Wiccans: At what age did you first start learning the craft??

Question

How did you become drawn to it?
What influenced your decision?

Please give details, thanks.

Answer 1

At a very young age, around 8/9 years old, i was always drawn to the Witchcraft books in the library. Through my life i have always been spiritual, but only started studying Witchcraft properly 9 years ago. To this day i do not know how or why i was drawn to it when i was young. But i can say is that this was the right thing for me to follow and be now, but had waited many years before becoming who i am. My decision was possibly more influenced when my ex husband moved out (Yay), as he didn't agree with anything witchy or spiritual. So, once he had gone, there has been no stopping me. I'm lucky now in the respect to have found a loving partner who is in the same way of thinking and practising. Most important....if you feel it is right in your heart, go for it.
Blessings

Answer 2

I was in my mid-20s.

I really don't know how I became drawn to it. From my mid-teens (when Wicca really became something that was talked about, back in the late 80s and early 90s) I was curious as to what it involved and what the followers believed. Of course, my Christian childhood had done a very good job at "scaring me" into staying away from it because it had something to do with Satan and I didn't want to go to hell.

Sometime after I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (at 24) I just started falling away from the church. This doesn't mean I blamed God for my illness or anything silly like that, it was just sort of a turning point in my life when I really, seriously started examining what I believed and why I thought we were here. I came to a lot of conclusions on my own, and a few years later when I started reading up on Wicca I found the conclusions I had arrived at were perfectly Wiccan. Still, it took a couple of more years for me to be very secure in myself and not really care what people thought if they found out that I was a witch, and I've been Wiccan with no qualms at all since I was 29, and I don't regret the decision to leave my childhood religion at all.

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Answer 3

At the age of 24. But because of fear to what others would think of me, I kept concealed my interest in the craft until 5 years ago.

However, I believe this is not the appropriate forum to express what drawed me to the craft and what influenced my decision. For many Wiccans, this matter is highly personal. Others may be more willing to express this, that the rest of us.

Answer 4

I first started learning about Wicca in my late 20's.
I became drawn to it when I first read "The Truth About Witchcraft Today" by Scott Cunningham and realized that everything Christians say about it are done just to further their own faith as being the only 'true' path.
My decision to dedicate to Wicca happened when I participated in my first 'open' ritual and realized I had found my faith, before that I was a non-denominational agnostic as I felt there is more to our lives then just living in the here and now but I wasn't sure what it was but I was sure that Christianity wasn't the answer for me.

Blessed Be )O(

Answer 5

I felt drawn to Paganism and Wicca when I was 17 and that's when I fell into it. I was drawn to it initially because of the Goddess worship and because of it's reverance of nature. Those were the main things.

After awhile though I kinda fell out of it. Now, 11 years later, I'm Asatru and my Patron is actually a God LOL Funny how things have changed....

Answer 6

i become drawn from an early age as i continuously loved nature besides, yet on the time, i did not recognize why. as i have been given older, i began to comprehend that i become wiccan and so i keen to benefit as a lot as i might want to and that i'm nonetheless gaining knowledge of now and that i continuously will, i appreciate being wiccan and no-you'll take it remote from me.

Answer 7

Early teens.

It was more in keeping with my personal beliefs and felt more spiritually sound then other religions I have studied.