Is there anyone who doesn’t connect to nature at one point or other in their lives? Does nature have a spirit that draws us to it?

We agree that we have a soul. Everything has one. We just cannot see it. Believing that Earth, Fire, Air, Water and Spirit have soul and praying these elements which have power is the kind of spirituality I get along with. This is the base line all the Wiccans are on (Most of non-Wiccans too).

I don’t know how and why I got encountered with the word Wicca. May be I know how, in literal ways, but I don’t know why. Almost all Wiccans say that we don’t choose Wicca. It chooses us. I don’t know if it chose me or not. I don’t know if what I feel like following could be called Wicca. Because Wicca is not one path. There are just as many types in Wicca as any other religion has. And what Wicca is for one person is not same for other. I don’t know yet if I will call it Wicca. I’m just opening doors to it, if it chooses me. Wicca is not just praying. I found that it is also about rituals to be conducted. I don’t know yet how far I will be willing to go on that path.

There are many who believe that Wicca is just a modern form of ancient Witchcraft and there are also many who think otherwise. As I’ve already mentioned I think Wicca is so diverse that one Wiccan will not always agree with other if they both are not following the form. (Examples of forms of wicca: Gardnerian Wicca, Alexandrian Wicca, Dianic Wicca, Celtic Wicca (Church of Wicca), Georgian Wicca etc.,). In addition to all these types, there are many who follow solitary wicca.

On Feb’21, 2017 I first came across the word ‘Wicca’. I was checking out tattoos and got drifted to Virgo (which I am) tattoos then to mercury planet (Virgo’s ruling planet) symbol then to different symbols to pentacle. I was always interested in symbols and their meanings. So I started reading about pentacle and after few minutes I found myself searching the real meaning of “Wicca”.

That was when I thought “A part of Wicca is a part of me”. In these three days I have learned a lot about it, about people who call themselves Wiccans and a few who no more call themselves Wiccans. I learned about how Wicca can be used for bad things and promised myself that if at all I am to go on Wiccan path, I would keep my mind and heart open only to good things. Believe me or not I was shocked after seeing the number of people who are following Wicca across the globe.

I came across this amazing Indian, Ipsita Roy Chakraverti (a Wiccan priestess) who, in-spite of many protest movements and boycotts in West Bengal, put all allegations to rest and addressed the media at a press conference. Chakraverti explained to the media the Neo Pagan ways of Wicca and its healing power. She started administering Wiccan ways of healing to the people of India, including traveling to remote villages and teaching the Wiccan way to the female population, several of who were often accused of black magic and "witchcraft" by male folk, and murdered. She released her autobiography “Beloved Witch” in 2003. A second book titled “Sacred Evil: Encounters With the Unknown” was released in 2006, and it chronicled nine case studies during her life as a Wiccan healer and explained why those events happened. Both books received positive critical acclaim.

(Despite of my future with Wicca, I don’t want to forget my first encounter with it. Hence the story.)

Few books I think I am going to read to make myself a bit clear about the word that I may or may not use for my ways: