Why Did You Choose Witchcraft?

[LadyTrinity]

:whatgives Why did you choose to let Witchcraft be apart of your life? :wave:

[Blondie]

It's hard to say exactly why I choose my Eclectic Witchcraft path.

It does complete me, but I didn't choose that option. I choose "other."

I find, unlike many religions out there, Witchcraft just seemed so right. It had balance. It taught me how to empower myself, and lead a life that I wanted to live. It taught me that happiness is in my own hands.

However, the most important reason I choose Witchcraft is that it's main goal (IMHO) it for transformation. Through Witchcraft I've beckoned upon a life long transformation spirtually, mentally and physically.

I feel like I'm rambling.

[Faeawyn]

I think it kind of chose me :bigblue:

[Valkie]

Picked other.

reason 1: started as a fundementalist christian. When I realized that there were holes in what they taught as truth, the only logical choice was for me to do a complete 180.

after I accepted the craft as my path, I realized that there were other things that I had always done and had happened to me that let me know that I've always been part witch, even though I didn't know it.

When I realized this, I realized that acceptence of my path completed me.

So, in a way, all of the above applies.

[CaitrionaMorgaine]

Witchcraft just seemed so right. It had balance. It taught me how to empower myself, and lead a life that I wanted to live. It taught me that happiness is in my own hands.

However, the most important reason I choose Witchcraft is that it's main goal (IMHO) it for transformation. Through Witchcraft I've beckoned upon a life long transformation spirtually, mentally and physically.

*points up* Exactly.

Blessings, ~Rhiannon

[Crystal_Raye]

I chose (or was chosen) because I've always loved nature and the unknown and Witchcraft is the study and use of both. We kinda go together and it just feels right, ya know? Plus Christianity just doesn't give me that "ness" I need.

[Boogins]

As a walk-in, I knew I was a witch the night I arrived, after the previous occupant passed. It was just a given.

[Æon Flux]

For me it was just a natural step in my spiritual development.
I've been drawn to it since I was a child and when I finally decided to truly study it, I felt as though this was my path.

I think it has a lot to do with the closeness i've always felt with nature and that i lived very isolated as a child with the nature as my playground.

[Eowyn]

It's somewhere around It completes me and I didnt choose it, it chose me.


For me it was just a natural step in my spiritual development.
I've been drawn to it since I was a child and when I finally decided to truly study it, I felt as though this was my path.

Same here. :D

[LadyTrinity]

For me it was just a natural step in my spiritual development.
I've been drawn to it since I was a child and when I finally decided to truly study it, I felt as though this was my path.

I think it has a lot to do with the closeness i've always felt with nature and that i lived very isolated as a child with the nature as my playground.

:wave: Me too! :wave:

[Aedrais]

I love nature, and fantasy, and divination and mystical stuff, and when I realized that there was a path that encorporated all that, I was like, "Wow. I can't believe that there's something so perfect for me."

:smile:

[Pesha]

I feel the Craft found me. I was 19 and searching for answers to things going on in my life. Then one day I was in a the library and a book fell on the floor. It was one of G. Gardeners. I looked at it a bit and then the libraian came up to me and we talked and well she was wiccan. The rest is history.

BB
DS.

[Romani Vixen]

when I started studying... so much of what I was reading was... right. Like I knew it already, but didn't realise it yet! :)

[Windigo]

Born into it... not much else to say lol

[Ron]

^ points up! :) :fpeace: :fpeace: :fpeace: :fpeace:

[Dorchadas Síofra]

It chose me. :flowers:

[Golden Princess]

I'm not sure that what I do is deemed witchcraft

Maybe I'm just a little confused

[Dallin]

I don't classify myself as technically a witch, or a wiccan, or even a pagan. My path has a lot of aspects similar to both various pagan religions and buddhism.

I've always felt it is important to make this distinction: doing so means that I am not tied to any beliefs, so, if something is not right for me, I don't accept that it's just "part of the contract - deal with it." My path is my own.

As for the poll question... it IS me. It doesn't complete me - my path is life. I find it near-impossible to seperate the two.

Dallin

[Antoninus]

:whatgives Why did you choose to let Witchcraft be apart of your life? :wave:
Well...what is love? Theres a really simple answer to both questions, but theres also a deeper meaning thats hard to describe or put into words. Im not a witch, Im Pagan, but my outward reasons was the openness, the freedom. In-wardly, its.....comforting, is the best way I can describe it. Like an old blanket that youve had for years and it just feels good to curl up with.

[misschief]

:boquet: it chose me.. long before i was here :boquet:

[nomadicdragon]

I would have to say that i didn't exactly pick it.. it picked me, and then let me find the right path to follow.. if that makes sense.

[Taliesyn]

I could write pages about this- here's the short version.

I met my teacher, and heard the word wicca for the first time. chills when down my spine. I knew that it was my path- but i still say it chose me- it was like a parting of a big curtian. that one word. funny, it was the first tthing she ever said to me.

[samiaminsane]

i have no defining point in my life for it, so I'll say that Witchcraft/Wicca chose me. I had been interested with the religion since childhood. My parents never pushed anything on us, they let us discover, learn and search for our own opinions and religions. I love my parents, they always rocked! (Too bad I still went through that jack*ss teenager phase)

[Black RiverWolf]

I have to say that it fell in my lap. we were supposed to be doing papers on subject that we knew nothing about. well after watching to many movies and burning the bible because i got frustrated with it. i picked up another book and read it. it made so much more sense to me than the others. it explains alot of what was going on with me in the past years. so i have just stayed with it. i am in love with my path.

[Autumn]

It just felt so right and real...challenged me to grow without making me feel evil if I made mistakes in life.

[Lala]

:whatgives Why did you choose to let Witchcraft be apart of your life? :wave:

"It" has been calling me since my teens (over 10 years now) :whatmewor dunno, but it has also been the source of my completion.

[Tea Leaf]

It chose me. I can't even remember how I came across witchcraft and wicca. I just knew and starting buying all the books I could find on the subject.

[Goddess Rhiannon]

Over the past month...I have had many hours to do some..."soul" searching. I have found out through many reliable sources that I was born into witchcraft...which is fantastic. I have found many answers. Maybe not having a computer, was actually good for me in the long run. I do know that I deeply missed you all.....and am so glad to be back home.

Cinnamon girl......dancing with you at Beltane....really made my day.....I loved it.

[Emerald Oak]

This probably fits into one of the other categories, but I can't think of which one.

I had been an athiest for a long time, mainly because I got sick of religion telling me what to do or who to be. I started reading up on Wicca and liked how open and honest it was (is). So, I declared myself an apprentice, found a teacher, and started learning. A few years later, here I am.

[thok_ragnarok]

It was blatently in front of me all of my life, recently I've accepted it fully and enjoyed every moment of it

[DianaStormDancer]

I voted that I was born into it.....though it did take me close to 20 years til I was able to find my way home.........I saw myself in ways of the Goddess...so it wasn't so much a choosing as it was an awakening.

[thok_ragnarok]

being more specific, Loki followed me until I accepted him. I do not practice witchcraft. Witchcraft is any form of praying that is not christian. I celebrate my God and I make the occasional sacrifice and ask for the occasional guidence

[Yvonne Belisle]

It is who and what I am as much as anything else. I have always been this way I only learned there was a name for it and others like me seven years ago. I love being able to talk to others who see the world through the same window so to speak that I do. Oddly enough most of that time has been here at MysticWicks. This place found me just about two months after I got my first computer.

[FroggieThePunk]

Well, I feel that Wicca does complete me, and I think in some ways, it chose me rather than I it. But I did choose other.

Somehow, the answers given, didn't feel just right. And while it completes me, and it chose me, I think that I also choose it because it gives me room to grow. To change myself towards who I want to be. Towards what I want to be. And it genuinely makes me happy.

I guess that isn't really all that much of an answer, but that is all I got. I don't think I could explain it any better than I tried, and even that wasn't very good! Yeesh, maybe I just need some more caffeine.

[nighstar]

"I do not practice witchcraft." :whistle:

[laserhazel]

I am still not sure if the craft is for me, it is just so difficult. The sarcasm is the part of it I can't quite get enough of. Nevertheless, I believe wicci wicci wicca can't live without me.

[misschief]

ya know... it's really not that difficult. well.. i guess it depends on what exactly you are trying to learn(lol) i am eclectic tho, i do what i do.. however i feel like it needs done and it always works for me... so maybe i just think its so easy because instead of following one tradition mine is everything all mixed up. ok.. nm about the not difficult thing..hahaha. can you tell i need coffee??

ok.. this message needs a disclaimer i think.. so here goes
please excuse any confusion the author has caused with this message... she is in dire need of some richly caffinated beverage, and will try again later after consuming it. thank you and drive thru:D
-the uncaffinated author

[Llewyth]

I was already practising withcraft before I knew it had a name. Just some sort of plaything I started as a child and never let go of.