One of the things we now have on the ADF website is a listing of the various skills, strengths, and services that each priest can provide. The idea is to provide members a way to connect to a priest who can meet their needs when they require various services, particularly when they don’t have a local group or don’t know any priests personally.
I created my listing, and thought I’d share it here as well.
Rev. Jan Avende – ADF Clergy & Initiate (contact me at rev.jan.avende@gmail.com for help or more information)
- Advanced Seer
- Can provide help learning seership techniques common to all methods of sortilege (runes, tarot, ogham, etc.)
- Can provide help learning seership techniques common to oracular divination
- Can provide in-depth readings and advanced insight using the Greek Alphabet Oracle
- Advanced Spiritworker
- Can lead meaningful trance journeys for a variety of audiences using various trance induction techniques
- Can assist in writing scripts for successful trance journeys
- Can assist in initiating, developing, or troubleshooting diety and other spirit relationships
- Can trance journey on your behalf to contact spirits or problem-solve spiritual problems
- Can help you create an effective magical working for you to perform on your own
- Can perform magic on your behalf for a variety of purposes
- Experienced Liturgist
- Can assist in writing effective High Day rites, lunar rites, and meaningful devotionals
- Can provide scripts and templates for High Days and lunar rites
- Can provide prayers on a variety of topics
- Can pray for you for a variety of reasons
- Rites of Passage
- Can work with you and provide scripts and templates for a variety of Rites of Passage (including weddings, funerals, memorials, parent and baby blessings, gender claimings, coming of age, etc)
- Can officate/lead important rites of passage for you (including weddings, funerals, memorials, parent and baby blessings, gender claimings, coming of age, etc)
- Pagan Parenting
- Can share personal experience raising pagan children and navigating the various challenges that come with that (including how to pray with children around, how to involve children in a family practice, and providing resources for school regarding your families religious beliefs)
- Can help develop a children’s education program for your grove or small group
- Experienced Bard
- Can point you in the direction of songs for various needs, both in an out of ritual.
- Can provide recordings and lyrics to a variety of songs
- Can write songs for specific needs and purposes
- Can write stories for use in rituals or children’s programming
- Can write poems and invocations for various ritual purposes
- College education at the Ohio State University: Bachelors Degree (major in English, minor in German); Masters Degree (Grades 7-12 English Langauge Arts Education)
- Can provide help conducting research, writing study program responses, or learning how to cite your sources using MLA citation format
- Experienced middle and high school teacher
- Can provide help navigating and developing online course that meet best practice standards for adult learners
- Can explain complex ADF (and other religious) concepts in an accessible way
I do charge for many of these services, but generally work on a sliding scale. Additionally, members of my grove, as well as supporters of my Patreon, receive significant discounts. Here’s some basic price points for common services:
Service | Fee |
Weddings | $300 |
Wedding Paperwork Only | $50 |
Funeral | $100 |
Rite of Passage | $150 |
House Blessing | $50 |
Baby Blessing | $80 |
Parent Blessing | $80 |
Divination | $60 |
Magic Consultation | $60 |
Personalized Prayer & Image | $30 |
Misc Hourly Rate | $40/hr |
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