It's February 29, 2008 and I chose Leap Year to give everyone an official update of my groups. But before I start, I want to send Birthday Wishes out to my Uncle Jim who turned 92 years old today. But since he actually celebrates his birthday only every 4 years he is officially is 23. Wouldn't it be great if you were born on a Leap Year to age accordingly? Any how, Best Wishes to you Uncle Jim!
Well its been almost 2 weeks since I posted and quite a few things have been going on. I'll start with my Paranormal Research Group, NEPPS and finish up with my Coven.
In NEPPS, NorthEast Philly Paranormal Society, we have gone through some changes. In order to not step on any one's copyrighted designs, we now have an official logo as you can see above. I asked a friend of mine, Denise (Moon Raven) to see if she could design a logo for me that incorporated Ghosts, UFOs, and Crop Circles along with our group's name in it, and she did an excellent job! Many thanks sweetheart!
The next change we went through is membership. Since quite a few members of NEPPS were also members of my Coven and since I disbanded my Coven, I had to let them go as well. It was a tough decision, but with nobody coming forward to admit that they stole from me and some people wouldn't stay with me if I didn't keep their friends, I just let everyone go. But for all those that departed, we filled the gaps with new people, and are up to 10 members now.
The 3rd and final change that we went through was coming up with a handbook for our group. A friend of mine named Kenny who is the leader of another Paranormal Group named PIRA met with me about 2 weeks ago to help me put together a handbook. He gave me some ideas and I met last week with Lisa who is the other Lead Investigator of our Group as well as a close personal friend to go over things. We met last Saturday and discussed personnel, planned investigations, and what to put in our handbook. We have quite a few leads to follow up on and have an investigation planned for April. Look for updates in the future! My next topic is MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network.
A part of my Paranormal Investigation Group, NEPPS deals with UFO Investigations. I encountered a UFO about 19 years ago and just last year I reported it to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) with as much information as I could remember, but thats another story for another day. Anyhow, I contacted the NUFORC back in this past January to let them know that NEPPS was here to help and the director of NUFORC told me about MUFON. I researched MUFON and signed on as a Journal Subscriber and hopefully soon a Field Investigator Trainee.
On this past Saturday I received in the mail my 1st MUFON monthly journal. The monthly journal keeps MUFON members up to date on various UFO cases as well as general UFO information. On this past Monday, I received in the mail my MUFON ID card and the 311 page Field Investigator's Manual along with the test I must take inorder to become a Field Investigator. So needless to say, any spare time I have right now is spent reading the manual and hopefully within a few weeks I will have the test completed and will be awaiting our first assignment. I figured that with at least me being an approved MUFON Investigator, it will be a major plus for NEPPS as we start to become more active and hopefully other members of my NEPPS group will take the test as well so that we will become a more rounded team.
My final State of the Union update deals with my disbanded, but soon to be reborn Coven, the Coven of the 13 Moons.
The Coven of the 13 Moons is about to be reborn come this Ostara! I was only going to take a Sabbatical for only 1 Moon cycle, but just this past week, the thief once again got his sticky fingers on something, my headset for my computer of which I haven't seen for about a month now and the last place I had it was on my bar next to my computer. I was looking for it because I was going to see if it worked with my son's PS3, and lo and behold it was gone. Hopefully this is the final total of which is now $685. With this set back, I decided that Ostara is when I will return as the High Priest.
As of right now, my acting HPS, Moon Raven is handling all related Coven operations until I return to full active status. I had quite a lot of friends that have dropped me occasional Emails encouraging me to continue and rebuild the Coven and not to let this hold me back as well as Moon Raven who stepped up and told me that she will help me too, and for this I have made her acting HPS since my old HPS has not talked to me in weeks and in not so many words has quit. My Maiden has left as well due to personal reasons, so the next person in line was Moon Raven who definitely has a lot of experience not as a Coven Leader, but as a Witch and is definitely a great addition to my Coven. As far as the rest of the people who were in the Coven, I tried several weeks ago for about a week to set a meeting and from the excuses I got from everyone, I could tell that this was not important enough for them to make time to meet nor was this a big enough part of their lives to meet up, so I decided that they were all out. Thank you mister or even madam thief, you really fucked me good by destroying something that I put hours and hours into only to have it destroyed, but from the ashes something better will rise up and be bigger and stronger than before.
I have decided that when we will get back on track, I will not take on any new students for a while, but will accept those who have some time in the Craft and while they may be Seekers, they are not Neophytes, but mature honest folks who have been Solitary Wiccans, but seek a Coven to practice with like minded people.
Ostara Blessings are around the corner!
Caedmon
