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-

Introductory Reclaiming Books

Some people may hear about Reclaiming first from their friends or local Pagan/Witchy community, if they're in touch with such a community, and that community has an awareness of the tradition. In our area here in northeast Ohio, I have found that very few people have ever heard of Reclaiming.

A good amount of people have, however, heard of Starhawk and The Spiral Dance.

If you didn't hear about Reclaiming through a friend, online group, or other similar means, you probably first found out about it by reading one of these books (or perhaps another by Starhawk, or other authors who were, or still are, involved with the tradition). This may be repeat information in that case. But for those who find this page through other means and want to know how to learn more, these books are a great starting point. Some of them are even used as prerequisites for participating in Reclaiming classes or workshops, to make sure people have a passing familiarity with the basics before jumping into work together, or so you can come in with questions for discussion ready.

The Spiral Dance, The Twelve Wild Swans, and Elements of Magic --
Three books that give an introduction to different aspects of Reclaiming

The Spiral Dance

In the upper left of the above picture is a copy of the 20th anniversary edition of The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess by Starhawk. It was originally published in 1979 by Harper & Row (HarperCollins, or Harper San Franciso), with a second edition being released in '89 for the 10th anniversary, and a third edition in '99 for the 20th anniversary. If you can find it, I do recommend reading the 20th anniversary edition, because it includes the author's notes and further thoughts about the original text at both the 10th anniversary, and the 20th. You can read through the book and wherever asterisks have been added, either one* or two**, there are notes about it in the 10th* or 20th** anniversary sections, respectively. I personally think this is really great, because you can immediately get a feel for how much things changed in the first twenty years since the book was originally published, and how Reclaiming tradition was already evolving. Of course if you can only find the original edition, or even the 10th anniversary edition, that's okay, just bear in mind that what you're reading was originally written over 40 years ago now, and some things have changed, new information may have come about, and the author's viewpoints have also grown and changed. Many of the practices and basic information, however, are still used to this day.