Serenity’s Coming of Witch Story

I’ve never actually thought to share my coming of witch story, and it’s not very different than Brett’s but when your life partners want to write a blog and invited me to join in the writing, I can’t say no to my loves.

During my childhood, when I was around 6 or 7 just after my father left, my mother started taking me to VBSs in the area to keep me distracted, and for a while I actually enjoyed the church, I always got to watch the kids teacher play the piano every week and music and art has always been the base of my soul. But it didn’t take long for me to see and question why “dedicated Christians” think they are above everyone else. It has never settled well with me. And they got an ego trip to make sure you knew ‘they were more godly”. Even at that age I told my mother I wanted to go to a satanic church and the all-inclusive churches to see what is ACTUALLY out there. And going back younger I was always immersed in fantasy, mermaids, fairies, and dragons. Pocahontas was one of my all-time favorites, so I always believed that “Every rock and tree and creature has a life has a spirit has a name”. I always knew there was something out there that was more genuine to life.    

So, coming into high school it didn’t surprise me that once I found Wicca and Paganism, I went full force. And the only reason I found it was from having to pick a book for a book report sophomore year, and I just so happened to choose “Marked” by P.C. and Kristin Cast, which was a book I got 2 Christmases prior and never even looked at it cuz I WAS NOT a big reader.  But I read all the books that were available, 7 out of 12 main books + 4 novellas, and now an alternate reality matching 4 book series, in maybe a week and a half. Practically I read a book a day, which I have never done outside that series. And the magical vampyre world they created and how the paganism was lovely throughout, the proper rituals and morals and the relationship with the elements and the physical world, and the relation with the Goddess. It was everything I wanted in a spiritual path. We read beginner witchcraft books, and I reached out to a family friend from my early childhood, Lisa (Ms. Topaz Waters herself)  to ask her questions about her witchcraft, a fact I knew because my mother HATED, because she was a good little Christian girl and all that was the devils work and how I’d go to hell and not be with them in the afterlife, the whole shebang, She even claimed my depression was from working with Lucifer. Even though we still have conversations, and she is such a pagan Christian, extremely save Mother Earth and animals. Our one friend had previously asked if it was okay that we were friends because she wasn’t Christian and how her grandma taught her to be a witch and we started talking and hanging out more and building a relationship and we got together and we all had our first ritual for a full moon right before a choir concert and how it went and how we felt, sealed the deal and set us down this path.  I’ve never looked back.    

The person I am now is the person I wanted to be in high school and college, and now I want to keep climbing to new heights. All I wanted to be was a high priestess, I wanted to have that link to the goddess and the ether beyond. To feel with one with the Universe. Now my path is leading me to expanding my consciousness, becoming a beacon of light for the people around me, learning how to take in and accept everything and helping those I love to become more aware and take hold of their full potential. I want to do my part to help make it a little better here for humanity, for humanities sake.