This Year's Committee

Natalia Popova, CUPS President 07/08

Natalia Popova

President

natalia@cardiffpagan.co.uk

Natalia is a second year student in European Politics and International Relations. She joined CUPS last year as a fresher, and immediately found it to be a very interesting and diverse society. Throughout the year she got more involved, and initially became secretary before being elected President in October 2007.

Within Paganism, Natalia’s main interests are the philosophical aspects of religions, tarot, runes and natural magic. Besides this she is interested in photography.

Cat Griffiths, CUPS Vice-President 07/08

Cat Griffiths

Vice-President

cat@cardiffpagan.co.uk

Cat joined the pagan society in September 2006, and has been an active member since. She recently joined the committee to fill the post of Vice-President in October 2007.

Connie Pretty

Secretary

connie@cardiffpagan.co.uk

Connie joined the pagan society in September 2006. She has been Wiccan for three or four years, and has been studying Tarot for longer. She works with a range of deities but particularly Celtic and Greek deities. Connie is in her second year at Cardiff University, studying Ancient History.

Andy Holland, CUPS Website Officer and Library Officer 07/08

Andy Holland

Acting Tresurer, Website Officer, Library Officer

andy@cardiffpagan.co.uk

Andy joined CUPS at the Societies Fayre shortly after arriving at Cardiff University, and found himself getting more involved throughout his first year. His direct involvement began with the creation of CUPS Magazine in December 2003, which led to the creation of cardiffpagan.co.uk in April 2004. He was also President of CUPS in the year 2005-06, and still takes care of the Society's website (for his sins).

Andy was introduced to Yoga, mantra and spirituality by his parents, and through the society he has developed and pursued interests in subjects such as Hermetic magic and Tarot.  If there were more hours in the day, not only would he rule the world but also learn Sanskrit.  In his private time Andy enjoys trying to avoid being sectioned under the mental health act, reading about developments in science and technology, indulging in sci-fi, roleplaying and other such geekery, and discovering new and exciting ways to be late for important things. He graduated with BSc (Hons) in Computer Science in 2006 and completed his MSc Data and Information Fusion with distinction in September 2007.  He is currently a PhD student within the School of Engineering, researching multi-camera systems for urban landscape mapping.

Kim Huggens, Offerings Magazine Editor and CUPS Library Officer 07/08

Kim Huggens

Offerings Magazine Editor, Library Officer

kim@cardiffpagan.co.uk

Kim Huggens has just completed an MA in the department of Religious and Theological Studies and Cardiff University, where she wrote her dissertation on the use of voodoo dolls in ancient Greece and Rome. She graduated with a BA (Hons) Philosophy from Cardiff in 2005, and is currently applying for a PhD in the university. Kim was President of C.U.P.S. from 2003-2005, and again from 2006-2007, and Editor of – and regular contributor to – “Offerings”, the online C.U.P.S. magazine from its first issue to the current issue. This year, she’ll be continuing the editorship, as well as taking on the post of Library Officer for the C.U.P.S. Lending Library, and helping to create the society rituals, run Tarot Coffee Club and Witchcraft 101, and give a few talks here and there on ancient voodoo dolls.

Kim has been an avid Tarot reader since the age of 9, and she is the co-creator of “Sol Invictus: The God Tarot”, the first and (so far) only Tarot deck to explore the Divine Masculine in his many forms throughout world mythology. (www.godtarot.com ; for the publisher see www.schifferbooks.com ) She is currently working on a companion deck with the artist Nic Phillips, exploring the Divine Feminine from an academic and historically accurate perspective. Every now and then Kim gives talks and workshops on Tarot, and is available for private readings and wonderfully cheap student rates!

An eclectic Pagan, Kim mostly works in the Vodou and Asatru traditions, though sometimes works with a few Roman, Greek, Sumerian, Egyptian, and Celtic deities. She’s a mythology freak, enjoys creating group ritual with a difference, is a rabid fan- girl of the Dorset-based Pagan folk-rock band “The Dolmen”, and a D&D player. She has far too little space for her many books, loves Glastonbury, and wishes she could read Sumerian cuneiform writing.