Some time back, a reader wrote me with an interesting observation:
You know, I just thought of something. I used to have a part-time job as a pest caller (phone surveys, mostly) and so I met a lot of Wiccans. (In the 90's they congregated in phone & restaurant work, for some reason; don't know about now.) And every single one of them was a High Priestess. Every single one. I don't know what that means, if anything, but I noticed it.
I hadn't thought of it till she pointed it out, but yeah, there does seem to be a glut of high priestesses and high priests when it comes to Wicca. Nobody is just a plain old priest, let alone a mere parishioner. Similarly, all Past-Life Regressives seem to discover they were Egyptian princesses and acclaimed warrior kings, and never dung-shovelers or toothless crones living in a mud hut on the Russian steppe in the seventh century and dying of a pimple on the knee. At first blush, that could appear to have something to do with the way all Catholics and ex-Catholics with a pulse and a tenuous relationship to the Church are called "devout," all busses plunge, and all popes are constantly "cracking down" on everything.
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