2026 Paths

We have four great paths this year!

  • Encountering the Crone in Folk- and Fairytale (by Baz, Forrestwoman, Ostara Hollyoak). This path is a gateway into story. Each day we’ll hear, explore, and do magic
    around a different fairytale or folktale featuring a powerful crone figure.
    We’ll sample a variety of tools for entering a story, engaging its characters,
    and inviting response from our deeper selves.
  • Finding the work of Justice (by Blood, earnest). We are in a world that is cracking apart, with violence and injustice
    increasing every month, every week, every day. We need to resist, and
    to resist we need connection; to resist we need magic; and to resist
    we need the work of justice and devotion.
  • Navigating the Tornado (by BrightFlame, Sandy). We are in a spinning, tightening vortex that’s fueled by fascism, patriarchy,
    and white supremacy. Those who fuel the vortex want to divide us, shrink us,
    and disorient us. Through visceral exercises, art, and play, we’ll explore
    energy forms that allow us to hold our own.
  • Storycrafting: Dreaming and Redreaming our Stories (by Jon, Ryan). Through the archetypes of Oz, we will share our stories and dream and redream
    them together. Bring a story that you’re working on, or a story idea or seed
    that you are looking to develop. We’ll explore our stories through archetypal
    analysis, trance, and dream-group techniques.

 

Encountering the Crone

Encountering the Crone in Folk- and Fairytale (Baz, Forrestwoman, Ostara Hollyoak):

This path is a gateway into story. Each day we’ll hear, explore, and do magic around a different fairytale or folktale featuring a powerful crone figure. Throughout the week, we’ll sample a variety of tools for entering a story, engaging its characters, and inviting response from our deeper selves. Practices we’ll play with in the course of the week include journaling and automatic writing, conversation, trance, divination, spellwork, and opening ourselves to messages from the natural world around us. We’ll delve into each tale with curiosity, asking questions like:

  • What does the Old One in the story do that scares you?
  • What messages does she carry?
  • Does the Crone– or the story– carry a message from the Land?
  • What does she ask of us?
  • What do we ask of her?
  • What tests does she bring?
  • Is there something she’s defending? Preserving?
  • What does the tale’s protagonist gain from passing through the story’s journey? And what does the character need to accomplish to gain it?
  • How does the young character need to grow? What stands in their way? What might they be avoiding? What do they need to move forward?
  • Is there something the Old One needs to let go of? What stands in her way? What does she need?

Our aim is to integrate the stories into our bodies and spirits, come into relationship with each of the crones, and receive the wisdom the tales and the Old Ones have to offer.

 

Finding the work of Justice

Finding the work of Justice (Blood, earnest):

In this path we will look at our lives and find our work, the work of resistance, the work we are already doing, the work we never knew we were doing, the work we can start doing, the work that brings joy.

In this path we will look at our lives and find our connections: with those in path with us, those at camp with us, those in our home communities, those in our block, those in our city or town or county.

In this path we will look at our lives and find the gathering places we can make, how we can gather for magic, for logistics, for planning, for celebration.

In these difficult times, in this now, how are you already supporting transformation of self? of community? By what means do you contribute to or resist the pull of capitalistic cultural? of colonist thinking? What are you current practices of resistance? Do you know in your bones that you are not alone?

The goal of this path is to call on what is known and what is already working to move us towards liberation. We will use these resources to deepen our own practices, have skill sharing and finds ways to practice together across time and distance. Tools we will work with include: somatic regulation, visionary trance, symbol creation and creative use, pentacle work and personal and collective energy work. And we’ll exchange contact information in various forms so we can continue to collaborate together after camp on multiple pathways towards transformative justice

We are in a world that is cracking apart, with violence and injustice increasing every month, every week, every day. We need to resist, and to resist we need connection; to resist we need magic; and to resist we need the work of justice and devotion.

 

Navigating the Tornado

Navigating the Tornado (BrightFlame, Sandy):

We are in a spinning, tightening vortex that’s fueled by fascism, patriarchy, and white supremacy. Picture a sideways tornado. Those who fuel the vortex want to divide us, shrink us, and disorient us. They dim and harm the Web of Life.

With the tools and skills of the Witch, we will share ways to navigate such energy—to stay centered and effective, able to create paths to justice and resilience. Able to be guideposts for those who are flailing.

Through visceral exercises, art, and play, we’ll explore energy forms that allow us to hold our own in the vortex.

 

Storycrafting

Storycrafting: Dreaming and Redreaming our Stories (Jon, Ryan):

Growing the Seeds of Meaning through Archetypes and Iteration

Welcome to Storycrafting Path. Through the archetypes of Oz, we will share our stories and dream and redream them together. Bring a story that you’re working on, or a story idea or seed that you are looking to develop. It can be an original story, or it could be a myth, story, or theme that you’re looking to develop as a submission for a future Witch Camp’s story/theme. The Storycrafting path will present some techniques to explore your story through archetypal analysis, trance, and dream-group techniques. We will hold space for you to develop and grow your story and a forum to share what you grow over the week.

On the first day, we’ll explore what we brought to camp with us, explore how archetypes can be used in storytelling, pull some example archetypes from the Oz stories, and visit with them in a trance, seeing what they might unlock in our own stories. The second day will be open time for writing or storycrafting with tea and coffee and parallel working space held in the morning. On day three we will explore what we’ve grown together, visiting and revisiting a scene or sequence from each story in a process borrowed from Jeremy Taylor’s published dream group procedure. We will also explore how our stories might be tapped into to inspire ritual arcs. On the last day of path, we can all share the progress we’ve made on our narratives and envision where they might go in the future if we elect to share them in the future in one way or another.

  • Day 1: Seeds That we Bring
    • Archetypes
    • Group-designed Trance
    • Sharing what we’re working
    • Preview “dreamwork” process
  • Day 2: Time for Writing
    • “Coffeehouse” holding space, (basically making a space for people to write while others are writing.)
  • Day 3: Redreaming the Seedlings
    • Dream-group style story-work
    • Finding a Ritual Arc in a Story
  • Day x: Morning of Repose? Wherever this falls.
  • Day 4: Envisioning the Harvest
    • Sharing the Stories and what they might become