Services we offer
Renewal coven is available to offer a number of services to the wider community, donations are gratefully accepted but
we do not set a pricing on what we do but rather allow people to offer what they feel is a fair and balanced reciprocity
to us.
The services we are able to offer are:
- Safe Space; as a coven and individuals we are experienced and trained in holding space for people. Sometimes folks need a space where they feel physically, emotionally and spiritually safe and we are more than happy to provide this.
- Pastoral guidance; it should be noted that no current member of renewal coven is a licensed counselor or therapist and pastoral guidance cannot take the place of therapy. With that proviso we are able and willing to help people talk through their life and provide guidance and direction from a spiritual perspective on the challenges they are working through.
- Mediation; in life it can be hard to get on the same page sometimes. In a non-confrontational we can help people find common ground, clearly define what their needs are and create plan to work towards that with others and smooth through some of the bumps in life.
- Patient advocacy; it can be hard to advocate for ourselves sometimes, especially in the mental health field. All too often Pagan and Polytheist faiths find their beliefs lumped in under symptoms of mental illness when they go to seek treatment. With a solid experience with the mental health system Renewal coven is able and willing to advocate for people who need someone to explain to mental health professionals what are sincerely held religious beliefs that should be respected and to help people hold and keep those boundaries.
- Divination; every member of Renewal coven is well practiced in divination and through the coven we can offer a range of different divining methods including scrying, oracle work, tarot and ogham.
- Cleansing; with a mind to sensitivities and allergies, both physical and energetic, we are able to offer cleansing and grounding of people, places and things to remove the energies that should not be present, help remove safely and ethically those connections that shouldn't be there and restore the harmonious flow of energy.
- Referrals; looking for a knowledgeable teacher of a specific tradition or skill set? Looking for a pagan friendly therapist or doctor that you don’t need to spend most of your appointment explaining why your faith isn’t part of the problem? Looking for a dedicated priest of a specific deity? We are always happy to point folks in the direction of good resources that we can personally attest to.
- Rites of passage and life milestone rituals; we are able and willing to work with your beliefs to help create and perform meaningful and personal rites of passage including rituals for birthings, namings, coming of age, handfastings, partings and divorces and passing over rituals for the dying and the dead.
- Marriages; we are able to perform legally recognized marriages in the state of Michigan and with suitable notice any part of the United States.
**A note on marriages and handfastings. As one might expect with any ritual there is a large amount of consultation that goes into preparing a ritual that is right for the people involved and that will involve getting to know you as people as well as the spirits and deities with whom you are connected. When that ritual is a handfasting or marriage we will also want to get to know you both as a couple. Joining with someone is a sacred and meaningful thing and before we can be party to it as officiants we need to know that the people involved are on the same page and fully consenting. We aren’t therapists or counselors so it is not really couples counseling but more a few pastoral guidance meetings as a couple before we can consent to officiate for a wedding or handfasting; in quite a similar fashion as the Catholic church approaches marriage as a sacrament.
Coming soon:
- Notary public; We are happy to offer notarial services for the community.
{Pending the approval of paperwork, not currently available at this time}