🎓 Course Tutor: High Priest Lucian Moon, MLA, Head of Domus Liminis
🎯 Level: Beginner and onward
🔑 Prerequisites: None
🏆 Mastery Stream & Credits: Liminal Arts (Domus Liminis) — 1 Credit (100 points)

📜 Course Description

Across every culture and century, humanity has reached through the veil to honour the dead, commune with lineage, and remember the stories that shaped them.
In this deeply reflective and transformative course, students will explore the ancient and living practices of ancestral veneration — including altar work, offerings, spirit dialogue, lineage healing, grief, and the weaving of memory into daily life.

Through poetic scholarship and grounded spiritual practice, Ancestral Connection & Veneration: Remembering Through the Veil guides students to build meaningful, ethical, and personal relationships with their ancestors — whether of blood, culture, spirit, or myth.
Students will learn to navigate the ancestral field with reverence, safety, and clarity, and to integrate ancestral wisdom into the ongoing story of their own becoming.

✨ By the end of the course, students will:

• Understand ancestral cosmologies and cross-cultural traditions.

• Create sacred spaces and altars for ancestral work.

• Practise offerings, prayer, and symbolic dialogue with ancestors.

• Explore and begin healing lineage patterns and inherited wounds.

• Integrate ancestral guidance into daily life and spiritual practice.

• Work confidently with chosen, cultural, and mythic ancestors.

• Reflect meaningfully on grief, memory, and legacy.

• Ground their work in ethical awareness, respect, and clear boundaries.

• Recognise their place in the continuing ancestral thread.

• Employ meditation, journaling, and ritual to deepen connection and remembrance.

📖 Course Modules:

Lesson 1 — At the Threshold: The Call of Ancestral Memory
Lesson 2 — Blood, Bone & Beyond: Defining Ancestry
Lesson 3 — The Ancestral Field: Spirit, Energy & Continuity
Lesson 4 — The Ancestral Altar: Gateway Between Worlds
Lesson 5 — Offerings, Prayer & Dialogue: Speaking Across the Veil
Lesson 6 — The Lineage Wound: Healing & Transmutation
Lesson 7 — The Weight of Grief, the Gift of Memory
Lesson 8 — The Living Lineage: Integrating Ancestral Wisdom
Lesson 9 — Beyond Blood: Chosen, Cultural & Mythic Ancestors
Lesson 10 — The Eternal Thread: Legacy, Devotion & Becoming an Ancestor

📥 Course Access Requirements

To access this course, students will need a device (computer, tablet, or smartphone) that meets the Canvas system requirements.
 👉 View system and browser requirements 

You can also access your course on the go with the Canvas mobile app. From any device, students can:

• View lessons and grades

• Submit assignments

• Track progress with the built-in calendar and to-do list

• Send and receive messages

📚 Additional Resources

To fully enjoy and engage with this course, students may find the following useful:

• Journal or Notebook — for reflections, insights, and private writing work.

• A Small Collection of Natural or Symbolic Items — stones, candles, flowers, bowls of water, incense, etc., for altar-building activities.

• A Quiet Space at Home — for meditations, ritual exercises, and devotional practice.

• Optional Ritual Tools — such as candles, incense, offerings, or sacred cloths, though none are required.
  
  

This course is supported by a recommended reading list, offering texts on ancestral veneration, lineage healing, and cross-cultural remembrance practices. Students may also join the Academy’s Student Circle Facebook community for discussion, support, inspiration, and exclusive opportunities.

📝 Coursework & Submissions

This course includes a variety of written reflections, short quizzes, and creative assignments to help you deepen your understanding.

Assignments are submitted through Canvas and are evaluated based on:

• Clarity of expression

• Creativity, insight, and originality

• Understanding of the material

• Sincere effort and engagement

✍️ Coursework Load: Moderate

Students can expect to spend 2–4 hours completing assignments, in addition to meditation, reflection, and reading time.

🎓 Mastery Stream & Credit Information

🏠 House: Domus Liminis (Liminal Arts)
🏆 Credits Earned: 1 Credit (100 points)

This credit contributes toward progression through the Mastery Streams as part of the Academy’s structured training and advancement system.
To learn more about how credits support your journey toward initiation and elevation within the tradition, please visit our Training Paths page.

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