Oh gawd I love Wicca! I was initiated into Welsh Traditionalist Wicca in the 1970s and although I came to realize that that specific "tradition" was an invention of the 1950s, or 40s at the earliest, Wicca was a central component of my life for many many years. I don't know what life would have been without it. Where else but at a pagan festival would I have jumped over bonfires naked? I could no more do that now than I could fly, but in those days my naked body was actually worth looking at! I established friendships that have lasted to this day, although one died of AIDS back in the 80s. I still think of him often. I have never had such a close friendship before or since. Though Wicca I met my current wife of 34 years AKA "The Real Thing." In time we each returned to the spiritual paths of our childhoods: she to Conservative Judaism, me to the Episcopal Church.

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
-T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"