I would take the info from the Creaky Hedge Witch with a grain of salt. S/he seems a little "my way is the right way and all the others are not."

It is she, not he, thank you for providing for either option.

I agree, one should always take any source whether written or from an individual with a grain of salt. Actually if salt equals scepticism, I’d go for a heaping spoonful on all occasions myself. I can appreciate that perhaps my style of posting might suggest otherwise (I do have strong opinions and tend to be long-winded…) but I most certainly do not ascribe to ‘my way is the right way and all the others are not’. I will in fact pointedly disagree with anyone who presents such an opinion, regardless of the subject. I do however believe each of us has the responsibility as well as the right to form and the choice to share our opinions and that being just opinions, these are not binding on anyone else. I also know that after due thought, consideration and experiential resonance, I often incorporate something someone else has written and appreciate being able to do so even if I initially disagreed with them. In fact, I tend to learn far more from those who disagree with me than those who agree.

You mentioned in another thread that you were a Tameran Wiccan, which I suspect is where your experience and my opinions may have disconnected. I am not Wiccan nor have never been but I have had the privilege over the years to benefit from relationships with knowledgeable Wiccans mostly from a BTW background. I have also done research for about ten years on whatever is accessible on this religion. So I hope you will understand that this has shaped what I recognise as being Wicca, which is what I post about. I would be most interested if you would care to share more about your Tradition as it is one that I am not as familiar with nor could be as someone who is a practitioner.

If enough of the core beliefs are present in a newer Tradition, I certainly am open to such recognition. Not that anyone needs my recognition to be Wiccan of course. I do however draw the line at recognising actual additions or what is blended into Wicca or what Wiccans do in his or her personal practice as within themselves having been Wiccan or always part of that religion.

At this point from your description alone, I can certainly recognise Tameran Wicca as a tradition that does incorporate some of the core beliefs of the Religion. It obviously includes the Law of Return and belief in magic, although belief in magic is usually combined with a belief in witchcraft within Wicca as the latter is a Religion of Witchcraft. Are Tameran Wiccans also Witches?
The Rede is a later addition commonly found in the newer traditions as well as being adapted throughout the Neo-Paganism Movement in various forms. Not a core belief, just a commonly found one.
I would hope that Tameran Wicca is not based on a single goddess however. A God at a minimum in addition to at least one Goddess is needed to be recongised as Wiccan and even more to be hoped, a pantheon given that Wicca is recognisably polytheistic. Obviously I would therefore expect to find that Tamerans as Wiccans have an individual relationship with at least a Goddess and a God, that being the most common generic identification for the newer book-created Wiccan Traditions. Based on a written statement of Gardner actually, he couldn’t name the two he thought most important in the original pantheon (oathbound) so he just used the terms The Lord and The Lady. Newer Traditions therefore use names from throughout a global pantheon as a result to identify these and Tameran Wicca may also incorporate a wider pantheon from the Egyptian.
Do you have anything resembling the Great Rite with this Tradition, perhaps adapted to an Egyptian context? 
Obviously your Tradition would have a celebratory calendar similar to the Wiccan Wheel of the Year with its Sabbats and Esbats though you might call these celebrations differently.
I would expect some degree of experiential validation amongst Tameran Wiccans. Do you have your own Mysteries? Wicca was originally conceived and is practised as a mystery religion but newer Trads don’t have access to the information about the specific Mysteries of Wicca, this being oathbound. So often the Mysteries are dropped but not necessarily so.
Do you consider that some parts of Wicca can’t be taught, only experienced?
Lastly, I would also expect to find constant improvement in some measure as a belief.

Please let me know (if you are willing to share) if my expectations are anywhere accurate.

May I also respectfully offer the opinion based on what I know of this religion that your perception, really more applicable to the older Traditions of Wicca, is one that has been expressed by others over time. There have been some rather lively debates on the old Beliefnet Wicca boards about this, I’ll see if I can find a link to such. Those who mis-understand and/or mis-use the term Wicca for their own purposes also have fed these impressions. With the expectation that experienced Wiccans will correct me if I err, Wicca is first and foremost about honouring the Gods of Wicca. It is on some levels also a fertility religion therefore sex is celebrated not just through the sacred marriage of the Great Rite but also through consensual sex between responsible adults. There are specific religious rites I believe that might be mis-interpreted as bondage though these are usually only found amongst the BTW Trads and within a framework of lineaged information that give such meaning. The press on these perhaps owes more to the Western titillation over anything sexual than anything properly relating to that religion. As for skyclad, being so is about trust not sex amongst the members of a coven, that small intimate grouping of people that Wicca is meant to be practised by. Having practised skyclad within my own non-Wiccan religion upon occasion, the most general reactions tend to range from physical discomfort (where IS that draft coming from???) to ‘no one has anything here that I haven’t seen before -yawn’. Given that one is supposed to be focusing on the Gods and the ritual, being skyclad more than anything else seems to end up serving to identify those who aren’t really committed to what is being enacted.

Long-winded as usual. Sorry about that and welcome to the boards by the way.

C.H.