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CIRCLE OF THE GREEN

 

Curriculum for First Degree Initiates Pursuing Second Degree

Last Revised: Season of High Summer 2007

 

This curriculum is a self paced program combined with workshop-style instruction. Quizzes, written assignments, journal work, and live demonstrations of skills you have learned will be used to observe your progress.

 

Required Texts

- The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image by Cashford and Baring

- The Book of Tridea.pdf (original to Circle of the Green)

- Shakti Mantras by Thomas Ashely-Farrand

- TBA Herb Book

 

Tridean Tradition and Ritual Element (experiential with assignments)

- Writing Ritual with a Purpose

- Working with Group Energy

- The Priest/ess Path

- Volunteering Project

 

Goddess Element (mentored assignments)

- Goddesses of Greece II: Cashford and Baring Chapter 8 pgs. 299-345

- Crete: The Minoan Goddess: Cashford and Baring Chapter 3 pgs. 106-144

- Isis of Egypt: Cashford and Baring Chapter 6 pgs. 225-272

- The Hindu Goddess: Shakti Mantras (complete text)

- Monthly Goddess Journal Assignments

- Sacred Blood and the Goddess (workshop)

 

Healing Element

- Reiki (workshop) ???

- Herbalism 2: Oils and Brews (workshop, mentored, self guided)

 

Transcendent Element (workshops) ???

- Lucid Dreaming and Astral Projection

- Spirits, Divining, and Scrying

- Chakras and Energy Work

 

Research Project

Choose a topic to research that somehow coincides with this curriculum. It can be the same topic you chose for your first degree essay so long as you have new information and the topic can be fully expanded upon. Check with your mentor regarding your topic before beginning your research. Your paper should be at least three pages long, double spaced, with one inch margins, and typed in a 12 pt. plain font like Times, Arial, Verdana, Bookman, etc. Your name, the date, and “Second Degree Essay #1: Research Project” should appear in the top left corner. Please staple all pages together. 

 

Quizzes

- Goddess Quiz #2

- Hindu Goddess Quiz

- Herb Quiz #2

- Ritual Exam and Presentation

 

Recommended Reading List (newly added books in bold)

- The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler

- The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo

- The Great Mother by Eric Neumann

- When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone

- Virgin, Mother, Crone by Donna Wilshire

- The Spiral Dance by Starhawk

- Goddess Path by Patricia Monaghan

-  The Great Goddess by Jean Markale

- Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs

- New Encyclopedia of Herbs and Their Uses

- Herbal for the Childbearing Year by Susan Weed

- The Triple Goddess by Adam McLean

- Once and Future Goddess by Elinor Gadon

- The White Goddess by Robert Graves

- Queen of the Night by Sharynne MacLeod NicMhacha

- The Language of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas

- The Mists of Avalon Series by Marion Zimmer Bradley

- The Moon Under Her Feet by Krista Kintsler

- Goddesses in Every Woman by Jean Shinoda Boan

- Crossing to Avalon by Jean Shinoda Boan

- The Witch of Portobello