Magicians' Guild Minutes - November 15th, 1998

Members in attendance: Howard Fleischer, Michelle Harper, Rob Henderson, Rod Cox, Liz Benson

The meeting was opened at 2:10 PM.

Applications were first submitted by Rob, Rod, and Liz.

MOTION: To approve the applications submitted by Rob Henderson, Rodney Cox, and Elizabeth Benson. (Rob, Rod) passed 3-0 (Yes, we had to vote ourselves in, that's how the first approval works!)

After some discussion about what people were interested in doing within the local Guild, Howard and Michelle also submitted applications.

MOTION: To approve the applications submitted by Howard Fleischer and Michelle Harper. (Rob, Rod) passed 3-0

We then held our first election of Guild officers:

• Guild Master: Rob Henderson (approved 5-0) (ending a string of three consecutive assistant roles within guilds)
• Guild Scribe: Liz Benson (approved 5-0)

As per the Leadership Council's request at the business meeting, we discussed our role within the Grove community.

• We would like to develop a system of magic based on ancient Indo-European practices. Rod provided us with a tentative list of books and exercises for us to study IE practices. Howard suggested that we should appoint a committee (no! not the C word!) to further develop our local "study program".
• Rob recommended that Guild members provide mentoring services for Grove members who are taking part in the ADF Dedicants' Program. This would include discussing meditation techniques, journaling, creating an altar, and so on. Howard expressed concern that the local Guild should not get involved with a national ADF program, but Rob felt that this was a valid need within our Grove's community which is not being addressed. Liz expressed concern that this would be perceived as a counselling role, and that if we do decide to do this, we should be clear about exactly what "mentoring" entails.
• Rod would like to see Guild members doing magical workings for Grove members. This got quite a discussion going, to put it mildly! In the end, we agreed that it would be appropriate for us to help our fellow Grove members to develop magical workings for themselves, but it would be inappropriate for us to do the workings *for* them without their direct involvement. We also discussed creating an ethics policy, similar to that used by the local Seers' Guild.

We discussed upcoming topics for the monthly meetings:

• December: Creating Sacred Space Using Runes (Rod)

(Addendum: Michelle would like to give the January presentation, covering the book "Positive Magic: Occult Self-help" by Marion Weinstein. Thanks, Michelle!)

For future Guild meetings, we agreed to used a check-in procedure/ritual to open and close each meeting, using candle magic.

The meeting was closed at 4 PM.

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