Where did we come from? This is a chronology of Tejas Web milestones, starting with the ever-unfolding present and moving back into the mists of time…

 

2016 November – Regional Dandelion Gathering

 

2015 November – WitchCamp: Through the Looking Glass

 

2014 October-November – Regional Dandelion Gathering

 

2013 December – The Pentacle of the Great Turning workshop

 

2012 October – Samhain Awakening workshop

 

2011 December – A Divination Restorative workshop

 

2010

• December – Dancing with the Fae workshop
• March – WildFlower Gathering

 

2009 October – WitchCamp: Cerridwen’s Cauldron

 

2008 November – Magic and Aikido workshop

 

2007 

• June – Speaking with True Tongues workshop
• March – WitchCamp: The Dwarves and the Dreamer
• March – Magical Activism workshop

 

2006 September – WildFlower Gathering

 

2005 October – Samhain WitchCamp: Dancing with Dionysus

 

2004 October – Samhain WitchCamp: The Mysteries of Lilith

 

2003 October – Samhain WitchCamp: Rhiannon

 

2002 October – Samhain WitchCamp: Isis and Osiris

 

2001

• October – Samhain WitchCamp: The Witch’s Journey
• March – Village WitchCamp (families): The Castle and the Village
• January – Tejas Web Elements of Community weekend

 

2000

• November – Circle Round Study Group cell forms (no longer active)
• October – Teaching cell holds open meeting on support for distance teaching and classes
• September – Family camp weekend
• June – Meeting on parents and children at camp decides to offer two full witch camps in 2001
• Spring/summer – Men’s and Parents’ Affinity Groups form (no longer active)
• May – Family camp cell forms (no longer active)
• March – 7th WitchCamp: Inanna

 

1999

• November – Community action cell forms (no longer active)
• Fall – Tejas Web gets its own domain name and moves web page to a commercial provider
• August – Tejas Web consenses on Reclaiming Principles of Unity
• Spring – Tejas Web e-mail list moves to an eGroup service
• April – 6th WitchCamp: Bridging Past, Present and Future
• March – Tejas Web gets 501(c)(3) (tax exempt non-profit) status

 

1998 

• October – Tejas Web consenses on its bylaws
• Fall – Teaching cell begins offering classes
• April – 5th WitchCamp: Baba Yaga
• Sometime in 1998 – First Tejas Web web page

 

1997

• November – First Spokes chosen to attend meeting of the newly-formed Spokescouncil
• October – Tejas Web incorporates, gets a PO Box, a checking account, and a sales tax permit
• May /June – Tejas Web structure meetings. Topics: how Tejas Web makes decisions, consensus body and cells, quarterly meetings, and pursuing non-profit tax-exempt status. Initial cells were defined as Communications (no longer active), Camp, Teaching/training, Ritual, and Financial/legal (which dissolved after its purpose, to achieve incorporation and tax-exempt status, was achieved.
• April – 4th WitchCamp: Tam Lin
• Sometime in 1997 – Tejas Web begins use of e-mail for announcements

 

1996

• Fall – Newsletter begins appearing on a quarterly basis
• September – Labor of Love Days weekend at Belle Springs
• April – Tejas Web consenses on Vision statement.
• March – 3rd WitchCamp: Twelve Wild Swans

 

1995

• October – Tejas Web offers Spiral Dance ritual at CMA Samhain and at (then) Planet Theatre
• September – Tejas Web consensus training workshop
• July – First Tejas Web organizational/planning meeting
• June – Tejas Web begins offering public rituals
  March – 2nd WitchCamp: Dismemberment of the Goddess
• Spring – Newsletter begins on an occasional basis

 

1994 March – 1st Tejas/Southwest Intensive (WitchCamp): Demeter and Persephone