Kind of hard to answer that. I guess it started when I was in college (the first time around). I was taking both day and night classes, and by the time I got home on the bus, it would have been time to go back to school for the night class. So, I started reading my way through the school library (I've always been a speed reader). Religion was there among the first books and I sort of made my own way through the bookshelves to the Goddess. Read the Koran, the Tibetian Book of the Dead, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Drawing down the Moon and lots more, but Wicca just seemed to fit me best. I've always been a solitary- just me and the Goddess. I'm 59, now.