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It’s a fact: everybody learns differently. You might think of yourself as not being smart enough to learn some things, but the truth is, it probably wasn’t instructed in a way that was compatible with your personal learning style. In her book Lies We Live By, Dr. Stephanie Burns details four basic styles of learning. Most of us lean strongly towards one or another. If you understand how you learn best, you can select instruction that will be more effective for you. A good Craft … [Read more...]
Because we have no firm standards of training for Witches and Pagans, many of us struggle with the issue of becoming a teacher. How do we know that we are ready? How do we know that we aren’t being presumptuous? I’ll just start by saying that anyone who extends themselves as a leader, teacher or organizer in the Pagan community is going to get “hated on.” It doesn’t mean you’re doing anything wrong; it just means that someone is threatened by you. Consider the criticism … [Read more...]
Seekers and Guides is a new column by Sable Aradia! Follow it via RSS or e-mail, or look for it on alternate Mondays. Merry meet! As a Witch who spends a great deal of time and makes some of her living by teaching Wicca, I’ll be writing this column to offer advice, discuss controversies, and find solutions for both teachers and students of the Craft. While my writing will primarily be from the Wiccan perspective because that is the path that I practice, much of it will overlap … [Read more...]
Basic Military Training Wicca Faith Group Serves the Faith Needs of Many A small cadre of dedicated volunteers, working under the auspices of the Sacred Well Congregation (an international Wiccan church and fellowship), is quietly leading the largest weekly Wiccan service in the world. Each week, a volunteer lay leader conducts religious education and services for two to four hundred Air Force basic trainees at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Nowhere else in the world … [Read more...]
Some recent conversations have led me to ponder the wisdom of the lesson of the element of Earth: to be silent. Along with this I have been contemplating this line from the Rede "“Soft of eye and light of touch; Speak little, Listen Much”. Furthermore, I have be focusing on the form and force of Elemental earth as well. One might begin to see a pattern here. Being an epic flame headed fire sign, I must admit that I have not always been the most tenacious in dealing with the other … [Read more...]
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