THE COVEN OF 13

THE IDEAL COVEN CONSISTS OF 12 MEMBERS & A PRIESTESS OR 11 MEMBERS & A PRIEST

& PRIESTESS, OR 12 MEMBERS & A PRIEST & PRIESTESS DEPENDING ON YOUR COVEN. IN

THE LAST MENTIONED THE PRIEST & PRIESTESS ARE SEEN AS THE TWO HALVES OF THE

GOD FORCE.

FEMALE TRADITIONS USE ONLY THE GODDESS & THEREFORE USE ONLY A PRIESTESS ON A ROTATING BASIS, AS THE SAY THEY ARE ALL PRIESTESSES TO THE GODDESS. THE

GROUPS ARE USUALLY LESBIAN & PRACTISE A FORM OF SO CALLED SEX MAGIC.

HOMOSEXUAL MEN'S GROUPS SOMETIMES USE ONE OF THEIR KIND TO REPRESENT THE

GODDESS / PRIESTESS IN THEIR RITES & ALSO PRACTISE A FORM OF SEX MAGIC.

WE AS WICCANS DO NOT RECOGNISE THEM AS BEING PART OF OUR COLLECTIVE GROUP FOR WE RECOGNISE & HONOUR THE DUALITY OF THE NATURAL FORCES & SEE THEM AS

COMPLIMENTING EACH OTHER & THEREFORE REPRESENTING THE CREATIVE FORCE OF THE COSMIC. MALE & FEMALE, DA RK & LIGHT, HOT & COLD ETC.

THE COVEN CAN BE SEEN AS 3X4 + 1. THERE SHOULD BE 3 PERSONS PER ELEMENT TO

RAISE & DIRECT POWER TOWARDS ETHER, REPRESENTED BY THE MID-POINT OF CIRCLE TO BE DIRECTED BY THE PRIEST & PRIESTESS WHO ARE SEEN AS ONE. EQUAL MEMBERSHIP OF MALE & FEMALE PART NERS IS OFTEN A REQUIREMENT IN SOME COVENS TO PREVENT IMBALANCE.

THIS IS SAID TO BE THE PERFECT COVEN, ALWAYS KEEPING IN MIND THAT THERE IS NO

SUCH THING . THE COVEN CAN CONSIST OF AS MANY AS YOU CAN COMFORTABLY

ACCOMMODATE OR YOU CAN HAVE A COVEN OF 3 IF YOU WISH. WHEN YOUR COVEN

BECOMES TO LARGE THEN SPIN -OFFS OCCUR, WITH A HIGH RANKING MEMBER FORMING HIS OR HER OWN COVEN FOR ESBATE & LESSON WORK & THE FESTIVALS CELEBRATED WITH THE MOTHER LODGE OR COVEN.

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