Scott Chisholm Lamont, RN.

New Pages Added:

I was invited to be the speaker for the 2006 UNM Children's Hospital Memorial service, which was organized by the Mariposa Pediatric Hospice Program. You can find a copy of my homily on loss and grief here. It includes several Pagan elements, including the concepts of transformation, choice, continuance, and the five sacred elements.

I've posted a teaching handout on the basics of modern Paganism. It is focused on the needs of the dying and their families, as it was originally presented to a hospice program, but I may modify it to reflect Pagan beliefs about other life transitions.

I've added something new to my rituals section: a simple passing over ceremony. I've been working with a lot of death and dying readings to create handouts that are useful for the hospice program I work with, so that they can provide culturally appropriate care for Pagan families.

I am working on getting some pages up dealing with issues of community, particularly magickal and intentional community, and communication, particularly within magickal groups and communities. It will take me a while to translate everything I have into .html, not to mention having it make sense as separate web pages, rather than packets of handouts for classes, but bear with me and I will get it all up. The first things I have up are the Elemental Model of Communication, a way of describing communication styles in Pagan-friendly terms, and some general thoughts on community, described in the context of the community which I live in here in central New Mexico.

I have posted some pagan themed poetry on my writing pages - click here for the index page. More will follow.

I've posted an explanation of the decorations I place on my site that correspond to the Wheel of the Year.

I have also put up the first three ritual items in my ritual section. The first is, appropriately enough, an Imbolc ritual. It is intended for coven or small group work. I first performed this in 1999, and have used it since.

The second is a quarter call I wrote as a learning exercise in my training, but it worked so well that we used it to call quarters at the main ritual for Mabon one year. In New Mexico, the big community festival for the middle harvest is the Magickal Mountain Mabon, sponsored by Chamisa Local Council of the Covenant of the Goddess. The main ritual in question was a Ritual of the Fates, with my HP & HPS Albert & Sylvia Webb managing the circle, and Oz, Amber K, and M. Macha Nightmare aspecting the Fates. It was a fabulous ritual, one of the best I've ever been to (it is mentioned in Azrael Arynn K & Amber K's book 'Ritualcraft'). They held amazing energy for well over an hour as people went to the Fates they chose to consult (and there were a lot of people). It finished with the largest and longest Spiral Dance I'd ever been witness to up to that point. Since then, I've been to Reclaiming's Samhain ritual in San Francisco, so I've seen even bigger, but at the time it just blew me away.

The third item is also a quarter call, and was also written as part of my training. It is a commanding form of call. You can get away with that when evoking elementals - I suggest not using a commanding format when invoking anything, or calling entities which deserve our profound humility, like gods and goddesses.

I am planning on getting more rituals and pagan themed poetry up soon, keep checking back!

From my Witches' Voice Clergy Profile:

This is the spiritual homepage of Scott Chisholm Lamont, also known as MacLamont The Fireheart, a registered nurse and priest of Wicca. This page and its related pages mainly focuses on issues of Wiccan and pagan clergy training and the use and acquisition of knowledge. Theology, ontology, teleology, and ethics are primary topics, although principles of magickal practice will also be posted along with ritual and liturgy samples. This site is in its early development, and I am working from a list of topics to write the first essays to post here. This page also offers links to the other areas of my life that are touched by my faith: health care and the healing arts & sciences, family and daily life, the environment, politics, and art.

About Myself: I have been on the pagan path for over 20 years. I am an elder in the West Coast Eclectic Tradition of Wicca, and have experience with other traditions and with Shamanism. I am ordained through the Covenant of the Goddess (CoG), as is my wife, Shara, who is also my priestess. Together, we are the High Priest and High Priestess of Circle of the Winter Moon, a teaching coven that is a member of CoG in the Chamisa Local Council. We are both trained consensus facilitators and I am certified in conflict mediation. I also have training in family systems counseling through my work as a pediatric nurse. I am a founder and current member of the Board of Directors of Silver Moon Health Services, a non-profit health care organization in New Mexico sponsored by the local Pagan spiritual community. I am also a past Board member and a current Advisory Board member and faculty (both along with my wife) for Ardantane, a pagan learning center located in the beautiful Jemez Canyon in New Mexico. I am a current member and past Board Member of the Children's Astral Sanctuary of Healing Earth Wisdom (CASHEW), a registered non-denominational pagan church in New Mexico, and a volunteer with its affiliated organization, the South West Earth Festival Association (SWEFA), which sponsors several religious festivals each year in that state.

I am a published poet and author, including works in anthologies, nursing text books, and spoken word on radio.

Services Offered: Handfasting, Wiccaning, and other rites of passage; Consensus Facilitation and conflict mediation for spiritual groups; assistance with or creation of Rituals for individuals or groups.

Rates: Open to negotiation. An exchange of energy is always required, but I do not believe that the legal tender system is the only way to achieve that.