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CloudCatcher WitchCamp - Gold Coast April 5 -9
Posted by: "SunBird" fimariposa@yahoo.com.au fimariposa
Wed Mar 7, 2012 6:51 pm (PST)
Hi Everyone,
just a reminder that the CloudCatcher Reclaiming WitchCamp (Gold Coast, Qld) is coming up in just a few weeks time. Reclaiming WitchCamps are amazing events. They combine daily workshop series (with different workshop paths to choose from), with a magical journey of evening rituals that work with a specific theme/story for each camp. This year's CloudCatcher Camp will be journeying with the ancient Egyptian myth of Osiris's dismemberment and resurrection.
Reclaiming WitchCamps are suitable for both experienced Pagans, and for people who are new to Paganism and ritual work. (Below is some information from one of the CloudCatcher organisers Jane Meredith, about what people might expect at the CloudCatcher WitchCamp - specifically for people who are new to Paganism and/or Pagan community events/rituals)
There are still some places left for this year's camp, so check out the CloudCatcher WC website for more information if you are interested in coming along:
http://cloudcatcherwitchcamp. com.au/
For more information on Reclaiming WitchCamps and on the Reclaiming Pagan community in Australia, please visit:
http://www.australiareclaiming. org.au/
I hope to see some of you there!
SunBird
CloudCatcher is fast
approaching (4 weeks!) and I want to address a question someone asked me last
week - is WitchCamp really appropriate for beginners, for people who don't feel
that confident, or that knowledgeable about ritual and
magic?
In a word - YES!
Every WitchCamp runs an Elements of Magic path; at CloudCatcher it's
called We are Alive as the Earth is Alive and will be
taught by the exciting Paul Eaves and fabulous Fiona Mariposa. This path is both
an introduction to Reclaiming-style magic and ritual as well as a literal study
of the five elements - Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Spirit - and our personal
relationships to them. It's the path we recommend for anyone new to magic
and ritual, or new to Reclaiming. At any WitchCamp we expect about half the
people who come to be newcomers - and at CloudCatcher, most people there will
never have been to a Reclaiming WitchCamp.
In a sense, this
year in particular (its first year) we are all beginners. We're coming together,
on this special, sacred land to begin to work magic together. We don't know how
it will be. None of us have done it before here, with this combination of
people, in quite this way.
And WitchCamps are all about reaching out. It's great if a core community forms,
that keeps coming back year after year - or travelling from one WitchCamp to
another - and certainly individual WitchCamps can build up a mini-culture,
unique to themselves.
WitchCamps are intensives, and they offer a chance to step out of your ordinary
life for 4 days (or 6, or 7) and immerse yourself in your magic, your soul-self,
to take the steps towards the part of yourself you most want to become. And then
you go back to the other world, the one we all live and work in most of the
year. But carrying something extra with you - a new conviction about yourself
maybe, or a new vision for your life, your community or your family, new
understandings or just new experiences. But this shuttling back and forward is
an essential part of WitchCamps - they're not about building up exclusive groups
but about seeding the new, and sharing, and learning. Newcomers are a vital part
of WitchCamps.
In the Elements
course people can share their own journeys into magic and ritual, learn more
about how rituals work and become equipped to step forward into ritual
themselves, both on their own as well as in a group. People take this course for other
reasons, as well. Often quite experienced druids/priestesses/witches/healers
choose to take Elements as a way of getting in touch again with their own core,
strengthening and confirming their relationship with the elements of their
magic, or sometimes because they want to play and have fun instead of be
sweating away in some 'advanced' path!
Gede and I just ran
an Elements course in Brisbane, and I asked some of the people who did it if
they would share a little what it was like.
I enjoyed the elements weekend immensely.
Jane and Gede have a beautiful energy and flow between them that is both
powerful yet grounded. Regardless of people's experience, whether new to circle work or deeply entrenched in elemental work,
this weekend that flows rich with Reclaiming traditions, allows people to begin to
explore, or deepen the layers of themselves through deep elemental discovery and
ritual...Jodie Danaan (Oakwillow circle)
What a powerful course and an excellent
introduction to the whole Reclaiming
process.. This course offers basic instruction into the ways in which we are a
part of life and that which exists around us as well as understanding what parts
of us make up the divisions which limit our access to the source or foundations
of magical intent... This is not an easy
course though it is not a difficult course- it is just hard work... In
the same way a visit to the gym is hard work for the body so this course
is hard work for the soul.Jae
Of course,
every Elements course is somewhat different (unique) - but I have every
confidence that We are Alive as the Earth is Alive - held on
the slopes of an ancient volcano! - will be a wondrous Path - physical and
magical and philosophical and stirring.
Beginners are
more than welcome. Beginners are essential.
JANE
MEREDITH
www.cloudcatcherwitchcamp.com. au
Registration
at: www.cloudcatcherwitchcamp.com. au/registration. html
All Path
descriptions at: http://www.cloudcatcherwitchcamp. com.au/paths. html
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