SpiralHeart Online Convergence 2026

March 12–29 2026

Save the date! Our online Convergence for 2026 will be Thursday, March 12 – Sunday March 29.

Last Year

To whet your appetite, here’s some information about the 2025 Convergence: The theme was Flowers of Resistance and the intention was With fear and anger, with sorrow and joy, we build our bridges of courage. The 2025 offerings are listed below

“A More Just World” Ritual

8:00pm-10:00pm Sat Apr 26
(8:00pm Eastern is 5:00pm Pacific, 6:00pm Mountain, 7:00pm Central, 9:00pm Brasília)

Description:
Ritual Intention: Stepping into the current, we hear those who call us forward to a more just world.

It is suggested that participants bring:

A small hoop/ring of some kind (might be a key ring, a binder type ring, a ring for a finger, an earring hoop, a very small embroidery hoop …). This should be something small enough to be worn in some way (on a string around the neck, around a finger, etc.), carried in a pocket, placed on an altar, or stowed in a drawer out of sight, if desired.
“elements” for consecrating the hoop (e.g., salt for earth; a candle, lit, for fire; vessel with water; breath will do it for air)
Possibly bring a length of ribbon or cord sufficient to put the ring around the neck, if desired.

Some bodily movement will be optional during the ritual, but not required.

Presenters: member’s of Spiralheart’s Anti-Racism Cell

Daedalus (he/they) is a trick of the light. A vague assemblage of colors and textures, a flood of words that only seems to hold meaning when in the midst of a dream. Daedalus is a notion…three spirit-bodies in a pale coat.
Ember (they/them) – I’ve been a practicing Pagan Witch for 22 years, and a Reclaiming Witch for almost half that time! I’ve been creating online content about modern Paganism and Witchcraft for 15-ish years now (@cutewitch772 on YouTube, under my given name, Cara Mia). My theatre arts background blends with my magic in a love of story-telling, symbolism, and creating ritual. My personal work currently focuses on celebrating my journey and progress, reaching toward hope, and rebuilding my spiritual business work to a place that sustains me, so I may continue to do my work in this world, and in all the worlds.
Ostara (she/they) – A witch since 1987 and a relic of the early years of MidAtlantic/SpiralHeart Reclaiming. After a hiatus while raising children, I returned to SpiralHeart camp in 2023 (with forays into some Reclaiming family camps in the interim).

I enjoy working with my hands and my mind and making meaning with story, symbol, and tradition. I delight in engaging with sacred space, sacred time, and Sacred Stuff; and hold up the importance of integrating sacred experience into, and through, our bodies.

Originally from the rural upper Midwest, I now live in the land of the Susquehannock and Piscataway peoples, in a place lately labeled Glenwood, Maryland. In past phases of my life, I worked in careers as a librarian, massage therapist and teacher, and stay-at-home mother.
Yarrow (they/he) – I have been meddling with —er, deeply involved in— the Reclaiming tradition since the late 1990s — in rituals, core classes, Witchcamps, sometimes in the streets with the Pagan Cluster. What I’ve learned seems to boil down to this: make the next mistake. Make the next of many mistakes. Make our mistakes in solidarity with each other, because none of us can do it alone, because every one of us is necessary.

Note: Details regarding how to participate in Spiral Convergence events are made available to registrants. You can register for Spiral Convergence here, starting on March 24, 2025.

“Witchcraft Activism” Book-Inspired Discussion

6:00pm-8:00pm Thu May 1
(6:00pm Eastern is 3:00pm Pacific, 4:00pm Mountain, 5:00pm Central, 7:00pm Brasília)

Description: “Witchcraft Activism” Book-Inspired Discussion

Session 1 of 2

This is a two-part discussion (perhaps with some practices?) inspired by the book “Witchcraft Activism: A Toolkit for Magical Resistance” by David Salisbury (2019). You do not have to have read the book in order to participate. I am preparing discussion prompts based on the information throughout the book, with the intention that anyone could join the conversation around the topics themselves, without having had to read it. I may read short sections aloud, and there may be some activities suggested that we could do together.

The book has three main sections, but I will be hosting this as a two-session offering, so the first session will focus on things from earlier in the book, and the second will focus on things from later in the book. I may have some prompts that are the same for both, in case some people can only make it to one, but it would be lovely if folks could attend both sessions. I am requesting registration just so I know how many people to expect, and so I will have everyone’s emails in order to send any resources afterwards.

Presenter:

Ember [they/them] – I’ve been a practicing Pagan Witch for 22 years, and a Reclaiming Witch for almost half that time! I’ve been creating online content about modern Paganism and Witchcraft for 15-ish years now (@cutewitch772 on YouTube, under my given name, Cara Mia). My theatre arts background blends with my magic in a love of story-telling, symbolism, and creating ritual. My personal work currently focuses on celebrating my journey and progress, reaching toward hope, and rebuilding my spiritual business work to a place that sustains me, so I may continue to do my work in this world, and in all the worlds.
Note: Details regarding how to participate in Spiral Convergence events are made available to registrants. You can register for Spiral Convergence here, starting on March 24, 2025.

“Witchcraft Activism” Book-Inspired Discussion

6:00pm-8:00pm Sat May 3
(6:00pm Eastern is 3:00pm Pacific, 4:00pm Mountain, 5:00pm Central, 7:00pm Brasília)

Description: “Witchcraft Activism” Book-Inspired Discussion

Session 2 of 2

Presenter:

Accountability Magic for our Descendants – a Ritual

8:00pm-10:00pm Tue Apr 29
(8:00pm Eastern is 5:00pm Pacific, 6:00pm Mountain, 7:00pm Central, 9:00pm Brasília)

Description: Accountability Magic for our Descendants – a Ritual

“Accountability is the magic of relationship.” (Reclaiming Principles of Accountability)

As we move forward into an uncertain future, a shared understanding of accountability can help us create safer and more accessible spaces that will support and encourage the full expression of our diverse magics. The newly consented to Principles of Accountability (PoA) are a spell and a magical working that can support your community to welcome diversity within safe and accessible space.

Join Gemini and sisal within sacred space in a ritual to travel on a trance journey to the Reclaiming Clan House to connect with our descendants and send them magic from the PoA. To empower that spell for our descendants, volunteer ritual attendees will aspect the descendants and speak to us about what the PoA means to them and to the future of Reclaiming.

Our intent for this ritual is: “Grounded in our commitment to our descendants, we stir the cauldron of accountability to empower Reclaiming, now and into the future.”

Presenter:

sisal (she, they) – I live on unceded land of the Papaya peoples in so-called San Antonio, TX, USA. I have been a witch and ritualist for 25 years, active in Reclaiming for fifteen years through the California Witchcamp community and the Tejas community. I’m a musician, death worker, gardener and brew witch, and a change agent called to other ways of knowing. I’ve offered and participated in a weekly online ritual honoring the dead for the past five years and am currently on the BIRCH Committee representing AIRA. In recent years I’ve become a champion for sustainability in my own life and in my communities, and I blog about that (intermittently!) at sustainablewitch.com

(AIRA is the Ableism-Impacted Reclaiming Alliance)

Gemini (she, her) is a poet and Reclaiming witch who lives in Ottawa, on unceded territory of the Algonquin people. She has been observing and learning from plant beings, winged ones and other creatures since she was a young girl, and as she eases into her crone years, her goal is to act as their creative and magical ally. Gemini has taught “Writing for Witches” and is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Six Poems for Healing and Dance by the Light of the Moon: Poems for Witches (both illustrated by amara hollowbones).

Note: Details regarding how to participate in Spiral Convergence events are made available to registrants. You can register for Spiral Convergence here, starting on March 24, 2025.

Closing Ritual: Convergence 2025

3:00pm-5:00pm Sun May 4
(3:00pm Eastern is 12:00pm Pacific, 1:00pm Mountain, 2:00pm Central, 4:00pm Brasília)

The Ritual Team welcomes you to the Spiral Convergence 2025 closing ritual!

Questions: helpconverge@gmail.com

Convergence Theme: Flowers of Resistance
Convergence intention: With fear and anger, with joy and sorrow, we build our bridges of courage.

Ritual Planners:
Sparrow & Yarrow
Note: Details regarding how to participate in Spiral Convergence events are made available to registrants. You can register for Spiral Convergence here, starting on March 24, 2025.

Convergence Radio – There is a Crack in Everything

6:30pm-7:30pm Wed Apr 30
(6:30pm Eastern is 3:30pm Pacific, 4:30pm Mountain, 5:30pm Central, 7:30pm Brasília)

Description:
A curated playlist of songs, a musical interlude. Come to converge, chat or just listen, stay for a song, stay for the hour, listen (again) later. All are well-come.

Presenter:
Lily (she/her) is a long-time Reclaiming Witch, living in so-called Vancouver, Canada, on the traditional and unceded lands of Coast Salish peoples. She is a homebody who finds joy in engagements with cats and children, and tiny treasures in the outside world – Spring buds, Summer bees, Autumn spiders on webs, Winter sparkles. She is a certified Life-Cycle Celebrant, awaiting the marriage of finances and courage to leave her mundane job. She is currently called to End-of-Life mysteries.

Note: Details regarding how to participate in Spiral Convergence events are made available to registrants. You can register for Spiral Convergence here, starting on March 24, 2025.

Convergence Radio: Flowers of Resistance

10:30am-11:30am Sun Apr 27
(10:30am Eastern is 7:30am Pacific, 8:30am Mountain, 9:30am Central, 11:30am Brasília)

Description:
Come listen to music inspired by the Convergence intention. Add to the playlist by sharing your requests! Cameras on or off, conversing in the chat box or not, popping in or staying for the hour, all are welcome.

Your host today:
Debbie (she/her)

What is Convergence Radio?
It’s connecting in community by listening to some tunes together!
Throughout Convergence you can “dial” in and anyone can host a session! Tune in and spend the time doing whatever it is you want to do! Some sessions will have playlists curated by the host and some will be based on your requests. You can also connect asynchronously! Links to playlists on Spotify will be posted here after each session, so that you can listen anytime.

Would you like to host a Convergence Radio session?
Email helpconverge@gmail.comor complete this form.

Note: Details regarding how to participate in Spiral Convergence events are made available to registrants. You can register for Spiral Convergence here, starting on March 24, 2025.

Courage in Accountability

5:00pm-8:00pm Sun Apr 27
(5:00pm Eastern is 2:00pm Pacific, 3:00pm Mountain, 4:00pm Central, 6:00pm Brasília)

Description: Courage in Accountability: Don’t Drink the Poison

Being unable to reflect on, acknowledge and repair mistakes can lead to intolerable stress and disconnection. Being unable to be accountable leads to community breakdown and continued systemic oppression. Drawing from teachings on accountability as guiding principles towards justice, mutuality and healing, participants move beyond right and wrong to solidify our integrity and belonging.

Within a carefully held container, we examine the conditions we need to be accountable and explore values which support, challenge and define us. We develop and instill practices to strengthen community wellbeing and build the collective resilience necessary for these troubling times.

Presenter:

Eleven (she/they) is a Pakeha of Irish/Italian Amerikan and Scots/English descent, privileged to be raised in comparative safety and the natural abundance of Aotearoa/New Zealand. She seeks deep justice and a fertile ecology by cultivating rich soil and robust, adaptive communities.

For 25 years, they’ve informed or performed behind a radio desk, on stage, in front of a classroom, in circle, under a tree and more recently, while looking into a computer screen. They’ve facilitated in Aotearoa, Australia, Timor Leste, Korea and Amerika, educated in high school classrooms, rehab, international language schools and mentored in arts workshops, and community gardens.

Eleven’s grateful to be rooted in global communities which support and shape her. She tips her hat to those who carved the paths she walks and works to keep the trails warm for those who will come, especially the creatives and folks with a radical understanding of Empire, Patriarchy and Capital.

Eleven is a life-long student: recently in Generative Somatics, post-humanism with fugitive philosopher Bayo Akomalafe and Undoing Racism® with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond. They’ve been mentored by Undoing White Supremacy Austin (Texas) and Reclaiming Justice Witches to organize anti-racism ‘unlearning circles’, by Radical Faerie elders to facilitate liberating spaces for LGBTQIA+ folks, by Leather titleholders to work for social justice in kink community and by gardeners and ecologists to work for a living planet.

Note: Details regarding how to participate in Spiral Convergence events are made available to registrants. You can register for Spiral Convergence here, starting on March 24, 2025.

Divining for Power, Equity, and Justice with Ibram X. Kendi’s “The Antiracist Deck”

8:00pm-10:00pm Mon Apr 28
(8:00pm Eastern is 5:00pm Pacific, 6:00pm Mountain, 7:00pm Central, 9:00pm Brasília)

Description: “Divining for Power, Equity, & Justice” with Ibram X. Kendi’s “The Antiracist Deck”

In this witnessing/listening circle, presented by members of Spiralheart’s Anti-Racism Cell, we’ll practice the ancient art of divination with “The Antiracist Deck: 100 Meaningful Conversations on Power, Equity, and Justice,” by Ibram X. Kendi, to spur deep and honest reflection while being witnessed and held in community. The deck includes (yellow) “warm-up,” (green) “action,” (pink) “awareness,” and (red) “dialog” cards. We’ll draw cards for exploration randomly from each category, making space for the magic of chance, and ensuring that even the facilitators are in for some surprises. Please bring a pen and paper to the call.

Presenters:

Ostara Hollyoak (she/they) – A witch since 1987 and a relic of the early years of MidAtlantic/SpiralHeart Reclaiming. After a hiatus while raising children, I returned to SpiralHeart camp in 2023 (with forays into some Reclaiming family camps in the interim).

I enjoy working with my hands and my mind and making meaning with story, symbol, and tradition. I delight in engaging with sacred space, sacred time, and Sacred Stuff; and hold up the importance of integrating sacred experience into, and through, our bodies.

Originally from the rural upper Midwest, I now live in the land of the Susquehannock and Piscataway peoples, in a place lately labeled Glenwood, Maryland. In past phases of my life, I worked in careers as a librarian, massage therapist and teacher, and stay-at-home mother.

Joan Brooks (she-hag/hags/hagself) – bio forthcoming

Note: Details regarding how to participate in Spiral Convergence events are made available to registrants. You can register for Spiral Convergence here, starting on March 24, 2025.

Kinky Consent-Based Spin-the-Bottle

8:00pm-11:00pm Fri May 2
(8:00pm Eastern is 5:00pm Pacific, 6:00pm Mountain, 7:00pm Central, 9:00pm Brasília)

Description: Bower Kinky, Consent-Based, Spin-The-Bottle

It’s spin-the-bottle, but BETTER! In this version of the game, consent is key! Someone spins the bottle, the person at whom it points gives the spinner a menu of options they are willing to do with the spinner, and both people decide together what works for them. A non-physical, non-sexual option must always be included. One person’s longer description of the game can be found at: https://researchtobedone.wordpress.com/2014/03/16/truth-dare-kiss-or-bite-aka-how-to-make-spin-the-bottle-way-more-interesting-sexy-and-consensual-and-have-fun-doing-it/

Presenter:

Thistle (they/them) is a queer, indigenous and white, disabled person who lives on the land of the Wabanaki Confederacy (the state of Maine, USA).

Note: Details regarding how to participate in Spiral Convergence events are made available to registrants. You can register for Spiral Convergence here, starting on March 24, 2025.

Opening Ritual: Convergence 2025

8:00pm-10:00pm Thu Apr 24
(8:00pm Eastern is 5:00pm Pacific, 6:00pm Mountain, 7:00pm Central, 9:00pm Brasília)

The Ritual Team welcomes you to the Spiral Convergence 2025 Opening Ritual!

Questions: helpconverge@gmail.com

Convergence Theme: Flowers of Resistance
Convergence intention: With fear and anger, with joy and sorrow, we build our bridges of courage.

Ritual Planners:
Ember, Mnemosyne & Ryan

Note: Details regarding how to participate in Spiral Convergence events are made available to registrants. You can register for Spiral Convergence here, starting on March 24, 2025.

Ritual 2: Beltane & Flowers of Resistance

8:00pm-10:00pm Wed Apr 30
(8:00pm Eastern is 5:00pm Pacific, 6:00pm Mountain, 7:00pm Central, 9:00pm Brasília)

The Ritual Team welcomes you to the second ritual of Spiral Convergence 2025!
Ritual intention:
We blend our pleasure and our grief to pollinate the Flowers of Resistance.

Questions: helpconverge@gmail.com

Convergence Theme: Flowers of Resistance
Convergence intention: With fear and anger, with joy and sorrow, we build our bridges of courage.

Ritual Planners:
Debbie & Goldiylocks
Note: Details regarding how to participate in Spiral Convergence events are made available to registrants. You can register for Spiral Convergence here, starting on March 24, 2025.

Rooting Down with Queer Nature Magic

7:00pm-8:30pm Sun Apr 27
(7:00pm Eastern is 4:00pm Pacific, 5:00pm Mountain, 6:00pm Central, 8:00pm Brasília)

Description: Session 1 of 2

The intention of this course is to offer a queer perspective on animistic, nature-based magic. We will talk about the inherent queerness of the natural world and about queer identity as something both natural and sacred. We will discuss plant and animal allies for queer and trans witches. I will provide guidance for students on connecting with the species in their own area and on establishing a working relationship with a plant or animal spirit. In alignment with the Convergence intention, there will be a strong focus on resilience and resistance. I will also offer “accessibility adjustments” throughout the class to make activities more accessible to a wide range of abilities.

Presenter:

Sam Wise (she/they) – Hailing from the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, Sam Wise is a Reclaiming witch and eclectic pagan with years of experience combining magic, activism, and queer culture. Sam is a member of AIRA (the Ableism-Impacted Reclaiming Alliance) and has been participating in virtual Spiralheart offerings since 2021. She has a passion for combining folk traditions with modern practices to create accessible, affirming magic. Outside of the magic circle, they enjoy tabletop games, Renaissance fairs, going to metal shows, and snuggling with their many animal companions.
Note: Details regarding how to participate in Spiral Convergence events are made available to registrants. You can register for Spiral Convergence here, starting on March 24, 2025.

Rooting Down with Queer Nature Magic

7:00pm-8:30pm Fri May 2
(7:00pm Eastern is 4:00pm Pacific, 5:00pm Mountain, 6:00pm Central, 8:00pm Brasília)

Description: Session 2 of 2

Presenter:

Tributaries Drawing

5:00pm-5:30pm Sat May 3
(5:00pm Eastern is 2:00pm Pacific, 3:00pm Mountain, 4:00pm Central, 6:00pm Brasília)

Each year the Tributaries prayer bead set travels home with one Spiral Convergence participant. It returns to community at the start of the next Convergence. The Tributaries are a magical working that joins with the waters of the world to move the recipient and the recipient’s communities “towards source and connection to healing, manifestation, and spiritual belonging.”\n\nJoin us for the drawing to see who will hold the Tributaries for the next year!

The Ugly Duckling – A Story Trance Ritual

8:30pm-10:00pm Thu May 1
(8:30pm Eastern is 5:30pm Pacific, 6:30pm Mountain, 7:30pm Central, 9:30pm Brasília)

Description:

The Ugly Duckling – A Story Trance Ritual
presented by Ableism-Impacted Reclaiming Alliance (AIRA)

The Ugly Duckling is a tale of being fundamentally misunderstood, of growing up in community where you are outside the standard expectations of how to be. Of not fitting into the mold you have been handed. And ultimately it is a journey of self discovery.

Join us as we explore these themes and make magic together, celebrating who we find ourselves to be as we discover our true selves. Throw away the mold and witness who arrives.

Presenters:

Members of AIRA – Ableism-Impacted Reclaiming Alliance

Alex Spurlock (she/her) is a queer, disabled witch, teacher in the Reclaiming tradition, priestess of Aphrodite, and community priestess currently living on unceded Kashaya (Southern Pomo) and Graton Rancheria lands in so-called Santa Rosa, CA, USA.
Alice Adora Spurlock (she/her) – Something of a poet. Something of a thinker. Priestess, witch, magician, philosopher, and poet.
Mnemosyne (she/her) – Hi I’m Mnemosyne of the North. I’m a Feminist Goddess identified Reclaiming witch. I have practised in the reclaiming tradition since the late 80’s and been active in the community since 2001. My home camp is Wild Ginger, where I have been an organizer / ritualist/ teacher for many years . I have participated in Convergence and World Wide Witch Camp . I am part of the leadership Group for AIRA (Ableism Impacted Reclaiming Alliance).

I currently live in a long term care facility because of physical health issues, so online is my primary means of participation in most of my life. As a proud working class feminist crone with multiple disabilities, creating and sustaining communities (particularly for vulnerable people) is my passion and I look forward to sharing my story and co creating sacred spaces where this can happen.
Laura Moverin (she/they) is a Brisbane artist and witch who lives in Meanjin / Brisbane. She has been involved with Reclaiming in her region since 2012 and in recent years has both taught and helped organise. She is currently supporting camp through her art practices.

Laura deals with three disabilities and in becoming an advocate for herself found AIRA and is now contributing to that space.

Note: Details regarding how to participate in Spiral Convergence events are made available to registrants. You can register for Spiral Convergence here, starting on March 24, 2025.

Welcome & Orientation for 1st time participants

8:00pm-9:30pm Tue Apr 22
(8:00pm Eastern is 5:00pm Pacific, 6:00pm Mountain, 7:00pm Central, 9:00pm Brasília)

Description:
Are you new to Spiral Convergence? Join the Spiral Convergence 2025 Organizing Team as we welcome you in community.

A part of being in community is feeling known. If you are new to the Spiralheart or Reclaiming community, this can be especially challenging during online events such as Spiral Convergence. If this is your first time participating in a Spiralheart or Reclaiming event, join us to meet the Spiral Convergence organizing team, the Ritual Arc Team, path leaders, and other members of the community. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions about what to expect during this year’s Spiral Convergence. Our hope is that you can enter into our ritual spaces and offerings over the next few weeks recognizing a few names and faces and trusting that others know your name and face as well.

Presenters:
2025 Spiral Convergence Organizing Team: Yarrow, Sparrow, Debbie, Ember, & Ryan

Questions: helpconverge@gmail.com

Note: Details regarding how to participate in Spiral Convergence events are made available to registrants. You can register for Spiral Convergence here, starting on March 24, 2025.

Welcome to (Online) Bower Magic!

8:00pm-10:00pm Fri Apr 25
(8:00pm Eastern is 5:00pm Pacific, 6:00pm Mountain, 7:00pm Central, 9:00pm Brasília)

Description: “Welcome to (Online) Bower Magic!”

Reclaiming Bower magic has a different personality in each camp and community — including online! Come hang out with Ember and Thistle, two Witches who have been engaging with Bower spaces in an online or hybrid context for the past couple of years. In this offering, we will talk about consent and boundaries, and share some of what folks have been doing with Bowers online.

Presenters:

Thistle (they/them) is a queer, indigenous and white, disabled person who lives on the land of the Wabanaki Confederacy (the state of Maine, USA).

Note: Details regarding how to participate in Spiral Convergence events are made available to registrants. You can register for Spiral Convergence here, starting on March 24, 2025.

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