Re: How old are you? By: LokisDottir / Knowledgeable
Post # 13 Aug 07, 2012
I wouldn't say I started very young, as I was small and had no idea what I was doing, but I would say that I was exposed to it from a very young age (thanks to my wonderful parents) and that my independent interest in it really took off around the age of 10. I'm 21, turning 22 this fall.
Re: How old are you? By: Brysing Moderator / Adept
Post # 14 Aug 07, 2012
I was being taught witchcraft from the age of 5, but I wasn't aware of it. At that time it was against the law (this was before Wicca) so I didn't know my teacher was a witch until I was about 15 or 16.I am now 78.
Re: How old are you? By: WhiteRav3n / Knowledgeable
Post # 18 Aug 08, 2012
I was exposed to native american medicine and natural healing since I can remember. I was taught dowsing at six and began being taught stone magick then as well. I became interested in symbolism/amulets/talisman at nine. Since I was homeschooled at that time, I was reading at high school level, so it isn't very unbelievable. Around that age, I was taught a good deal of folk magick (although it wasn't called "magick") and learned how to meditate. At eleven I began teaching myself cartomancy, then tarot at twelve. At around 13 I met a vitki that told me about the runes, and I began working with them. At fourteen I began journeying (astral projection and trancework) under my mother's teaching. And against my family's desires, began researching witchcraft. My neighbor was a witch, so she helped steer me in the right direction. I began serious ritual work at sixteen when I felt I had enough knowledge to feel confidant in it.
I'm now 26 years old and I'm not Wiccan. I practice a mix of Cherokee medicine and Traditional Witchcraft which from what I hear is considered a "hedge witch".
I am 4 months short of being 21. Surely, the World shall be mine. . . soon. ;) Little rituals when I was 12 and on up until college, is when I got heavily into the craft, but what's heavy when the lead doesn't hit the bottom of things? I am a little bit of everything, as much as my blood is mixed. I got into the craft by myself, but with the help of friends, both near and far.
So, I was enlightened about the fall of 2010. I am 20 years old. I am so very young. Just a child.