Fairytale witchcraft

My wife and I were looking through some websites last night and realized that Wicca is much more complex than a few years ago. It has expanded from the Gardnerian so called witchcraft offshoot to a never ending web of circles and meetings and cults and orders, groups and friends support centers and covens, a few churches Temples and shrines. All with different names and different clothes, robes symbols and each one with a reverend.

All of them telling you what is right and wrong. How to set up your altar 3 degrees to North or West or what ever.

Bla blab la.

I have a few problems with hierarchical structures. I have a problem with magick and ritual becoming scientific. I have a problem with the word reverend and the craft being connected with money.

What happened to the days when a witch was a witch, a high priest/ess was just that and no one had to pay for knowledge and experience?

Greed and fashion. The desire for recognition and money has taken over from the simplicity of Witchcraft.
Witchcraft became wicca, wicca everything else.

No reverend will ever be my high priest or priestess.
No money will ever be asked for my knowledge or experience.
Silence could be my only charge.
If it rains from the south my altar will be in the north and vice versa.
Money, fancy clothes and titles do not make magick.

If you can cast a spell and share experience completely naked and without books I will listen to you.

If you need to hide behind titles and robes and fancy names, have a look at yourself.

Witchcraft is from within and you will find truth and power in its simplicity.

Blessed be

Harlequin.