This can be difficult, particularly if you live outside of a large city. Even though the number of
Wiccans in the U.S. and Canada is doubling about every 30 months, the
percentage of Wiccans in the U.S. and Canada is still less than 1% of the total
population. Wiccans can be hard to find. Possible methods of finding fellow
Wiccan teens in your area include:
Searching Internet data bases. WitchVox maintains a "Young
Pagan Contacts" section which lists young Pagans from around the world. 1
Visiting New Age, Occult, Pagan, or
Metaphysical stores, and looking at their bulletin boards or talking to their
staff.
Wiccan/Pagan festivals are another way to make contacts.
These are
described in our essay on contacting
fellow Wiccans. Please be very careful; there are physical, sexual,
emotional and spiritual abusers out there, and Wicca is no exception. There is
always the possibility that a person or group may misrepresent themselves in the
listing. A person describing themselves as a 13 year old might actually be a 40
year old predator! We recommend that you proceed cautiously and make the first
meeting in a public location, like a mall.
The Witches' Voice maintains a section: "Teenage
Witchcraft: The future of the Craft" It features "the
literary power of today's Young Pagan." See: http://www.witchvox.com/xteen.html
Youth for Pagan Awareness attempts to educate the public about
issues concerning Neopaganism...especially about those issues which affect
younger Pagans. See: http://www.angelfire.com/tn/SmurfTank/ypa.html
Peacefire.org represents the "interests of people under 18
in the debate over freedom of speech on the Internet." They have
reported that many benign sites (including our site) have been blocked by
Internet censorship software. Many censorship companies block any web site
containing the word "Witch". See: http://www.peacefire.org/
Yahoo! Groups has at least three Wiccan / Pagan forums:
"Pagan_teen" unmoderated forum for
"teens growing up Pagan to vent frustrations due to discrimination,
share spells and tips." The forum was founded in 1999-MAR; as of
2002-AUG, it has 93 members. 2
"Young Pagan / Wiccans of Canada is an unmoderated forum which "...is
for young Pagans, Wiccans, and other practitioners who want to meet
others in their area, generally Victoria/Vancouver area but all others
are welcome. They also welcome adults. 3
Witches_magical_circle welcome "true teenage white
witches/wiccans/pagans who are interested in sharing their thoughts,
experiences, spells, and knowledge with others." It was organized in
1991-AUG and has 17 members as of 2002-AUG. 4
Topica forums has at least two forums:
Teen Witches working Together (TWWT) is an unmoderated forum
for teens who want to work with other teens to become witches. Teens who
are already witches may join to give advice..." 5
EclecticTeenPagans is an unmoderated forum for Pagan teens from all
over the world. They have 36 subscribers as of 2002-AUG. 6
Delphi Forums has at least one forum:
"Teen Witch Forum -- The fresh face of
Witchcraft" 7
Saplings is a discussion forum organized in 1996 for teen and
college-aged pagans of all paths. 8
