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

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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.

By donation – click here to register

Dancing the Spiral – free download!

Dancing the Spiral: A Companion to the Writings of Starhawk for Circles & Solitaries

Free PDF: https://www.weaveandspin.org/spiral

Download a free PDF of the almost-completed version of this compendium of Reclaiming magic – history, ritual skills, activism, dozens of  workings for individuals and small groups, plus all sorts of resources for your magical practice.

Roundtable interviews feature folks from around the Reclaiming network. Links to dozens of ritual-tested chants. Illustrated with photos from witchcamps and rituals.

Planned for 2023 publication, you can get a jump on the magical world by grabbing a free PDF now!

Dancing the Spiral – free PDF: https://www.weaveandspin.org/spiral

More Reclaiming Resources

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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/

Last Wild Witch – Starhawk’s Ecofable on youtube!

Starhawk’s classic eco-fable for all ages – read by Georgie Craig. With surrealistic illustrations by Lindy Kehoe.

Youtube – with all of the pictures!

In the heart of the last magic forest lives the last wild witch…

Will the children of the perfect town find their inner power and let a little magic into everyone’s lives?

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!)

Click here!

Stolen Lives – 2004 SF Vigil

Photos from a 2004 vigil outside the SF Metreon called Stolen Lives: Killed by Law Enforcement – a forerunner of Black Lives Matter. Reclaiming folks helped create a living altar.

Click here to see slide show

Stolen Lives was organized by community activists from Hunters Point neighborhoods.

Reclaiming folks including Kevyn, Bill, Starhawk, and others brought potted plants to create a living altar. You can see the Pagan Cluster circled up to the left in the shot below, and creating altars in others in the slide show.

Photos by George Franklin/Reclaiming Quarterly

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

Youtube – A Brief History of Direct Action!

Direct action has a long and honored place in American history – from the revolution itself through abolitionists, suffragists, union organizers, civil rights advocates, feminist and gay rights activists, and on to today’s vibrant climate and social justice organizing.

Click here for A Brief History of Direct Action

Join author Luke Hauser for a profusely illustrated 25-minute journey through our past. We’ll focus especially on organizing from 1980 to the present, with sections on the 1980s anti-nuke movement and 2011’s Occupy actions.

Originally created around 2000, the show has been updated with a revised text and many new images. Co-created by Groundwork and Reclaiming Quarterly.

So make a big bowl of popcorn, pull up your beanbag chair, and get ready for a journey through our history!

Photo by Janet Delaney