Teaching & Learning

Learning in the Sacred Glen Coven

Teaching what we love is a great joy. But we can only teach in joy if we know that what we love
will be used and shared with care and honor. Before we are willing to teach you, there are
three things and a fourth that you must promise us:

1. Will you respect and protect the confidence of all who you meet in this Circle and Coven
and all who seek our aid, revealing their identities to no one except by their explicit permission?

2. Will you practice and teach the Craft for love alone, using this knowledge or teaching
it only as a free gift, as I give it now to you, never accepting payment for it in money or goods or labor?

3. Will you promise never to use what we teach you to affect another person, avoiding not only
baneful magic but all well intentioned meddling, unless you have that person's explicit permission
except in defense of your life or those of your loved ones?

4. And if time brings fullness, as all here hope and expect it will, when you teach new students of your own,
will you require these three pledges of them, along with their pledge to similarly bind their own students,
so that all that spring from this line may be so pledged?

Journal

For A Season of the Year, 3 Months

Your journal is a magickal diary and a recording of your progress. Many people will fear that someone will read it and hold something against them. This is a time to remember the rule of three. If they do, it will come back on them threefold.

We live much more magickal lives than most of us realize until we look back by ourselves or with the help of others.

Dreams – As soon as you wake, write down as much as possible of any dream that stays vivid.

Déjà vu – Do you have a feeling that a place is important or familiar? This could be clues to a past life or something hidden.

Strangeness – Did the grass seem to not blow in the wind until you did a double take?

Daily thoughts on the nature of the Divine, Nature and Magick.

Anything else – Nothing much happening today? To stay in the habit, say anything on your mind.
You might be surprised what comes when you write.

Sacred Glen Reading List

These books are to familiarize yourself with concepts that we use and those held by other popular traditions.
Many of the earlier books had a definite impact on current thought.

There will be no test on specific material but a grasp of the subjects within must be shown.

We strongly suggest that before you attempt any exercises or spells listed in some of the books that you
talk to your teacher(s) first and never do them alone.

The Truth About Witchcraft Today	Scott Cunningham 1988, Llewellyn Publications.
To Ride a Silver Broomstick	Silver Ravenwolf 1993 Llewellyn Publications
Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner	Scott Cunningham 1988 Llewellyn Publications
Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner	Scott Cunningham 1993 Llewellyn Publications
The Sabbats A Witches Approach to Living the Old Ways	Edain McCoy, 1998 Llewellyn Publications
Buckland's Complete Book Of Witchcraft	Raymond Buckland 1986 Llewellyn Publications
A Witches' Bible: The Complete Witches Handbook	Janet and Stewart Farrar 1996 Phoenix Publishing, Inc.
The Witch's Goddess	Janet and Stewart Farrar 1987 Phoenix Publishing Inc.
The Witch's God	Janet and Stewart Farrar 1989 Phoenix Publishing Inc.
The Pagan Path	J. and S. Farrar/Gavin Bone 1995 Phoenix Publishing Inc.
The Spiral Dance (Rebirth of Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess)	Starhawk 1979 Harper & Row.
Drawing Down the Moon	Margot Adler 1979 Viking (reissued by Beacon Press).

Classes

Classes will be offered at a location and time that will be made known to each student. Classes may be taught to a group or to individuals as fate has it. Classes run no less than an hour, often more. Novices are expected to do independant research and be prepared to discuss the subject. Readings form our list are often associated with classes.

1. History of the Craft History of the Craft.

2. Ethics Ethics of the Iridescent Spirit and the Greater Community in general.

3. Wheel of the Year A discussion of the Sabbats and Esbats.

4. Grounding and Centering One of the most important abilities and lessons. This is required for any later working.

5. Traditions and Deities An overview of the different traditions and nature of divinity. One of the most controversial and charged discussions.

6. Quarters/Elements Meanings of the Quarters and the Elements.

7. Meditation and Visualization A guided meditation for general effect will be taught during this class.

8. Tools and Consecration The tools we use on the altar, their meanings and how to make and consecrate your own.

9. Ritual Writing Examines the basic structure of ritual and how they are conducted. Novices will write their own basic ritual.

10. Divination Divination methods. Novices will try some methods.

11. Dedication What is Dedication. Self Dedication and Coven.

12. Psychic, Herbal, Candle, Protection, and Sympathetic Magick The Many Forms of Magick.

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1. History of the Craft	History of the Craft.
2. Ethics	Ethics of the Iridescent Spirit and the Greater Community in general.
3. Wheel of the Year	A discussion of the Sabbats and Esbats.
4. Grounding and Centering	One of the most important abilities and lessons. This is required for any later working.
5. Traditions and Deities	An overview of the different traditions and nature of divinity. One of the most controversial and charged discussions.
6. Quarters/Elements	Meanings of the Quarters and the Elements.
7. Meditation and Visualization	A guided meditation for general effect will be taught during this class.
8. Tools and Consecration	The tools we use on the altar, their meanings and how to make and consecrate your own.
9. Ritual Writing	Examines the basic structure of ritual and how they are conducted. Novices will write their own basic ritual.
10. Divination	Divination methods. Novices will try some methods.
11. Dedication	What is Dedication. Self Dedication and Coven.
12. Psychic, Herbal, Candle, Protection, and Sympathetic Magick	The Many Forms of Magick.