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I was wondering how many people are wiccans that are on gaia. I mean in real life, accual wiccans! I am a wiccan myself and I wanted to know a few things from others like myself. Dose any of you ever do spells? If so what kind? If its personal, I am really sorry... you dont have to answer I was just curious... See I want to do spells but I am stuck on prayers. I find it hard to make up anything. I cant find any spells let alone make them work. I tried doing a protection spell for my friends and family, but I dont really know how well that worked out. Yeah, so if anyone could possibly help me... That would be excelent. I am kinda hoping someone will respond to this and give me a little background on there experiance with being a wiccan and help me with being a wiccan aswell... I would also like someone to mabye help me understand the history of wiccans and the present of wiccans. Mabye also help me in understanding how to put together spells and prayers of my own... Again I thank you for taking your time to read this and I hope you can give me advice! Thanks!

well i am in regards to spells they usually involve a pentacle with me, i cant do the altar thing because i must practice in secret

i used to be wiccan before i was called to serve aphrodite....

Same here

i suppose i would not call myself a REAL Wiccan but i follow the ideas laid forth by Konstantinos in the book Nocturnicon
it has some very interesting takes on traditional views
gotta say though that i get the best results with his methods

i think most people have to practice in secret, especially if your a kid...usually because some part of thier family is another religion...

I'm a wiccan. I've used spells to see my own aura ( It was not a pretty sight burning_eyes ) other than that I read tarot cards and can sense when something is about to happen

Regarding why other people practice in secret...
Whoa. I guess on one level that's kinda of a "duh"... but on another level I feel like "Well, do it in public once and then she'll see you aren't summoning demons or anything."
This side is promptly struck down by the side that knows that there are people out there who would consider just being around a pentagram on the same level as killing childern.
There actually are people who teach the police to recognise pentagrams and wiccan paraphenilia as dangerous cult items, accosiated with killing babies and other such nonsense. I haven't encounted any of that myself, but I've spoken with someone who got a gun pulled on them by a terrifed policeman who called for backup because he saw a pentacle on a box in the back seat of their car.
Really, the worst flack I got I probably would have gotten anyway. I'm just kinda different. So, in school, there was a certain amount of people shouting "witch!" at me, and a great deal of people wanting their palms read or love spells. (two spells that people requested that really stuck in my head... a girl spent a week convinced that I could put a love spell on a rock star and make him love her. Another time a boy convinced a girl I'd put a spell on her to make her grow a p***s. Come to think of it, that was the same girl. Maybe she was just stupid.)
I don't do spells much since middle school, because the way I see it, the world requires the same amount of energy to get something done, no matter how you go about it. If you do so physically, it's just as easy, and simplier to keep track of. I still do tarot readings occasionally, but I'm not very good...

I guess I'm spoiled because I was raised pagan. People always go on about how horrible it is to be different in small towns, but I think the small town, coupled with how very different my family is, really helped everyone invovled. I understand that pagans and witches who moved to my area always seem so suprised about how accepting the community is, and I can't help but feel that maybe we softened them a little, and after stopping for drinks on our way to medevilist shows, having fight practice and rites in our front yard, there is very little left to shock people.
That's right, I'm a pagan goth medevilist. There is nothing you can do to suprise me.

I was Wiccan, but I'm not religious anymore. Maybe one day I'll get the passion back, maybe not.