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I have always been interested in the religion of Wicca and just recnetly began studying it to find out if it is the direction I want to take in my life.  I’m curious as to how all of you chose to become Wiccan.  Did you wake up one morning and go I think I’ll convert to Wicca.  Or did it involve time and study, which is what I’m going through.   Thank you for any help you can give me. Dietrich

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I have always been interested in the religion of Wicca and just recnetly began studying it to find out if it is the direction I want to take in my life.  I’m curious as to how all of you chose to become Wiccan.  Did you wake up one morning and go I think I’ll convert to Wicca.  Or did it involve time and study, which is what I’m going through.

Well… I write comic books for a living. I have a Witch for a character… and I didn’t want to offend Witches so I picked up a book to study what they were so I’d get my facts straight. As I read my jaw just dropped. I was raised Catholic but haven’t been into a church for years… plus I already rejected it. I stood by my own thoughts, had considered Islam but some of it’s beliefs struck me wrong. But in this book ("Witchcraft Today" by Scott Cunningham) I saw… what I already believed… plus explanations for some of the things that bothered me (reincarnation, magick) explained. It bothere me for a few days before I finally realized (for myself) that I’d found the truth. Side note: I won’t be dedicated until this coming Oct. whence I’ll have studied a year. It comes to people different ways… just follow your heart, and if it leads you somewhere else… so mote it be. -^_^ Halfback "I walk the ways of the wolf… stand by those who stand by you"

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I have always been interested in the religion of Wicca and just recnetly began studying it to find out if it is the direction I want to take in my life.  I’m curious as to how all of you chose to become Wiccan.  Did you wake up one morning and go I think I’ll convert to Wicca.  Or did it involve time and study, which is what I’m going through.   Thank you for any help you can give me. Dietrich

i first learned about the craft in high school.  later, in college, i was assigned a report on it (purely coincidence).  later i stumbled across it on the internet. the more i learned, the more it just _seemed_ right.  many of the basic tenets of wicca coincided with my beliefs, and it felt as if i had (almost) always been wiccan but never known there was a name for it. i’m not trying to say that wicca needs to magically call to you to be considered a wise choice, but that’s how it felt to me. anyway i wish you the best of luck in your religious quest. blessed be.                      -CORTES

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so whats the name of your comic book and where can i find it… would love to see something that accurately protrays Wicca and Witchcraft, besides, Id like ot hold it for my daughter….

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I am just beyond the point where you are Dietrich…. No, I didn’t just wake up one morning and say I want a new religion.  I just knew what that I totally disliked and disagreed with Christianity. Inspite of my father being an Anglican Priest (I think this is Episcopal in USA), he purposely raised me to be a skeptic – to experience and learn as much as possible so as to come to my own conclusions. Indeed, as a student of ancient history and the history of philisophy (which no doubt included studying the development of the ‘civilized’ religions) I was exposed to various ideas.  It was at this point that I totally turned away from religion, (I could not accept something that had been developed and fictionalized to serve specific end – an end NOT to my own advantage) and spent the next 15 years fairly aimless. Several years ago a series of difficult events caused me to evaluate what I did believe, or was willing to believe.  I accidentally came across a book on Women’s Spirituality.  While there was much I disagreed with (too feminist for this gal), I found myself agreeing with much else.  Before I knew it, I was reading everything I could get my hands on concerning wicca…..it was as tho these books were written not merely for me, but almost by me!  While the ideas of spellwork and ritual were foreign to me, the philisophical ideas and metaphysics behind wicca were bang-on to the very notions I had already conlcuded for myself. In this respect I already consider myself Wiccan.  I am only now exploring the manners of practising the Craft, trying to learn as much as I can.  In many respects, I’ve been speaking to the God and Goddess most of my life – having always made a point of giving thanks for the wonders of nature and the sky around me…As for magic, I’ve always believed in the power of positive thought! I am in the middle of my best read so far: "The Wiccan Path: A Guide For the Solitary Practioner," Rae Beth.  Every page I turn, I think WOW!  It lays things out in a very simple and pallatable manner.  It is actually a collection of letters written to a couple embarking on learning the Craft.  In this way, as I am at this very point, it is as tho the book was written for me!  (It talks TO me rather than AT me, which is perhaps why I didn’t really care for the Scott Cunningham version). Deitrich, this book was rather cheap (12 dlrs US I think).  It might be worth your own read.   Bright Blessings Robin

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I have always been interested in the religion of Wicca and just recnetly began studying it to find out if it is the direction I want to take in my life.  I’m curious as to how all of you chose to become Wiccan.  Did you wake up one morning and go I think I’ll convert to Wicca.  Or did it involve time and study, which is what I’m going through.   Thank you for any help you can give me. Dietrich

Deitrich, I don’t think it "just happens" to too many people. I’m sure there is the rare case where somebody just wakes up and decides "from here on out, I’m wiccan." That’s sure not what happened to me. I became disenchanted with the catholic religion at the age of 12. I was constantly under persecution from the church for questioning the things they touted. Eventually, I decided it best to seperate from them. This happened right after they excommunicated me. Good timing on my part, eh? Anyway, I digress. After years of basically procalaiming myself an atheist, I met a charming young lady. She was, and still is, absolutley gorgeous, and of course, I fell in love. I had always beleived that there was somehting out there, I just didn’t know what. She introduced me, after quite a while of trying, to her religion, the Craft of the Wise. I realized immediatly that this was something I could beleive in, somthing I could hold to, and I eccepted the God and Goddess as my new way of life. I read, I studied, I married that bitch, but I love her. Study, read, marry your priestess. It’ll help you decide what to do. Okey never mind the marriage part, but sex is always a good starting point. You’ll both feel better, you’ll be enlightened, and your complection will be that much clearer. Anyway, aside from the smart assed remarks, you get the idea. Blessed be.

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I have always been interested in the religion of Wicca and just recnetly began studying it to find out if it is the direction I want to take in my life.  I’m curious as to how all of you chose to become Wiccan.  Did you wake up one morning and go I think I’ll convert to Wicca.  Or did it involve time and study, which is what I’m going through.

I would say that in the majority of cases that in the first place one reads or hears about Wicca and realizes that this is what you have always believed, that at last you have found a name for what you are and that you are not alone. It is often termed ‘coming home’. In the second place you then start reading like crazy to find out more about it. You make it sound like you are studying for an exam. You don’t need to push yourself, it comes to you. Blessings, David — If at any time you think I have the answer then please ask me the question. We are all seekers. What is Paganism? http://ds.dial.pipex.com/robotics1/pagan.htm               We are the power in everyone               We are the dance of the moon and the sun               We are the hope that will never hide               We are the turning of the tide

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: I have always been interested in the religion of Wicca and just recnetly : began studying it to find out if it is the direction I want to take in : my life.  I’m curious as to how all of you chose to become Wiccan.  Did : you wake up one morning and go I think I’ll convert to Wicca.  Or did it : involve time and study, which is what I’m going through.   It was more or less by accident. I had left the Christian church when I was 14 and had started studying magick when I was 15. When I turned 18 I joined a neopagan group at my University (not Loyola at that point) and slowly "grew in" to the religion of Wicca. Now I’m 23, two years dedicated to the craft, and with this understanding of the world I am ready to take up my magickal studies again. It’s much less a matter of my finding the Craft than one of the Craft finding me. Blessed Be,         Mike Smith "Rise, hold fast your faith. To lie dormant is certain death."                 -Slayer, "At Dawn They Sleep" DISCLAIMER: My opinions do not necessarily, or even remotely, reflect those of Loyola University, Chicago.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I have always been interested in the religion of Wicca and just recnetly began studying it to find out if it is the direction I want to take in my life.  I’m curious as to how all of you chose to become Wiccan.  Did you wake up one morning and go I think I’ll convert to Wicca.  Or did it involve time and study, which is what I’m going through. I would say that in the majority of cases that in the first place one reads or hears about Wicca and realizes that this is what you have always believed, that at last you have found a name for what you are and that you are not alone. It is often termed ‘coming home’. In the second place you then start reading like crazy to find out more about it. You make it sound like you are studying for an exam. You don’t need to push yourself, it comes to you. Blessings, David — If at any time you think I have the answer then please ask me the question. We are all seekers. What is Paganism? http://ds.dial.pipex.com/robotics1/pagan.htm               We are the power in everyone               We are the dance of the moon and the sun               We are the hope that will never hide               We are the turning of the tide

I would have to say I definitely agree with you David…. I can remember the first time I ever read anything on Wicca and Paganism… I had tears in my eyes, thinking "What I believe has a name????"  I’ve been involved and studying hard ever since…. Aerta

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I don’t think it "just happens" to too many people. I’m sure there is the rare case where somebody just wakes up and decides "from here on out, I’m wiccan." That’s sure not what happened to me. I became disenchanted with the catholic religion at the age of 12. I was constantly under persecution from the church for questioning the things they touted. Eventually, I decided it best to seperate from them. This happened right after they excommunicated me. Good timing on my part, eh?

Uh, I don’t quite belive the "excommunicated" part.  Sorry.  What on earth did you do to get a papal decree of excommunication???  I mean, that’s what it takes to be excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Very few people in history have actually had it happen.  I can’t imagine anything so awful as to incur this these days.   I mean, even the radical priests who question most everything in the Church haven’t been excommunicated.  Would you care to enlighten us as to what brought you to the attention of the Holy Father??? Loki

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I I’d found the truth. Side note: I won’t be dedicated until this coming Oct. whence I’ll have studied a year. It comes to people different ways… just follow your heart, and if it leads you somewhere else… so mote it be. -^_^ Halfback "I walk the ways of the wolf… stand by those who stand by you"

Congratulations Halfback. I hope you find your path full of joy and learning. — The ‘Old Craft’ lady               http://www.oldcity.demon.co.uk/

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[snipage] I would have to say I definitely agree with you David…. I can remember the first time I ever read anything on Wicca and Paganism… I had tears in my eyes, thinking "What I believe has a name????"  I’ve been involved and studying hard ever since…. Aerta

I agree with you Aerta. Books were hard to come by in my area. Fortunately, my local library was (relatively) well stocked. I was totally amazed! The books made so much sense, it was almost like reading something that someone had written after reading my mind. Now I have moved and the local library is not well stocked at all, but I still study as hard as ever. I am tempted to ask my partner (he is a 1st degree Wiccan) but I am restrained by the bounds of secrecy (a little alienating at times, but I honour his oath). We all search for the path that is within us all. The right one is the one you take to your heart. Happy seeking all!! B*B Catherine "But what of Morgana and the witches of lore These female witches we cannot ignore Their staffs must have knobs, there’s surely no doubt That’s for them to know and for us to find out."         (lyrics by Golden Apple)

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I agree with you Aerta. Books were hard to come by in my area. Fortunately, my local library was (relatively) well stocked. I was totally amazed! The books made so much sense, it was almost like reading something that someone had written after reading my mind. Now I have moved and the local library is not well stocked at all, but I still study as hard as ever. I am tempted to ask my partner (he is a 1st degree Wiccan) but I am restrained by the bounds of secrecy (a little alienating at times, but I honour his oath). We all search for the path that is within us all. The right one is the one you take to your heart. Happy seeking all!! B*B Catherine

you know, i really hate to admit this, but my first exposure to wicca came from mercedes lackey’s diana tregarde books.  lucky for me, she does really good research.  _burning water_ had a section in it where di was explaining her beliefs a little bit, and i thought "hey, that’s perfect, that’s almost exactly how *i* feel!"  so i got curious and looked in the new age section of a bookstore and, lo and behold, there was a book there on wicca by mr. cunningham that wasn’t to expensive.   brigid

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 I’m curious as to how all of you chose to become Wiccan.  Did you wake up one morning and go I think I’ll convert to Wicca.  Or did it involve time and study, which is what I’m going through.

it felt as if i had (almost) always been wiccan but never known there was a name for it.                     -CORTES Hi David: I really relate to feeling like I have always been wicca, even thought I have just started studying about Wicca now. I just did not know there was a name for it…it was neat to hear of someone else feeling that way… Anyway..I just felt like sharing that with you. Where are you from? — Cristina " Everything happens for a reason and a purpose and it serves us. "  

I’m from San Antonio, a VERY christian, very catholic town.  I was surprised to find a small, but thriving pagan community through some of the local bookstores. I attend one Wicca workshop, and though i’ve never been, some members tell me of another non-denominational church where they will actually hold sabbat services outdoors right next to a busy highway interchange. What is it like where you live?                      -CORTES

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[snip DAVID's comments] It’s nice to see a Christian now and then that knows what this group is about… and how to be respectful. Just thought I’d let you know you’re kinda rare, at least in this NG. =^_^= Tlalocelotl

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