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Induction of members to the High Council

c. Finance and Budget (as needed)

d. Networking and Affiliations

e. Disputes of Daughter and Kinship Circles that seek arbitration.

f. Situations brought before the Council of harm towards the tradition by any group or individual. g. Any other matter the Council decides upon.

3. Facilitation

The HPS of the Mother Coven shall chair all meetings of the council. Where she is absent or chooses to delegate, the HP shall chair all meeting

As more people became initiates of Gardner, they left his group to form their own covens (this process is known as hiving). Gradually, books came to be published on Witchcraft, but they were far and few between. Most consider the big turning point in Wiccan publication to have occurred in the mid-80s, with the books of Scott Cunningham. His Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner was a book written for seekers who had no access to established Wiccan covens. Its a good

Think about all the secular customs of Easter: rabbits, dyed eggs, and egg hunts. All of these things are ancient fertility symbols, folk traditions carried in to our modern era. They remind us that with spring, the earth begins life anew. They also bring mirth into our ritual celebrations. After all, how serious can you be poking around in someones backyard looking for eggs, or chewing the ears off a chocolate rabbit? Ostara is a time to be merry, throwing off winters worries and cares to meet the coming warmth.

At Imbolc, I talked of

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