It’s never annoying when you butt in with knowledge. I actually love it when you do so. It adds so much to the reaction.

Oh man, first category for me. I grew up not understanding that I was astral projecting, I was scared when things I thought of as a kid happened .. because I grew up super religious it scared me. And I shoved it away for years but now I'm so proud to trust my intuition to know the energies that work with me and threw me. That was a great question!

I fall into the first category. I always felt I didn't belong even in my own family, and I felt more comfortable with animals and outside, sitting by a campfire or being by the beach or in a quiet outside area. As I got older I became more curious and began reading everything I could get my hands on about Wicca and WitchCraft and for parts of myself that I never knew where there.

when i first started practicing it felt like i was seeing the world for the first time and everything felt so alive and connected for lack of a better term. it felt natural like everything was as it was meant to be

Hello Hearth hope you are well thanks for this video hope you have a wonderful winter solstice and wonderful yule feelings fill your heart ❤🌨❄☃️🧹🔮

When I was a child I took my "tools" (kitchen knife, bowl, and whatever was available to me) and would go in my play house in the back yard and practice blessing them. My mom would come ask me what I was doing, and she never had a problem with it. She would take us on trips and we would collect crystals and even rocks from nature. I think she was a low key practitioner because she had a witch statue she kept by her bed for as long as I was alive, and she bought me my own. There were always besoms in the house on the walls. We have Czech-Slovakian in our background and always keep a "kitchen witch" in our kitchen window. All of these things are very special to me because I eventually found witch craft in its entirety as an adult.

Since my mom got into Wicca when I was a toddler and I grew up using her books and tools has basically toys to play-pretend I was a witch, I'm more in the first category. She didn't practice very seriously and she showed me very little about it, I mostly just read her books from a very young age. But then I started actually studying witchcraft and Wicca as a teen, and it felt like what I had to be. It's just the right thing for me. I've always been fascinated by religions and spirituality, but witchcraft makes me feel like myself and it is one of the few things that is constantly present in my life no matter my tendency to get obsessed by a new topic/hobby for a short period and just stop as quickly. I questioned it many times and it just makes sense for my life 😌

Anthony Padilla is witchy without even knowing

Maybe first category? I'm indigenous, the older women of my family where healers, the people who colonizers called "witches", I could see, hear, etc things as a child, I was always interested in "magical" things, but I have an older brother who's an atheist, and of course, I wanted to be like my cool, awesome brother, so I repressed my gifts for more than a decade, and my ancestors where trying to connect with me, two times, by the third, they just whacked me across the head and I couldn't ignore them anymore. So, I'm sorry ancestors 😅

Anthony exhibits quite a few attributes that I wish I had starting out as a witch… He has this effortlessness about the way he connects to his own intuition, and is willing to trust it without worrying that he’s made any wrong choices. I don’t see any judgement or apprehension in the way he speaks, just an open heart and a clear intention. I’m honestly kinda jealous…! xD

I definitely fall into that first category you mentioned out of the two. I realized what I was doing and was drawn to. I was one of those 'throw shampoo, salt, and a shell into water to have a mermaid potion' preteens. So that love and belief of magic hasn't ever left, just changed when I discovered real witchcraft. My path and beliefs have drastically changed over the 5, closing in on 6 years that I have been practicing.

I fall into the second category. While superstition, herbalism, and alternative healing have always been part of my life, I never was an active practitioner in any of it until I found witchcraft. Then BAM it was like a switch went on in my life and I knew I had found my calling.

I absolutely love Thorns explanations in this piece. She’s always very wordy and meaty in her dialogue and is a great informer for the pagan community in general.

I believe this is the earliest I’ve ever been haha I’m so glad she explained how the devil isn’t in witchcraft so eloquently

I never felt that I belonged anywhere. No family history or traditions. Sort of grew up in "the church". I always believed in magic. I knew I was "magical". 59 yrs old and I am a beginner witch.

I fall into both, when I was really young witchcraft was part of my family but as I got older I totally lost it until about two years ago where I found it again at 38 years old and it was like an “ah ha” moment where it all came back to me & I felt at home with it all

Admittedly, I was always drawn towards Witchcraft. Early on in my teen years I started turning away from Christianity and I was already dealing with a bit of religious trauma so I guess I was looking for a place to belong. But also, many people in my family would have weird things happen to them, like seeing ghosts or hearing voices. ESPECIALLY in my childhood home. Even then though, I kind of felt like the odd one out because it wasn't just seeing ghosts and hearing voices for me. I'd have vivid astral experiences, or see things in the dead of night that didn't seem like your average ghost. I'd see shadow people in real life and in dreams. My teenage years were turbulent in so many ways, I think finding Witchcraft helped me cope.

Definitely the first category for me. In fact it's quite eerie just how many things that are common practices in the craft that I was already doing or thinking about. When I got older and out of my parents house and was able to openly study it, I was amazed at how much of the craft I had been experiencing as a child young's as 8 years old. It was as if it was just instinctive and natural for me. As I got a little older and studied it in secret bc of how God fearing my mom was. At that time it was mostly Wiccan books. I never really felt 100% good with wicca and when I became an adult and the internet existed, I learned that I didn't have to be Wiccan and I found that practicing as a solitary non religious was more comfortable for me. I noticed how much I had been doing naturally all along! I am so grateful for creators like you on KZread because I have learned so much more than I ever did growing up. Especially since it was harder to obtain and hide books in my parents home. Thank you so much for your content and how much time and effort you put into your videos!! Blessed be!!

i could listen to hearth speak all day 😍

I am certain I am within the second category of people. I come from a very devout, Roman Catholic family (all aside from my agnostic uncle). When I was younger, I was never set with the beliefs of the church, and I often questioned them in my head. My faith honestly felt empty. About four or five years ago I stumbled upon witchcraft, and I got a little interested and dabbled for a bit. But recently I've had more of a growth in my practice, and I even began incorporating my newly found belief in Buddhism. I've never felt more alive and at peace in my life. I now feel more empowered and enlightened, as if I threw off a bunch of weights.