Hey everyone, welcome to Season 3 of Seeking Witchcraft.

As always, it's me, your host, Ashley, and today's episode is going to be an updated

Coven episode with a little bit of a twist.

Not only will I give you some information about covens in general, but I also have an

elder in the craft who's going to be speaking on the topic as well.

So please welcome, Patrick.

You want to introduce yourself. Hello. My name's Patrick. I've been around an awful long time. I

practice primarily Gardnerian Wicca, but that was not my first training in initiation, nor is it my

only one. Like many elders in the craft, many of us are multi-traditional. So I had

started out back in the 80s as a Georgian initiative and completed that training and series of

initiations. And then in the mid-90s, I sought out and took Gardnerian training.

Awesome.

So just backing up a little bit.

So I've talked quite a bit about Gardnerian on this podcast before.

And I've talked a little bit about other traditions as well, but I've never talked about Georgian.

Could you give just like a little snippet of what that tradition follows?

Sure.

Georgian Wicca is an interesting early hybrid of many different traditions of the craft.

And it was started in Bakersfield, California in the early 70s by a man named George Paterson

and Jill Johns.

Wasn't sure what name I was gonna use,

because over the years she's had many last names

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