When did you realize....

[madison_cross]

Well, I've always felt myself drawn to something different to what I was being taught in church. Like there was something out there beyond my little Episcopal church. I started reading up on Wicca and it calls out to this part of me. Like a magnet, but I'm still wary. It's hard because all of my life I've been raised as a Christian, but this is something completely different. How and when did you realize this was your calling? Any advice is good for me. Thanks.

[Methanespirit]

Maidson-cross, it sounds as though your church presented a "watered-down Christian religion" rather than a Spiritual association with the ascended Christ. There is a difference. Explore Wicca. You may not find what you are looking for. But if you do, please keep in mind the beginning of my post.

[madison_cross]

Maybe I should've posted it in better terms. What I meant was, when did you make your decision and what caused you to make your decision that wicca was the right choice for you?
Oh, btw, Madison Cross is my pen name. Thanks.

[Lilu]

Hi Madison_cross, I don't believe we've met before, so hello! :)

I was raised Catholic, but it just didn't work for me. When I found paganism (starting with Wicca) it just came naturally to me and felt comfortable, so I went with it.

My recommendation would be to read all you can on the subject, and see whether it fits your ideas, just because you are researching something doesn't mean you have to commit to it.

Good luck!
Lilu

[MystyPines]

Merry Meet!

hmmm, well, I was unhappy with catholicism for many years, did catholic schools over the years, went to church every Sunday, "I never felt anything, it just felt like I was "going through the motions." I did not believe in many of their beliefs and rules. As a child, I always loved to be out in the forest, the scent of the moist earth, the leaves, the streams, watching the animals. I was never as happy as I am when I went camping as a child in girl scouts or as an adult, I always felt such a peace, when I was away from it all. The Librarian in the law firm I work at had shown me and few co-workers his Pentacle and said he was a witch, well, you should have seen the other women's faces, they went white and they walked away very quickly, as if they were frightened. I was just intrigued. So I proceeded to go back to his desk and ask him about it. I started reading everything and anything I could get my hands on and knew this was what I had always felt and what I had always revered in my life, was nature! Now, 7 years later, I have never been happier and more fulfilled than on my path!

[rowan]

It is sooooo good to find people who are feeling or have felt the same as what I am feeling now! I am only new to the path, last couple of months, but it feels right and I couldn't and haven't been able to explain why! It is a relief to know that this is kinda normal.

[Morgaine14]

Madison Cross,
I am fairly new to it myself, but I have always felt drawn to it, for many reasons. I feel comfortable with it, it feels right. I never went to any type of church much as a kid, but when I did, I always felt out of place. The idea of just one god, who is male, just did not make sense to me. I didn't start really exploring it much, until after my husband and I had gotten together, about three years ago- mostly because I didn't know what was available to find out.
Morgaine

[widukind]

At eighteen now, I can say I had always loved the forest, animals and plants, the earth, water, air and fire very much too, but I really got awakened to Paganism through a vision I had.

Brightest Blessings!

Widukind

[Branwen]

HI! I found pagan religion througt Wiccan books and people.I have know since I was litte that i didn't belong to a christain belief. It's just missing the love for life that you find reflected in pagan religions.

[Morgan]

I have always felt drawn to nature and nature-based religions, but was raised Catholic. I echo the feelings that I was just going through the motions. There were too many questions that I couldn't get satisfactory answers to :confused: , too many things that didn't fit for me. I am new to the Wiccan path, and I am also still struggling with finding MY way to relate to the Goddess/God. Wicca is the first path that has really made me feel fulfilled, and I really look forward to expanding my knowledge.

BB,

Morgan

[quixote]

A few years ago, I went to talk to the minister of the church I occasionally attended (ironically enough on October 31), about some metaphysical questions I had and also some nagging doubts I had about Christianity in general. She told me the best thing I could do was to look around and see what else was out there in the way of spiritual truths. Shortly after, I found out my great-grandmother was wiccan. I started reading everything I could get my hands on and it seemed a good fit for me so Ive stayed with it
Blessed be
quixote

[Skye]

Welcome, Glad to see yo here. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

I can not really comment on when I realized....I have been since birth, about 38 years, Not Wiccan, but Heathen.

Enjoy your time here, I have found everyone to be very friendly:D

[reanna]

Welcome !! :):):):)

[Dria El]

Welcome to Mystic Wicks Madison_cross, Branwen, and Morgan!!! So glad to see new faces on the porch!

As for the question...

I always new I was different. I was raised Mormon and it just didn't 'fit' right. I too, was just going through the motions. When I became an adult I stopped going to church (cus I had a choice). A few years ago one of my sister's introduced me to Paganism/Wicca. I was amazed. All those years I had thought I was just weird... sort of the proverbial 'black sheep'. I had no idea that what I thought and believed had a NAME! hehe So, here I am... and I couldn't be happier!

:)

[Rævyn Cigány]

Originally posted by MystyPines
Merry Meet!

hmmm, well, I was unhappy with catholicism for many years, did catholic schools over the years, went to church every Sunday, "I never felt anything, it just felt like I was "going through the motions." I did not believe in many of their beliefs and rules. As a child, I always loved to be out in the forest, the scent of the moist earth, the leaves, the streams, watching the animals.

And that goes double for me! I too was raised Catholic and never quite felt that it was all right...so when my brother came home wearing a pentacle and a serious lack of hair, I was intrigued...I started reading up on Wicca and Druidry and Paganism in general....anything I could get my hands on! I felt, as I'm sure many other have, that I'd 'come home'. The Goddess spoke to me in those many books and I haven't been the same since. (just to clarify, I'm not hearing voices, 'hearing the Goddess' is meant figuratively ;))

Oh and by the way,
WELCOME, MADISON_CROSS!!!!

BB

Rae )0(

[Masquerader8]

Gee, the recovering cathlic seems almost a theme along with what I call cathlic arobics, or going through the motions....but you must admit all that sit/stand/kneel does get the heart pumping:D Still back to the begining, how did I first know this realigon or rather path of spirituallity (sorry for me religon is linked to some political gargan, the last being the classic line I heard one of my last times in a church, "I don't need ten percent of your paycheck, GOD needs ten percent...") anyway, when did I know I had found my path? Well I guess I just woke up one day very courious, convinced there must be something out there to the divine than all this claptrap and formal doctrin I had been exposed to all my life; so I looked. Days of searching found me a home, in the Wiccan ideas. I found put into the concept of religon everthing I had always KNOWN but been taught was in my head. I am now a year old, a year wiser, and fully aware of how far I have to go; but now the journey is not a burned, a trugery that must be endored, it is a wonderful experence that is so dear to me I almost dare not blink, for I might miss some of the exteram beauty, and that would be a shame. I finally gave myself permission to see the Divine in everything in life, including myself, and after you have seen the face of the Divine how can life not glow? It seems I have written another rant.....
The impish elf:elf: