Complete the diagnostic test.

Start a NROOGD based BOS and show it to Aidan and Melinda.

Set up an altar within your home. List the tools and items that you place on the altar in your BOS.

Read at least 15 minutes a day in a book on the reading list.

Begin compiling a glossary of General Craft terminology; this can go in your BoS.

History and Nature of the Craft
Read essays on Essential Facts about the History and Nature of the Craft and Five concepts of the Witch.

Read a recommended book on Craft history from the reading list.

 

Understanding the Craft Laws
Discussion of the revised Aporrheton 5.
Be able to explain the essential laws of magic and the ethical system of the Craft.

The Wheel of the Year: Origin, nature, and symbolism of the eight Sabbats.

 

Read data on the Sabbats in the Vocabulary for the Craft.

 

Selecting an area of interest and start the study of this. Example of this would be to pick one of the following:

Herbalism

Astrology

History

Divanation Systems

Magick

 

Write your own dedication ritual.

Requirements for the White Cord

Create a mandala chart showing the interlinked characteristics of the Sabbats.

Create a similar chart showing the Gods and Goddesses associated with the Sabbats.

Basics of the major divination systems:
Begin a survey of the major divination systems, in order to start finding a divination tool that works well for you.
Astrology
Complete the tables outlining the basic concepts of astrology.

Make a lunar calendar...look on line for dates and moon phases. Women: align it with your menses. This must be hand done!

Tarot
Learn two spreads (including the Mandala spread) besides the Celtic Cross.
Runes
Scrying
Pendulum
Make your own pendulum and board for reading.

For one divination tool, write a complete history on it, including where it originated, what native people used it, and how it is used. Also compare it to other divination tools, in how it is different, and how it is similar.

Learn how to make or acquire the tools needed for rituals, and how to consecrate them to the Craft.

Practice going to the meadow, 15 minutes every day. This will be given to you in training.

Write an agricultural report of your area, include what foods grow, what type of animals are raised, rain fall measurements for the past year. What type of plants, trees, vegetables, and so on grow in your region.

Astrological lesson provided.

The Chakras
Create a chart showing the seven chakras and describing their characteristics.

Psychic training, I: Meditation
The White Star:
The Root
Basic protection
Daily practice of these techniques is required.

The crafts of the Craft:
Herbalism
Oils and incenses
Woods
Candlemaking

Psychic Training, 2: The Pathway Between the Worlds:
the elevator;
the astral temple;
the meadow.
Daily practice of these techniques is required.
Write a new meditation induction for yourself, if this one is not working well. Show it to your mentor.

The Tools of the Craft
How to make or acquire the tools needed for rituals, and how to consecrate them to the Craft.
meanings, correspondences, uses.
consecrations, basic.
the tool meditations 

Theology
Make a list of ten Gods and ten Goddesses and how they correspond with one another; also list their aspects and where they originated.
Write an essay explaining why you have chosen your particular patron deity.

Working the basic circle ritual
Setting up a Craft altar
Ways of raising power

 

Requirements for the Red Cord

Cosmogony and creating a myth
Reading and discussion of creation and other myths.
Write an original myth.

Developing Psychic competence in one divination system
You must demonstrate to your mentor that you can carry out a genuinely psychic reading.

Using Correspondences to create Spells.
Use the NROOGD correspondence system to create rituals for binding, healing, protection, and banishing.

Candle Magic

Nature of Consciousness: the Three Minds.
Lecture/discussion on the real structure of human consciousness and how it gives rise to psychic abilities.

Psychic Training, 3: Working Between the Worlds
creating a familiar
Clairvoyance
Meeting the Gods:
Aspecting

Working an initiatory circle (if possible)

Training in casting the cone of power

Teaching
Mentoring a dedicant to the white cord. With supervision of the elders.
Creating and teaching a training class.
Be able to train others in our pathworking system.

Compiling a complete Book of Shadows

Complete the reading list agreed upon with mentor (must include The White Goddess).
Write an accurate essay on Craft history.

Principles of Ritual Construction
You will need to write, create, and produce a public, NROOGD-based Sabbat ritual.
Training in how to adapt the basic rituals to novel situations.

Advanced divination techniques

Advanced aspecting techniques

Original essay on Craft theology

Advanced studies in areas of personal interest


Requirements for the Garter or Black Cord 

The Garter can only be earned by founding and running a coven for a year and a day. To take the garter, a priest/ess will need:

A complete set of coven tools

Writing the Garter ritual

Making the Garter*

*There has been a debate with the larger NROOGD community that the Garter is taken. We feel that it is incorrect with the statement that any degree can be "taken" We do not and will not train in that manner. The Garter is earned.

The requirements listed here are not exhaustive, we will add more to the requirments, as we see fit.  

 

 

 

Updated on Febuary 24th, 2002