My February 29th State of the Union update of NEPPS, MUFON, & Cot13M

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

There's a light at the end of the tunnel......

A friend of mine, MoonRaven, who wasn't present for the infamous night of theft due to personal circumstances, has been talking to me about not folding the Coven. She is willing to work with me to get the Coven up and running again. It's funny, she was not a member of the Coven yet, but is willing to do more than people that were in the Coven. The Gods work in mysterous ways, so maybe this is their way of telling me not to throw the towel in yet. For now the Coven consists of 3 people...me, myself, and I, and the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter.

BB,

Caedmon

Gone, Done, See Ya, & Adios

My Coven that I built from the ground up is done. All that hard work was wasted and because of a friggen thief within my Coven who swiped my PDA & Digital Camera. We met last Thursday night at a local diner which btw was where I first was introduced to my 1st Coven, fitting it was where the last one disbanded. 6 out of 7 Coven members were there. The lone Covenmate who couldn't make it was no where near where my PDA disappeared from, and was not a suspect. All the suspects looked me in the eye and without stuttering said that they had nothing to do with the disappearence. The thief lied to me and was good which ever one did it, or maybe it was 2 separate people, only the Gods know and they will strike the thief down without notice, so I am not worried because I know in the Gods eyes that I will be avenged. To steal from a candy store is bad, to steal from a Covenmate, well is worse. Anyhow, I want to thank the thief for not only ruining what I have put my all into, but the Spiritual lives of 5 other people besides me as well, plus your life in the eyes of the Gods. Good Bye Coven of the 13 Moons, you were wronged, but will be avenged. Your young life was cut short due to a piece of human waste who could not own up to doing what they did to save the Coven for the rest of the members. A word though to the ex-Coven members, the person who you were laughing & joking with is not who he/she claims to be, that person just knifed you in the back & is a wolf in sheeps clothing. So once again, I would like to say good bye to my Coven, unless the thief comes forward, you will be nothing but a faded memory and a lesson well learned.

Blessed Be,

Caedmon
HP of nothing anymore

How the 10 Commandments relate to Paganism

How does the 10 Commandments of the Old Testament relate to Paganism you might be wondering? How do they relate to a Coven? Most of them do believe it or not. I would say except for the first one, most of them do. Let’s first begin and look at the 10 Commandments:

The Ten Commandments

1. I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.

2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

3. Remember thou keep the Sabbath Day.

4. Honor thy Father and thy Mother.

5. Thou shalt not kill.

6. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

7. Thou shalt not steal.

8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife.

10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods.

How they are related to Paganism

1. Not related for we believe in different Gods who have different purposes.

2. Don’t use the Gods names to curse anyone.

3. Remember Sabbats and Esbats.

4. Honor & Obey your High Priest & High Priestess.

5. Don’t kill.

6. Don’t have sex outside your marriage unless agreed upon by the betrothed.

7. Don’t steal.

8. Don’t lie.

9. See #6.

10. See #7.

Why am I pulling out the 10 Commandments you might ask? Well here’s why. On this past Friday night, I had my Coven over to my house for a night of crafts on the Eve of Imbolc. We were making crafts to honor the Pagan Goddess (and Christianized Saint) Brigid. We made Brigid Dollies, wands, & Brigid Crosses. Everything was going great. We were laughing, joking, crafting, and listening to Imbolc Lore as read by my High Priestess, Berkana. I even asked my wife, Sunnie, to take some pictures with my digital camera of us as we were making our Crafts and after she did, she put the camera on the table. At the end of the night, everyone left one by one or two by two. My HPS & a Seeker stuck around after everyone left.

My HPS had given a ride to the Seeker and while he waited, he asked if he could use my computer which is located in my basement, to which I said ok. My HPS helped me make a wreath in the kitchen which symbolized the Wheel of the Year. Earlier in the night, my basement was used by my Coveners, of who I all trusted, who were smokers to smoke in instead of going outside since that is the only place in my house which I smoke. Anyhow the night was perfect, or so I thought.

On Saturday, everyone came over again to celebrate Imbolc. We had a beautiful Ritual in which my 2 toddlers even joined in the circle to celebrate the Sabbat. At the end of the night there was me and 3 Coveners left and I forgot to take pictures of our dollies and went to get my camera. I couldn’t find it, which is sometimes a common thing in my house, so I used my wife’s camera. Everyone left and I fell asleep watching TV in the basement.

On Sunday in the true Spirit of Imbolc, I did some Spring cleaning in my basement with my Altar. I cleared everything off of it, wiped it down, and polished it. I placed the “Wheel of the Year” wreath on my Altar and redesigned the rest of it to fit what I needed on my Altar. I went to charge my cell phone in the charger that is always plugged in next to my bar and found it gone. Not only was my charger gone, but my PDA/Palm Pilot along with its case that was on the bar! What the F***! I then went and tore apart upstairs to look for my camera & came up empty handed. I was now missing a digital camera and my PDA, the total value for both including the memory cards in each of them was $655. I was robbed! The last time I saw either was on Friday night, my PDA was on the table next to my bar and that was at 7PM and my Camera was about 10:30 PM and it was on the kitchen table. I remember now not seeing the camera after everyone left as I cleaned up. I ruled out my kids because they were out on Friday night & Saturday night. When they were home, they were upstairs only either in the Kitchen, Living Room, or Bedrooms. They did not go down the basement at all. I didn’t want to do it, but the blame went to my Coven, specifically those who were down my basement alone.

I put out a bunch of emails & text messages on Sunday and during the rest of the week until now about stealing and how it will effect them at least 3 fold or more. I have gotten responses back from people asking why I didn’t blame my teens, but that was simple….they either weren’t home or in the basement at all. Anyhow we were supposed to meet for a New Moon Esbat tonight, but instead we are all meeting at a local Diner to hash this out. Until I get my stuff back or $600 cash or money order for the missing property, all Coven activities are suspended.

I also have another idea too. Since it isn’t fair to effect the Spirituality of everyone, I could keep the people that weren’t in the basement as members of the Coven of which happen to be my first 2 students and my HPS. Is this fair to kick everyone else out because 2 out of the 3 people that would get the boot are innocent? What to do. I really thought that everyone who was in the Coven was in it with Perfect Love and Perfect Trust. This is why I started this off with the 10 Commandments because these not only hold weight in Judeo/Christian/Islamic Religions, but 90% of them in Paganism as well.

Will I ever get my stuff back? Maybe to Doubtful would be my response because a thief cares about nobody but themselves. A thief is not only selfish, but cold hearted. A thief has their own agenda and will go by only their own set of rules. Anyhow, I started some Spellwork to get my property back and if I don’t get my stuff back tonight, I will turn it up a notch and the thief will have to now deal with the wrath of the Gods. I will make their own negative Karma their biddings. I will cast nothing of evil intent, but their own treachery will be their undoing and they will have to deal with the way their life will go. Believe you me, my Magick is powerful and not only did they disrespect their Covenmate and their High Priest, but the representative of the God incarnate within their Coven.

Blessings of Darkness & of Light,

Caedmon