Earth Day with Starhawk – Online

Earth Healing Practices for Earth Day: Saturday. April 22 11 AM Pacific Time.

Online event. By donation: A benefit for Earth Activist Training. ASL signed for the hearing-impaired.

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The earth is crying out for healing, and we can answer her call most skillfully when we develop our own intimate relationship to the natural world. And that deep earth connection is also the foundation for our personal resilience.

Join Starhawk to learn spiritual and hands-on practices from five accomplished earth healers of varied traditions, including Charles Williams of Earth Activist training and three of our rising young indigenous teachers and allies: Mariah Masters, Sunshine Claymore and Kanyon Sayers-Rood.

Come away with new tools for your own earth healing practice, with inspiration and renewed energy for the struggles and the joys of the great work of our time – the regeneration of land and community.

Click the link above to register and to find out about the many exciting events we have planned for this special week.

Brigid Ritual with Starhawk – Online

The Well of Regeneration

A Ritual for Brigid, Goddess of Fire and Water

Sunday February 5 -11am PST

By donation – click here to register

A Benefit for Earth Activist Training. This ritual will help us recoup some of our losses from the recent storms.

Renew your spirit and replenish your energy at Brigid’s well!

Imbolc, the ancient Celtic Festival sacred to the Goddess of the Holy Well and Sacred Flame, marks spring’s beginning. After a winter of storms, blizzards and floods, we are ready for regeneration!

Brigid is the midwife, aiding the birth of all new things, and the patroness of poetry, smithcraft and healing. Join us for a guided meditation to her Holy Well to find our sources of personal and earth healing, and the inspiration to forge a world of justice and balance.

 Please share this widely!  It will be ASL interpreted and close captioned.

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Seeds of Hope & Renewal – a Ritual with Starhawk

Come and find hope with us!

This is the dark time of year, when winter closes in and sometimes it’s hard to keep the warm flames of hope alive. But the cold, dark ground is where seeds gestate and prepare to grow again. Some seeds can only sprout after enough coldness, roughness, fire, or other disturbance.

In these times when the great disturbance of climate meltdown impacts all of us, we come together to prepare for new growth in both practical and spiritual ways.

Join us for both spiritual and practical inspiration. In ritual, we’ll find our own deep sources of renewal, and we’ll ground our hope with actual examples of projects from our students and teachers, that regenerate ecosystems and put into practice the skills of earth healing.

Admission is by donation, proceeds go to support our diversity scholarship fund. Learn more and register here: 

https://earthactivisttraining.org/seeds-of-hope-and-renewal/

Chants Revue – Brigid – Never Lose Our Way to the Well

Reclaiming’s audio alchemists have worked overtime to extract this classic chant from a longer meditation recording – we got both verses and all the harmonies! It’s a seasonal favorite, sure to be sung at Brigid rituals this weekend.

“Never Lose Our Way to the Well” – by Anne Hill, Suzanne Sterling, and Starhawk

Chant: https://youtu.be/N-iZ7rvtYUE

Full Meditation: https://youtu.be/OOgYUqgloLQ

Reclaiming Chants Playlists: https://www.weaveandspin.org/playlists

Spiral Dance 2020 – Online!

Here’s where you can see the Spiral Dance ritual again (and again!)

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Dia de los Muertos – Virtual Altars

In other years, Dia de los Muertos in San Francisco would mean a November 2nd community celebration honoring the dead, with altars in a local park and a candlelight procession through the streets of the Mission District.

In the face of the Covid pandemic, the Marigold Project has moved the 2020 commemoration online, with beautiful elemental altars created by local artists.

Click here to view the 2020 altars, photographed by Noah Berger for the Chronicle.

Spiral Dance 2020 Moves Online

Dear Reclaiming Community,

Due to the pandemic, the 41st Annual Spiral Dance ritual will be held online on Halloween, Saturday, October 31st, 2020.

We hope you will join us on this blue moon, a mere three days before the election.

We in the Spiral Dance Cell decided to act with an abundance of caution to protect our Pagan community. We will be reaching out very soon with more information as to how you may participate in this life-changing magical working.

Yours in Service,

The Spiral Dance Organizing Cell

Info & Updates: ReclaimingSpiralDance.org

Photo copyright 2020 Michael Rauner

Dancing the Maypole – An Anarchist Tradition!

Photos from Berkeley PaganFest 2012 – rare photos in the Bay Area, where most rituals are not filmed.

Click here for maypole photos!

Ritual planners teach the steps of the traditional maypole dance, but it quickly devolves into a do-as-thou-wilt celebration. The dance is always popular with kids!

Photos by Luke Hauser.