me a studier of the religion (along with others) i tried everything, i mean everything! i looked into every faith i could get my hands on, and started taking peices from here and there to combine into my own sort of make shift religion.
i finally gave up looking for a religion, and just left it to a hobby of studing them and took peices here and there to build my own. it was a little lonely, but it was all i could do at the time. *shrug*
i've had faith in a goddess of fate for some time now, so she was all i could really hold on to. i still have faith in her, but now it's in addition to my religion.
i found wicca by accedent too. i was at the library, and found a book called 'teen witch' by silver ravenwolf. at first i was weary, because of the word witch, which i only recently am fully comfortable with. you know, all the stero-types and such *shrug* i didn't know anything else. but i've always told myself to try everything once, and give a fair chance before passing judgment (i even read about satinism once to hold to that rule *shiver*)
so i brought the book home, and right away i liked the author ^-^ her personality and all, she seems very nice, i'd love to meet her.
i liked silver so rather than skim i did as she asked and read from cover to cover. and the more i read the more i liked. i took notes up the yin yang on things to add to my own faith, or things that were already the same (and there were ALOT of similarities) and suddenly i realized ... either i'm going to creat a religion of my own that's practicly identical to wicca or ... i might as well become a wiccan. so i thought that over for about a month, kept researching and completely fell in love with wicca. it really was like coming home.
growing up as a kid i was always looking for 'weird things' anything different. anything nature based, with hints of magick. and everything i've ever been drawn to or come up with on my own turns out to be wiccan. so my conclusion is i've always been a witch, i just never knew it before. lol
i'm totally in love with the lady and falling in love with the lord even now. (i take things one at a time and am just starting on the lord, like the quarters/elements i did one at a time. meditate and take my time tell i truly come to understand it, then i move on to the next. sometimes it takes forever sometimes only a week or so *shrug*)
*sigh* i've made this really long, i'm sorry. i always do that -_-;

[WiccanSage]

MM,

we had this same topic on the old MB and i worte out the hole store but i tried and I don't want to type that much so I'm going to make this quick. I try to kill my self but failed when my mom camehome early from work and found me well, I was in the hos. and i was laying in the bed thinking about my mom because she had been suiside befour and she had went home so I was scared she was going to do something. Then I heard this voice say it ok I will keep her safe my child just as I kept you safe. It was a womens voice, and it was the softest sweets voice I had ever heard. And she said some other stuff that I should not repeat (I think she ment it for my ears only sorry) and after doing some looking I came to the conclusin that it was ISIS talking to me so that is what put me on this path.

*blessed Be*
WiccanSage

[TribalSpirit]

Woah w.s. that's incredible. I'm afraid my storie's not so thrilling hehe. Actually, I can't even quite remember what I'd say about how I got into Wicca. I started researchign it in the beginning of the school year but didn't dedicate myself untill Dec. first. I remember starting to hear the faint whisperings of my new spiritual journey two years ago and still continuring due to a series of odd events and amazing revelations. at the end of summer my lil sis was printing out fluffy love spells and things secretively and one accidently somehow got printed out on my computer while I was on it. I looked it up to figure out how it got there and stumbled upon Wicca along the way. The previous year my first belly dance tape described it's guessed origin, having to do with ppl who worshipped snake goddesses and other mother goddess figures. Now the snake goddess part really got me especially when I also learned of the Horned God through my first odd event. (long long story.) So the next year hearing more about God AND Goddess worship and the whole earth-based religon just hit home. I KNEW this is where my path was leading. Then later my friend Full Moon and I researched it more together and eventually dedicated ourselves to the faith. Nothing has made me feel as complete and loved.

[KaiAidan]

there are no thrilling or boring ways to start on the path of wicca lol each way is great for it brings each person towards the deity