In the oldest creation myths, goddess creates the world out of her own body. The oldest temples celebrated goddess with ritual facilitated by women, her priestesses. The ancient rites in honor of Demeter were said to be women only rituals that celebrated the Blood Mysteries long before the state appropriated them at Eleusis. From puberty to menopause, females experience the blood mysteries with their own bodies.
The Dianic Tradition is a Women’s Mysteries tradition that celebrates the year of the goddess parallel to women’s life cycle events. Females restore meaning to our lives by honoring the rites of passage throughout the year, following the Goddess & Women’s Wheel of the Year with ritual celebrations. We are born into a world of patriarchal culturation since the common era. Women since then have been living in a world designed by men and for men. Dianic Tradition gives us a way to step outside of that culture to create a female centered culture with ritual and practices that develop Womancraft with ritual, divination and spellcraft.
Developing a Womancraft culture requires a mindset change because everything we’ve know and have, words and writing, tradition and culture, state and religion, have been created by men. Our aim is to discover who we are as females by accessing our intuition, our womb power and our connection to our ancestral mothers. With the seasonal ritual themes we access the magic of the earth’s mysteries that parallel our own, re-interpreting them through the lens of a female and goddess focused tradition.
To do this the Apple Branch offers a year-long, year and a day program that teaches the Dianic Tradition, Dianic magic and the work that dismantles patriarchy. It is self-paced and can be started anytime, although there is a unit for each month of the year in Diana’s Path, eight units for the seasonal celebrations of the wheel in Goddesses of the Wheel, and monthly units for Moonwork.
The program is for natal females. The spiritual magic of the Blood Mysteries (from puberty to menopause) is taught in the program, requiring life-long embodiment. Female power is in our womb. Through ritual and channeling that energy, we restore our memory and heal our ancestral wounds.
There are three programs woven into one: Diana’s Path, Goddesses of the Wheel and Mooncraft. Diana’s Path teaches the foundation of the Dianic Tradition including Blood Mysteries, Moon Cycle Charting and Spellwork, Spell Crafting, Invocation, and Divination. Goddesses of the Wheel follows the eight seasonal celebrations of the wheel with a focus on the female mysteries and goddess energies at each station. Moonwork is a monthly prompt system that connects the seasonal purpose with the cycles of the moon, particularly the waning and waxing, dark and new moon energies which determine timing for releasing and creating.
Moonwheel and seasonal altar making are required and will teach you how to do spellwork by the moon cycles and give you a fuller experience of the seasonal energies of the Wheel celebrations.
The program is written and taught by Sorcha Medea holds a Doctor of Ministry degree and is a Dianic Tradition HP and Apple Branch Faerie Faith Tradition HP.
The program has lots of links, slides and downloadables. There are projects for each unit. Moonwheel and Seasonal Altar pictures are the only projects required throughout. Additional information and prompts are shared by email, and google group.
Program includes eight seasonal wheel of the year online rituals
Subscription is $30/month
If you are ready to begin …