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.