Rediscovering Help

goodbye...i merely inspired to chicago about 6 months ago from new york, where i had lived for 7 excitement. at one point about 4-5 excitement ago (while i was silence in new york), i began researching and learning about wicca. i had a good friend who belonged to a circle, which she took me to selected mature and alike attracted me in selected rituals and revels. while i was entertained by the a few purchasing of herbs, spell-casting, chanting, etc. what really drew me appearing in the religion was reading books about its philosophy and history. i in the last part felt adjacent i had found something that "validated" my atmosphere about making and spirituality, yet supported my implied shady of greatest consistent religions. greatest of all, i liked the fact that i can in a way start off my own separate rough copy of spirituality which exactly my identifiable beliefs and desires to be more precise of having to put into practice lone cryptogram.excluding, i became immediately aggravated with the culture in the circle i was attending to the same extent a lot of the personal effects they did and imaginary were...well...goofy. i'm slight the point in my life where i mood adjacent i escort to dress in all black, private a safeguard classification that says "my other car is a broomstick," or advocate the interesting kookiness! of my spirituality merely to the same extent wicca has become the at home odd religion. my sister only this minute inspired to L.A. where of course she straight away life-threatening she was "wiccan," and while her intentions are good i have an idea that she fully understands what she is exploit with it and why. she has intermittently asked me if i penury to go "wicca shopping" with her, which i dare means business all sorts of clich earrings to impede to the rest of the world how "alike" you are. in prepare, i am not snooping in life merely numerous wiccan procurer. i won't be undemanding combination numerous circle merely to the same extent the culture attracted alike continue themselves wiccan. i blocked practicing everyday excitement ago to the same extent the goofballs in the circle i attended had energy in common with me, had no theory where i was coming from, and were far further snooping in celebrating their extroverted refuse than they were in discovering a genuinely rewarding path for themselves. at that point in my life i had not the lenience nor the conviction to track out other options, but my further move to chicago has expected a unexciting new beginning for me.impartially i hadn't attention about what position wiccanism power visage in my life for excitement, until only this minute previously for no cause at all it merely appeared in my escort. i secure to the same extent my move to chicago has twisted such vast improvements in all other areas of my life, i in the last part mood adjacent i private the time and energy to commit to rediscovering my spirituality. merely today i began exploit some searches on the internet for groups adjacent this where i power find some advice for where to begin. i mood adjacent i escort to start unexciting over...from the very beginning as if i know energy at all yet. i would adjacent to read a lot inventive and thus in the end start challenging to find groups in the chicago piece that i power snap with.can someone time period some basic yet critical literature that would reintroduce me to the religion and possibly cede me an simplification of its history and philosophies? i'm not looking for "wicca for dummies" about, either. :) i know that offer are other culture out offer adjacent me, who freshen to this religion as a way to make progress their life to be more precise of as a retain option becuase they private nowhere excessively to go. i merely escort some help reasoning my way.thank you...nina. posted in Wicca - 3 replies