You are Unique and yet we're all the same ....

We've all seen the ads : would like to meet like-minded people ..... : I see them in every "pagan-y" form of networking available. Wish I had a penny for every time I've heard those words. Oh com'on, we've all said it ! ...  in our newbie phases, our lonely and misunderstood phases, when that love spell went wrong & I could really use a friend who's done this before phases, you know what I'm talkin' bout.
Well, let me save ya a little time and trouble, .......  there is absolutely No One out there who is "like minded". It's just you ! Just you in all your complicated and unique glory. Just you who has experienced Those things, at Those times, in Your life. Just you, who can see the Sacred the way you do, who Believes the way you do, and that's okay.  Once you get past that roadblock ( the one where you spend years searching for the "like-minded" group of friends) you are Free. Free to be friends with anyone. People who have entirely different beliefs expand your world and you, Theirs.

In The Beginning ......

I've owned a magick shoppe for a dozen years or so, and have frequented witchy shops for longer.
I'm annoyed with the assumption that anyone who shows signs of paganism is labeled wiccan. I'm further annoyed that tv and movies have made wicca a hip catch word that any mundane moron can throw to the wind.
OK, I can be snotty about it at times but being the town freak can make even the most spiritual person falter now and then.
This is my place to air all things witchy.