 Hello people! I'm Ginny Metherill and I am a fourth generation witch. Recently I've been doing a little bit of nagging. I know, not great is it? I know, I know, but the people I've been nagging are those who are solitary practicing witches and they don't want necessarily to be solitary practicing witches so I've been trying to persuade them to set up their own coven and so it wasn't until a teenage follower of mine called Rosa said but I don't know how to set up a coven that I suddenly thought that nobody has got any idea have they? So here is how to initiate and set up your own coven. But before we get started I have to tell you about today's sponsor Temu. Now I understand that quite a lot of you find these sponsorship videos not the most exciting so I thought that what better way than if I'm being sponsored by Temu to do an unboxing video I could run it as a giveaway for you. 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First of all we need to know what is a coven and a coven is simply a group of witches who get together quite regularly and practice witchcraft. Traditionally it was considered the number 13 to be the optimal number for a coven but my personal coven is only one of three because you know so the traditional number of 13 is to all to do with the phase of the moons throughout the year there's 13 moons within a year so each coven would meet on a full moon or a new moon or halfway through a new moon depending on you know what their preference was and so this is why they thought that as they were following this natural world you should have 13 of you. However in my opinion it doesn't actually matter how many members you've got my online coven has over a hundred members for example but my personal coven has only three and I know that they lots of people want to join that personal coven but the other two coven members like I don't know them no they're quite shy I think. So why would you have a coven? Covens are all about learning and increasing your magical ability every single one of us has magical ability and we might be better at some parts of magic than others and so if you were in a coven you can sort of cover all bases so to speak it also is an amplification one person is not as strong as two people who's not as strong as three people etc etc etc so the more people you have the stronger the magic that you can create traditionally covens were supposed to look at high magic high magic high magic it helps communities it helps groups of people whereas low magic which is the opposite would help individuals so you're looking at say curing a wart or getting some money or bringing in a new lover I don't like either of those terms which is why you've never really heard me talk about them because I think magic is magic and it doesn't really matter how you perform it it's all great so the first thing you need to do is to gather your members together and decide how often you're going to meet the meeting the traditional meeting was always at the full moon or the new moon depending on your preference I'm personally like a full moon because it's got some more light and you can see however a new moon is just as good next you need to consider the time will it be dusk or dawn or midnight I mean my coven or meet in the morning because you know we're all terribly terribly old and like to do a bit of covening and then have some lunch you know that's us the second thing you need to do is decide on a name um I have to say the covens of old had the most boring names like you know the new forest coven the kitchen witch coven the brick it would coven you can call your coven anything or nothing in fact my personal coven doesn't have a name nor does my online coven to actually I might run a competition for someone to name my coven I'd love to hear your suggestions on that the next thing you have to do is to look at the structure of your coven are you going to have a coven which is very democratic so highest votes wins are you going to have a coven with a leader whose word is final this is really important you do need to know the boundaries of your coven for example one member one month might want to do healing magic and one member might want to do magic for cash and so therefore you've got to decide how you're going to choose now I would no more be a coven leader than I would the man in the moon but that's just pure laziness on my part I'd not interested in leadership I'd far rather other people told me what to do it's much easier and that never happens I'm always thrust into the light onto the leadership really against my will I have no desire to lead people anyway here I am leading people so decide what sort of structure you need because it is important and then lastly when you've decided all of these issues you've got your name you've got when you've got to meet you've got your members sorted out you've got your structure organized in order to make your coven successful you should have an initiation so the very first thing you would have to do is to each of you cleanse yourselves it's really important not to go to a group meeting ever without doing a purification ceremony in the west country where I live there's loads of sacred wells which were known to be wells for purification so in the old days you'd have a bath in the sacred well however you don't have to do that here just make sure you're clean and then take some incense with you and give each other a snatch pull off any negative energies that you can feel and make sure that every person is clear and cleansed of their aura with smoke so lighting a fire for instance in the centre of your circle is an excellent way to manage this you can light a sacred fire and each of you can then walk around through the smoke of it however you can use incense sticks to up to you depending on how you would like to do this once everyone is beautifully cleansed then you can begin the circle you and your members will cast a circle and the circle you will say we cast this circle for the greatest and highest good of this coven now there is going to be initiation for each member into that coven and here is what I would suggest you do each of you stand around the circle and then together you will initiate the coven something along the lines of we are going to call ourselves the golden dawn coven and this is our initiation ceremony so then I would get each member to come forward to stand in the centre of the circle and ask and the formula that I used I think was I asked to be initiated into this coven I promise to support help learn in every way that I can and the rest of the coven members would then say we accept xyz into our coven and we promise to support and help them to our greatest and highest ability and there you have it your coven is now initiated and you can begin to do the workings of magic two points to remember every time you meet cast a circle for the greatest and highest good of the coven or to protect and keep the coven safe whatever is your preference make sure that you all ritually purify and cleanse yourselves at the beginning of each coven meeting I would love to know if you're going to set up a coven or you've got your own coven and what on earth your name is I really must come up with some names of mine in fact I'm definitely going to do a competition on that one if you want to come and join my coven do go to patreon.com forward slash Ginny Metheral and you'll find the coven meeting tier available for you or you can just join as a witchling because it really is helpful to me and enables me to continue making these videos for you and finally of course don't forget to leave the name of any of the items that you would like to win below so I can choose some winners and send them to you don't forget to like and subscribe because I love a subscriber and I will see you next week