How I got started on the Wiccian Path

Though my parents claimed Christianity as our family religion we weren't religious people. We didn't go to church we didn't pray before meals or before bed. In middle school I became very religious even though my family wasn't. My cousin would bring me workbooks from her Sunday school class so that I could study the bible. I didn't go to church because I couldn't drive myself and my parents wouldn't take me. Though I was Christian I did not limit myself to religious media. I read and listened to many things most Christians wouldn't. I remember reading Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. This is where I had my first encounter with paganism. At this point I had always had a thirst to read about the Greeks and their gods and goddesses I could name them all from a very young age. In Rice's books Pandora and Blood and Gold it talks about how the Egyptians worshiped the goddess Akasha as Isis. The book talked about their practices and rites to Isis and I remember being mad because as a Christian I couldn't pay tribute to Isis. Later while reading the Da Vinchi Code I realized just how sexist the Christian religion was. I began to research Mary Magdalene and the holy grail and in my research came across many things about the goddess. By my sophomore year of high school I had converted to Wicca and I have been a witch ever since. In the Wiccian religion I find what Christianity could never offer me.