Honeythorn

Feline

Stourbridge

Tropical fishkeeping, Arts and Crafts, Reading.

I'm not sure how you'd define familiar really. I've not been brought up in any religion with regards to my family, and have always had a strong connection with nature ( living close to green belt countryside has helped that of course ) and have collected crystals and been interested in spritual/occult things all my life. I have read a few books , though they are of the typical commercial Llewellyn variety ( don't kill me it's all I could find!! ) and in the past 2 years have attended the Mercian gathering which I very much enjoy for it's talks and open rituals which I find very helpful for gaining information on witchcraft .

Since I know of no covens or anything of that sort in my area I obviously cannot learn that way, and no one in my family is pagan to my knowledge so I haven't been able to learn from them. So as I say, I am familiar only through what I have been able to read in books, online, and through attending the Mercian Gatheirng.

How familiar that makes me I have no idea. I just keep plodding as best I can really. I rarely do rituals or spells, having no space to do them (seriously) even outside since there are alawys youths hanging round in the bits of woodland or dog walkers and the like :( but in the distant event of me getting a house of my own I will have the space and opportunity to really do things properly.

Not sure what path I could be classed as to be honest. I'd say I am a nature based pagan/witch. I'm still learning so I have yet to find a definitive path to suit me.

Since I'm still unsure as to what constitutes traditional witchcraft I can't really answer. Unless joining in at the open ritual at the Mercian Gathering ( run by the Hearth of Arianrhod ) counts?

My interest in Tradition witchcraft means for me, returning to the roots of my ancestors, the crafts and beliefs they practiced, centred in the natural world. I feel this is something I need to do and be as much as I can in this modern world .

I'd say my interest really began when I won an Ogham pendant at a historical centre when I was about 14 ( now 27) . They were having some sort of Anglo Saxon ( not sure ? ) type day and I decided to play a game involving throwing horseshoes round sticks. I won the pendant and was curious about it's marking. Funnily enough the few, which I later found out to be Gort (ivy) corresponds with my birth month/time frame for Gort. Fate perchance? Who knows..

I was bored of a forum I used to frequent since activity has gone right down and it was more wicca based which doesn't quite suit me really. I typed in Pagan Forums to Google and picked this one at random ( OR WAS IT?? MUHAHAHAAAA)

I would like to learn more about the craft, new ideas and things I din't know before. Help with my own simple rituals and if nothing else I can contirbute arts and crafts ideas should anyone need some inspiration.

Not any more no.

I'm not sure I have any yet, being fairly new to it and all that.

As above, though in general I have a terrible habit of starting tings and not finishing them which needs to be worked on I feel.