Raised last week - Welcome again, and again, to the family thrice adopted brother.
Brothers, I am heading in the other direction (PHA to mainstream). Being a newly raised MM, I am hungry for more illumination. My PHA blue lodge is stacked with 70-80 year old past masters and my line brothers and I are the new blood (in our 50's) sheesh.
It's very easy to find such lodges in any jurisdiction. Degrees bottomed out at least 10 years ago but we are members for life so membership is still near parity in most jurisdictions only now starting to climb again. Many lodges are not seeing petitions.
The mainstream lodges are more dynamic and alive. . . and many more events and tiled meetings going on for the new MM to consume.
You'll find active lodges in both local jurisdictions if you look around. Of course the larger jurisdiction will have more events.
I think it backwards for the GL of PHA to not allow dual affiliation (jurisdiction CA). . .Our CA Grand Session is coming up, and I wish to pose this question to the Grand Counsel.
On the one hand your jurisdiction your rules. I don't get why a jurisdiction would chose to only allow a brother to be a member of exactly one lodge, but I don't have to get it. I just have to follow the rules of any jurisdiction I join or visit.
On the other hand if you want to change it go through the line so you have a vote and start showing up and voting every year. The recognition agreement with GLofCA specified no affiliation because of that rule and it was carried forward to the recognition agreement GLofCA has offered to all other PHA jurisdictions as they are locally recognized.
I remember Hiram #12 MWPHGLofCA doing well, but I'm biased because they are tenants in our building in Pasadena.
In GLofCA there are a number of very active lodge near you. North Hollywood, San Fernando, Burbank, Pasadena all named after their cities. Wisdom in Pasadena, Culver City Foshay in CC are all busy with non-tiled events every month as well as good pipelines of candidates.