Okay, everyone take a deep breath.
Now let it out.
You've just completed the Basics of Witchcraft course. If you choose to study them, additional materials and articles still lay ahead. But before we get to far ahead of ourselves, let's do a quick recap and look at what we've learned so far and decide what our next step will be.
If you've completed all of the lessons from this course, you've learned how to sense, raise, and channel energy. You can create a ritual from scratch, for any reason that you may need one. You understand how to determine if a spell is necessary and, if you need one, you can create one in the same manner that you write your rituals. You've begun to explore the concepts of sacred space, both within your home and in an outdoor environment. You've connected with the Goddess and the God, with the sun and the moon, and with the Elements which make up all of life. You now have an understanding of Esbats and Sabbats to explore your own practice with. There is nothing lacking in your training. At this point, right now, if you find that this path is right for you, you have more than earned the right to call yourself a witch.
If you've leapt at this course and are studying it before additional courses becomes available, you're going to have a little bit of time to fill. If you've just discovered it and additional materials await, beckoning, I'd advise taking a little time off and practice what you've already learned before moving on to the new lessons - even if it's just a month or two. Apply what you've learned. Use these concepts and techniques. There is a reason we refer to it as "practicing" witchcraft after all.
You may be asking, "Jeffrey, I've finished the Basics of Witchcraft course. I've developed this outdoor sacred site as you've asked, but you haven't had us do anything else with it." Feel free to go back to it. Connect with the energy. Instead of holding a ritual inside, go hold it outdoors. In later materials (especially a new course that I'm writing called "The First Cycle"), we'll be working with the site more, but for now simply begin experiencing its energy. You have all the tools at your disposal, right now, to work with the site. In the coming sections of this course, we're simply going to apply advanced techniques and principles to heighten your work with Nature and Mother Earth.
Go back over the material you've covered. Ask yourself, "What do I want to learn? What do I want to connect with?" and apply the concepts and techniques you've learned already. Being a witch isn't something that you're born doing; it's a path that is earned. Practice, study, and practice some more and you'll be well on your way to finding what you seek.
Just as many of the lessons from the course built upon the previous material, weaving it into concepts and techniques you could use, so will the coming lessons continue to build on the material you've learned here. The better grasp you have on the material we've covered here, the more quickly you'll absorb the more advanced lessons that I teach. We're going to work deep into the Craft and cover a great deal of material. There's a spirit realm to work with, the earth's energy to heal, shamanic journeys to travel on, techniques for personal growth to develop and use, mythology to understand and create, and entire worlds to explore.
I congratulate you on finishing the Basics of Witchcraft course. And I wish you well in your journey. If you haven't found what you're looking for here, I truly hope that you'll find your heart's desire on whatever path your spirit leads you. And if you've found your spiritual home in the lessons I share, I am truly honored and blessed to have had a tiny part in that.
And just think, there's much more to come.