When Did You First Become Interested In Your Path? And When Did You first Start Your Practice?

I grew up catholic, but I had a lot of mental trauma with it (to which I did get counseling and Ive healed from it).

I chose this path when I was in middle school. The Christian God didn't help me, so I wanted to help myself. So I have 6+ years of witchy experience. I'm also pagan/Levayan Satanist. 

I started my initial interest in the practice when I was in my teens (I'm 29 now). I was moving away from the Christianity that I was raised on and stepping into spiritual independence. Eventually, I went into complete atheism as well as denouncing all esoteric/spiritual beliefs. Recently, I've felt a pull to diving back in and I've learned to follow my intuition. This is part of where my intuition leads.

I'm excited at the prospect but I still don't practice with deities. My research into my ancestry shows a lot of spiritual unpacking and healing is necessary. I hold a lot of generational trauma as well as suppression of feminine power. I've already been the brakes to generational trauma for my children in many ways but this seems to be the next step.

I *need* to connect to nature more. I *need* to focus positive energy somewhere good and negative energy where it belongs. I *need* healing on every level and getting back into witchcraft seems like the avenue I never should have stepped off of.

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Im kinda new to witchcraft so I would say I really started at 11 and thats when I appointed myself a witch; but I did also study witchcraft but for dumb reasons

It was because of my grandma and her religious rants. It pissed me off so I started to study the occult. I find it kinda funny that one of my now passions was formed because I wanted to spite my grandma . 

I grew up in the christian church, but have been experiencing  supernatural and paranormal things for as long as I can remember. I've been interested in witchcraft since I was probably 9 and started practicing when I was 11. I've always had a very strong connection to the outdoors and nature, specifically to forests and bodies of water

Something that I notcied when I was around 15 was that I have always been followed by an abnormal amount of crows. They have always been everywhere I am, and they have been my favorite bird for a long time. On top of that, my family seems to always have stray cats and dogs that show up at our house. some for a short time, some of them stayed, but every time I'm the one who finds them and I always seems to be the person they stick closest to

Finally, I experience premonitions regularly. Since I was a kid I always knew when one of our family members was going to visit or die because I would have dreams about it. When I was 11 I had a dream that my mother was going to miscarry, and the next day it happened

So in general I've been experiencing things for a very long time and I am a witch. I dont really sign myself to a specific religion. there are many more things I could go into, but I'll leave it at that for now

Most of my life i was an atheist and i turned out to be a hellenist. I started my path as a witch/strega at around the age of 12. It made my life better as i always had a feeling that i wasnt alone. The gods and spirits are always with me and thats what makes me feel safer.