anita, i started realizing that i was a wiccan when i was eleven in sixth grade. for most of my life, i never really thought god would allow war or bullying in this world and i never really acknowledged the christian faith of my parents. for most of my life especially from fourth and fifth grade, i’ve been experiencing psychic senses and always felt like there was a spirit world because I would often talk to spirits and angels and at night i would astral project, i didn’t know the terms of my abilities nor that wicca existed when i was that age, but i always felt that no matter what i never fully fit in with my classmate even though at that age, i was just enjoying life and didn’t care. i remember one time when i feel on the fourth grade playground and got a scar on my cheek and i put my hand to it and imagined it healing and i felt a warm, tingling sensation and the scar closed. this intrigued me to dwelve more into the nature of wicca, but i wasn’t sure where to start. my fourth grade teacher was very supportive and said maybe that i should start researching psychic abilities, it was hard to comprehend everything i researched at that time, so i just accepted my abilities and didn’t think much of them until sixth grade. in sixth grade, i was bullied because i was very tomboyish and when one guy called me a witch, i was very offended because i thought it meant i was a freak. yet he was very nice and said that i had an energy around me and since he was a wiccan, he could sense that i had psychic energy around me. i was intrigued and asked him what wicca was and also if it had psychic abilities involved, much to my surprise he said yes and he said he could help me develop my abilities. he also taught me some of the terms like astral projection, psychic healing and also told me of a sight called spellsofmagic.com where i could meet and learn wicca. he told me wicca was more of a spirituality than a religion and focuses on the god and goddess within ourselves and also protecting nature. i had always been fascinated with science and loved being out in nature, so i had a curiosity to learn wicca. when sixth grade ended, he went to another school and i was sad because i was still learning on wicca so i did some research and stumbled upon this site called molochsorcery.com and it taught wicca in lessons, but it was hard to follow. so in seventh grade, i started looking up ways to learn wicca and created an account on spellsofmagic.com to see if i could learn more. when i was 13-15, i didn’t learn much except i still involuntarily astral projected and could psychically heal, but i wanted to learn how to control it. i would search sites and buy books, but not much information. when i turned 16, one of my friends on spellsofmagic.com saw that i was serious in my pursuit of wicca, that i really wanted to know more about divination, astral projection, reiki (energy healing term) and told me that there was a free online school at witchtopia.com. i learned a lot from witchtopia and when i went back to spellsofmagic where i learned the basics and joined a coven there called Divine Essence and I really enjoy that coven, at first when i first started out on spellsofmagic, i went into twisted nether coven which didn’t teach me much, but was mostly a coven for beginners and after witchtopia, ifelt i needed a coven, i could feel like i could belong in. also on witchtopia, i have a coven called temple of dark art. Wicca is mostly a nature based religion where wiccans use the energy of the universe through meditation to channel the energy for their uses mostly for good because wiccans believe that the god and the goddess created us and gave us life and are seen through out nature, so we as wiccans respect them by worshipping nature and honoring them by not doing destructive things like cursing or hexing. A person can be psychic and have a belief in a higher power without being wiccan, in fact everyone is psychic to some level or degree, but a wiccan is someone who does rituals and makes it part of their daily life to honor nature and channel energy to help heal or create positive energy and is tuned to the psychic world as part of her daily life . i enjoy cartomancy (divining with cards) and clairvoyance. So far i am currently 17 and working on reiki, seeing auras and astral travel (i can project, but travel is still hard)