THE 8 STEPS TO BECOMING A MEMBER OF THE VIRTUAL HHTC ONLINE CIRCLE
1) COPY DOWN THE HHTC FIRST DEGREE INITIATIVE, which is provided at the bottom of this page.
2) DECIPHER AND REWRITE THE HHTC FIRST DEGREE INITIATIVE in plain words, maybe even as an outline or list.
3) FIND A TEACHER, either through this website or elsewhere. Solitary Practitioners may opt to study alone, but this is not recommended.
4) ASK THE TEACHER TO BE YOUR TEACHER.
5) NOTIFY HHTC LEADERSHIP THAT YOU INTEND TO FULFILL THE HHT FIRST DEGREE INITIATIVE with a view to gaining induction into the Online Circle as a Good Seeker.
6) WITH YOUR TEACHER, WORK TOWARD SATISFYING THE HHTC FIRST DEGREE INITIATIVE REQUIREMENTS.
7) WHEN YOU FEEL PREPARED, PETITION HHTC LEADERSHIP, IN WRITING, FOR AN ASSESSMENT OF YOUR PROGRESS.
8) IF YOUR WORK SATISFIES HHTC LEADERSHIP THAT YOU HAVE ATTAINED GOOD SEEKER STATUS, AN INDUCTION RITE WILL BE PERFORMED ONLINE, or if gaps are detected in your work, you will be given avenues and resources to fulfill the deficits.
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"And so it is that ye mote be a Good Seeker afore a Good Heir, a Good Heir afore a Good Founder, a Good Founder afore a Good Ancestor, and it shall be that ye shall be known to be so afore thee shall know ye to be so."
--Ly. Leananshae
THE HAVEN HERITAGE TRADITIONS FIRST DEGREE INITIATIVE
Ye, Good Seekers, posessed of letters and their reading, shall each one take a teacher, knowing the secret of attaining one as being the asking, and ye shall respect all teachers as is reasonable to do so...the Book of Whimsy shall be thy companion and shall be maintained as a testimony of thy Seeking so that, upon thy rites, thou may glean from it for the inaugural of the Book of Shadows ye mote compose as a full and proper Wiccan...ye shall read pertinent volumes and keep a record of such verbs and nouns that at once confounded thee, having found and committed their meanings within that same record...ye shall possess a book of words, and also an almanac and be capable of their usage...Heritage holography shall be within thy knowledge...ye shall commune with thy brethren with wit and agileness through thy utterances, thy art, writings, and movements so that we of the material realms can well comprehend thy meaning...the pantheons of gods and goddesses shall be thy classroom and of two sets thy shall be a scholar, knowing as thine own earthly family, each personality and aspect...thy hand shall be plain and clear, legible without flourish, beautiful without overwrought lettering...ye shall walk the wild and find for thine own a white or yellow feather, the Sceptre of the Seeker, a quill of the air that has fallen natively from the wing or breast of a bird that keeps to the boughs and nay the lake...ye shall request and gain a shining star, the Seeker's Blade; a blazing quartz with fire in its heart so that a fire burns in thy South...a shell of any type, shall ye find near the watery shore, to be as thy Vessel, a receptacle that has the essence of the waves in its muted countenance...on a flat, dark stone shall ye place thy salt, thine earth, upon and place it in thy North; and flat this dark stone mote be, for it is proper that it should not be construed to have any receptacle of that of the Vessels, for it is a Shield true...begin a study of the Tarot... and rune stones or a pendulum shall rattle about in thy Seeker's bag, and they shall be made of thine own hand and ye shall begin their study...a Hedgewitch Shield shall ye know the use of and making and ornamenting thine own with Native Waters, the collection of which and the making of Blessed Water shall ye be well versed...ye shall know the Powers of the Magus and include their pursuit in thy Seeker's journey, understanding the Powers to be the Witcan Cardinal Shields...ye shall know the symbols of power: the Pentacle of the Heritage, the Quadraleikia, the Quadraphina, the Triple and Quadruple Aspects and all their references...the Wheel of the Year and the Lunar Calendar shall be within thy understanding as shall the Aeons, the Seasons, the Phases and Hours as the Cycles of Life... .ye shall know the Heritage Rede and the Sender for what they are and how they decipher Magick to the HHTC Wiccan...the Heritage Charges of the Goddess and God shall ye put down in thy Book of Whimsy...ye shall commit to memory the lyric and melody of three power chants...neomything and astrocartography shall ye comprehend...thine Rites of Dedication shall ye compose and lead...know ye some simple Circle Casting and comprehend the Quarters and Center...
It is now left to you, gentle reader, to decipher the "riddle" of Haven Heritage 1st degree requirements. If attaining that status is your desire, you now posess the information you will need.
SO WAS IT ONCE... SO IS IT NOW... SO SHALL IT EVER ... SO MOTE IT BE!
--Ly. Leananshae
