Welcome to Gaia! ::

Well, I only started a year ago, and I don't have the time or transportation to get to the coven in my city. (There's only one. And it's faaar away.) If I had time to convince my older brother to take me I'm sure I'd love to work with a coven, but he's not going to do that anytime soon.
But I find I like being "solitary". (I have many friends who are thinking of making a coven.) It gives me time to make up my own spells, perform any ritual I like, and it gives me a lot of time for reflection. But then again, that's just me. But there are those times I wish I had people who could show me how to do some proper methods for some more complex spells.

I've found it difficult working with others. As far as wicca goes, you can't really tell how experienced someone is. Only you know truely, how much you practice and how much expertise you've aquired. I haven't found many serious practionners apart from here on gaia. I like having this group to help me out with questions I have, and I think that this is all the support I really need. All my casting and spell work, I do on my own. But I know that if I have problems, there are people here who are serious enough to help me out.

I don't have a coven and I don't work alone, I work in a open circle on my college campus. I like it a lot better then working alone. Even though it is an open circle usually we get the same people each time and develop relationships with them. Usually by the middle of the semester we are all hanging out on weekends and run in to eat other all over the place. The leader of my circle says that is because our energies mix during ritual. The leader of my cirlce has her own coven and she says that she just has to think of one of the persons in her coven and with in a day she sees them. It is a pretty unsual occurance but it is really neat. I like working with a group because we get to learn together, plus I like other peoples views on things that I might not have thaught of before.

I don't know what preconception most of you seem to have about covens, but mine is literally just three of us. We set it up ourselves a few years ago, it's not exactly rigid about rules or anything, but it's really cool because the high priestess knows soo much about everything and she's a really great teacher. I think, even among friends, there should be covens as sort of pools of knowledge even.

My heart goes out to those who have to work alone, while it's better for some spells and ritual work, it is very nice to have someone to ask all of those dumb questions to. smile

in reguard to my last post above. After wrting that at the library on a public computer I collected my stuff and headed to my first class of the day. Once I had walked out the doors of the library I ran into one of my friends from my circle. It was really funny because I told her what I had been doing and we both laughed. Five minets did not even pass between writing that post and seeing my friend. It is a truely amazing thing the way that bond works.

I have not yet found a coven (or rather I haven't asked to join or been invited to one), but that doesn't mean I won't in the future. I know by my nature I'll generally prefer working alone or with a relatively small group. I have done a group ritual, but it was an open circle more than any sort of coven. I'd be more interested in finding a scholarly, knowledgable mentor than joining a coven.

Hm. I'd love to be in a coven. Not a huge one, but maybe 6 or 7 people. However, one day I'd like to celebrate a sabbat with a ton of people. Like twenty people at least at a big gathering. I imagine the energies passed around would be interesting. Love to try it. :/ Sadly, there are no coven's in my city. T__T