All About our Coven

Founded: July 2011

Number of Members: 3 (Cassandra, Sky and Dusk Redsnow)

Prospective Member attributes: Any race, from any religion. We welcome any from the LGBT communinty, Any Age.
*Anyone 18 and under can join the study group but you must have notorized parental consent and bring one of your guardians to one of meetings within the first two months*

Selection of Members for the Study Group: A questionaire must be filled out to be considered for the study group after and year and a day with the group you would be considered for an invitation to join the coven.

Hiving off: members of the study group are welcome to start their own covens if they so choose.

Tradition: The coven is prodiminatly greek but the study group is Eclectic, The coven will incoporate other traditions but the member who requests their tradition to be used must educate the group on the Dieties and the tradition which they wish to share.

Pagan Rede: We follow the Pagan Rede.

Internal Structure: Decisions will be made by the group with the High Priest/High Priestess having final veto power.

Ritual Dress: Black or Tan robes with lining of whatever color you want. The coven is primarialy skyclad but will work robed if a member requests it
*We ask anyone who is uneasy about worshiping skyclad to try it alone in a private ritual before they right it off completely*
**Because the group practices skyclad anyone under the age of 18 will not be allowed to enter the coven until they come of age but they are more then welcome to join the study group.**

Ritual Preperation: Sky creates and plans and rituals but he is always open to suggestions and requests. He formats them so that no one need memorize anything unless they so desire to.

Meeting Frequency: The study group will meet once a week, we ask that all coven members attend the study group to share their knowledge and help others grow. Anyone new to the craft must attend 52 meetings to be considered for Coven membership, they do not have to be consecutive but missing more then 4 weeks in a row would bring your membership up for review (Of course allowances will be made such as College students going on winter break and summer leave)

Using Magick: Any magic done within the coven must be an a group decision and will not be done without total agreement.

Other Meetings of Note: A yearly meeting to discuss the Coven Compact,new members, issues and nomination of those from the study ciricle to be initiated into the Coven. and the 8 holidays.
*The movement from the study circle to the coven would be a progress check to see where others felt the students were and who would be coming up for the invitation*

Meeting Place: Sky and Dusk's home

Leadership: Sky and Dusk will lead the coven and study group as high priest and high priestess until the time comes where they feel the need to step down.

Dues: No dues but will do ask for Donations for ritual supplies (such as candles, incense, and other needed items for the rituals)

Privacy: Anything shared within the Coven/study group stays in the group, Craft names are also welcome to be used in the Coven and study circle.

Banishment: Any member can be nominated for Banishment from the group provided that they have caused physical or mental damage to another member or any other inappropriate behavior within the group. Once the group decides this is the best action the high priestess/high Priest will speak the member in question and relenquish their membership.

Members of Other Covens and Study Groups: Are welcomed as are our members allowed to join other groups as well.

We Do ask that you take a Vow of Secrecy before joining our study group or coven.

For those of you that have self-dedicated yourself we ask that you part take in the study group if your aptitude shows that you are ready for an invitation to the coven then one may be provided if not we would ask that you complete the 52 weeks of training before entrance into the coven.

However if you have been initiated by another Coven we would allow you access to the coven provided the other coven's existence is able to be proven.

Magical Requirements: We do ask that you do know some basic information to join the coven such as being able to caste a circle and to conduct yourself in a way that is appropriate for the circle. (respect for others, fire safty, and awareness of surrounding just to name a few)

Guests/Minors: Minors may be members of the study group provided that they meet the qualifications listed above but until they reach the age of 18 entence into the Coven is forbidden. Guests are welcome to Study sessions provided premission is obtained two weeks in advance but only fully initated members of the coven are welcome at the rituals.

Substance Use is not tolerated this includes but is not limited to Alcohol, Tobacco (chewing and smoking) and illegal drugs.
*Prescriptions are allowed as prescribed especially is it is an inhaler or Epi-pen*

Personal Relationships: Relationships between members are acceptable but any conflicts that may arise are left at the door, failure to adhere to this can be reason for banishment.

The Circle is safe place where all are equal, even the high priest or high priestess we expect everyone to respect this and all members.

Bondage, Fear tactics, and Belittling of members in not acceptable at all and will not be tolerated.

Dedicating Myself

Tonight there was a full moon so I decided it was time to do my self dedication. I asked Heidi to join me and witness my ceremony. I cast my circle skyclad and feeling the cool air on my bare skin called for the Lord and Lady to fill me with their spirit and called the elements to share there gifts with me and pronounced my commitment to the craft and promised to use it for good and never to harm, I felt tingly like the air was full of energy.I closed my circle and felt a calmness come over and noticed that the pain I was feeling in my arm and nexk was very much diminished...it was awesome

My own Self Initiation Ceremony

     I was living with my parents when i did my ceremony, I was 20, the college semester was over and I was eager to learn about this new found religion, I had already read about three or four books about it and started a BOS (book of Shadows) It was an initation/dedication ceremony I had found in Wicca: A guide for the solitary practitioner. A dedication to learning the craft to becoming closer with nature. I decided to do it skyclad (meaning only clothed by the sky) It was a warm night with a slight chill in the air.
    I was Terrified! It was dark out and I lived in the woods, and here I was climbing out my bedroom window, naked with a candle, a chalice, a wing of a giant green moth that i found in the driveway, and some quartz i found on a fishing trip to canada. I didn't want my parents to know what i was doing, my mother already accused me of worshiping satan, and dad was clueless (still is, but just because he couldn't really careless).
    I caste my circle calling to the quarters, lighting my candle and reading a dedication ceremony out of my book, an invocation written by Scott Cunningham. As the circle closed before i started the invocation I felt more at ease more calm like I was doing what i was supposed to be doing. Then I started the incantation:

O Mother Goddess,

O Father God,

answers to all mysteries and yet mysteries unanswered

in this place of power I open myself to your essance.

In this place and in this time I am changed;

from henceforth I walk the Wiccan path.

I dedicate myself to you, Mother Goddess and Father God

I breathe your energies into my body

eommingling, blending, mixing them with mine,

that i may see the divine in nature, nature in the divine,

and divinity with myself and all else.

O great Goddess, O great God

make me one with your essance

    As I finished the invocation I felt a warm embrace hold me and fill me with peace and serenity. I just sat there for a while and relaxing in the embrace. Then a pack of coyotes started to howl quite near, I listened for a moment and then i remembered that i was outside naked in the woods at night, and living where i did quickly closed the circle and climbed back into my room and slept.