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.