I’m really curious about this…how did you know you were a witch and when?
I think I’ve always been one, I can remember being able to float out of my body as a very young child - it’s one of my earliest memories, floating. Magic something I’ve always been drawn to, I was fascinated by the paranormal as a child too - something that concerned my mum greatly. She actually banned me from buying a book about witchcraft when I was around 13!
So how did you know? Or do you think you ever know?
I always knew I was different. Even as a child, I could feel something inside me — something I couldn’t quite explain. Whenever I saw mediums, they would tell me I had a sixth sense, a gift. I remember moments where I would see and hear things others couldn’t, but it frightened me, and I pushed it away, pretending it wasn’t real. I didn’t feel ready.
But something shifted in me. Just before Christmas last year, I began to feel a change. Looking back now, I see that’s when my spiritual journey truly began. It wasn’t sudden — more like a remembering. This year, I’ve come to fully embrace my path and understand that this ‘something inside me’ was a calling I was always meant to follow.
Blessed be 
xx
It was actually my Mom who put me on the witchcraft path. I’d always wondered why there wasn’t a Mother Goddess if there was a Father God, and played with crystals and looked at the moon but I didn’t really have a name for it.
But my Mom saw an author selling her witchy book on Good Morning America and got me the book and told me how apparently witches and pagan worshiped both a God and a Goddess and it sounded like something I’d be interested in. And she was right! So it was thanks to her that I’m on this path.
That’s lovely. My mum told me that my nanna used to talk to spirits and she used to go to spirtual churches. She only told me this the other day I was like mum why didn’t you tell me this a long time ago lol. Xx
What I did in my youth wasn’t called witchcraft. I was seen as different, but no one suggested I was on the autistic spectrum until 2013. Never been diagnosed for autism, it was simply suggested I had SPD.
I did all kinds of witchy things in my youth. It started with seeing “bugs” in the stairwell the night my father died. Mom never saw them, so she insisted I walk through them alone. I held my breath. She moved my bedroom from the attic the following day.
Always interested in oddities. Good thing the TV show In Search Of… was popular back then. It was a good cover.
Mom said, with some concern, that I would get phone calls on a toy phone and speak to them as though they were real. I have since learned that it was a form of imagination which was perfectly normal at that age, but it really upset her. There was nothing said about me knowing things I shouldn’t have had access to until I started reacting to the potential of WWIII or when Unicorn’s Harvest hit at the age of 7.
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I was unaware of anything called witchcraft until I was in college. A neighbor admitted to her beliefs, so I researched them because my church insisted I convert her. I owe that church a gratitude: without the intolerance, I wouldn’t have learned the craft; I would have continued lost in the illusion that religious abuse was wisdom.
It’s amazing sometimes what Mom’s and Dad’s think is trivial that comes up later and you’re like, WTF? LOL!
Absolutely 
my mum like me to tell her stuff about my craft and casual drops it in about my nan..like you got real woman lol
I think it’s just that there’s some things they don’t feel comfortable talking about, so it just doesn’t come up. But who knows? Maybe they’re in Witness Protection or something.
Ha ha you never know 
I don’t ever remember having an “aha!” moment, I just always was. Nobody in my family ever came out and said they were a witch. In fact, they are all devote Baptists. But, my mother has always had dream visions and at one point when I was quite young I remember seeing books about witchcraft on her bookshelf. And her mom would always give me little tips and tricks on doing things and wild herbs and flowers and what they could be used for that I later realized are used in the craft. She also had visions or premonitions. When I started recognizing my dreams and premonitions were coming true at a young age (5 or 6) I just thought I was like gramma.
I’ve just always done witch type things because of what gramma taught me and expanded into other things as I got into my teen years. I don’t think I actually called myself a witch until my early 20’s.
When I was little my mum sent me and my sister to Sunday school at the local church. Every Sunday at dinner, I would question everything. When we camped, I became upset when we took branches or part of the earth for fire and setup. My mum told me we could thank the Mother Goddess. Then I was confused as we never learned about Mother Goddess at church. My sister didn’t challenge much. But I was confused etc.
Long story short. Came home from college one weekend and found an altar of ME in my mother’s room and freaked out. I then learned she was Pagan with Shaman and Indigenous beliefs. She gave me her Scott Cunningham book, explained she had put us in church so we could make our own decisions on our beliefs. My sister went on to be Christian and I continued on my journey of earth Magick and Goddess lore.
We have done the same with our children (they are teens now). But a little more open. They know I’m Pagan and their dad is Atheist (but very open to my beliefs) but they are welcome to explore all religions and follow what they believe, as long as it doesn’t harm others.
I’ve always known I was “different”. I can’t feel, sense or see anything. I just know it. I just feel strong in my belief that Women are meant for more and kindness is the key and harm none. I used to be envious of my mum and others who can sense things and see. But. I believe I’m on a journey to truly embrace my life and each and every day and moment.
Saw something today that might help explain my answer so here I am - weighing in.
I never called myself a witch - but I’ve always known (from my teen years) there was something around me that wasn’t explained well. Putting a name on it was necessary so I called it Pantheism because that seemed to match the best. Today, I saw a mundane sight that connected. It was a simple sparrow taking a break from the heat but the more I looked at the picture I took, the more I was connected.
The mundane guy/gal is just doing his thing as part of the universe and I appreciated it.
I’ve always loved magic, and been drawn to RPG’s and such. And fairy tales. And I’ve been very much drawn to everything feminine. And strong, vivid imagery. What’s shocking is that it took to my 30’s to fall in love with my first goddess, Selene. 
Making my own path and being eclectic has always been my way, ever since childhood. I don’t compromise, I always follow my heart. And it loves going deep. Non-answers are an instant turn-off. Witchcraft just spoke to me, and so did tantra, and demons. And shamanism. I feel that this path that I walk, whether I call myself a witch or something else, fits me like a glove, we are one. A perfect energetic match.
I knew i was a witch in August 2021. I was going through a particularly hard phase which i brushed off as everyday life, when an in-law started talking about witchcraft. I was very interested like as in obsessed and seeing that my partner’s reaction wasn’t all that bad (although it is frowned upon in our religion) i had to know more.
So long story short, from interested, to obsessed, to in love with the craft, i have stayed and never found a truer purpose. Like most, i never fit it and was even picked on for it, and my quite nature made me a target to some.
Like @CelestiaMoon i also always loved fairytales and for me disney was a big part especially The Little Mermaid where i drove my mum and dad insane playing it on VHS repeatedly. I still love The Little Mermaid to this day and Beauty and the Beast as well.
As for RPG’s i have just come to love them this year and become obsessed 
She’s beautiful! You are one of the few who take the time to appreciate the mundane! Keep up the good work.
Really good sign to follow! Stick to it, and Blessings Be!
Have the fairy tale lovers read anything by Alan Chinen? Just curious as to what you may have thought about the deeper story lines. They get so involved that I need to reread them regularly because I can’t remember it all!
I think I always knew, but never really pursued it. I have always had crystals about, I have a very strong intuition, I love the moon and anything that happens in the sky… I love oils and energy…
My husband’s friend actually sent me an email wanting to ask me some questions about being a witch and I was like… “uh…I’m not a witch…”
So I decided to research what a witch actually believes. Turns out it’s been me all along.
When I talked to my husband about it and several friends they were all like… “well, about time you figured that out”. So here I am!
Hi Georgia
We, all of us, are born magick. In the Muggle would,
it’s called imagination. Kids play pretend all the time
and for some it’s real.
The clothes, people, and era’s are real, can be seen in
the minds of children. The weapons (enchanted swords
or Wands…bazookzas? Sigh, a sign of the times.
What wonders we imagined, Characters,
dragons, magickal horses. (The Greeks had marvolous
:monsters to play with! )
… 
flying carpets, Genie’s in bottles, flying brooms.
You imagine you’re the heroine or hero saving people
from grave danger.
Don’t fear, simple citizens, you are saved!
That’s right, bad guys, beware, the mistress of magick
is here. heh, heh, heh.
Then it stopped. 
What happend? Why did it stop?
Adults start training us while we are infants. But to
give them credit, they, too were systematically trained to
be “good citizens” by their parents, and their parents, before
them, etc.
The church had a hand in it too and don’t forget the
educational systems. And so our magick starts to
compress. Molded smaller and smaller, until we turn
into (eww) 'Muggles."
When?
I can’t say, but if you go back 10,000 years, you’ll
probably observe grown ups trying to mold their
'children Why? Safety initially, teaching what plants
were poisen and which were helpful. To learn about
animals. "Watch out for that hippo! 
Is it lost forever?
My personal belief is that no, Magick, like the spark
of life is forever. Keep learning. Keep an open
mind. Maybe you can coax it into a flame again
My Magick was suppressed for decades, but the spark
remained. Just a tiny ember that needed air to
breath.
I imagine wondrous things when I meditate.
Blessed Be
Garnet
Thank you everyone for sharing. I love that so many of were supported by parents. I also love that so many have always felt ‘different’. I always have too, but being different when you’re young can be hard.
We’ve not brought our sons up with any faith or spirituality, we wanted them to make up their own minds. Both in their early 20s now, and are atheists. My hubby is also an atheist but is supportive of me.
I love your little sparrow, she’s beautiful x
I always knew, though I didn’t have the label witch when I was young. I was just the girl who could hear things no one else heard, see things no one else could, find lost things, grow plants like no one’s business and generally make things happen. I was also so very into crystals and the moon. I considered the moon my friend. And I to had a problem with an old white man sitting on a chair in the clouds who saw all. I felt there was way more to it.
I think my mother always knew. She gave me the nickname Moon Child when I was very young.
I finally started contemplating the W word about 20 years ago. My mother was always afraid that my owning that label might expose me to danger from a number of places, most concerning to her, the spirit world. But she reluctantly supported my journey. (And as I pointed out to her, I was already fully immersed in the spirit world, and had been since I was a baby.)
I owned the word witch about 10 years ago. I had always been living as one. I’d always been manifesting. Talking to the plants and trees and the moon. Speaking to my house and all the spirits that come through. Wild foraging and dabbling in using plants to heal. And I had amassed a pretty good crystal collection. But I decided it was time to start learning more.
Interestingly, after my mother passed away, I found a number of things that make me think she may have been on the path. She had a tarot deck, a book on numerology, a spell book, a medicine bag given to her by a friend. She was an avid player in the game Second Life. She used to tell me about her group of friends (one of whom sent the medicine bag). She used words like elementals and others that were witchy. I believe that was her online coven, though I doubt she could have admitted to herself she was more of a witch than she wanted to believe.
