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Teachers offering classes in the Mid-Atlantic region come from a variety of traditions, backgrounds, and talents. The following teachers (in alphabetical order) have volunteered information about themselves:
L. Aerianna Tayerle: I most often describe myself as a Shamanic Artist and a gardener. My art is my magic and much of my magic is art. Art for me is about embodying the divine. It is my portal key to other realms and my means of recording prophetic vision. The other part of my magical practice is very common sense and down to earth. It's about sustainability - living right sized and in balance, and is reflected in my second passion, gardening. I learn from compost and plants. The green ones are my allies- as are crow, and goldfinch, and worm. I teach magic, art and gardening workshops, often combining all three.
My goal when I teach magical and mundane workshops is to help others seek and define the Divine within themselves and to integrate their magical and practical lives. I have been a witch for over 20 years. I am a Reclaiming Initiate and have lived, learned, and taught within the Reclaiming tradition for many years. I have been part of Mid-Atlantic's emerging Reclaiming community since the day in 1994 when someone asked me: "You're a witch, do you think if we held a WitchCamp here on this coast we could get people to come? Could you help?"
When I was 5 years old, I had a dream about a sepia colored cavern extending as far as the eye could see and lit by torches hanging from the wall. In a corner, seated at an ornately carved wooden table, was an old woman in black, leaning over a huge leather bound book. She wrote with an old-fashioned ink pen and as drops of ink would fall onto the page, they became mice which scampered off in all directions. I awoke and told my mother that I had dreamed of a "witch writing mice". Weird? Definitely. Prophetic? Maybe. I now serve the Goddess by helping others to write the story of their lives. I use tarot and peer counseling techniques as my primary tools. Hopefully, my clients take these droplets and scamper off in all directions. My passions are tarot, creative movement, drumming and dreaming.
AnnS has been a Witch for many years and is a founding member of Evergreen CUUPS. She has been teaching Magic for several years and has co-taught Elements of Magic and Psychic Gifts several times. She is a proud member of the Pagan Alliance of Nurses. Ann is a healer and long-time political activist and has attended New York and SpiralHeart Witchcamps.
Aurora Dragon is a witch who has been practicing for about 8 years and has been working in the Reclaiming Tradition for 6 years. She lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband, 2 dogs, 4 cats and 2 turtles. She is an avid reader, dancer, singer, environmentalist, human and animal rights advocate, volunteer wildlife rehabber and sometimes poet. Being dedicated for several years now in helping to create a Reclaiming Community in the Philadelphia area she has helped teach Elements classes in the past and is often involved in planning rituals, group studies and other events. While enjoying a broad and eclectic range of study in the craft and paganism her main areas of study at this time are in Faerie and Dragon Magic.
Like the northern lights, Aurora's magic is illusive, often subtle and sometimes spectacular. She is a long-time Reclaiming, Feri and Fire & Ice priestess/teacher who has worked in the US, Canada, Europe and Central America. She is a professional life coach and Yoga Nidra leader. These days, Aurora is deepening her exploration of subtle practices that take us past what we think is happening into the spaces between the molecules - where the dance of spirit and matter is continuously inviting us to join in the creation of all we vision.
Axiothea is a witch, mother, lesbian and computer geek who lives in Delaware County, Pennsylvania (just south of Philadelphia). She has studied under Brightflame and Northlight and is an active member of the Delaware Valley Reclaiming Community. She considers herself a well-rounded practitioner of magic – sort of a “Jane of all Trades – Master of None”. In her former life she was a public school teacher and loves to share her knowledge and experience with others. When not working in her mundane job, organizing the next DVRC activity, or knee deep in some home improvement project, she spends her time with her children and her partner and tries to make the world a better place to live through the everyday magic of recycling, composting, and speaking out for peace.
Birch is a queer witch who has been teaching/priesting in the Reclaiming tradition for over nine years and recently completed his Reclaiming Initiation. He has taught at Reclaiming witchcamps up and down the east coast, and other Reclaiming classes throughout the southeast and at his home in North Carolina. His current work focuses on using magical principles as a way of developing community and community leaders, the healing power available to humans in the natural realms, and opening to the divine. Birch relishes his hermit side and practices shamatha-vipashyana meditation regularly. He is a devotee of the tarot, and has been working with White Tara, the green dragon of peace and healing, and Brigid. In the past couple of years, he has been spinning and knitting magic.
BrightFlame is a teacher, writer and priestess who brings forth Mystery. She has been a presenter and priestess at Womongathering (an annual spiritual festival drawing over 300 women) for 11 years. She is on the teaching staff of WomenCircles (Rowe Camp). She offers classes, rituals and events in Bucks County, PA, drawing students from Philadelphia and New York City. She has offered many iterations of Elements of Magic (the basic class in Reclaiming Witchcraft), as well as Reclaiming's Pentacle of Iron. BrightFlame has also served as an organizer for Vermont Witchcamp, one of the Reclaiming Summer Intensives. She is on the core committee of the Reclaiming Community Resource Collaborative (RCRC)--an effort to help seed and feed local Reclaiming Communities.
BunnySlayer is a young witch in love with life. Some of the labels
that she goes by includes lesbian, witch, anarchist, activist,
artist and animal lover. BunnySlayer is an active college student
in her mundane life. She resides in the North Carolina Charlotte
area and loves the land that she has come to call home. Spike is
the name of the boxer/bull mix who has adopted her to teach her
the joys of living the furry philosophy. In her role as a witch
she is involved and interested in simples, deep dreaming, animal
communication, journal work, sacred art, and creating the new myths
of her time. She is 1/6th of a fine circle of witches intent on
healing themselves and the world. As an activist she is involved
in beginning to form a Gay/Straight Student Alliance at her community
college, volunteers her time for animal causes, and speaks out
daily on the injustices that she witnesses.
Catwrenae credits her strong connection with Mother Earth to growing up among the sometimes-harsh realities of the life-death-life cycle that surrounded her family's well-being on a dairy farm. She later lived in Arizona for 8 years where she deepened her connection with the Earth in the solitude of the desert. She has a graduate degree in cognitive psychology and has been teaching psychology and sociology for over a decade at the college level. More recently, she has been studying and teaching environmental science. She has been a student of the Dances of Universal Peace for several years.
Chelidon is a devotee of the bardic arts, including the skills of word, rhythm, instrument and voice. He is dedicated to allowing time and space for the infinite diversity of Tales to be shared. His other loves include history and mythology, medicinal and magickal herbalism, and art made with wood, metal, stone, chocolate or pixels. Much of his inspiration comes from the wild, untamed and ferocious beauty of nature, especially the woods of New Hampshire, where he lives in an intentional community with his wife, Claudia, son Forest, and much-beloved family and friends.
Claudia Manifest has taught at numerous Reclaiming Witchcamps, weekend workshops, community based classes, and was the instigating and creative force behind 2 previous Magic of Art Restoratives in Maryland. At restoratives she often takes the roles of Kitchen Witch, Time Priestess, and House Mage, preparing meals and living spaces in sacred space, and taking the lead in facilitating the rituals that are also meals.
Crow hails from the lush bayous and concrete-and-steel canyons of the Texas Gulf Coast. She is a storyteller via the craft of professional fiction writing, and her fiction may be found in many magazines and anthologies. She has taught Reclaiming classes in Houston, and at Tejas and Midwest Witch Camps. She works in magickal partnership with the Fae, the Ancestors, the Gods, and her harps to name, transform, and heal demons and shadow through the power of story.
Crow has been practicing music magic since his teenage years, and moving energy
with music continues to be his life's passion, especially playing music in
sacred space. For the past 10 years he's been actively providing music and
leadership for his Dances of Universal Peace community. Crow's been at Reclaiming
Witch Camps for the past five years and giggles at enhancing ritual with music
and inciting playful participation. He's is a member of several local and national
bands and has performed and recorded with many well known artists include John
McCutcheon, Robin and Linda Williams, and Tom Paxton. Along with playing music
professionally, he's on faculty at the local community college teaching the
mysteries of mathematics. Crow lives in central Virginia with his partner Willow
and other loving bears.
davis was a spiritual wanderer, drinking deeply of the many and varied fruits of Quakerism, Sufism, Taoism, ceremonial magick and Shamanism until he attended Witchcamp in 2004. Since that time he has found his home in Reclaiming. A healer by trade and predilection, a hippy by style, a lover and defender of nature and the ideals of Peace and Social Justice, in his spare time he is constantly learning something new. davis has taught both as faculty of the MidHudson Institute for Family Practice and as part of the faculty of CraftWise College, and has co-facilitated healing path at Vermont Witchcamp.
Dawn Isidora became involved with Reclaiming while still living in San Francisco some twenty-odd (and she does mean odd!) years ago. She took on teaching Reclaiming Tradition Magic after moving to Portland, Oregon over a decade ago and still feels as passionately about it as she did in those early days. Dawn is a founding member of both the local public ritual cell and Teaching cell. She is among the ever growing numbers of *professional priestesses* and offers spiritual counseling as well as doing a lot of teaching, both in her home community and abroad. She has been very involved in community mentoring in the forms of developing needed curriculum, training new teachers and working with initiates.
Dawn is a Capricorn, the mother of two wonderful sons,
a retired professional belly dancer and an initiate of both Reclaiming
and Feri. She believes that to love and be loved by the gods is
best actualized by seeing and loving one another -- in all our
humanity. Dawn is especially called to work with life force energy
in it's healing and celebratory aspects of sacred sex -- and has been rumored
to flirt with both humans and Gods rather indiscriminately.
Donald L. Engstrom describes himself as an artist, gardener and Witch.
He has been involved with Mystery and the Spirit Peoples for over twenty
years.
Donald’s roots spring from Queer Spirit, Hedge Witchery, deep dreaming,
art making, and the exploration of the sacred realms of sex and pleasure.
He is committed to the building and nurturance of the emerging Cultures
of Beauty, Balance and Delight. He believes that we are all Co-creators
of the Multiverse.
Donald suspects that it is high time that we choose to take on the continual acts of creation needed to build these sustainable ways of life. He knows in his bones and blood, that we all have the power to bring these emerging cultures into out daily lives. He no longer is willing to wait for some nebulous future revolution to begin to live a life fully awake and rooted in the Earth embracing pleasure and wonder. Donald begins each day with this prayer;
“I dare to dwell in beauty, balance and delight.
I dare to see with clear eyes and an open heart.”
It also brings him great pleasure to encourage folks to also dare to embrace their own authentic selves, remembering that they are their own authorities, and that they can always choose to experience the beauty that surround us.
Donald suspects that when a community of authentic selves does come together with clear intent and purpose, that that community then truly enters the Realms of All Possibility and that their dreams become flesh and bone, earth and stone.
Donald has taught for over fifteen years in the Reclaiming Witch Style; in his local communities, at Reclaiming Witch Camps, at Radical Faerie gatherings and at other events through out North America and Great Britain. He is an initiate of the Reclaiming Tradition and a senior Reclaiming Witch Camp teacher. He has been studying and working with the Ancestors intensively for several years.
Donald has lived his whole life in his beloved Prairies. His current home gardens are in Minneapolis, Minnesota, nestled in arms of the Upper Mississippi Valley.
Donata Pahnke is a ritual woman who has been active in the Reclaiming community since 1987 and was a co-founder of the German Reclaiming Witchcamp in 1996. She teaches religious (Pagan) studies at various universities, a certified body therapist, an author, and a teacher of ritual, tarot, trance and psychic energy work. Her web site is http://www.Selene-Institut.de (in German). (Translate it at http://babelfish.altavista.com.)
I am an earth witch, lover of the green world, and priestess in the Reclaiming Tradition. I've been a part of the SpiralHeart witch camp community for over 10 years. I love sensing and working with our inter-connectedness, in all realms. My current passionate explorations include honoring the wild, cultivating joy and ecstasy amidst chaos and exploring the many forms of daily devotional practice. I am also passionate about getting to know people - their stories, what makes them tick, feel alive and connected.
I work as a mental health and addictions counselor in a rural community where I feel honored to be a part of so many journeys. I adore collaboration whether it's for a client who needs resources or with other witches in a ritual. I am filled with gratitude to be living in the foothills of the Shenandoah National Forest, surrounded by the beauty of the green earth, the white moon among the stars and the mystery of the waters.
Eva has been an active member of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans for several years and is a storyteller, poet, and teacher. She has taken Psychic Gifts once and Elements twice, going on to co-teach a children's Elements class.
Garnet has been a Reclaiming Witch since 1995, teaching classes and helping to organize public rituals and events in the community. She is a fey witch initiated Reclaiming-Feri. Her passions include investigating Pennsylvania Dutch Powwow, and going farther and deeper into the Anderson Feri tradition. She is delighting right now in the many wonders the earth is providing us in spring allowing her to play in the dirt and participate happily in the earth’s magick.
Gretchen is a mystic Granny Reclaiming WitchCamp teacher who has served a wide community as Wise Woman, healer and teacher/mentor for over 15 years. Her passion is building community and being with children. Her spiritual practice is centered in compassionate self care and the discipline of her body's needs. She is a dedicated Priestess in the ever present Temple of Order, Beauty and Comfort, and a Witch of Health. She creates her North Carolina country home daily with her beloved partner, Dave.
Honeycomb is a witch and priestess in the Reclaiming Tradition, and an early member of the DelVal Reclaiming Community. She came to Reclaiming after almost thirty years as a solitary pagan, and has stayed there despite occasional temptations and explorations elsewhere. A massage therapist and hospice worker, her primary interests are in community building, healing work and advocating for the rights of the dying. Honeycomb is a student in Public Ministry at the Cherry Hill Pagan Seminary, a gadfly activist at meetings of her local government, and an all-too-infrequent writer. She has taught within the local community and at the DVPN Crystal Ball.
Irish Flambeau is a devotee of Venus inspired by the Reclaimingtradition. She worked as a psychotherapist for a decade, and is nowinterested in integrating psychotherapy with pagan spirituality and healing methods. Her activism is currently centered on leading Dances of Universal Peace in her home community, at peace demonstrations, and in developing a body of pagan circle dances. She has contributed to the Atlanta metaphysical publications Oracle2000 and Aquarius, and the national publications Reclaiming Quarterly and newWitch. See more of her work at http://www.feyfolk.homestead.com.
Joyce has been a Witch for 11 years, involved in both the Reclaiming community and a traditional hierarchical coven. She seeks connection with Divine Universal Energy through meditation, ritual, nature, and art and is dedicated to continual learning and growth. Her journey toward transformation and wholeness has led her down many fascinating paths, including Wicca, the Pathwork, Sekhem-Seichim-Reiki, Kudalini Yoga, Radical Forgiveness, Shambhala Meditation, Holotropic Breathwork, and Vocal Awareness, and she has had the great fortune to make spiritual pilgrimages to Crete (with Goddess scholar Carol Christ), Ireland (with Starhawk), Peru (with a native shaman), and Turkey (with a group of Reclaiming Witches). She completed intense personal work with the elements as part of her preparation for her second degree initiation. She is grateful for the gifts of Spirit and is ready to begin bringing her knowledge out to the world.
Jude Elf has danced her way through life studying traditional forms of movement of many cultures and genres (including Yoga, Judo, West African and Afro Caribbean dance, Fire Spinning, American Tribal and Egyptian Cabaret Belly Dance, Israeli Dance, International folk dance, Circle Dance, Appalachian Clogging, Ballroom, and Swing). She considers herself a song catcher, spinner, and budding drummer. She currently performs with Adja and Shidda: West African Dance and Culture Troupes, and the Hardwick Area Vagina Warriors. A priestess with a life long devotion to ecstatic transformative ritual and deep personal magic, she rejoices in sharing her passion for connecting to the divine through music, dance, and song. With Kidsfest, she helps facilitate large public rituals that gather the community to turn the wheel and honor the seasons. She has taught Reclaiming magic in her local community and Vermont and Free Activist Witch Camps.
Kathie has been on the path of the Goddess for the past 25 years. She is a Reclaiming Priestess, and a 3rd degree Witch within an eclectic Alexandrian coven known as K.A.M. She has received her certificate from the Celebrant USA Foundation and is now a certified End of Life Healing and Transition Celebrant. She has attended twelve Reclaiming Witch Camps and has been on the Organizing team for SpiralHeart, Inc. She has taught two classes on Elements of Magic. Kathie has spent years doing research to find a connection between her Catholic upbringing and her Wiccan path. That research has brought her to a deep connection with Mary Magdalene. Her recent journey to the South of France where the Magdalene lived out her life only added to the deep spiritual connection she feels with the Goddess in the Gospels.
Katrina Messenger, a radical feminist of African & Cherokee descent, is a refugee from the Marxist- Leninist, labor, feminist, and black nationalist movements of old. She now busies herself with revolutions of a more immediate nature - changing herself. A founding member of Dark Flame Coven, she finds inner peace and solace by sharing her hard-won lessons with others who care to listen. Katrina is a nationally recognized Reclaiming Teacher having taught at the California, MidWest and the SpiralHeart (Mid-Atlantic) witch camps. In 1999, she initiated a year long magical working to heal and reconnect the diverse communities that make up Washington DC -- Connect DC.
Katya Stone has been a witch since 1971. She practices several forms of witchery including Green, Hedge, Edge, Safety, and Community Organization. Katya is a Reclaiming Tradition teacher, priestess, and an organizer with the SpiralHeart Witch Camp Community. She knows that passing on her craft is the best way to sharpen and make it grown. Katya is a Reclaiming and Feri Initiate. She lives on a magical farm in Central Virginia with her family, cats, dogs, guardians, several troops of fairies and a big ritual barn that has not yet manifested in this world.
Kelpie is the girl in the back that cheers the loudest. The goddess told her that Magic is Real and she is learning and growing as fast as she can. Her message is that life is sweet and good and that it should be spread around.
Laurel has been playing, dancing and making magic with SpiralHeart for
over 10 years. She's one of the Mothers of the DreamRoads Collective, the Glitter
Whores and an incredible witchgirl named Morgan Lila. She has a wicked sense
of humor, listens to Color, and can see in the Dark.
Lizard is a priestess, healer, and energy worker who finds prayer in many forms. She is deeply grateful for the ways she is able to help others open to Spirit. Her current spiritual practice involves being of service in her communities and opening to the deep intuition of heart. A single mother, Lizard understands the need to priestess on her feet and to worship the Mysterious Ones while doing the laundry. The Elementals weave their dance throughout her home and the Shining Ones are never far away.
Maria Rose is a Reclaiming initiate and a Priestess of the Virgin Mary. Her spiritual practices include saying the rosary, stitching magical works, sufi dancing, working with the Aramaic Lord's payer, and working with the entourage of angel and feri beings who surround her.
Medusa has been priestessing in the San Francisco community for about ten years now. After years of commuting, she is one of the midwives of a new Reclaiming community in the upper central valley, Cauldron of the Valley. She is enjoying teaching reclaiming and tarot classes closer to home. She is both a reclaiming and feri initiate. She practices mother magic almost everywhere but mostly with her two teenagers. Her house is filled with music from the piano, drums, guitars, and voices. She is creating a backyard that has been dedicated to Brigid and the Fey. Her bedroom is dedicated to the blue god. She feeds her soul by communing with the gods, creative cooking, practicing her art, and eating chocolate ice cream in the hot tub. Although she is in a monogamous relationship with her soul mate, the Gods still think of her as a sacred slut. If They ask, she always says yes.
At 11 years I realized the cyclical nature of the Earth and knew that I
myself was not separate from that awesome force. When I was 17
years old I crawled through some priestess's legs and was born
to the Godess, and have been hanging out with her ever since. I
am the first generation to be born into the Glitter Whore tradition, but
am unafraid to wear clunky black shoes and have smelly arm pits.
I am Capricorn and feel strongly rooted into the rich black soil
of my native Indiana lands. I am an active member of the Bloomington
community witch nourishes me. My magic is the daily kind,waking
with wide eyes, constant thankful prayers and conversing with strangers
on the sidewalk about our new cultures of Beauty Balance and Delight.
My passions are gardening, beer brewing, and the weekly attendence
of rock and roll shows.
Moonsister is a mother and grandmother and has been a practicing witch for over 10 years. She is currently involved in creating Wild Child Camp, a family witchcamp in the Reclaiming tradition.
Midnight Crow is an Australian initiated witch and priestess in the Reclaiming
Tradition. She is a 'wild child' of the Goddess, has the witchy knack in what
she does- well most of the time! Is a traveller at heart, devoted to the Peacock
God and to her two children on this earthly plane. Her journey to 'witchyhood'
began from an early age whilst growing up and being surrounded by the magical
wilderness and beauty of the Australian landscape. She has been practising
Reclaiming style magic for about 18 years and in the spring of 1995 was called
to move to England, were she now resides in the south coast in Sussex. She
is active in her community, is a co-organiser for Avalon Witch camp, a community
teacher and last year student taught at Avalon. Her magical passions are music,
the tarot, singing and dance. She honours the sacred and divine by celebrating
through expression of movement and dance, ritual drama, storytelling and the
odd wacky hair do! She last taught at SpiralHeart WitchCamp in 2004 and is
returning to teach again at Camp 2006.
Northlight is a lifelong practitioner of weatherwork and animal communication who only discovered the traditions of witchcraft in the mid-1990s. Her toolbox includes mechanical engineering, caring for Alzheimer's patients, Reiki training, and an MA in Spiritual Psychology. Nowadays she's a mother, step-mother, and grandmother; no longer is she a daughter to any blood kin. After writing for Reclaiming Quarterly and teaching and facilitating for several years, on the eve of Mabon 2003 she changed her name from Maggie nicAllis to NorthLight. She's a facilitator at WomonGathering and works with youth, with hospice, and with organizational dynamics. She lives in the woods with three partner humans, one cat, three looms, and thirteen vehicles.
Parsley has been a magician and wiccan for over 20 years, studying with teachers of angelic and alchemical traditions as well as ceremonial magic. He has studied and practiced with masters of tantra and dynamic meditation in a martial arts framework including Tai Chi Chuan, Chi Kung as well as "harder" arts. He enjoys blending his background of healing, meditation and movement with modern witchcraft. Parsley uses the Tarot as a divination tool and astrology as a method of insight to help others to understand their influences and potential.
Peregrine is a hereditary witch, trained and initiated in the Dianic, Reclaiming and Feri traditions, and influenced by the shamanic training she received as a child from her Native American grandfather. She is an accomplished martial artist and holds black belts in Aikido, Tai Chi and Kung Fu. She has also been trained in psychic healing, Tae Kwon Do, Karate, Judo and Chi Gong. She sees the warrior's path, in any realm, as one of paradox, discipline, responsibility, accountability and walking the edges. In her spare time she masterminds computer systems, builds robots and plays with swords.
Pomegranate Doyle has been leading workshops in Spirituality, Psychic Skills and Magical Empowerment for 13 years. She has trained in the Reclaiming Tradition of witchcraft and is a Senior Reclaiming teacher, teaching at week long intensives in the US, England and Canada. Pomegranate spends her time traveling across the country leading workshops, teaching and training others. She believes the intuition is the key to a fulfilled life and the most powerful tool for creating the world we want. She holds a degree in Fine Art and is a devotee of the Tarot. She lives and paints in Portland, OR. A sample of her work can be found in The Twelve Wild Swans by Starhawk and Hilary Valentine.
Ravyn Stanfield is a wyld tree huggin', shower singin' witchfaerie living in the desert mesas of New Mexico. She is passionately dedicated to becoming the change she wishes to see in the world, through activism, erotic revolution, conflict resolution, ecstatic ritual, social change, alternative community building and her practice of Chinese medicine. She is a co-founder of The Enchanted Spiral, New Mexico's Reclaiming community, a student of the Feri tradition and an organizer for the Midwest Witchcamp. She teaches magical workshops and Reclaiming core classes in a myriad of different forms nationally and composts compulsively.
Ray has been drawn to witchcraft and the occult arts since as long as he can remember. One of his earliest memories as a child during the '60s was of a visit to a candle lit and incense laden occult shop stocking various mysterious sounding herbs. Needless to say, it left a lasting impression and, when he finally found Reclaiming witchcraft and this wondrous SpiralHeart community, there was no turning back. Along the way, he has developed a real fondness for the Crowley Tarot and the Fey. The Celtic pantheon resonates with him deeply, particularly those of Ireland and Wales and he occasionally dabbles with freehand knotwork designs when particularly inspired. He enjoys late night circles in his backyard beneath the dark and full moons and trance dreams to the Dark Faery, to whom he is a dedicant.
Rebecca is a woman of wild grown hair, carefully nurtured children
and evolving magical practice. She has practiced witchcraft since
childhood in the north country, and has been chief broom pusher,
planning slut (anywhere, anytime, with anyone…), and resident
clown of the Ritual Community on Boston's north shore since the
early 90's. For the past ten years, she has earned her living in
the mainstream religious community; bringing the ritual arts into
Protestant circles on Sunday mornings, as well as deep listening
and transformational possibility into the lives of those who would
have justice, peace and abundance. In this year, she has embarked
on a sabbatical to reconstruct Eden in her own backyard, as well
as answer the call to write, reflect and walk the edge where magic
and mundane meet She is a collector and teller of stories, a friend
to fabric, paint and yarn, and a bona fide fashion witch. She's
given up dangling from cliffs and jumping out of airplanes in favor
of treks along the trails and up the mountains of Appalachia. Rebecca
believes that there is more than one way to be funny, sassy and
wild, and has been known to prove it. She's also been known to
shut up - sometimes for a week or so. Currently Rebecca makes her
home outside of Boston in the Shawsheen watershed, surrounded by
a liberated yard and (excepting her strange and too perky canine),
a family of exceptional talent and inspiration.
Red has been a solitary Witch for ten years and has been involved with the Reclaiming Community for the last four years. She has taken the core Reclaiming classes, attended two SpiralHeart Witch Camps and is interested in student teaching. Being a nurse she understands the importance of cookies with (soy)milk and naps. She lives to express love, beauty, wisdom and the change of the seasons through art (painting, pen/ink drawing, spinning, weaving and knitting)and gardening. She learns and plays with her 3 kids (4, 7, and 17), partner Bob, cats (Hera, Zeus and Curly), dogs (Luna and Orion), and lots of chickens. She is honored to share a spiritual path with her CovenTree sisters/brother, family and friends.
Reyasdottir, aka Reya, is a Bodyworker, Artist, Teacher, and Shaman. For the last decade she has taught numerous classes, intensives and retreats, and has been a co-creator of public ritual in communities in the US, Canada and Great Britian. After 15 years as a San Franciscan, the skanky swampland of Washington, DC staked its claim on her; she moved east at the end of the last millenium. As a "Priestess of the Place" she works directly with the land, creating rituals of stillness, dance, prayer, and other improvisations in places of unsettled energy, such as US Civil War battlefields, the Masonic Geometry of the powerful - and wounded - District of Columbia, and at the U.S.'s National Altars (the Presidential monuments and buildings such as the Capitol and the Supreme Court).
Rook appreciates the opportunity to introduce himself in a way that does not replicate the traditional you-are-what-you-do norm of greeting, because he finds that norm to be dehumanizing. Instead, Rook characterizes himself as talented in these areas: Storytelling, Harp playing, eating ethnic spicy food for breakfast, reading an occasional Tarot card or two, facilitating very difficult conversations and relationships. He is also bilingual in Spanish, magickally mixes Witchcraft and Buddhism as he meditates every morning and night with Brigid and White Tara, often (sometimes foolishly) challenges authority, and regularly (almost obscenely) indulges in science fiction TV shows and Kung Fu movies that can only be counter-balanced with long bouts of Enya music. Rook knows when to be silent and know when to speak up, believes in good manners and courtesy, and offers gratitude and forgiveness. Where possible, he tries to create room for others. Rook loves laughter with occasional silliness, can actively listen, give comfort, and above all, has a deep sense of compassion for himself and others. Rook has been involved in Reclaiming for about five years, has worked to organize SpiralHeart Witchcamp, and has taught previously at Avalon Witchcamp. He lives in Maryland with his spouse, Gryphon, and six parrots (feathered people, if you ask him or Gryphon) who are affectionately called "The Chickens".
Sage teaches workshops and witch camps throughout Canada and the United States. She is a healer, teacher, writer, dancer and priestess in the Reclaiming and Faery traditions. Her current magic revolves around trees, the family and the alchemy of star and earth. As a Canadian from Vancouver, British Columbia, Sage has been immersed in a cross-cultural experience over the last few years, and is currently learning the secrets of Southern-style cooking - barbecue, anyone?
Sarah has co-taught Reclaiming workshops in Washington, DC and rural Virginia, as well as witchcamp in Texas and West Virginia. She has taught a range of classes near her home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, including facilitating the building of an enormous canvas labyrinth. She is initiated in the Reclaiming Tradition, is a consulting herbalist, and is passionate about wild gardening and working with allies in the plant and Faerie realms. Sarah is a Priestess of the Labyrinth, and a devotee of Ariadne.
Selin is a queer witch living in Harrisburg, PA. She has been involved in the Reclaiming tradition through personal study and activism for 5 years, traveling to Witchcamps, Pagan Cluster actions, gatherings and workshops. She is a gardener, web-weaver, belly dancer, activist, handy-woman, feminist, artist, community organizer, and theatre slut (you name it, she has done it ). The transformative powers of love, sex, co-creation, mystery, ecstasy, laughter, costuming, beloved community, bio remediation, and rock and roll inspire her and drive her work. Magic and compost happens. - and she fiercely believes that armed with them, people are building the world they wish to create in sacred partnership with our beloved planet.
Shana first put her toes in pagan waters 23 years ago and has been growing in joy ever since. She is an ecstatic mystic with a gift for creating healing, transformative ritual. Her growing edges are integrating shadow and light and learning to sing solo in public.
Sharon niBrighde has been studying and practicing Witchcraft for fourteen years and has been involved with Reclaiming for six years. Having recently retired from library work, she is a full-time Witch. She grew up in a small town in Central Pennsylvania but has lived in Philadelphia for more than 30 years. As an African American Lesbian Witch(she's lefthanded too), she was once told by an astrologer that she was born to be a trailblazer (Can you say "mixed blessing"?). She lives in a household of three women, three cats and many, many books.
Sherry is a feminist Witch, ritualist, writer, Reiki Master and sex radical with twenty years' study and experience. She received her Ph.D. in Physiology from Duke University, and her Mistress of Wicca from the Women's Thealogical Institute of the Re-Formed Congregation of the Goddess International. She has been an invited presenter at local and national Pagan, feminist and gay/lesbian/bisexual conferences, festivals, and retreats. She facilitates workshops and teach classes in sacred sex, Wiccan ritual, energy healing, and other topics related to Witchcraft and feminist spirituality. She contributed to the anthology Blessed Bi Spirit: Bisexual People of Faith and has published articles Pagan and feminist publications.
Sycamore is a mother and teacher who has been working with magic in the Reclaiming Tradition since 1995. She immerses herself in ocean energy whenever possible and is currently working with the healing power of the chakras and studying Pennsylvania German folkmagic, "powwow". She is enthralled by the power of magic to shape consciousness and by its energy for social, environmental, and political activism in honor of the Mother of us all.
Sylvan is a sober, queer Witch, and a sacred artist. Though the first of
the Witches in his family, his parents are now pagan, too! Originally of
the Welsh Tradition with strong Feri roots, he is an organizer and Reclaiming
teacher from the Spiral Heart community. He's taught at Witch Camps in Texas
and California, in addition to mask and ritual workshops throughout the
country. Sylvan is thrilled and honored to be teaching at his home camp
this year! He is deeply interested in the magical work of divine embodiment,
collaborative art as an expression of prophecy and mysticism; he is committed
to listening to the spirits of the land and exploring other forms of spirit
contact. Sylvan is passionate in his exploration of Myth and Story, and
he enjoys sharing mask-making as a tool for ecstatic ritual.
T. Thorn Coyle is a priestess and teacher in the Reclaiming and Feri Traditions. A musician, dancer and writer, she has a particular love for Bridgid, the inspirer of poets. A social justice activist and Witch, Thorn also appreciates the tempering power of Bridgid's hammer and anvil! Published in such places as "The Pagan Book of Living and Dying" (Harper San Francisco) and in various magazines, she is also featured in the new Re/Search Publications release, "Modern Pagans." She has released two CDs of her original, neo-Pagan songs: "Face of a New Day" and "Give us a Kiss!" Thorn teaches workshops throughout the country on the transformative powers of Wicca and has developed a moving meditation tool--Devotional Dance. A frequent speaker at churches and other communities of faith, she presented on a Unitarian panel about Pagans and politics in the aftermath of September 11.
Thursday has been studying earth, in person, for more than 4 decades. He has spent much of the past 2 decades raising his three children. He discovered he was a witch about a decade ago, and has been studying in the Reclaiming tradition ever since. He is one of the rare left brain witches. Having survived countless adventures, his greatest satisfaction comes from the hundreds of trees he has planted and from the humor he has found along the way.
Tortula is a Reclaiming initiate with 21 years of service in community ritual. She has student taught at Spiralheart camp as well as a Rites of Passage workshop. She has taught Elements of Magic as well as having facilitated 3-4 community rituals a year. Her practice of late has been in graceful autonomy, another way of saying solitary. She and her husband Chris own and operate Groundwork’s nursery so she can wallow daily in green richness, which keeps her humble and often sore. She is a devoted wife, mother, daughter and feminist, who loves to cook and care for people as long as they don't expect it (too much). She adheres to the famous words of Virginia Satire -`We are all cosmic sacred beings as we are all cosmic sacred jokes'.
Willow Kelly is a lover of the Fae, a seeker of her shadow, a musician, priestess, and student of Life. She is wildly in love with the natural World and passionate about co-creating community, magic, art and music. Her personal practice encompasses the use of many tools of exploration, expression and devotion that help her to know and understand herself, those around her, and the intricate Cosmic Dance are all moving to. She fully looks forward to the co-creation of magic together, continuing the work of being the change we wish to see in ourselves and in the World. She says, "May the wondrous waves of magic that we create, be full, strong, energizing, and healing as we forge the Pentacle of Iron within by fire, forge and anvil."
Wolf is a writer and technomage dedicated to Aphrodite and has been a witch for 15 years. He has been on the Fool's journey since his first camp and has helped to organize WitchCamps since 2001. Wolf's magic flows from the eternal dance of Dragon and Phoenix, and his power flows from the love of the Goddess and his acceptance of complete responsibility for the world.
Wren is a supposedly rational scientist who rediscovered and reclaimed her magical side eight years ago, and happily found a spiritual home in the Reclaiming tradition. She has attended eight Spiral Heart witchcamps and numerous Reclaiming-related courses and workshops, is active in the local Reclaiming group Dragon's Cauldron, and continues study and daily practice based on Reclaiming and Feri traditions. A grandmother, botanist, singer, and logophile, Wren likes to chant, walk her labyrinth, redecorate her magical meditation nook, commune with the green realm and the beings of the forest, and do magic with fellow Witches.
Wynter McLeod is initiated in the Reclaiming Tradition of witchcraft. She has studied in the Tradition for 13 years with teachers of national acclaim such as Starhawk. She was an organizer of SpiralHeart Witchcamp in Northern Virginia for 10 years, and taught at SpiralHeart and California WitchCamps.Locally, Wynter co-facilitated the Reclaiming Core Class “Elements of Magic” and a number of local public rituals (including some kick-butt Brigit's Feasts and Samhains) with Garnet & Ben Neideigh.Mundanely, Wynter is a municipal paralegal, helping to influence municipalities in Northern and Southern Lancaster Counties.
Yarrow is a mathematician, a Reclaiming witch, a social activist, a Feri priest, a poet. He is an initiate of the Reclaiming and Feri traditions, and has helped organize the SpiralHeart Reclaiming Witchcamp for over 10 years. He meddles.
Zoe Soulspirals is a fierce witch with deep passion who is in love with the Reclaiming Tradition. She is devoted to getting to know herself - reading, singing, drumming, praying, plotting, talking, writing and encountering ecstasy along the way. A research and networking whore, she spins webs of connection between ideas, dreams and people. She has been known to conjure magic with shiny pieces of technology. Choosing action over despair, she weaves magic and revolution in her own life and sometime on the streets with the Pagan Cluster. In addition to her work in the Ithaca Reclaiming Community, she has taught at a few Witchcamps around the country.
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