2024 Theme - Journey of the Selves

Our 2024 Theme - Journey of the Selves!

• The Three Selves: five rituals throughout the solar year with Younger Self, Talking Self, and Deep Self.
• Tarot Moons: 22 gatherings at the dark and full moons exploring each major arcana card in turn.

Throughout this year we will trek through Reclaiming’s version of the Three Souls, a concept shared with Feri Tradition Witchcraft. Starhawk's adaptation appears in her book “The Spiral Dance”, as Younger Self (the unconscious mind), Talking Self (which gives verbal and conscious outward expression), and Deep Self or God Self (the Divine that lies within every one of us). These Selves are also worked with throughout "The Twelve Wild Swans" by Starhawk and Hilary Valentine.

Loosely connected by representing the structure of human consciousness, the Major Arcana of the Tarot bring to light the archetypal themes, and life lessons that appear in our lives.

We hope to acquire a knowledge of how these archetypes help us understand ourselves and the world around us. We are excited to explore the lessons both of these pivotal notions can bring ourselves and our community! Blessed be our 2024 expedition!

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The above post is also on our Instagram!

Thanks to Ember and River Raven

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We have a lot of things planned for 2024! Ember is currently working on catching up with the Contact Forms that came in over the last few months, so if you reached out since October, you should be getting a reply very soon! If you are interested in connecting with us and have not yet reached out, please read our Contact / Us page and fill out the form linked there.

ORW Anniversary

September is our anniversary month!

Okay, this community has a few different anniversaries, depending on how you look at it. This blog, which was the beginning of the process of creating this lovely community we now have here in Ohio, was created in April 2019. The link to this blog was then added to the Reclaiming website's "Find Us Worldwide" page.

September 2021 is our anniversary of being in community. It was the first time we had enough people actively involved and chatting in our online space, who actually wanted to get together, and committed to meeting up to make something happen. Some of us met up in person at other events and in other public places first, so some of us had met in person, while others had only gotten to know each other over months in our online space.

Then, when the time came, six of us met to celebrate the Full Moon in September.

That year, this was the third Sunday of the month, the date closest to the Full Moon that we could meet. We also had an online Equinox gathering later that week, with twelve in attendance via video call.

So which anniversary this is, exactly, depends on how you count. It's been four years since the building of this community began. Three years since some members of our wider community got in touch with us. Two years since we began having rituals with more than two people, as the community that we call Ohio Reclaiming.

May we ever be grateful for all that lead us here, for our paths to cross, to merge, to grow together. Blessed Be.

Our 2023 Theme: Labyrinths

 

ORW's 2023 theme is... Labyrinths!

This theme came up in discussion in November 2022, and began showing up for several of us over the next month. So when we got to our community meeting in January, it was chosen as the community's theme!

This is, admittedly, being added after the fact. This photo was not yet taken at that time. This particular labyrinth did not yet exist. The labyrinth in this photo was created by one of our community members as part of a personal labyrinth practice this year, and was shared with us later. It is being added to this post later still, and is also now on our Instagram.

In addition to walking labyrinths, either pre-existing or made in the moment like this one on the beach, finger labyrinths are a common practice. You can draw or print a labyrinth on paper (or pull an image up on a screen) to trace with your finger. Some people also make small labyrinths from clay or other materials that can be traced with a finger, as well, for a more 3-dimensional experience that can also be done while remaining physically still.

Welcome, Hekate!

 

At our first community meeting of 2022, we officially chose as our theme for the year, to work with the Goddess of Witches, Hekate!

Hekate has been showing up for us repeatedly since this group started working together, so we decided to formally welcome her in and invite her to work with us for the year (and maybe beyond that). We are not working with any specific myth about her at this time, but rather the goddess in general and anything and everything about her.

We also posted about this on our Instagram, with more lovely graphics made by Ember!

Elements of Magick 2022

Announcing
Elements of Magick
with Irisanya, Georgie, & Ember

6 Tuesdays starting January 11, 2022

[Registration link was here, but the class is in the past!]

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Hi, all! Ember here!

I am so excited to announce my SECOND core class teaching opportunity doing Elements of Magic(k)! I know a lot of folks in our growing Ohio Reclaiming Witchcraft community are looking forward to core classes. Here we go!

Earlier in 2021, I student-taught Elements for the FIRST time. It was an online class, and the other teachers were Hemlock ShiningCoil and Pidge Fletching. So this will be my second time student-teaching or co-teaching Elements!

The other two teachers are Irisanya Moon and Georgie Craig. Irisanya was one of my Elements teachers when I first took it at camp years ago, as well as one of my teachers for Rites of Passage. Georgie and I have been in class together, both as students, but they teach quite a bit, as well! I am looking forward to getting to work with them both in another capacity than I have previously.

More information about this class will come later!

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If you can't do Tuesday evenings, Irisanya is also teaching Elements online with two other teachers (I will not be doing this one because of schedule conflicts) on Saturday afternoons Eastern time, starting Feb. 5, 2022. You can find the registration info for BOTH of these classes (Tuesdays starting Jan. 11 and Saturdays starting Feb. 5) here on the Bay Area Reclaiming classes page.

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Hopefully some of our Ohio group can take one or the other of these classes and kick off the new calendar year with Reclaiming's foundational class!

Blessings~
-Ember-