Template for Pagan Ordination:

          Be sure to adapt to the people and situation you are working with!
  1. Create sacred space.
  2. Invoke Watchers and Deities as appropriate.
  3. Bring in candidate.
  4. Perform some action intended to separate candidate from ordinary ways of being or interacting.
  5. Perhaps some sort of challenge (this may also have happened prior to the actual ritual).
  6. Impart lore, mysteries or advice appropriate to your Tradition (hopefully something other than the Hebrew Alphabet!).
  7. Administer Oaths.
  8. Present candidate with symbols or tokens of new status.
  9. Announce or confirm initiate's new status to all present.
  10. Thank and dismiss Deities and Watchers.
  11. Return space to normal use.
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