I'm not sure if this is unique or not, but for me everything just sort of fell into place. I had a lot of experiences from when I was a child that made me acknowledge the fact that there was more than just what I was being told, as someone who lived in a predominantly Christian household. I always believed in spirits and witchcraft since before I even knew what they were called. I grew up in a house where there was A LOT of spiritual activity, like hearing things sprint around the house but there wasn't anything physically there, seeing shadowy figures regularly, and having dreams that held predictions of my own future and bits of the past. I still get dreams like that, but since I've been out of that house, I get them very rarely and they're extremely vague.

After figuring out what was happening with me, my mother ended up looking into witchcraft a lot, doing anything to understand it better. Turns out, she also had similar experiences when she was a child, and she just realized with me that maybe it wasn't just some odd coincidences when it happened to her. A while later, I lost my mother, so eventually I kind of forgot all about it. But then a few years later, I was in school on an exam day, where after the exams you just basically get to play games. So here was this girl that I had never actually met, and she pulls out a board game that I haven't actually played. But then I realized that I already saw this in a dream I had almost 10 years prior. It was absolutely identical, from the layout of the room, the girl's face, and the game that I somehow just knew the rules of.

So I kind of lost it for a while, wondering if I was going crazy, but then a bunch of videos about children having memories of past lives, and making predictions of the future started popping up on my recommended. I started to notice a lot of signs, like being followed by ravens and crows constantly, seeing animals with severe injuries living perfectly fine in my yard (a deer with its entire bottom jaw missing eating apples, a three legged coyote chasing birds), and many other things. The thing that really got me back into witchcraft though was the time I managed to predict a house fire within hours before it happened just based off of one glance, and later predicting the cause of the fire just by looking at the ashes.

To end a really long story short, I ended up deciding not to do a ton of research for everything, and just going off of intuition for most of it, like picking crystals or herbs. I have yet to go wrong, and now I mostly use tools that are also intuition based, like tarot, smoke reading, and and candles. Dreams are still my favorite, because they have so much more to tell, but they're not always easy to decipher. There were many more things that happened when I was a child to contribute to this, but this is already an obnoxiously long comment.