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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".
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