The values of the Reclaiming tradition stem from our understanding that the earth is alive and all of life is sacred and interconnected. We see the Goddess as immanent in the earth’s cycles of birth, growth, death, decay and regeneration. Our practice arises from a deep, spiritual commitment to the earth, to healing and to the linking of magic with political action. - excerpt from the Principles of Unity
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RITUALS, CLASSES & EVENTS
October 30: 42nd Annual Reclaiming Spiral Dance Ritual ONLINE
We were looking forward to dancing together, but for the safety of our community and given the increased spread of the Delta strain of the SARS-CoV-2, the Spiral Dance Planning Cell made the decision to hold the Spiral Dance virtually again this year.
We look forward to creating a beautiful, magical experience with global participation and creativity making it a full weekend of Samhain celebration. We are excited to again partner with Survival Media Agency and Donna Read Cooper as editors of the virtual Spiral Dance.
INTENTION
With wisdom of the ancestors and love for the descendants, we raise our voices for justice, healing, and peace!
WHERE
The ritual will be available through a Reclaiming YouTube channel for easy streaming, even for people with standard or slow connectivity. Instructions and links will be shared upon registration through Eventbrite.
DONATION
The sliding scale through Eventbrite goes as low as $1. If you are able, please place yourself generously on the sliding scale. If you need to register without going through Eventbrite or if you have any questions at all, please email dancethespiral79@gmail.com.
The Reclaiming community relies on donations for our ability to pay our content creators and host events (when safe!). We will have a sliding scale of donations for tickets to the event. If you are able, please place yourself generously on the sliding scale.
However, no one is turned away for lack of funds or ability to pay online.
NEED HELP?
Email dancethespiral79@gmail.com with any questions or for access.
ASL / CLOSE-CAPTIONING
The ritual will be ASL interpreted and close-captioned.
MUSIC
Hear a sneak preview of the 2021 intention song at the bottom of the Reclaiming Spiral Dance home page!
PRE-RITUAL
The Beloved Dead Readers will again host a pre-ritual AWE-CULT CAFE from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (Pacific time zone) on zoom. This is a more interactive opportunity for people to share witchy fashions, personal memories and other brief offerings, including in breakout room scale groups. Details will follow once you register for the Spiral Dance.
BELOVED DEAD
If you have loved ones who died since the last Spiral Dance who you would like read aloud and entered in this year's memorial scroll, please share them with us at www.reclaimingspiraldance.org
If you have images of loved ones who went home, during any year, who you would like included in the Beloved Dead website page please email a tiff, jpeg, or png of the picture to Patti at Ymoja@juno.com
ALTARS
If you would like to submit an altar, please send one image of the whole altar and one close-up of your favorite part to Ymoja@juno.com
NEED HELP?
Email dancethespiral79@gmail.com with any questions or for access.
CORE CLASSES
Starting January 11, 2022, 6 Tuesdays -- Elements of Magick ONLINE
Starting February 5, 2022, 6 Saturdays -- Elements of Magick ONLINE
ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES:
Starting November 6, 2021: Elements of Devotion -- Willow Kelly & Urania -- ONLINE
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Reclaiming Principles of Unity Updated
“My law is love unto all beings…”
– from The Charge of the Goddess by Doreen Valiente
The values of the Reclaiming tradition stem from our understanding that the earth is alive and all of life is sacred and interconnected. We see the Goddess as immanent in the earth’s cycles of birth, growth, death, decay and regeneration. Our practice arises from a deep, spiritual commitment to the earth, to healing and to the linking of magic with political action.
Each of us embodies the divine. Our ultimate spiritual authority is within, and we need no other person to interpret the sacred to us. We foster the questioning attitude, and honor intellectual, spiritual and creative freedom.
We are an evolving, dynamic tradition and proudly call ourselves Witches. Our diverse practices and experiences of the divine weave a tapestry of many different threads. We include those who honor Mysterious Ones, Goddesses, and Gods of myriad expressions, genders, and states of being, remembering that mystery goes beyond form. Our community rituals are participatory and ecstatic, celebrating the cycles of the seasons and our lives, and raising energy for personal, collective and earth healing.
We know that everyone can do the life-changing, world-renewing work of magic, the art of changing consciousness at will. We strive to teach and practice in ways that foster personal and collective empowerment, to model shared power and to open leadership roles to all. We make decisions by consensus, and balance individual autonomy with social responsibility.
Our tradition honors the wild, and calls for service to the earth and the community. We work in diverse ways, including nonviolent direct action, for all forms of justice: environmental, social, political, racial, gender and economic. We are an anti-racist tradition that strives to uplift and center BIPOC voices (Black, Indigenous, People of Color). Our feminism includes a radical analysis of power, seeing all systems of oppression as interrelated, rooted in structures of domination and control.
We welcome all genders, all gender histories, all races, all ages and sexual orientations and all those differences of life situation, background, and ability that increase our diversity. We strive to make our public rituals and events accessible and safe. We try to balance the need to be justly compensated for our labor with our commitment to make our work available to people of all economic levels.
All living beings are worthy of respect. All are supported by the sacred elements of air, fire, water and earth. We work to create and sustain communities and cultures that embody our values, that can help to heal the wounds of the earth and her peoples, and that can sustain us and nurture future generations.
Reclaiming Principles of Unity – consensed by the Reclaiming Collective in 1997. Updated by consensus at the BIRCH council meeting of Dandelion Gathering 5 in 2012 and at the BIRCH Council meeting in January 2021
Reclaiming Cauldron is here!
Hi folks - at last, the Reclaiming Cauldron - our experimental creative arts journal - is ready to go. This advance email is going out to those who wrote, photographed, created artworks, proofread, etc.
Many thanks for your contributions to this, our first collective publication in almost a decade!
You can download the free PDF and/or order a print copy here - and please help spread the word by posting this to your local elists, facebook pages, etc:
Reclaiming Cauldron - http://weaveandspin.org/cauldron/
PRINT EDITION - B&W or Full Color!
The PDF is fun to flip thru, but the Cauldron is really all about print - just like in ye olden tymes!
The B&W version looks like our old Quarterly magazines, only a lot thicker.
The color version is a whole new dimension - I know I want a few for all of my coffeetables!
Reclaiming Cauldron - http://weaveandspin.org/cauldron/
Questions: ReclaimingQuarterly@gmail.com
Dandelion Gathering 2019
A Dandelion Gathering is a coming together of the international Reclaiming community. There have been five pan-Reclaiming Dandelion gatherings, with multiple regional gatherings in-between.
The last all-Reclaiming Dandelion took place in Portland, Oregon in 2012 and at that event the Principles of Unity were revised to include language that specifically affirmed trans and non-binary people.
At the gathering in September of 2019, BIRCH was held and number of decisions were made via consensus.
To see these decisions, as well as statements from DARC, audio recordings of these meetings, notes, and more, please go to:
https://www.dandeliongathering.org/birch
Reclaiming Chants - free online!
Reclaiming has released five chants albums featuring chants by Starhawk, Suzanne Sterling, T. Thorn Coyle, and many more. The albums are a great resources for rituals, circles, classes - and for singing along! You can listen free at many streaming sites, or get downloads at CDBaby or iTunes.. Listening at spotify or youtube boosts our presence and helps us reach more people!
Playlists: <https://www.weaveandspin.org/playlists>
Reclaiming Archives and Back Issues - free downloads
Reclaiming published a print newsletter and magazine from 1980 to 2008 - 101 issues in all. You can download selected issues or the entire collection at our website. You’ll also find Spiral Dance, Witchcamp, and other Reclaiming memorabilia.
Archives: <https://www.weaveandspin.org/back-issues>
Reclaiming Principles of Unity Updated
“My law is love unto all beings…”
– from The Charge of the Goddess by Doreen Valiente
The values of the Reclaiming tradition stem from our understanding that the earth is alive and all of life is sacred and interconnected. We see the Goddess as immanent in the earth’s cycles of birth, growth, death, decay and regeneration. Our practice arises from a deep, spiritual commitment to the earth, to healing and to the linking of magic with political action.
Each of us embodies the divine. Our ultimate spiritual authority is within, and we need no other person to interpret the sacred to us. We foster the questioning attitude, and honor intellectual, spiritual and creative freedom.
We are an evolving, dynamic tradition and proudly call ourselves Witches. Our diverse practices and experiences of the divine weave a tapestry of many different threads. We include those who honor Mysterious Ones, Goddesses, and Gods of myriad expressions, genders, and states of being, remembering that mystery goes beyond form. Our community rituals are participatory and ecstatic, celebrating the cycles of the seasons and our lives, and raising energy for personal, collective and earth healing.
We know that everyone can do the life-changing, world-renewing work of magic, the art of changing consciousness at will. We strive to teach and practice in ways that foster personal and collective empowerment, to model shared power and to open leadership roles to all. We make decisions by consensus, and balance individual autonomy with social responsibility.
Our tradition honors the wild, and calls for service to the earth and the community. We work in diverse ways, including nonviolent direct action, for all forms of justice: environmental, social, political, racial, gender and economic. We are an anti-racist tradition that strives to uplift and center BIPOC voices (Black, Indigenous, People of Color). Our feminism includes a radical analysis of power, seeing all systems of oppression as interrelated, rooted in structures of domination and control.
We welcome all genders, all gender histories, all races, all ages and sexual orientations and all those differences of life situation, background, and ability that increase our diversity. We strive to make our public rituals and events accessible and safe. We try to balance the need to be justly compensated for our labor with our commitment to make our work available to people of all economic levels.
All living beings are worthy of respect. All are supported by the sacred elements of air, fire, water and earth. We work to create and sustain communities and cultures that embody our values, that can help to heal the wounds of the earth and her peoples, and that can sustain us and nurture future generations.
Reclaiming Principles of Unity – consensed by the Reclaiming Collective in 1997. Updated by consensus at the BIRCH council meeting of Dandelion Gathering 5 in 2012 and at the BIRCH Council meeting in January 2021
Reclaiming Cauldron is here!
Hi folks - at last, the Reclaiming Cauldron - our experimental creative arts journal - is ready to go. This advance email is going out to those who wrote, photographed, created artworks, proofread, etc.
Many thanks for your contributions to this, our first collective publication in almost a decade!
You can download the free PDF and/or order a print copy here - and please help spread the word by posting this to your local elists, facebook pages, etc:
Reclaiming Cauldron - http://weaveandspin.org/cauldron/
PRINT EDITION - B&W or Full Color!
The PDF is fun to flip thru, but the Cauldron is really all about print - just like in ye olden tymes!
The B&W version looks like our old Quarterly magazines, only a lot thicker.
The color version is a whole new dimension - I know I want a few for all of my coffeetables!
Reclaiming Cauldron - http://weaveandspin.org/cauldron/
Questions: ReclaimingQuarterly@gmail.com
Dandelion Gathering 2019
A Dandelion Gathering is a coming together of the international Reclaiming community. There have been five pan-Reclaiming Dandelion gatherings, with multiple regional gatherings in-between.
The last all-Reclaiming Dandelion took place in Portland, Oregon in 2012 and at that event the Principles of Unity were revised to include language that specifically affirmed trans and non-binary people.
At the gathering in September of 2019, BIRCH was held and number of decisions were made via consensus.
To see these decisions, as well as statements from DARC, audio recordings of these meetings, notes, and more, please go to:
https://www.dandeliongathering.org/birch
Reclaiming Chants - free online!
Reclaiming has released five chants albums featuring chants by Starhawk, Suzanne Sterling, T. Thorn Coyle, and many more. The albums are a great resources for rituals, circles, classes - and for singing along! You can listen free at many streaming sites, or get downloads at CDBaby or iTunes.. Listening at spotify or youtube boosts our presence and helps us reach more people!
Playlists: <https://www.weaveandspin.org/playlists>
Reclaiming Archives and Back Issues - free downloads
Reclaiming published a print newsletter and magazine from 1980 to 2008 - 101 issues in all. You can download selected issues or the entire collection at our website. You’ll also find Spiral Dance, Witchcamp, and other Reclaiming memorabilia.
Archives: <https://www.weaveandspin.org/back-issues>