2010 Witchcamp Paths

Elements of Magic

Shadow into Grace:
Illuminating Darkness with Devotion

Beyond Violet and Before the Red:
Unlocking the Eternally Wild Heart

Keys to Ecstasy:
Exploring Sex and Desire in Community

Roots & Wings: Embodied Revelations

Elements of Magic Path, With Willow and Robin Hood

Enter the storybook world of the Elements of Magic.

If you are new to witchcamp culture, the Reclaiming tradition of witchcraft, or if you desire to deepen your connection to these primal forces, the Elements of Magic is your path. If you are interested in teaching in our tradition we also welcome you in the capacity of community mentors. This is a required path to all new-comers.

Come take your place in the circle. The ancestors of the craft await you. Stoke the fire of your pagan practice and stir the ancient cauldron of ritual magic with ecstatic movement and chants. Cast spells from beyond the mists of time. Join wild excursions into the sacred elements of spirit, fire, air, water and earth. Learn to set clearly defined, firm magical boundaries; refine your psychic tools of divination; enter the nourishing realms of deep trance and 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) in service of the Goddess we love.

For it is She who calls us to Her side to nourish us with Her wisdom. With a story and a kiss She sends us on our way, off to the land of shadows we go, learning the ways of the old ones of the Sea, the Earth and the Fire.

Join the Elements of Magic as we laugh, cry and revel together in the majesty and mystery of our soul's journey of awakening.


Shadow into Grace: Illuminating Darkness with Devotion with Suzanne and April

The places that are deepest within us can feel inaccessible, unknowable and full of shadows from a land we can't see. Where do we begin the journey that delves into these realms? How do we stand in the face of fear they might conjure? Is it possible the Golden Key we seek is forged in this shadow filled landscape? How can we transform our shame, guilt, grief, and fear into the very seeds of our compassion and service, full self expression and expansion into joy? How do we dance with dissolution and all that we resist, opening ever more profoundly to the core of our truth and power?

To look into ones own being takes great courage but will yield great reward. In the inquiry and exploration of our core strengths and wounds we come to know ourselves as complete, compassionate and, most importantly, conscious. Our Art, our Service and our Purpose can be uncovered and unveiled as we walk TOWARD what we have been afraid to feel and see. Discovering the heart of our potential purpose can come from these core wounds but WE must initiate the inner shift. Only then will we be able to accept ourselves in all of our parts as we enter a state of Grace.

Are you ready to let go even further into yourself and your story? Is this the time to finally find freedom and fall in love with yourself just as you are? Can you fold in Grace and Devotion as powerful allies for the inner transformation needed to do your work and live your mission?

Using inquiry and inspiration, expressive arts and breath-work, trance and meditation, we call on the Shadows and the Grace! We offer our devotion as a path to healing and strengthening all we are and all we will become.


Beyond Violet and Before the Red: Unlocking the Eternally Wild Heart with Jennifer Byers and Dragonlily

For My law is love unto all beings. Mine is the secret that opens the door of youth & the cauldron of Cerridwen & the holy grail of immortality. ~ Charge of the Goddess

We will walk with the Fae on this heart-centered path, honoring them as allies as we dare to submerge ourselves in the flush of feral joy. We will gather, brave and open, to ground into our essential selves, feasting on music, love, beauty and play. Engaging all of our senses, we will risk shedding the armor of past experience as we seek to know ourselves and our magic in a new hue. Along the way, we may learn shining secrets of mutable age as we dance the sacred cycle that contains both inner child and ancient one, timelessness and movement through time, wildness and wisdom.

Who are and will we be when we journey the Other World wearing the sagacity of our youth and the innocence of our years? What Fae allies will join us on our path: nature spirits, the Sidhe, elves, shining ones, dragons, and unknown beings beyond imagining? Will you dive with them into some serious play, creating a unique and precious color that lies beyond violet and before the red?

NOTE * We would like participants in this path to have a working knowledge of the Iron Pentacle. We invite you to engage this magic now by seeking and finding a special key to carry on with you on this journey. Please also bring a journal, cup or chalice, and your preferred divination tool(s).


Keys to Ecstasy: Exploring Sex and Desire in Community (a hands-on sex path) with Hekate and Captain

When we embrace all of our sexuality,
We honor our spirituality.
When we embrace all of our spirituality,
We honor our sexuality.
When we embrace both, we celebrate the God(dess).

What does it mean to embody pleasure for self, others and/or community?
How do we ground, heal, and celebrate from a place of embodied empathy?
What is the difference between safety and the discomfort of growth and change?

Coming together in circle we will create sacred safer spaces in which we choose to be our own allies and the allies of those around us. We will share and witness the stories of our bodies, genders and sexuality's. Exploring and owning our own desires we will speak our boundaries, learning the art of exquisite communication. We will learn to listen with our bodies and be sacred witness to one another as we give ourselves the divine gift of pleasure. We will create together a sacred Temple in which all acts of consensual love and pleasure are Her and our rituals. In exploring, establishing, pushing and respecting our own boundaries we will learn, relax and grow knowing that we are loved and are doing this work together.

If you find yourself drawn to this path please note the following:
* Elements of Magic, Earth Activist Training or Equivalent is a prerequisite for this path.
* We require pre-registration by May 30th as we will be giving some pre-camp work to those traveling this path. Please include in your registration email a short paragraph speaking to how you are hearing the call of this path, as well as your hopes and fears.
* This summer is not the time for you to take this path if you are in deep emotional turmoil or personal crisis. It is our experience that when we are working this magic, deep grounding is needed.


For questions, concerns, or to register, email Captain.

Roots & Wings: Embodied Revelations with Keith and Ravyn

Intention: Inspiring leadership through direct body experiences.
Theory: The body has secrets to share about ecstasy, power, ritual, healing.
Provocation: Questioning orthodoxy and tradition as key to training activist-healer-priestesses.

Two eager facilitators are seeking anti-dogmatic citizens to join us in a chemistry experiment. You are an experienced witch with a high tolerance for formlessness, a postmodern sense of humor and a willingness to question your body about the Craft, authority, practice and communion. You are a teacher/ritualist/artist/leader/human, with healer-activist intentions and comfort is not your immediate goal. You have a body that can move in large or small ways, seated or standing and make sounds. You may enjoy altered states and collaborating with other citizens to integrate our findings. You are willing to improvise, experience, speak and witness. You are interested in a path that will investigate/develop/nurture power-with, the shared power of community-based leadership.

Further intentions, still brewing, may include: crafting a solid container of citizen's agreements, developing a touchstone of practice to begin and end each path, daily sound/vocalization/noise/silence, group learning whose results are not-known in advance and just might provoke unconventional directions for play/research/ritual/prayer/action/performance.

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