How did you discover your witchcraft and/or your current path?

I have no clue how I found witchcraft. I guess I’ve always felt something but then one day I looked up 1 thing and that led to more and more. Then I found new friends who just happened to do the same things and now I know so many people like me. I’ve been practicing for over a year

The wind screamed at me that’s how I found my path

I have always been attached and attracted to Nature. Whether it be the plants or the animals. Being out in it just felt natural. Also have been interested in all sorts of things from Magic to ghosts and was never comfortable in a church or organized religious setting. I never embraced any of it and just went along my own way up until I started researching about four months ago. I stumbled across Olivia's Channel and watched her witchcraft 101 and have been hooked since! So I guess I am a newbie or a very old baby witch! Haha. I enjoy researching and learning about the craft. I finally have tried two Candle spells and was really excited at the outcome. I did not know that we had that kind of power within us.

~Light and Love to you all~

Always felt something was missing from my life path, but I've never been religious. I've been flirting with the idea of witchcraft for a couple months and finally decided to start really delving into learning and hopefully practicing as well. I believe I might be an empath, which is part of what draws me to this, cause I feel like that's a sign I might have a purpose to further help others through learning. Definitely gonna be an eclectic witch! I LOVE the idea of taking different parts of different things and molding them to your own practice. Much love!

When I was a teen, I started to doubt the brand of Christianity that I learned and its teachings so I stared looking in other places. I checked out a variety of different denominations of the Christian faith as well as several of the larger non-Christian types. None of the organized religions fit at all. They all felt too…off. I could usually find something to resonate with but it was just bits and pieces.

I stumbled across wiccan books in my libraries religious section. (looking back, I’m kind of surprised they were there as it was a very small town) What I read in those books was all sorts of new and interesting. The idea I could change the world around me with a few tools and my will was incredible. Still It didn’t fit all the way. To many rules and ceremony, I had no experience with, and no way of gaining a teacher for all the little mysteries they don’t teach in books.

Eventually I succumbed to family pressure and settled for the form of Christian I could best resonate with. I regret that. I should have held on, but I was young and unused to opposing my family. I had always been the “Good Child” and was utterly unable to handle being in opposition to my family (Mom mostly as Dad didn’t actually care about religion, but my mother issues are an entirely different can of worms).

Even so I still kept coming back to occult subjects and practices. I studied tarot intermittently and did a few spells every so often but I always felt guilt afterwards. I felt like a hypocrite professing one faith and being drawn to another path in total opposition to it. Eventually I stopped listening to the voices and intuitive prompts telling me I was on the wrong path.

I became a person I had no wish to be. It’s no wonder as cut off from source as I was. I was a Bigot of the worst kind and didn’t realize it until about a year ago. I was about to trash talk a wonderful young lady who happened to be born biologically male. I felt such horror at what I had almost done. I am not a person who Hates. I embrace and celebrate differences, or I used to.

I was knocked off balance and had a bit of an Identity crisis. It was what I needed to wake up. I started looking again at alternate paths, learning all I can about the ways to connect to self and source. I cannot seem to connect to deity though. I was Christian for so long that the notion of worshiping pagan deities gives me hives. LOL I am a work in progress. I am still looking. Everything is so new and different from what I remember.

I study divination, Tarot especially. I don’t do spells so much as work with energy and the law of attraction. I do my best to keep my chakras in balance to help my energy work. I am still trying to define my path, but at least I am FINALLY walking it.

I am but A Fool on a Journey.

~Blessings

My aunt practiced Palestinian magic and she lived with my family for a decade. She came from Iraq. It was a tumultuous relationship with the craft and I have no desire to follow her teachings. From what I understand and remember she had somehow enslaved a spirit or jinni and she did terrible things. She was very passionate about a certain phase of the moon and had rituals she did when it happened. She used a teacup as a planchett and it would move by its self no hands required.

I always kept up palm reading and free writing, although I've stopped the free writing since it can scare me. I'm pretty new to the western style of witch craft and am looking for a more energy based craft instead of the style she taught me. I dont really know what I'm doing, it's been 10 years since I've tried any kind of practicing other than reading palms.

I have always been interested in the craft, in high school I was very big into dream journals and analysing my dreams with books. In my early 20s it was stones and crystals but this was never a priority, just a passive interest. I always have strong connections to Quartz or Hematite, especially as jewelery!

Those were all just enjoyable hobbies. Now I'm turning 30 next week and Olivia's video came up on my YouTube homepage as a suggested video (never had any kind of witchcraft related searches) I clicked & was hooked.

Last weekend I created and activited my first sigil! I have plans to cast my first money bowl spell soon 💞

That's me :)

Excited to be here!

I personally have always somewhat had it around me. I grew up as a medium, so that kind of world has always been at the forefront of my life. With that comes the attractions to others with the same gift as myself. What truly lit the candle for me was a friend of mine who I am very close with (who also has the gift) started looking into Wicca & I've been looking into myself ever since because it fascinated me. While I personally am not Wiccan, I took to being a witch well & realized I actually knew a decent amount without knowing I did. I'm still very much a baby witch, but I'm learning more and more every day

March of this year I was on YouTube as per usual and just had no idea what to watch, I was scrolling through my recommended and I finally pressed on a video that had been recommended to me for ages but it always just ignored. It was Harmony Nice reacting to a buzzfeed video on witches. Then all I remember is that I started binging her videos and around the same time I became vegan. Otherwise it's all a blur.

I grew up in a conservative area and my parents just sort of let me run wild. I was the type of kid that always had a million questions and opinions that make Sunday school teachers incredibly nervous, and I think my parents figured that if they restricted what I read, they'd have to figure out some answers, and nobody wanted that. At the time I was growing up, the US was finishing off the Satanic Panic with the church collectively banning Harry Potter. So naturally I read all the books and became a giant Potter fanatic. (I actually lost a friend over this in 6th grade because her mother literally looked at me, aged 9, and went THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE when she found out I'd been talking about the books to her daughter.)

With this came an interest in the lore behind the books and therefore mythology and paganism. What started as "writing inspiration" became an eventual belief system and a plethora of jars.

I cant remember the day, but ive always been into magic. I've always had a kind of psychic connection, i could always tell what my best friend was thinking, and when i remembered my dreams (even to this day), aspects of them always came true, etc. I used to go to church with my grandmother and aunt whenever i stayed with them over school holidays but never really connected. I remember when the TV series, Charmed came out, and i was hooked on that and then one of my friends bought a book of spells to school and it kinda went from there. My parents, Who are not connected with any religion, didn't like my sudden fascination in magic so i had to hide it a bit. Over the past 15 or so years ive come and gone with my studies but i still consider myself Wiccan or Pagan.

I guess I found witchcraft through my interest in this like that, through like movies and such and it just went from there, I'd been interested in it, in witches in general ever since I was way younger, I built up more knowledge about it and one day I just started doing it, just like jumped into it and did my first manifestation don't know if it'll work or if I did it just right I mean I'm still learning it's only the beginning XD

I was doing some research for my current wrting project, because there are witches of all kind, and I came across something like "tips for city witches" or something, and I just went with it. Now I'm learning for about 3 months.

I was fortunate enough to have grown up in a forest. I connect easily with plants and animals and naturally began to feel and believe in certain energies.

I was also lucky enough to have been surrounded by many strong women in my life including my elders from a womens circle i was part of. I have taken the teaching that were given to me and now it is part of who i am.

When I was 9, I went to visit my Grandparent's house. My Grandma's sister is a medium. I always knew this but thought they were just joking. I sat at the table one night and said "So when did the joke come up that Aunt Chris is magical?" "Well, she is." "What do you mean?" "Witches are real." I thought about how I used to be scared of green-skinned witches when I was little. My Mom explained to me how there really was witches, but not the type I was picturing. I was totally shocked. Magic was real? I spent the whole night researching the web and I was inspired. This is amazing. The next day my Aunt came over and I asked her a million questions. Now 2 years later I am still doing witchcraft! I'm so lucky to have grown up in a Christian household and still be accepted. (Like if you're a Christian witch as well!)

I had decided to leave the Christian religion I was raised in and had learnt about things like "The Secret" and manifesting, but I just found it too cold for me. Using phrases like "forcing the universe" and "getting what you want" sounded greedy and unbalanced to me. I was a little lost. Then (in a totally separate part of my journey) I started looking at Tarot. I had always played with cards and felt they were trying to tell me something, but I just didn't speak the language. This lead me to Neo Paganism and from there Witchcraft. I've been Pagan since February, but a Witch since May.

I have loved magic and the supernatural since I can remember and after watching some witchy type shows I left a magnet pulling me and I just started researching and fell in love. I have always had an active imagination and I feel that witchcraft is a way to channel that imagination towards something that makes me feel good almost everyday

I had a dream. Someone said "Wicca", and I found out that it was real. That's how I got into Witchcraft!