To the Online Home of Clan of the Cauldron. This is where you can come to find out about Numenist events, schedules, classes, rants, and so forth.
Clan of the Cauldron (CotC) is a teaching order of Numenism, sponsoring two Houses.
This is, of course, the opening page, the table of contents to what we offer. Please feel free to peruse this entire site. It is here as our gift to the Internet Community of Pagans.
If you wish to ask questions of us, you may do so by sending email to:
Clan of the Cauldron
We are no longer offering on line classes, as we have discovered in the past 4 years that it isn't satisfying to us or our Celebrants. The amount of good the Celebrant receives isn't even near the level we wish them to have. The basic first year information, however, will remain up and available for those who wish or need to use it. Please do give us credit for the information if you choose to use it in your own classes.
Do not post it on your own web site, however, feel free to link with us.
Clergy Information:
Those who wish to speak with other clergy of various Paths and Traditions may do so by joining the Pagan Clergy Emailing List at Yahoo groups.
For those who want or need clergy support, please join us at Pagan Clerics.
To become an ordained Numenist clergy, you must study with one of our Elders. After completing the study, you will be certified in pastoral counseling and qualified to start a Numenist House, perform marriages, funerals, and other Rites of Passage, and organize celebrations and charity events. You will also be qualified to teach new members, although not to the clergy-level. This will take several more years of experience and study.
Pagan Clergy Pocket Journal
The paper version of the Pagan Clergy Journal has been discontinued due to technical difficulties and a lack of interest. Instead, we have left the articles up that have been written so far, and have begun an interactive Clergy Journal online at LiveJournal. If you wish to read it,
it is called Pagan Clergy Ramblings.
If you wish to participate in it, you may post comments, or join the community. Joining it means having a LiveJournal account at this time, although we are setting up an AnyUser LiveJournal account through which any one may post.
The rules for posting are simple: Your name should be the very first thing you post. If it is not an opinion piece, please cite references. After the first paragraph, please use the codes that will truncate it and continue the rest of the article on another page. That code is: lj-cut set between the greater than and lesser than symbols to begin the cut and at the end of the article, enter this code: /lj-cut, set between the greater than and lesser than symbols. Voila! You have posted!
Schedule
New Celebrants are being accepted now on a limited basis at Blue Moon Keep.
Intermediate and Advanced Classes are Wednesdays.
Open Celebrations may be announced irregularly: Pagan Potluck Picnics, Corny Movie Night, Tea Parties, and such.
Bacchanalia, on September 27, 2003, will be open. It is an adult-only event, potluck, and please bring your favorite beverage. We will have non-alcoholic juices from local wineries for those adults who are designated drivers or are ot yet old enough to legally drink alcohol, and possibly a mead and local wines for the rest.
Please read the lesson on Celebrations before attending so you will know what to expect.
Numenism isn't an initiatory tradition in the primary levels. The information and practices are open to anyone who wishes to do them. If you read the Twenty Questions, and follow the lesson links, completing each lesson, and applying them to your daily life, you may consider yourself a Numenist, Celebrant level.
If you wish to start a Numenist House, teach Numenism, become an ordained clergy, or start a charity in the name of Numenism, you must contact us for the advanced courses and credentialing.
We are not a proselytizing religion, nor do we seek converts. All initial contact must be made and maintained by you. We expect you to show your willingness and desire to learn our religion by active participation.
If you drop contact with us before we get to know you well, and before you commit to learning and being Numenist, we are going to assume you aren't interested, and leave you be unless and until you contact us again. In other words, we won't nag you, hound you, or chase after you. If you want what we have to teach, you chase after us.
Charity Projects:
We have grown enough that we have been able to sponsor a few ongoing charity projects, and have one large project in the works.
Pagan Power Project:
Providing gas generated power to households during power outages caused by disaster or storm. In the three years this project has existed, we have provided emergency power to 117 households.
Pagan Pantry:
Providing meals to shut-ins, new mothers, and the needy since 1989.
Coming Soon:
In the planning stages is a self-supporting residential and transitional training center for people who are homeless or about to become homeless.
This will begin with a bakery/soup kitchen. We hope to have it open by June of 2005. Finally - a timeline!
CREDITS
The background is a standard offering from HotDog Express. Yes, we know it's obnoxious. Why do you think we chose it?
The Cauldron at the top of the page is from AOL shareware graphics
The bars are all from HotDog Express
The Dragonflight graphic at the bottom is another AOL shareware graphic
Contact Us
For more information about Clan of the Cauldron or this page, please send email to: Clan of the Cauldron
