Witches Wiccans and Pagans.?

Question

When you first came to this path, did it come easy to you?
Do you remember feeling as though you had always known certain things?
Did you find that ideas popped into your head, then on researching you found that your idea is fact?
I guess what i am asking is, Do you believe that your soul has been on this path before?
Blessed be!
Ariel

Answer 1

I have been exposed to Witchcraft since I was very little so it only seemed like a 'dark' but natural part of my life. When I found Wicca, as a teen, it seemed like the balance to the 'darkness' I had learned... please understand that I don't think Witchcraft is dark, good or bane... it is the practitioner that is dark, good or bane... not the practice. However, the practice I was exposed to was more dark than light, so it was a joy to find the lightness of Wicca.

Do I remember feeling as if i had always known certian things? Yes. This still happnes... most often I credit it to my past lives and coming to terms with several of them as well as my spiritual beliefs in Traditional Witchcraft and the modern religion of Wicca.

As for believing that my "soul" has been on this bath before? Funny you should ask or mention that... in my book and even before, I coined the term "Soul Witch" because I believe that it is something in the "Soul of a witch" that makes her(or him) find and follow this path... not the DNA.

On my yahoo email my quote is:

"What makes one a witch is not a secret, or magic, nor is it initiation. It is 'something' in the very soul of an individual that makes one a witch. I am a 'Soul Witch'. For the very breath and blood of the earth is woven into my soul and coupled with my spirit. In the past, the present and in the future it has been so and shall be." Shewolf Silver Shadows 2002


Yes, I beleieve without a doubt that I have been on similar paths before... and it is this path that leads me closer to where it is we all are trying to get too;)

Answer 2

Great Question Ariel! )o(

I can remember knowing certain things at a very young age...knowing that i had a life purpose and that i was here for a reason....I knew I was different from everyone else....

I believe that i was destined to walk the path i do today. Accepting every challenge along the way and looking for the lessons in all experiences.
The people I was surrounded by were very conservative, so my actual studies did not start until about 20 years ago..and I seek knowledge, not only of myself but of other beliefs as well.
My journey has not been an easy one, but very fulfilling all the same.

Blessed Be!
)o(
Trinity

Answer 3

when I first came to paganism, I came via feminism, and I came in with a very profound bang that shook me to the core of my being, like everything Ihad been taught was a lie, and had been deliberately hidden from me. I have been on this path with many detours along the way, like personal problems and motherhood, but it kept creeping back into my heart and mind until I could no longer ignore it, and then suddenly, after coming more and more vocal about patriarchy and the lies in Chritianity, I found Wicca. The problem I had with Wicca is that I need it to feel real, without deities in the sense of the deities that I had left, and I left Wicca rather soon after I started to look into it, and because it is based, for me, on real stuff, Witchcraft became my most natural path.

Sometimes, when I am alone, I wonder about the people, the women, who walked this path before me. I dont know if I imagine it or I lived it, but I sometimes feel something foggy and that smells like moss, and then like dirt. It feels like something that it isn't there. I am drawn to Elizabethan times, just as a point of history that interests me, and if I lived then before, I was a Witch, but I was safe because it was hidden.

I don't know whether souls existed before. I hope so, but I don't know how to separate this notion from imagination. But I have had it happen that I will all of a sudden know something that I know I hadn't known, but it is just there out of the blue. Like something someone else knew, suddenly I know.


It is strange when that happens, but it has happened, and it is always right.

BB,
LM )0(

Answer 4

I think so. When I was little, I would do things which felt very natural, and then realize later in life that those things were relevent to ritual... not to say that the rituals I perform now could possibly be similar to any type of ritual I may or may not have done in the past, but the feeling I got was very similar, and familiar.

I was just thinking about this today actually. Not in terms of religious practice, but in terms of fiber art.
I recently bought a spinning wheel, and for the first time, I went outside and spun on it today. It felt SO FAMILIAR. It was crazy!! It wasn't like deja vu, it was like my body remembered it. It was really strange. Then I remembered how when I was little, I would turn my bicycles upside-down all the time, and just spin the back wheel. I knew that if i could just change something about the bicycle, I could make it into something... it was always at the tip of my memory, but the image of the back wheel spinning in the air was ALWAY intriguing, and always felt familiar, yet distant, yet as if I could just change the way the bike was set up, somehow I'd remember something important.

I think I used to be a spinner before.

Yea. It was really weird.

Answer 5

I had spent several years going from church to church, trying to find SOMETHING that felt right to me. Then I was given Bucklands "Big Blue", in 1993. Before I read the whole thing, I knew that I had found something that inspired me, and I also "just by chance" met an older solitary witch who answered a lot of my questions, guided and finally initiated me a couple years later, in 1996. Wicca felt right to me right from the start, I found true BALANCE, and most concepts were all too logical to even try to disprove.
As to if I think I have been on this path before? I do not know, but considering I am an old soul, the chances are that it is POSSIBLE......

Many blessings and Blessed be Sister!
Laz

Answer 6

Absolutely. I remember having these beliefs for so long but I honestly didn't know what to do about it. I felt it egotistical to think that just because I believed something that there was a religion out there that was specific to my beliefs.
I decided that I would begin to look the faith that came closest to what I believe and just adapt it the rest of the way as I needed.
I remember one night my husband sat down with me. He knew parts of my faith but didn't know exactly what I believe.(He's agnostic). I told him everything and he smiled at me and said maybe you should start your own religion.
A week later I had bought the book "Wicca for the solitary practitioner" by Scott Cunningham. It was as though someone had overheard my conversation with my husband and written everything I said down. When I read it to my husband he couldn't believe it. He was so happy for me.
It was then that I realized that this is the path I'm meant to be on. As more time went by, it was clear to me I have been on this path before. I have never felt so comfortable or at ease as I do in my faith now. I only wish I had found it sooner.
Thank you for asking this beautiful question. Blessed Be, and Blessings to you my Sister.

Answer 7

Now to answeer this question correctly. No when I first came to this path it I did not think I had been on it before. It was hard for me because I did not want to leave Christianity.

After a long struggle with my belief change I had to decide what to believe or to believe at all, so I chose Wicca because it made sense and was in line with my belifs changing.
BB
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wicca feels right for me and I know I am on the right path.

I can face challenges better now and have more confidence.

Answer 8

I guess for me I' ve always wondered why back before slavery when the Black man was still in Africa there wasnt a strong Christian base(i dont wanna see any primitive remarks!) And as I grew up and time went on and I read I realized that most African religions are more multi diety and nature based. It wasnt until Africans were forced into slavery in America, S America, and the islands that we were introduced to Christianity.

So for me I guess since I am more connected to my past I have a sort of disconnect to Christianity. Which is WHY i feel more connected to a Pagan Path.

This path is not easy for me bc my whole family and 99.99% of my friends are Christian so I feel like I have to be in the broomcloset so to speak(its annoying!!). However I am walking it and I dont see me turning back now.

Answer 9

I was always a witch ... it just took me until age 18 to extract myself from the Christianity my family espoused ... and to begin walking the path I had walked so many times before ... in so many different lives. Now, in this life, I have been on the path for 27 years.

Blessed Be!

Answer 10

I was still a child and my training was in Qabala and Thelema. Yes, it came easy because I was called and a teacher was sent in my path. I absolutely believe that some who are called to and seriously follow the Pagan path in this life have definitely walked this path several times before. the reason I say "some" is because for a great many, the Pagan path is not a true spiritual path, it is a trendy way to be cool and impress your friends. That silver ravenwolf ***** should be burned alive for the damage she has done to the image of the Pagan ways. SHE alone has given the Wiccan people a terribly bad name and is the reason I despise Wicca.