I'm a witchling of nine months, haven't gotten any specialities just yet but keen to make some witch/pagan friends on here!

Edit: A friend made a forum group! Feel free to join Metaphysical Menagerie :)

Me! I've considered myself a pagan witch on & off for about 18-19 years. That being said, I was a kid for some of those & there were a couple periods of years at a time where I was 'off' so I'm definitely not as skilled or experienced as I'd like to be. I always came back though bc I always knew if there was any religion or spiritual practice out there for me, it was on this path :)

I’m a curious person so I’d be interested in learning about it. what made you want to become a witch/pagan?

Me! Kinda pagan (I'm animistic, but not following a specific kind of religion), and witchy since I was a kid. Very much a baby witch in witchcraft, so I don't know that much, but mostly interested in folk and protection magick :)

Hi! I'll make it a bit of a storytime.

I grew up Christian but never had any reason for believing in it other than that it was all I knew. There were times when I tried to quit but fear and familiarity brought be back. There were times I really tried to have an experience that would justify my belief, like I heard others testify at church, but it never came. So at 24 I decided I had had enough of being apparently ignored and left alone, and I abandoned the faith.

But now what? I've always believed there was more than the physical world we see and I couldn't just drop that. I was in a bit of a limbo state for a few months, wanting something to believe in and honestly almost hoping that something would happen to get me back into my family's faith. But nope. I was watching a youtuber who often talked about ghosts and spooky things that interest me, but eventually, I wanted to look into it a bit more. I ended up on the YouTube account of a witch and learned a lot that started me down a rabbit hole.

Witchcraft isn't a religion, but I found that quite a few witches were pagan, and I figured I might as well try out both and see what happens-- if I can find that experience to justify my belief. Still working on it as I've just been researching more than actually doing spellwork, but right now I'm all in, my mind is open. So far even just learning about it has given me new confidence, a new perspective on life, I've learned how to meditate, to appreciate nature, learned about other cultures, etc. Even if I don't stay a witch or a pagan, I'll have learned things that made me a better person. That alone would be worth it.

Thank you for sharing, ! I'm glad you found something with a new perspective and appreciations to discover, especially during a year like this. :) I've always been a little curious about it but never delved too much into it. What little I know about the pagan side (the closeness to nature and general earthiness about it) looks appealing so maybe I'll look into it more.

A good book to start with would be Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-centered Religions by Joyce and River Higginbotham!

I actually identify as a druid myself! I don't belong to any groves or groups (although I follow news from organisations such as OBOD and the British Druid Order) nor do I hold any Druidry qualifications, but I certainly share a lot of philosophies and perspectives generally held by druids, particularly when it comes to nature, creative arts and appreciating life in-the-moment.

I've identified as a druid since early 2017, but still have so much to learn and feel like I am very much in the early stages of Druidry. I am particularly a fan of Philip Carr-Gomm and his writings; his books (as well as videos and blog posts) really helped to open up my mind about certain things, and helped me to appreciate lots of little things in nature.

I think it's the connection with nature that I love most about Paganism and other pagan-like religions, spiritual paths and philosophies too. That, and the focus on caring about the lives that we are living right now.

I suppose I'd be called pagan if I gave myself a label. I believe in so many bits and pieces of different philosophies though. I grew up Catholic and was actually super into that for a while - in the church choir and everything, robe and all lol. But later on, I began to kind of fall away from religion because of the overabundance of the influence of man on it - nothing about it seems even remotely like what I think a religion should be. It all seems to be about 'keeping the man in power' to me. shrug I don't deny that there are good people out there in Christian religions - there are good with the bad as in most things. I've just decided it's not for me anymore. Even my super religious parents have kind of come away from the church a bit. Human evolution I suppose. One of my favorite authors though, is Silver Ravenwolf. Her books have really helped me through a lot. Even though I don't have them anymore because when I was in my super Catholic phase, I tossed them out. I'm a dumbass and I want them back now. smh

Me! I am a Pagan and a witch. For about 27 years now, which makes me feel kinda old.

definitely witchy. I've considered myself something like pagan for over 20 years now, and have been reading tarot cards that long too. at this point science and quantum physics etc have sort of evolved with it in some ways, personally. this post is comforting.

Totally down to be friends. I'm an omnithiestic witch and I love learning about anything tbh. Astrology and magic are some of my favorite things to study.

Totally down to add! I consider myself an omnitheist witch as well! I do all kinds of witchy things and I'm always down to make friends. :)

Hey! An Electic witch here! throw friend request at me if you would like. I would love to talk to other witches!!

I'm a polytheistic witch! always down to make more witchy friends :)

i'm an eclectic pagan witch! probably more pagan than witch, since i don't do a ton of spellwork, but i certainly still do. i do more divination than anything else (mostly tarot, but i've had some success with stones & i've played with bibliomancy as well) and most of my worship is sky-focused, but i do a bit of green & kitchen witchery as well.

Not a pagan, but I love learning about different religions and I read about them regularly for fun. Wicca/paganism isn’t something that’s been easy to research, though, so I’d be thrilled to hear more about it from practitioners

Hi! Pagan witch here! :D I've gotten a bit distanced from my practice over the past year but I'm actually just now starting to return to it. It's been an awesome mental health tool for me.

I totally getcha, there's so much mixed information out there that it's really hard to figure out what's based on real historical paganism and what's neo-paganism. For example, Wicca was started by an American? British? dude in the 50s but no one ever wants to talk about that. Did you have any questions in particular?

[edit] To be clear, I personally do NOT think Wicca or neo-paganism aren't valid just because of their origins. Most paganism these days is technically neo-paganism anyway.

Thank you for reaching out! I guess I kinda just want to know the basics of each? Like, how would one describe Wicca in a nutshell, and what are their core beliefs, practices, and holidays? From what I can tell, Paganism is kind of an anything-goes sort of deal, but I could be wrong about that. If you know of any resources that I could access to learn more about either, I’d love to get my hands on them. As it stands, I don’t know where to start looking.

I'm a Pagan. I mostly work with Freya, Loki and Hekate. I consider myself an eclectic/kitchen witch, and also dabble in divination with runes, tarot cards, and tea reading.