The mission of the Firefly Academy of Wicca and Witchcraft:

1. To provide an eclectic metaphysical education and support, focusing on Wicca and basic elements of witchcraft.
2. To create a stable online environment, which encourages freedom of expression, while being respectful of others.
3. To encourage students to find a greater understanding of themselves, the world around them, and the universe they live in.
4. To foster awareness of our actions and how we fit into the framwork of the world.
5. To help bring out the best in our students, as well as ourselves.

On October 15, 2006, the Academy opened its doors to new students for the first time.

SELF-MOTIVATION

Half of the courses offered here do not have prerequisites. However, the Wicca sequence offers self-dedication and self-initiation options for students who wish to take them. The purpose of these options is to give students more of a community or coven feel to their education. Though many of the students here will practice as solitaries, building a small heirarchy will foster elders and enrich the metaphysical experience for everyone.

After Wicca 1, students will have the option to perform a self-dedication ritual. This ritual is merely a promise to yourself and the Goddess that you will continue to study her path, though this promise is not to be taken lightly.

Dedicants (as well as non-dedicants who have completed Wicca 1) will then continue on to Wicca 2. At anytime after Wicca 1, a student can choose to dedicate themselves to further Goddess study. The same holds true for initiation. If a student does not feel ready to initiate, then he/she is more than welcome to hold off until ready. Each person travels at a different pace on a different path.

After completion of Wicca 3, students will then have the option to self-initiate. Initiation is a rite of passage, in which a student has reached a certain level of undertanding of the mysteries of the universe. Initiates are also called priests/priestesses, and take on an additional level of responsibility and awareness.

The completion of Wicca 3 will allow a student to enroll in an Independent Study in Wicca. This course is specifically tailored to each student. The goals of this course are to further one's magickal abilities, further master a divination technique, and to help students build a course/workshop to teach to others.

THE FUTURE

We hope to add more courses to the list available. This would mean encorporating more instructors into our school.

Lady Iris Firemoon hopes to travel to various cities to celebrate esbats and sabbats with open rituals with Academy students and friends.