Is the Witchcraft community overly capitalised?
Hello lovely Tumblrs who still use this platform!
I have out of the broomcloset Secular Witchcraft practioner for about 5 years. But probably for even longer if I hadn't have neglected the call for so many years. I remember making fun of the hippies in goths in high school and thinking how much of a *weirdo* those people are! I thought I was soooo much better than them because I was accepted in the normies group and they weren't.
However, I still remember **Back in my day** we had to READ so many freakin books in order to come up with a semi inkling of what type of practice we will follow. What type of witch or neo pagan if you will.
Nowadays, thru TikTok, Youtube, etc, witchy influencers have succesfully *bewitched* people into thinking they need to spend hundreds of dollars on crystals and tarot and herbs or thousands of euro on classes in order to even learn how to become a "baby witch".
Is this the future of witchcraft? Although I love having so many materials and inspiration from the internet it just all seems so overly capitialized- especially during the pandemic era when people were desperate for a connection and change.
What do y'all think? Have we over commercialised ourselves?