Week 1: Wheel of the Year questions

This is for week one out of the Wheel of the Year:

1.  Why have you chosen to take the first steps on the Dedicant path?
2. Is this a step on your path, or will this become the Path itself?
3. What do you expect to learn?
4. What would you like to get out of this journey?
5. Do you know where this path will take you?
6. If you have just joined ADF, why have you chosen to work on this immediately?
7. If you have been in ADF for a long time, why are you starting only now?
8. Does it look hard or easy?
9. Which requirements appear to be difficult to you now, and which appear to be easy?
10. Do you have doubts, question, or concerns that you need to ask about?

1. I chose this path because all others weren't quite right. I had been raised Christian, Lutheran to be exact, dabbled in Wicca, looked at Trad Witchcraft, Green Witchcraft, and various Brighid groups for flametending duties. It wasn't until I read Brendan Myers's book Mysteries of Druidry that I found a home for my faith. I then looked at OBOD, AODA, solitary, and of course, ADF. This course offers, for me, the best all around study, and I feel at home in the program.

2. I believe this is a step in the Path for me. I know this will be a long journey, and I hope the DP program can help me figure out the steps so I can further my relationships with my Goddess and the world, and the people in it.

3. Anything I can ! I want to learn how to run an ADF ritual, and also how to participate fully within a Druidic community. I expect that this path will never truly end, and I will continue to learn to the end of my days.

4. I hope to keep my love of learning and not burn out.

5. I would like to continue on after finishing the DP and start the clergy program. I feel that I am called to help further the community, and become a teacher.

6. N/A

7. I was going to start when I initially joined in 2016, but that fizzled out due to family, depression, and being solitary. I am now part of 2 Groves: Northern Roots and Banded Iron Proto-Grove, both in the Twin Cities. Having  them to work with me has helped tremendously! We started an actual Study Group (online, but still!), and it is keeping me on task

8. It looks both easy and hard. Until I get used to the schedule set by the study group, it will be difficult, since I am also a mom and a wife, and a crafter.

9. None appear, at this moment, to be any more difficult than any others.

10. At this time, no. This feels correct and right.