Hello community! I am new here and am excited to join and learn the craft. I don’t know specifically if I am a Witch, but life’s circumstances have taken me down a road of exploration and today I am Here, Smile. I grew up Christian but stepped away from the religious stuff about 4 years ago and have been a journey learning and enjoying all the magical things spiritual. My life has been so freeing and I just want to deepen my knowledge and learn to how to enjoy this earthly experience with ease and Joy. I am particularly interested in the new class/school that I read in one of the posts. I’m interested in spells, manifestation, rituals, majic from real life Witches whom I can converse with in real time. Here’s to my New Journey!! Adrianlashaun
Welcome Adrianlashaun,
Your joy and excitement are palpable and infectious! so glad to have you aboard. 
There is a lot of great info Pagan Grimoire Blog on all kinds of topics and around the forum too but please feel free to ask questions. ~ Aeris
Thank you AerisK. I am happy to be a part of this community.
I have noticed a number of postings recently expressing the desire to leave old spiritual beliefs in search of a more fulfilling experience.
I have thought on this and would like to share one of the most difficult and fulfilling endeavors I have taken for more than 50 years in this life.
My separation from the dogmatic spiritual belief of intimidation and fear of damnation was not simple. For years I wondered if I was in error.
In my childhood I was broken from my embracing belief of Magick and Unearthly Beings. This had to be reversed. A big struggle ensued. It took me more than a decade to fully realize the sole (not Soul) purpose of my former spiritual belief was naught but to control the populous and not expand the Spirit. Once I fully incorporated the belief of the possibility of all, I began to see and experience those things of my childhood that were forced out by religious dogma. At that point Magick became part of my everyday life. I began to see the presence of Magick in my environment and my life. Allowing myself to Know again in the Magick. The World and all her inhabitants (other than human) began showing me and teaching me in the Ethereal Ways.
My journey has been fulfilling every day. I move toward my greatest potential but I am a bit reticent to achieve it for I so much enjoy the path I travel.
One should shed themselves completely of spiritual practices that suppress the Child, Spirit and Magick in your heart.
Welcome to your expanded Heart, Mind and Spirit .
Like you I was a christain for years and stepped away years ago … I have a friend who is wiccan and I started asking her questions about it because I was curious … I have read all kinds of books and study up on it and I feel as if this is my calling …
Welcome! I too grew up in a Christian family and walked away from Church, because I saw people saying one thing and doing another and since I was going to be a Priest, it go more irritating of the judgemental attittue of people around me and I discovered during my evangelistic classes, I was not a public speaker and they did not want to hear the teaching of Christ, but wanted me to tell them things to make them feel better. I was into Shamanism before i joined the church and I just got tired of being told where to worship, how to worship, to be quiet in chruch, when I wanted to shout Amen. I left the chruch. I also join a few covens, but once again, I got told how to worship the Lord and Lady and at times I preferred not to even include The Lord, because of my experiences with church. I became a solitary witch, explored all kind of magical path, including Golden Dawn, many branches of witchcraft. It has been 30 year now, maybe more, since I created and molded my oiwn idea of worship. I am still working on it now. I do at times, wish Witchcraft did not become part of the mainstream religion, because as usual politics get involved. Another reason I am a Solitary. People in my area ask me all the time to start my own coven. I tried, it was awful. If you EVER join a coven and start arguing about the different between Wicca and Witchcraft…leave. I am old enough to remember and met some of the greats in witchcraft, like Raymond Buckland and you can go on Youtube all day long and look at videos of Gerald Gardner speaking on the issue. I even got sued once in Virginia, for giving a young witch, she was 18 years old, a tarot deck and some books on witchcraft, like Scott Cunningham and Silver Ravenwolf. I won the cased because Virginia recognized Witchcraft as a religion and she was of legal age. I still have the legal documents. I have experienced way more positive experiences in my path than negative, but I steered clear of people who preached politics, drugs and alcohol. How can you have anytime for The Goddess, if you are debating or getting high? At 62 years old now, it has been one great ride on that Silver Broomstick.