Starting September 30, 2012, RCGI offers six amazing 6-week classes for a very affordable and low fee of $65. Reduced fees for participants currently enrolled in the Women's Thealogical Institute (WTI) in WTI Weekend Groups and/or the WTI Athena Online Program are $65-70. Fees for those not currently enrolled in WTI programs are $75-80. Email the Online Coordinator for more information.
1. Harvest & Hallows Ritual for the Home
2. Herbs Live II
3. Water/Goddess
4. Archetypal Art
5. Six Weeks to Live; Six Weeks to Die
6. An Introduction to the Wheel of the Year as a Spiritual Psychology for Women
1. Harvest & Hallows Ritual for the Home
Instructor: Bellezza Squillace
Solitary practitioners of the Old Religion struggle to create meaningful rituals and routines for themselves, and can often feel left out of the magick that happens in larger groups outside her time and space commitments. Join Bellezza for this deep and meaningful online class experience that explores four facets of the season beginning Oct. 15th's New Moon, the Harvest Full Moon on Oct. 29, and most importantly, the High Holy Day of the year at Hallows, ending with the mundane American holiday of Thanksgiving. This course is for the serious-minded solitary practioner who wants to raise her spiritual vibration.
WTI Credit: Ritual Elective for all paths
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2. Herbs Live II
Instructor: Roisin Carroll
This is a continuing journey with Roisin in the study of herbs. This Fall Session introduces five more living beings of the plant world; Spearment, Lemonbalm, Lavender, Rosemary and Bergamot/BeeBalm.
Participants will be introduced to the plants reading about their past uses, magick and ways to work with them in their busy lives. Roisin warmly reveals personal thoughts on her relationship with them, while inviting participants to share what they know, and encouraging them to open up to learning more about these delicate, yet strong plant energies..
It is a requirement for full participation acquire a small amount of the plant, to do each assignment every week to personally aquint yourselves with each plant, and to experience each plant's magick through one of the ways offered to you, and importantly each week, to share your experience with your peers by adding to the discussions. As soon as you register for this course, make every attempt to find a source for these herbs. There is also an option to get them from Roisin for the cost of the plant and mailing.
WTI Credit: Cella Earthwalker & Healer paths; Guardian Steward & Healer paths; Crone Cycle II.
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3. Water/Goddess
Instructor: Sid Reger, Ed.D., Ordained Priestess of RCG-I
We know that there's no life without water. But, do we understand how the waters of the world have played an essential role in the development of culture and mythology? In this class we will explore water goddesses from around the world-goddesses of oceans, sea travel, rivers, lakes, springs. We will also consider the importance of the waters of life and environmental issues relating to human use-and abuse-of water resources. Based on what we learn we will identify actions we can take to protect the waters of the world, and write a goddess invocation to support those actions.
WTI Credit: Electives in Matrifocal Cultures, Creativity and Activism
4. Archetypal Art
Instructor: Laura Keefe (lu)
Are you willing to know yourself more deeply by daring to take your Creatrix work to the next level? This is the class for those of you who desire to take a bold step into a sacred realm. During this session of Archetypal Art, we will be exploring the Matriarch and the Transformer; the last of our 13 archetypes. This class is inspired by the outstanding book The Circle of Life: Thirteen Archetypes for Every Woman by Elizabeth Davis and Carol Leonard. This book is recommended reading but not required.
WTI Activities: Electives for the Crone, Guardian and Cella programs include Creative Activities, MMD, Personal Growth, Integrated Studies
5. Six Weeks to Live; Six Weeks to Die
Instructor: Bellezza Squillace
As we approach Hallows, we can use its powerful energy to take personal responsibility for our own life and mortality. Years of emotional grief could throw our defense systems off and make us less able to process clearly and face hard issues. If you have put off thinking about your healthcare options and end of life arrangements because you don't know where to start or simply get scared, this course provides steps to get your options planned without a lot of stress. Each week focuses on the steps we are advised to take before crisis or age removes personal choices for our own care: Create a simple sick day plan; consider & set-up legal and medical forms for care & comfort in an unplanned illness, accident or advancing memory loss; review & discuss funeral options; then experience the freedom of soul living. Join us for six easy weeks and handle six very difficult topics. Its your life. And its your future.
WTI Credit will be given for the Guardian Mediator and Healer paths, for the Cella Healer & Organizer paths, and for the Crone Cycle III requirements. Specific electives include Body/Health, Ritual, Safekeeping, and Personal Growth.
For full WTI participant credit, you must complete all 6 weekly assignments and contribute to the discussions.
6. An Introduction to the Wheel of the Year as a Spiritual Psychology for Women
For many years, Kim Duckett has offered her workshop "The Wheel of the Year: An Earth-Based Spiritual Psychology for Women" at conferences throughout the country and often to standing-room only crowds.
This introductory workshop is the opening session of Kim's "A Year and A Day Sacred Mystery School for Women" (founded in 1997), a formal year-long curriculum through which participants learn about, explore, and celebrate the Wheel of the Year and the "seasons" of their own lives by attending monthly day-long learning intensives and corresponding community rituals.
In 2005 the Mystery School experience (known as WOTY) was made available to the larger Goddess/ Women's Spirituality Community through RCG-I. In this format, participants from around the country meet four times a year, in weekend Intensives, to explore the Wheel of the Year and women's psychology from a European earthbased perspective.
This online introductory class will offer an overview of how the Wheel has been perceived and followed mainly as a spiritual/ritual tool by general pagans/wiccan folk, those involved in women's spirituality, and Goddess women, before introducing participants to the basics of experiencing the Wheel as a powerful and helpful psychology for women. There will be a brief overview of the psychology of the eight holydays before we focus on several of the holydays in more detail.
Additional fee of $5 is added for materials to be mailed out to participants.
WTI Credit: Electives in Matricultures, Personal Growth, Ritual
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