WytherWyskers
I'm solitary but would give a coven a chance if it ever came about. I think solitary is better though because you don't really have to adhere to any rules and there is no commitment to make.
Okay, I have to disagree here.
Through personal experience, sometimes it is nessecary to get an outside opinion, and the reason being is: you could be doing it wrong.
*Gasp!* Oh, no! Eclectics doing it wrong?!
Yes.
Let me give you an example.
When the internet was young and information was scarce, my husband (at the time a really good friend of mine) was reading and studying on the magickal arts. One of the first things I tried to teach him was shielding. I told him that it is to protect from spiritual attacks/harm, and I personally visualized a mirrored sphere encompassing me to both deflect harm and become 'invisible'. He took this to note, and continued his solitary studies.
We married later, and several months afterwards, we found ourselves moved to another city. Trying to network, we met some people and had an evening out with them, winding up back at their house. The priestess was a high priestess of the Starkindler tradition, and we were talking shop with her (yes, this story is posted in another guild, but it's value does not depreciate). We told her about our young studies, and our working on shields.
She gave my husband a critical eye, and a moment later, he rubbed the back of his head. Apparently his 'shielding' was just that - his visualization was that of him holding a large shield in front of him. He left his back completely unguarded. Apparently in my explanation of shielding, I had missed actually telling him how it was imparitive to encompass the whole body, not just his front. I described my shield, but never explained it's usage.
sweatdrop SO....getting outside information, working with groups, this is kind of important. You can only learn so much from a book, you can only learn so much from yourself without affirmations through others. It keeps your mind focused and gives you a literal 'reality check'. Look at it as testing theory through scientific method.
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