As a teenager, I was a great lover of books. I loved Charmed TV tie-in novels. I also loved the classics of witchy genre, such as Silver RavenWolf’s Teen Witch: Wicca for a New Generation.
If I were to give myself one bit of advice, it would be to keep going! Keep going! Keep reading those witchy books, keep trying out spells, study witchcraft at university (there was a module in my history degree, but I didn’t take it), diversify your magickal books.
Also, keep hold of those books. Carry them with you as you move away from home. I can’t tell you how many of those classic books I’ve had to re-buy over the years. They weren’t expensive, but it was a bit wasteful. There was a big gap in time when I wasn’t reading my witchcraft manuals, and I could have been. Perhaps I should have been.
One thing I really want to say to my teen self would be not to give up. Do not give up your witchy leanings. Do not give up your magickal studies. I thought I was growing out of it, but I was just losing it.
There are lots of other things I could say to my teen self. Lots of things I would re-write or re-do about my youth. I wasn’t one of those kids who spent my teen years learning tarot. Maybe that would have been a good foundation for me, as it has been for many others, but I just wasn’t called to it. Maybe I should have focused on the forms of divination that did call to me: crystal ball reading, tea leaf reading. I didn’t get started with those until way past my teen years.
But, no, I wouldn’t really give myself that advice to my teenage self. It would be a mistake to try and shoehorn myself into things that weren’t right for me at the time. As part of life, we have to accept that what happens happens. Everything has its correct time and place. It’s important to accept one’s past, instead of trying to force it to be different.
Ultimately, maybe that’s the advice I ought to give my younger self: accept what has happened and grow from here.
Iris the Psychic 
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