Former Names of the Fellowship

The Fellowship has existed under a variety of guises. Whilst some have been consecutive others have been concurrent and of course the name "Fellowship of the Dragon" has persisted (since its introduction) alongside all others.

Although the group originally started (in 1979) as the Circle of the Luna Light, the name "Fellowship of the Dragon" was adopted in April 1989.
Each name change has customarily marked a significant change either in the make-up of the core group, or in the focus of its specific interest of the time.

However, for some years now it has been acknowledged that all these name changes have to some extent been relatively superficial, for the informing spirit behind all the various manifestations has remained constant, and it is this informing spirit that is really being identified by reference to the Fellowship's "proper" name.

The likelihood is of course that there will continue to be adopted as yet unthought-of names to identify future projects and activities, but whilst they are infused with the guiding spirit of the Fellowship then they will still all be resolved back into the Fellowship of the Dragon. Thus it was agreed that "Fellowship of the Dragon" should be the one constant tag used to identify the core group in its entirety.

Identities and guises currently active are marked thus †

Circle of the Luna Light
The original group.

Albion Services
Originally called Albion Artwork Services, a commercial venture (graphic design studio) inspired directly by, and growing out of, the Circle of the Luna Light. It became very successful as a business venture but therein lay its ultimate demise, for materialistic concerns began to take a worrying precedence. Thus, after much soul-searching, it was eventually abandoned.

Pentacle
Another, rather short-lived, business venture. It never really took off, although with hindsight its clear that it was in fact the precursor for the much more successful DragonCrafts.

Fellowship of the Dragon †
The now-abiding name "Fellowship of the Dragon" was adopted during a period of quite dramatic (and indeed traumatic) changes, and marked the onset of renewed vigour in the group's activities, with a revitalised interest in the specifically Enochian aspect.
It was during this period that the group gained a fuller understanding of some of the very real hazards of working with the Enochian system.

DragonCrafts
Established as a commercial "front" (in the form of a retail outlet for Occult wares) for the Fellowship, it was in fact much more than this, being the very first occasion that the group had deliberately taken on an overt and "public face" in its own right, and it placed greater emphasis on the Witchcraft aspect of the group's work. Successful during its relatively short lifespan, it provided the impetus for the next guise...

DragonsFire
...which marked a distinct stage of development for the group that can best be described as a total embracing of an "Occult" or "Magical" way of living, regardless of the consequences.
The nature of DragonsFire was intended and planned to be a sort of twentieth-century version of a band of wandering bards and minstrels, but with the backing-out of some of the group the remaining participants in fact became travelling market traders.

Coven of the Silly Hat
This was the first Bedford-based manifestation of the group, and its activities had a huge and significant impact upon the group's future development, although this was not immediately obvious at the time.

Kaleidoscope
Intended as a Tarot Workshop, it never really grew beyond the fledgeling stage, although out of it evolved a distinctive "spread" (based upon the Celtic Cross spread, but with different meanings attributed to the card positions) that became the standard layout for tarot readings within the Fellowship.

Idiots of the Oblong Table
A re-emergence after a period of relative quiessence, this was yet another fundamentally important stage in the group's evolution and represented not quite a change in direction but certainly an important change in emphasis. It was in a sense a ratification of many of the lessons that had been learned in the earlier Coven of the Silly Hat, and marked the onset of a much more pronounced "religious" dimension.

Labyrinth †
Promoted as a "Pagan Web Community", it was the group's first entrance onto the WorldWideWeb, resulting from an understanding of insights, inspirations, and other experiences that at the time seemed to permit of only one possible interpretation.
With hindsight it became apparent that whilst the general sense of the interpretation had been correct, its implementation was probably somewhat wide of the mark.
Nevertheless it still achieved some minor successes in its stated purpose, and more importantly it was the school wherein the basic techniques of website construction were first learned.

The Vortex
Another fairly short-lived project, a spin-off from Labyrinth in the form of an ezine or web-based magazine.

The Phoenix Project †
The web presence of an impulse that has been constant throughout the life of the group - is in fact a direct effect of one particular implication of the Address - but has always seemed to be somewhat apart from, and running parallel to, the central focus of the group.

Tilting at Windmills (TawNews)†
A web-based journal focussing upon environmental and political activism and promoting alternative news sources and citizen journalism.
Tilting at Windmills is currently one of the cornerstones of the groups's web presence yet remaining largely independent of the other sites.

fotd-publishing †
This was set up specifically to act as a management and co-ordinating entity for the publishing aspect of the group's web activities.

Druinet †
A collaborative venture providing web-based resources for sites with which the Fellowship has an involvement. Most of the Fellowship-related sites and internet-based projects of the Fellowship are gradually being hosted as separate subdomains of Druinet.

DragonsCrypt †
Sister of the present site, maintained by a different webmaster, providing access to archived materials, resources and reference tools. The two sites (this and DragonsCrypt) are closely interwoven and internally are referred to as Site 1 and Site 2.

It is clear that a characteristic of the Fellowship is the possession of a dynamic and evolutionary nature as evidenced by its having given birth to or spawned many different entities and types of entities, some of which have patently carried forward the overtly Magical work of the Fellowship whilst others have pursued somewhat more conventional objectives. Yet each can trace a line of direct descent from the original Circle of the Luna Light, and can therefore legitimately claim an unequivocal right of inheritance.

Its probable that this pattern will continue for the forseeable future, as also its probable that some of these spawned entities may well give birth to yet other groups and projects, each of which will also be able to trace a line of descent.
And of course, the test of any such claim will be how faithfully these "children" adhere to the guiding ethos of the Fellowship as embodied (for example) in its core Texts.