Requirements for Initiation
Adapted from Covencraft by Amber K
- Find the common beliefs, traditions, practices, and ethics of the Craft completely compatible with their inner experience.
- Have chosen Wicca/Paganism as your spiritual path for this lifetime.
- Have been actively exploring the Craft with this coven for at least a year and a day.
- Know certain skills and terms basic to the Craft.
- Have read certain books.
- Be willing to take an oath to honor and serve the Goddess and God within, in daily life as well as in ritual.
- Create a personal oath, declaring their spiritual and magickal goals.
- Work to develop and maintain strong, wise, caring relationships with each coven sister, brother and child; and to clearly communicate their needs, expectations and resources to other coveners.
- Actively participate in coven activities, and take a fair share of responsibility for planning, organization, and leadership.
- Choose a Craft name to mark a new stage of spiritual growth and explain to the coven what you will manifest in your life thereby, and when and where it may be appropriately used. (NOTE: Magickal names may be changed later, as the individual's work and needs to change.)
- Support the material needs of the coven through modest dues or financial contributions, donations of supplies, and/or time and energy toward coven projects.
Skills The Candidate Should Have
- Progressive physical relaxation techniques.
- The ability to center oneself emotionally, ground, concentrate, and meditate.
- The ability to enter a trance state, i.e. self hypnosis.
- Simple self purification or cleansing.
- One form of divination: Tarot, I Ching, Runes, astrology, pendulum, etc.
- Ritual Design and Leadership.
- Creating Sacred Space: cleansing an area, casting a circle, calling the quarters, and invoking the Gods.
- Drawing power from the ambient field, or specifically lunar, solar or Earth sources.
- Channeling energy to a specific target or purpose.
- Earthing or Grounding excess energy.
*All candidates must write a personal oath to possibly include: personal ideals, personal resolutions- goals for spiritual and magickal development, requests to The Lady and Lord (or specific aspects) for energy to meet these goals.