[nuncEtedben]

I have posted on my facebook page that I am a wizard under religious affiliation. It actually works out quite well because anyone with any inclination towards the occult might get it and guess that I am an occultist, and everyone else thinks I am just joking around. Whenever anyone asks about it I answer them truthfully with humour and wit, once again most people just think I am joking around. The majority of my friends and family have no idea really although they are aware to some extent as I have tons of books on the occult and have practiced around them, but I have tons of books on pretty much every conceivable topic so that isn't unusual either, and everything else they think is weird or ask about what I am doing I just say I am meditating (you can pretty much tell anyone just about anything weird you are doing is meditation, meditation is widespread and accepted enough that people will just leave it at that usually).

I pretty much just hide that I am an occultist right out in the open. No grief from people that would otherwise hassle me about it, and anyone who has any familiarity will usually ask the right questions and find it out. That is the way I deal with it anyways, kills two birds with one stone. It works for me, might not work for everyone.

I can honestly say that I have never met another occultist through Facebook though (one person on another social site figured it out), I actually rarely come across them at all, never met a serious practitioner anywhere but online, and the closest thing I have come to a face to face encounter are people interested in new age (and I don't mean to offend any people that are into the new age, but most of the ones I have come across I can't take seriously).

Hope that helps, good luck.