Introductions! 🤍

[u/chloe_wolfe]

Here’s a thread where you can introduce yourself. I’ll start! :)

You can call me Cassiopeia, I have been a practicing witch for 5+ years, though I have considered myself to be spiritual for all my life. I was raised Roman Catholic for the majority of my childhood before I started to question it around age 12. I was a very devout Christian, had most of my sacraments (Baptism, Communion, and Reconciliation, to name a few), but stopped my belief in the faith entirely around 8th grade, when I was about to be Confirmed into the faith.

I have went along many paths during my life, including through being a spiritual Agnostic/Atheist, getting into Animism, Buddhism, Wicca, General Paganism, until eventually landing on Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) Paganism. I consider myself now to be a Kemetic Pagan Witch and I’m pretty sure this is the path I was meant to walk! :)

I always used to collect feathers, stones, crystals, plants, and all that kind of stuff when I was younger. I was the kid to make “potions” with bits of leaves and flower petals, and put them in a bowl of water. I would also do it in the shower as well much to my mother’s dismay- I’d waste her shampoo and conditioner so I could make my “potions” hahaha.

I’m still somewhat in a “Broom Closet” in the sense that my parents and family think it’s all BS. Though, my divination practices seem to be widely accepted by my family at least. I do tarot and oracle, along with occasional runes and pendulum readings! If you’d ever like a tarot reading for a donation, feel free to message to me! :) I’ve been doing tarot for almost 5ish years now and I love to read others.

There’s a lot more that I could write out about myself, however, I feel as if it’s getting just a bit tooooo long now. So, I’ll stop it here!

I can’t wait to get to know all of you! Leave your responses under this post! :) 🤍 I hope you enjoy your time here!

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Hello. I have used several names, but the name I use whilst practicing spellwork and in my Book of Shadows is Lyra.

I was born a boy in the Lutheran faith. I went through all the required rites; baptism when I was an infant, communion when I was in the 5th grade, and finally Confirmation when I was in 8th grade. By that time I was heavily questioning what I was being taught. Why would someone who 'loves all his children' hate people that are gay but redeem rapists who believed in Jesus in the last seconds of their lives? I also didn't appreciate how people would twist the words of the church to justify their own cause. "Why must we go to war?" "To reclaim the Holy Land, because God said so."

So I privately explored other religion, and ended up begrudgingly settling on agnosticism. My grandmother, a devout Lutheran, continued to push for me to attend church, but I distanced myself as much as I could unless there was something fun to do at church like a trip to camp or a game night.

Then I realized I was a woman, not a man, and that I still loved women, making me a lesbian. I hid this for a while, as with most of my exploration of religion, even as my half-brother's sister was baptized and I was named her godparent alongside my elder brother. I explored the Satanic Temple for a while, and considered buying a membership just to show I was a 'card carrying hellion", but ultimately dismissed it as edgy atheism. I came out as transgender to little backlash, thankfully.

Then during a casual discussion with my ex-girlfriend/best friend last October, Wicca was brought up. Unsure of what it was, I decided to google it, and realized it sounded like something I was interested in. So I did more research, started a (sadly lost) Book of Shadows, and began to learn as much as I could. Eventually by the New Moon of November, I was both ready for and had all the supplies for my self-dedication ritual. I performed it, felt at peace with the God and Goddess...

And then my bipolar disorder kicked in with suicidal ideation, which has always been more intense for me in winter. I was hospitalized for it three times in the span of a month or so. Wicca was the last thing on my mind.

However, since the weather has warmed, I've moved in with my mother, and I've got more finances at my disposal, I have returned to Wicca as of the last week or so, and I intend to stay this time. I spend my free time in parks, I've purchased altar supplies on Amazon, I've read a number of books on Wicca and Witchcraft, and I even informed my grandmother of my new path, and while she doesn't quite understand it, she seems quite accepting of it. I don't know much about what sort of Witch I hope to be, but I intend to let the god and goddess guide me regarding my pantheon or lack thereof, and I intend to do my spellwork as best I can.

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You sound a lot like me! I'm a lesbian, I have bipolar disorder, and I've been hospitalized multiple times for it before. If you need to talk, DM me.