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Telling my mother I'm wiccan
Ok so I'm female and I'm 16 and I have been hinting at my mom about wicca asking her how she feels about it and what she thinks it is well my mom is not really religious but she freaks out and tells me "Wicca is a cult. And cults don't believe in a god." How can I tell her I'm wiccan if she wont even give me a chance to explain it's not a cult that we believe in helping the earth through the magick of the elements and the living things around us and that we do believe in a god and a goddess (well many gods and goddesses) please help.
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wicca is not a cult, there is nothing bad about it, we all believe in doing good. some people are open to wicca, others arent, but they are ignorant. you are right about wicca being positive, im a natural witch and i do mostly healing and protection. it really helps people. especially when my son was a baby and had a 102 fever and i was able to break the fever within a half hour using wicca. also, im catholic wiccan, and i just see wicca as a way of seeing the beauty and wonder of what God created. He obviously wants us to learn about it and appreciate and use it to better our lives or He would not have surrounded us with so much nature.Silver Ravenwolf has it in her books on how to explain wicca to your parents. good luck :)
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Hello! I'm a Wiccan too! I can't say that I completely agree with the others below. Wicca isn't a fantasy. It's a real religion. I've wanted to be Wiccan since I was 12 and I finally decided that I wanted to embrace it.
I haven't told a whole lot of people. I'm not ashamed of it and I don't believe it's a phase i'm going through (just like I don't believe it's a phase YOU are going through). What I do agree with is keeping this to yourself for a little while.
If it's something you want and something you believe, hold onto it and embrace it. It's not a cult. I would suggest doing more research on being Wiccan without telling anyone about it. That way if someone wants to talk to you about it (or tell you that you worship satan, which we don't) you can properly defend yourself.
Not everyone is going to agree with your beliefs, but if it makes you happy (and it harm none) then do what you will! If you have any questions about Wicca don't hesitate to ask. I wish you well on your journey to discovering your path and beliefs. Blessed be!
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I too believe what WittyUserNameHere wrote. It is tough being a teenager today more so today than ever before. Society expects more from children today then before forcing them to grow up faster than before. Forcing them to search for their identity and when they find something they think they can identify with it is right back to 50 years ago thinking; “they’re going through a phase.”
Society can be fickle too. Is it a phase? Is this something you will grow out of? I don’t know, maybe you will maybe you won’t. What I do know is Wicca is not a cult; it is also not a recognized Religion. Most people do not understand Wicca therefore they are frightened a bit by it. I don’t feel you are old enough to for sure if Wicca is the religion you want to follow for the rest of your life. I do know that once you start telling your friends you can expect to be shunned by them because they are unknowing therefore fearful of the unknown.
Here again I agree you should keep this to yourself until you have learned more about Wicca and being a Wiccan. There is always time to tell others about your choice in life. At the moment while you may still be in public school is not the right time. I say this only because little is known outside of Wicca about Wicca. In school this could cause you undo harm from several sides. It is best to keep it secret for now until you have had more experience with Wicca and are not subject to other loco parentis.
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I agree with the person below. This just sounds like another teenager phase to me...do you really want this hanging over your head when you get older and probably grow out of it? I had a friend who 'went Wiccan,' as she called it, at about 17...she was over it in about a month and everyone still teases her about her previous belief in magic and all that Wiccan jazz :b So yeah, don't tell them...you won't be taken seriously...teenagers are always looking for new things to try that they usually don't stick with.
-Jess
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A 16 year old girl who tells her parent's she believes in nature spirits and faeries isn't going to be taken seriously.
I realize you're trying to establish your identity. It's a normal 16 year old thing to do. But you've latched onto something that most of the civilized world will not take seriously, something you may well look back on with chagrin in a few years.
Keep it to yourself. If you still think you're Wiccan at 25, then you might actually be taken seriously to some degree.
Or you'll long since have grown out of it and will be thankful you kept it to yourself.
I realize Wicca is not a cult, but Wicca IS based on little understood paganism perverted by someone who spent too much time fantasizing about Lord of the Rings. Whatever value existed in paganism, Wicca is little more than an escapist fantasy made up of stolen ideas.
Don't go waving your 16 year old identity around like it means something. You'll be a completely different person every year for the next ten. The earlier you realize that, the better off you'll be.
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