Greetings Magical Peeps!
Willow Kelly is inviting you to join her for a 6 week enchanting excursion into the Elements of Magic – a core class in the Reclaiming Tradition of Witchcraft*. Come take your place in the circle. The ancestors of the craft await you. Tend the foundations of your pagan practice. Stir the ancient cauldron of ritual magic and ecstatic chant. Cast spells from beyond the mists of time. Join wild excursions into the sacred elements of spirit, fire, air, water, and earth. Enter the nourishing realms of deep trance and ecstatic ritual to reawaken your revolutionary imagination. Specifically, you will learn the art of how to create sacred space, invoke the Elementals, the Goddess and God, basic spell-crafting, how to ground and direct energy through our bodies and out into the world. This is the path of practice: create and manifest basic rituals, explore trance, work with your voice, music and drumming. We will also create magic with our core tools (the athame, cup and cauldron.)
This class is an amazing introduction to ecstatic magic in the Reclaiming Tradition of Witchcraft*. Although this class focuses on developing strong foundational magic skills, it is full of evocative and productive exercises to engage adepts in deepening their connection to these primal forces. There is something for everyone that loves the art of magic – changing consciousness at will.
Dates & Times: 6 Tuesdays from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
March 16th, 23rd, 30th, April 6th, 13th & 20th
Location: Harrisonburg Unitarian Universalists
Cost: Sliding Scale of $75-$100 – you decide where you slide. (No one turned away due to lack of funds. I also accept barter for goods and services. Feel free to contact me for details.) Scholarships may be offered if registration is strong. Please contact me if you’d like to discuss payment, barter or scholarship options.
About the Facilitator: Willow “Firefly” Kelly is a performance artist and a faery-lovin’ experiential teacher of magic, music and mystery. With over 14 years of professional experience in creating dynamic rituals, workshops and Reclaiming Witchcamps, she facilitates the creation of strong containers, inviting participants into a direct experience of their own magic and powers of transformation. She teaches magic in the U.S. and abroad and finds herself playing music with witches, faeries, Sufis, yogis, and hillbillies on a regular basis.
Mailing list for future Classes & Events: If you are interested in this class but cannot attend on these dates, please let me know of your interest and what dates or days of the week would normally work for you. (See my email address below.) I’ll send you an announcement when I teach this class again. Also, if you would like to stay up to date on other classes and events, please send an email to me with “announcements list” in the subject heading.
*About the Reclaiming Tradition of Witchcraft: “Reclaiming is a tradition of the Craft. To us the Goddess is the wheel of birth, growth, death and regeneration. Therefore we embrace as sacred the living world, the body as well as the spirit, the cycles of nature, sexuality in its diverse expressions, and the elements of air, fire, water and earth that sustain all life. We know that to name these things as sacred is an inherently political act, for what is sacred must not be exploited or despoiled. We also know that action in the world in the service of the sacred is one of the core expressions of our spirituality. Each individual is a living embodiment of the sacred. The divine experience is equally available to all, and each person’s experience of the divine is valid and important. Spiritual authority is located within us. We are each keepers of our own conscience.” (excerpt from “A Working Definition of Reclaiming” by Starhawk, author, activist, teacher, feminist, and witch – read the full text at http://www.reclaiming.org/about/directions/definition.html )
Registration Form
To register, please copy and paste this form into an email, fill it out and send it to silverwoodmysteryschool@gmail.com no later than March 11th. A non-refundable deposit of $25 is required in advance to hold your space unless you have made other arrangements with me. I will send deposit and class information upon registration. Let’s step between the worlds together and make some magic! Blessed Be!
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