The Web PATH Center, Inc.
Annual Meeting
November 13, 2004
Director’s Annual Report 2004 from Webweaver
This is The Web PATH Center’s Mission Statement which guides us in our choices and programs:
The Web is organized to provide religious and cultural community to those seeking earth-based spiritual guidance in an expression of 21st century pagan culture through ritual, one-on-one training sessions, retreats, classes and the arts.
In keeping with that Mission the Web held 2 pagan festivals this year. WinterFest traditionally holds to a shamanic format, SummerFest to an out of doors community camping experience following a spiritual cultural theme.
WinterFest 2004: Tarot Journeys, February 6-8, 2004 with Bekki, Crow, M’Lyssa, Rosewycke and Webweaver teaching workshops in tarot and non tarot divination tools. Our shamanic journeys helped us envision our own Web Tarot deck which remains a work in progress. 21 people attended
SummerFest: The Gods of Carnivale June 24-27, 2004 was to be a Web Home Coming, but we drew more new people than alums. Celebrating the Trickster Gods and the Maze, The Web conducted workshops, bonfire dances and fundraisers. 55 people attended all or part of the festival.
Seminars: The Web offered 5 Seminars some of them in place of Second Saturday night drumming sessions scheduled when KiaMarie Wolfe was no longer available:
Ritualist Training January 10, 2004 led by Webweaver, 10 in attendance
Tantra February 14, 2004 led by Ameya Spirit and boB. 13 in attendance
Dream Circle March 13, 2004 with contributions by Webweaver and Captain Dave
Sacred Sounds April 10, 2004 with Steve D’Annunzio. 18 attended. This was one of our few events for which registration payment was needed.
Opening Inner Visions, September 11-12, 2004, Webweaver and Merlin. The first of 3 levels of shamanic training. 17 people attended.
Sabbats: The Web observed 9 Sabbats during this fiscal year November 12003-October 31, 2004. These were facilitated by Webweaver and Merlin unless otherwise noted.
Samhain 11/1/003 41 in attendance with assistance from the Wicca I class
Yule 12/20/03 conducted by Pegqua and StoneFinder. 37 in attendance
Imbolc 1/31/04 9 in attendance
Lady’s Day Equinox 3/20/04 with help from the Wicca I class 21 in attendance
Beltane 5/1/04 at the home of Moonshine & Earth Child
Litha during SummerFest 55 in attendance
Lammas and the Full Moon, 7/31/04 - 42 in attendance
Mabone, 9/25/04 - 5 in attendance
Samhain 10/30/04 conducted by the Wicca III class, 28 in attendance
Esabats: The Web officially observed Full Moon Celebrations on the Friday closest to the event with a few exceptions. Unless otherwise noted, Webweaver and Merlin conducted the ritual. The Esabat schedule is:
11/8/03 including the Harmonic Convergence and Grand Sextile of the planets and the moon conducted by Webweaver, M’Lyssa, Rosewycke and Ameya Spirit.. 43 in attendance;
12/12 conducted by M’Lyssa,
1/ 9/04, conducted by Ameya Spirit. 19 in attendance,
3/6/04, conducted by M’Lyssa. 17 in attendance;
4/3/04 Pegqua and the Wicca II class facilitated the ritual with Merlin in the absence of Webweaver,
5/7/04 18 in attendance,
6/4/04,
7/2/04,
8/27/04 19 in attendance,
10/27/04 Webweaver conducted the ritual with the assistance of M’Lyssa in the absence of Merlin. We observed the lunar eclipse and grand quintile and lit the Need Fire for national renewal. 17 in attendance
Shamanic Journey Circles are scheduled on the second Saturdays and last Sundays with many exceptions. Those recorded were held November 8, 2003; January 10 & 25; February 14 & 22; March 13 & 28; June 12; August 29; September 26; October 9 & 24. Attendance currently averages 5 people.
Dream Circles: Growing out of the March seminar on Dreaming, we established a Dream Circle that met for 4 months. We are looking forward to re-instating this circle to encourage dream journals, lucid dreaming and dream healing. This is an area being developed.
Writer’s Group The Group began to meet to encourage creative writing in all forms. A number of people have had articles and poems and artwork published in PagaNet News and Sage Woman in the past year. This group meets a noon on the last Sunday of the month. Our meetings were held 2/29/04, 3/28/04, 4/25/04, 5/30/04, & 9/26/04 with 3-5 people in attendance at any one time.
Healing Sessions at the Web
On Wednesdays The Web continues to dedicate every Wednesday from 10am – 4pm for body work, energy healing and Web talks. Very few people make appointments but nearly every week is filled with walk-ins, including the healing team working on each other. Additional appointments for Soul Retrievals, Past Life Regressions, and Web Talks are offered each week on an as needed basis.
Classes
This year we were able to offer Wicca I twice. Wicca II included those students from the first Wicca I class but not the second. We are convinced it takes time to integrate the rituals and meditations to prepare the student for the next level of study. Wicca III was carefully re-worked to fit the 3 weekend format, and we still had to cut material. However the text was completed in full.
Wicca I November 7-9, 21-23, 2003
Wicca I March 5-7, 19-21, 2004 5 initiates 15 in attendance for the initiation
Wicca II April 2-5, 16-18, 2004 12 initiates
Wicca III October 1-3, 15-17, 29-31, 2004 9 students 8 initiates
Reiki I April 4, 2004 by Ginny Fletcher offered as part of Wicca II
Reiki I informal class August 1, 2004 Webweaver
Reiki II October 17, 2004, offered as part of Wicca III, 13 attunements from Webweaver
Kundalini Reiki I October 6 and 13 by Elaine Reed during Healing Wednesdays
Full Spectrum Healing 1, 2, & 3 on 10/20 by Elaine Reed during Healing Wednesday and again during Wicca III 10/27 by Pegqua, StoneFinder, M’Lyssa & Webweaver
Family Meetings: Family Meetings are held at least 4 times a year as a means of keeping in touch, evaluating the program and seeking in put from the membership.
Web Family Thanksgiving, November 11/29/03, 8 in attendance, and 11/30/03, 17 in attendance (snow dates for the Thanksgiving Dinner)
New Years Family Meeting January 1, 2004 16 attended this planning session,
Teen Meeting January 17, 2004
The Spring Dinner was cancelled for lack of advance dinner reservations
Summer Fest Family Meeting. June 26, 2004 about 55 in attendance
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Council of Trustees Meetings were held to conduct the administrative business of the Web. 11/16/03, 12/28/03, 2/22/04, 3/13/04. 3/28/04, 6/18/24 and 10/24/04.
Networking:
Starwood, July 2004, M’Lyssa, Ameya Spirit, boB, Dragon Shadow, Rosewycke, Merlin and Webweaver camped together with many other Websters around the grounds.
Stones Rising, Free Spirit and Witch Camp were some of the other Festivals other Websters attended. Earthchild and Odin’s picture from Stones Rising can be seen in the Samhain PagaNet News.
Angelheart Chapel in Newark holds Psychic Saturdays on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month. Many of us attend for healings and readings, aura photo’s and spirit drawings. The Wicca III class attended together October 16, 2004. Rev. Lyn and Chris have attended parts of SummerFest and other rituals during the year. Some of the Web members are also members of this spiritualist church.
Pagan Pride Events The Web had an information booth at FingerLakes Pagan Pride 8/28/04. Syracuse Pagan Pride 9/18/04 and Rochester Pagan Pride 9/25/04.
Reiki Share: A community Reiki Share is facilitated by Jennifer in Wolcott. Several Web members attend as often as they can. After discussions on healing, the members work in teams on each other.
Unfinished business
Children’s Programming: The Web has made a commitment in our intention to develop a children’s program that would follow the sabbats and include the Web children in our faith as much as possible. They worked well at SummerFest this year and last year, but has yet to take off for the regular sabbats and rituals.
Teen Programming: The Teens indicated a need to form a social network, but that is still in its preliminary formative stage and as yet has not really taken shape. A proposed Teen Wicca I class was postponed for lack or response.
Fundraising: We embarked on two major fundraising projects that have a lot of possibilities but are still not off the ground. One is the Web cookbook to include our favorite foods, ritual treats and family stories. The other is the Web Tarot growing out of last years WinterFest. We have not forgotten these projects, but they have been sidelined.
Committee Structure and Activities: The Council of Trustees has several committees, none of which are yet living up to their full potential. We seek involvement from the Voting Membership to share the work load more equitably. These Committees are: Finance, Policy, Nominations, Program, Children’s Programs, Fund Raising, Summer Fest & WinterFest. Step up and volunteer!
WebNotes. A number of us have struggled to get the newsletter out for the sabbats. We seem to be too busy to make the deadlines! More than half of the circulation is sent e-mail at a great cost savings.
Prisoners Ministry: We have asked for volunteers to adopt a prisoner and provide the financial support to send PagaNet News and the newsletters to the 29 prisoners who have found us through Grimassi’s Encyclopedia of Witchcraft. We need some one to organize the project. Although many prisoners would like pen pals, that is not what we are offering. You would remain anonymous unless you chose otherwise. Web return address labels are provided.
