I think my mom would be fine if I told her but my dad would think I was weird. My mom used to read tarot so I doubt she would't care if I was Wiccan. My cousin knows but he's atheist so it doesnt matter. I am glad I found Wicca it, I just can't wait to get decent at casting.
Ah, I'm always cowering in the broom closet. It's rather stressfull! I live with my gradparents, who are very set in their way Baptists. My father is a Jehova's Witness, which makes tension on that end too. He says he's physically repulsed when I wear a pentacle around him. I'm gradually working towards getting my grandparents to understand though. I sit down with them alot and talk about what I believe, about god, the afterlife, our duty as inteligent beings to the Earth. They think that I have the right morals, so they don't bother me. I just say that I believe what I believe and they don't mind. I can't say witchcraft or paganism, or else it's evil and bad though. I've learned to be diplomatic about it though. I live in a highly conservative area, so you have to choose your words carefully, but I've learned to coexist. All you can really say is 'different strokes' and if they tell you you're going to burn in hell tell them you apprchiate the input.
Me too, I have to hide in my room to do the casting. My parents are free thinkers and they believe in purely science. If they found out, they would think I was weird and crazy. Maybe even ban my computer.
my mom is a wiccan but my dad was christian and when he found out what she was they got divorced. for 6 months i had to live with my dad and he took me to church and sent me to sunday school and tried to make me get baptised as a christian(that minister still has scars from me). one day i was practising vanishing spells in my room and my dad came in and started yelling at me for doing witchcraft and then my magick got out of control and i vanished him. i havent seen him since.
lol wow, something that fits the bill
my parents wouldnt accept it at all, expecially my dad, who is really religious
and my uncle was once a priest, so my aunt agrees with him on the whole matter
and even though my mother does candle spells, she still wants me to stay away from magick
its annoying
Sometimes its hard for parents to understand. You have to look at it from their perspective though. If they're really religious and they see their kid doing something they honestly think is going to sentence them to hell for all eternity, they ban them from it because they think they are doing the right thing. They think they are saving their child from eternal damnation. And the fact of the matter is, in the United States, minors have even less rights than slaves did in the south. Under law, a parent has authority to make all decicions for a child, including their religion. It's to protect kids from getting involved in things that really will hurt them, like suicidal cults, but unfortunatly it also effects people like us. All we can do is work around it and try to honnor our parent's requests. Honnor is something I hold quite high personally, and I try to balance my parent's will with my own. That's what the Craft is all about though right? Balance?
The young interest in paganism isn't necessarily a bad thing. The younger, the better imagination. Better imagination means that more things will probably work for them, which in turn means that they will have had a more positive experience and will most likely be able to accomplish more with age. HOWEVER, I am disgusted at the fact that paganism is becoming more scarcely(sp) lived by and more often flaunted about as a trend or a rebellious statement. This has to stop in my opinion. It's the trenders and the rebels that get people to where they can't distinguish Wicca from Satanism. These people either need to be educated or leave paganism alone altogether.
The only thing that disgusts me is that the age of some people coming to the site obviously looking just for tail. Let alone having sex in their own lives.
