Welcome to the Light and Shadows First Degree Training course
Over the next year and a day you wiil be trained in learning the basic skills of the Craft in the tradition of Light and Shadows, and what is expected of you to be a quality member of the Light and Shadows Coven
There will be things expected of you within that time frame of this year and a day. Your resolve to commit yourself to the study of the Craft and dedication to your Spirituality will be tested and evaluated in order for you to progress into 2nd degree training.
Some so called witch colleges allow you to take your time and study at your own speed while charging you a monthly fee.
Here we take the year and a day training time seriously and by expecting a certain caliber of performance to produce quality covenmembers who are serious about their desire to practice the craft in a dignified and educated manner.
CLASSES
A new subject matter or extention of a subject matter will be presented every 2 weeks, with time for breaks in regards to mundane and family holidays. At the end of each time period give for the study and completion of each subject matter, you will be tested.
Nearly every Saturday evening at 6pm Pacific time from Nov 10th til September 20th there will be a chat for the pupose of Study halls to instuct you in the lesson at hand and pop quizzes, Here is the schedule for the classes:
Class Calendar
Tuesday, Nov 6, 6pm Pacific time: Orientation Chat
Wednesday, Nov 7 6pm Pacific time: Orienation Chat
#1 Saturday, Nov 10, 6pm Pacific time: Book of Shadows Class
#2 Saturday, Nov 24 6pm Pacific time: History of Witchcraft Class
#3 Saturday, Dec 8, 6pm Pacific time: The Burning times
#4 Saturday, Dec 22, 6pm Pacific time: Dieties and Elementals Class
#5 Saturday, Jan 5, 6pm Pacific time: Patron Dieties & Pantheons
#6 Saturday, Jan 19, 6pm Pacific time: Sacred Space & necessity of
#7 Sunday, Feb 3, 6pm Pacific time: Magickal Tools
#8 Saturday, Feb 16, 6pm Pacific time: Consecration
#9 Saturday, March 1, 6pm Pacific time: Intro to Meditation
#10 Saturday, March 15, 6pm Pacific time: Ritual Introduction
#11 Saturday, March 29, 6pm Pacific time: Spell Weaving
#12 Saturday, April 12, 6pm Pacific time: Candle Magick
#13 Saturday, April 26, 6pm Pacific time: Witches Closet
#14 Saturday, May 10, 6pm Pacific time: Magickal Wortcunning
#15 Saturday, May 24, 6pm Pacific time: Familiars
#16 Saturday, June 7, 6pm Pacific time: Spirit Guides
#17 Sunday, June 22, 6pm Pacific time: Ethics & the Rede
#18 Saturday, July 5, 6pm Pacific time: Living your Station
#19 Saturday, July 19, 6pm Pacific time: World of the Fae
#20 Saturday, August 2, 6pm Pacific time: Ritual Garb
#21 Saturday, August 16, 6pm Pacific time: Enlightened Living (inner child)
#23 Saturday, August 30, 6pm Pacific time: Preparing for 2nd degree
#24 Saturday , Sept 20, 6pm Pacific time: Final
Saturday, Oct11, 6pm Pacific time: Finals Due
Thursday, Oct 15, 6pm Pacific time: Graduation
Saturday, Oct 18, 6pm Initiation to 2nd degree
Most classes may be 1 hour long, be sure to make arrangements in your calendar to be able to stay the entire time.
All homework regarding a subject matter will be e-mailed to Qyzida at:
[email protected] and will be due no later than 9 days after the next subject matter is presented.
All homework and grades will be posted in a specific area after that. NO homework turned in after all the homework has been posted will be accepted.
Our training WILL not be extended beyond a year and a day, so you MUST keep up, or return to studying Wicca 101 and reapply next year to study 1st degree training again.
Lesson Guidelines
All homework turned in MUST be original work, not copied and pasted form sites online.
You can use quotes from online sources, but you will need to include the URL of your source and not make them the main bulk of your homework.
There will be study chats where a subject is discussed and homework given.
ALL homework is to be turned in e-mailed to Qyzida by the second Monday following Study Chat.
Any homework turned in late will require extra credit assignments.
All home work and grades will be posted the second Friday after Study Chat and NO homework will be accepted for that assignment after the posting.
Example:
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| | | | | | | Study Chat |
| | | | | | | |
| | homework DUE | | | | homework POSTED | Study Chat |
Penalty for missing 3 assignments completely will result in being released from training to return to the outer circle until the next training session begins the next year.
These rules may seem harsh, but it is serious path work we are doing and a trainee HAS to take it seriously in order to complete their training to be a Priest/ess. It's one thing to be a witch, and a whole other thing to be a Priest/ess. As followers of the Lady, She deserves the best we can give Her, not just the spare moments that we can find in our mundane lives.
We do not ask for payment for our teaching, but we do expect your respect and devotion to the Craft to show in the work you will do here.
There will be a few classes that will need to be given special attention by registration and completion of courses offered in the Lyceum. these are very high quality and indepth courses that do have a price tag, but the cost of them can be done in payments as described in the Lyceum, Please contact Lady Majyk for more information about that.
The Lyceum courses will be required, so the sooner you contact her, the sooner you can make financial arrangements for those courses.
RITUALS
Attendance and participation for
all Sabbat rituals is
required. The only acception for non attendance is a family emergency or dire illness both of which will require a detailed letter explaining the situation to Lady Majyk at:
[email protected]
Attendance and participation interrupted by difficulties with the internet are understood, but reconnection asap is highly recommended. Should you be cut off, since you did attempt to attend, you can aquire a transcript of the ritual by contacting Qyzida at
[email protected]
Attendance of a minimum of 20 Esbats, both Full and New Moon rituals are required. The only acception for non attendance is a family emergency or dire illness both of which will require a detailed letter explaining the situation to Lady Majyk at:
No worthy goal is met without sacrifice. Flexing the strength in yourself to prioritize activities in your mundane world to make room for studying the Craft is not enough.
You must excersize your right of choice and prioritize your studies in order to make room for your mundane activities even if that means sacrificng some mundane things in order to make studying the Craft your #1 goal. This will mean diligence and looking ahead, and anticipating the demands of the mundane world and letting them know ahead of time that you will be unavailable on certain nights. You needn't tell them "sorry I have a witch class that night." or "Sorry, we are having a ritual at that time."... Most Mundanes will accept the statement that you have a prior obligation sufficient, if not, then that's where the choice of what to sacrifice comes in.
Rearranging work schedules to fulfill your Craft study obligations may be one of the things you could have to deal with. So be prepared.
L&S training is not fluffy bunny witchcraft, it is a serious study of spiritual growth and enlightenment. As we expect a great deal from you, know that you will be receiving a great deal from us in training you to become an exceptional witch.
In order to graduate and go on to 2nd degree training and intitiation, you MUST have at least a 80% =
Grade Point Average by the end of the course.
We are striving to train special quality Priests/esses, not a quantity of mediocre witches.
If you cannot do better than 80% GPA, you may reapply for 1st Degree Training next year.
If you feel the requirements for training are too stringent, say so and return to the outer circle, no one will think less of you. Being a Priest/ess is not for everyone and it take many different types of people to make a world.
But if you are dedicated, diligent, and steadfast to this Path, you will do well indeed.
Any questions?
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