How did you discover the path of Witchcraft/Wicca?

I thought it might be a cool thing for those that choose to to explain how they discovered witchcraft/Wicca.
I will sort of start this....hmmm.... being dissatisfied with Christianity and wanting something different i was at my mother-in-laws house and well spotted a book in her vehicle on the history of witchcraft and the occult. I initially was looking at druidism, but the more that i read on witchcraft that more that i liked it... I really liked the non condemnation aspect of it. I then went online to a place called Wicca-chat.com and started to talk to the people there, some helped some hindered...all taught me something. I then went on ebay and found some new books that were fairly cheap and bought those.
I became hooked and have been reading and studying ever since.

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Permalink Reply by Poisoned Spoon on March 22, 2009 at 8:15pm: My Mom introduced me to the occult when I was young and I eventually just started doing research on my own. I'm not interested in Wicca at all and have done a pretty good job of forgetting and neglecting everything I ever read about it. I started studdying magical aspects of music and dance and just stuck with it. I travelled all over the Med and did a lot of reading as well as experimentation to get where I am now.

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Permalink Reply by Ryver on March 22, 2009 at 8:42pm: I'm not Wiccan, but my first discovery of it was laughing my ass off over a Silver Ravenwolf book at my local library.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dale on March 22, 2009 at 9:26pm: I dont beleave i did . It found me .I thank i have always been a wizard even as a child I was not like all the other kids.White witchcraft made me happy . Maybe thats why my heros are who they are . Real people of the past.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Stacey on March 22, 2009 at 10:17pm: Witchcraft found me at a very young age(I say witchcraft, because I am a Witch, not a Wiccan), and it's been with me from my first memories up into today. Though, I'll admit I didn't really understand what it was until I was about 11 years old, and I didn't fully "accept" the path of a Witch until January 3rd, 2008. Dedicated myself to Aiti and Isa shortly after my 20th birthday last year, and I'm just following the turns as they go, so to speak.

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Permalink Reply by Jacob on March 22, 2009 at 10:39pm: I was almost always intrested in witchcraft and the occult then a friend of mine told me about wicca then I started to look into it and reading about. And that is how I found my path; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Arachneh on March 22, 2009 at 10:48pm: (copied from an earlier thread)

For me (probably for most of us, in some way) it was a natural progression. I came from a nominally Christian family, always loved nature, was used to "unusual" experiences, studied comparative religions in college, then discovered Wicca and the local Wiccan community. After a couple of false starts, I found a coven and tradition that was a good fit.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by xenoview on March 22, 2009 at 11:37pm: I found my current path about two years ago. I had been drifting about looking for something new to fill my life. Then I found Gaia, I could feel the life web of the planet and reached out to it. Now I'm a student of the Planets, learning some everyday.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by d'Arqstar on March 23, 2009 at 1:05am: I discovered witchcraft when I was a junior librarian in the 6th grade! It was a fascination for me...NOT the texts that are now available. I started studying then and have never really stopped. I've never read Silver What's her name...though I'm sure she has some merit for some folks...my learning is a bit more archaic. In the end, it doesn't matter HOW you arrived, but that you DID arrive with your feet firmly planted on the Path of exploration. Eh? It's all good to me! LOL!
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Permalink Reply by Chirotus Infinitum on March 23, 2009 at 1:06am: I did it to impress a girl.

She was Wiccan and always hung out with a friend of mine who was a Thelemite. They always used to talk about seeing auras and stuff, so I wanted to learn how so as to impress her through my efforts and woo her into various states of undress.

Alas, it was not meant to be. Good thing, too -- I ran into her a while ago and saw how she turned out. Ugh.

At any rate, I started playing with the magical aspect of things and liked the idea of having the power to bend the Universe to my will-, er, I mean, to direct where my life went on a more concrete level. So I stuck with it for the power (as any good Scorpio would) and gradually ended up with religion poking me with a stick.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by merrick on May 26, 2009 at 7:03pm: When I was a child around five or six, my cousin died, and I never really grieved, because I could see him and talk to him all the time, he never left me. I told my grandmother, and she said I had a gift, and then she started teaching me different things, but it wasn't until I was in my teens that I realized that not everyone believed as she and I did. She taught me the old ways, so I guess I am what everyone would call hereditary.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Blodeuwedd on March 24, 2009 at 3:12pm: MMM...let's see. Actually, I became interested when I was 7 years old. My playmate and I were in the sand box "making withcraft." Mixing sand, dirt, grasses and flowers together in a circle. From there, I was talking the trees, dancing around the bonfires and well, Stevie Nicks...trite I know, but as a teenager...she was my Goddess.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Lady Eva Michenet on March 24, 2009 at 3:35pm: When I was 16 I decided that Christianity was full of hypocrisy and that God was better found in Nature and not in some brick building. So I went to church less and less; by the time I was 23 I had figured out that there had to be a sacred feminine as well as a sacred masculine, since all things born came from a female. I had no way to express my beliefs and seriously doubted there was anything, but then I found Starhawk's Spiral Dance in a local store and discovered Wicca. I was sooo happy! I read more books, subscribed to a couple of newsletters, got into a Grove for training, left them and two years later met a HP and HPs who initiated and trained me.; ▶ Reply to This