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This page provides background information on people who are currently teaching Reclaiming Tradition classes and workshops (listed in somewhat alphabetical order), and/or leading rituals or other events in the Reclaiming Tradition in the San Francisco Bay Area. This page does not list background information on teachers in other geographic areas, or on Witch Camp teachers (but that info may be available through other links provided).
Currently, each group of teachers has its own set of criteria for who may teach, and most of the teacher groups are actively in the process of discussing such issues as teacher qualifications, experience requirements, whether to have some form of credentials, and related concerns. If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to contact the Teacher's Cell. To update or add a biography, please contact ecell@reclaiming.org (Bay Area teachers only).
Information has been provided by the following teachers:
Akasha has taught magic and healing arts classes throughout North America and Great Britain for over 15 years. Her magic is based in the Reclaiming tradition and spiced with time travel, tarot, astrology, martial arts, and children's books. As a Midwife of Rebirth, she aids people in spiritual emergence, dark nights of the soul, cellular healing, and body mind integration. Akasha teaches people the skills to transform their personal stumbling blocks and gain a deeper and broader perspective of their life in relation to their immediate self, surroundings, and the world.
I am a teacher, writer, musician and dreamworker who has worked with Reclaiming in the San Francisco Bay Area since the mid-1980s. I am an initiate of the Reclaiming and Faery traditions, and have been teaching witchcamps since 1994. With Starhawk and Diane Baker I co-authored “Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions” and I founded Serpentine Music, a Pagan music label, in 1992 while helping produce Reclaiming's chant recordings. In 2003, I earned a Doctor of degree and also a black belt in aikido. Currently my spiritual practice centers on dreamwork, ritual, and aikido. I am currently working on my next book(s), have a private dreamwork practice and write essays on spirituality, leadership and dreams on my blog I teach and travel throughout the US, Canada, and England, but I love coming home to the beautiful north coast of California.
Special offerings: Dream interpretation, dream incubation (rituals asking for a dream), rites of passage, mentoring others, group facilitation, singer- songwriter concerts. Workshops on trance skills, aikido and magic, music and magic, spiritual childraising, leadership training, facilitation skills, full-spirit singing; talks on the history of dreams, dreams and healing, rites of passage for young mothers, priestesses through the ages.
Resource offered: Community mentor, guest teacher/artist, priestess on
call.
I seek to help create a space inside of which students can seek their empowerment. I prefer to think of myself as a facilitator rather than as a teacher. My facilitation focuses upon experiential learning and reflection. Any information that I bring to classes is secondary to each student's experience.
I consider myself a kitchen witch; I love the transformational magic inherent in cooking, gardening, and in the other mundane tasks of living. I prefer working with simple, practical magic. I also weave my moment to moment practice of mindfulness into my work. For me, practicing the Craft of the Wise in the Reclaiming tradition is a great gift that we, the participants in any class, give to each other.
In my teaching, I try to weave the main focuses of my life work together: the practice of awareness and presence, making music, tarot, and my attempts to acknowledge the sacred in every step that I take.
I first worked with the Reclaiming community in 1982, and moved to San Francisco to join the community a year later. My primary teachers have been Rose May Dance and Starhawk, though I have learned from everyone with whom I've worked and studied.
Copper Persephone has been a practicing witch: doing ritual, performance and community organizing/activist work for over 20 years. She walks a spiritual path devoted to erotic and ecstatic communion with spirit in all of its faces and forms and enjoys helping others to experience immanence through many roads including tantric practice and shamanic journey work.
She has been facilitating workshops in personal growth, and mask making for many years – as well as teaching Reclaiming classes since 2001 and at Witchcamps since 2003. She co-founded Earth Dancer which hosts classes, workshops and open rituals. Trained as a Drama Therapist, she is particularly drawn to Shadow work and creating masks. Copper and her daughter and extended family live and dance with the faeries and land spirits in the redwoods of Boulder Creek.
Contact Copper by email at CopperPersephone@aol.com
I have been involved with Reclaiming since 1996. Deeply engaged with the Quarterly for years, I also participated on the Wheel and other cells. I joined the San Francisco Teacher's cell in 2000. As a Reclaiming priestess and teacher, I seek to co-create spaces that honor all life as sacred. As a lover of All That Is, my faith is grounded in Reclaiming tradition ritual, Taoist philosophy, Buddhist sitting practice, Catholic-influenced prayer, and channeled wisdoms.
Practical mysticism, liberation, empowerment -- these are the principles that guide my work and life. I actively participate in the "woo" (you know, that place of "whoa, that's really out there") and I live fully in the here and now.
I have been involved with Reclaiming since 1989 when I attended my first Spiral Dance. I have been teaching Reclaiming classes in the Bay Area since 1996 and was a founding member of the Ritual Planning Cell and also the Reclaiming Quarterly Cell. I am a Reclaiming-Feri initiate and Feri informs my work both as a teacher and priestess.
I have also been an astrologer for over 15 years, and have recently been incorporating integrative bodywork into my healing practice. I received my Master's Degree from Sonoma State University in a combined major of Psychology/Sociology, with a focus on Spiritual Activism, and my advanced massage training from the Mckinnon Institute in Oakland, as well as Alive and Well in San Anselmo. I currently do work with non-profits helping them incorporate spirit and healing into their daily work. As a witch I believe in quiet power, depth and strategic irreverence.
I can be contacted for astrology readings, classes or bodywork appointments at fern@wisestars.net, or see my website www.wisestars.net for more information about my work.
I have two teaching "niches" in Reclaiming. I have co- taught numerous introductory Elements of Magic classes in San Francisco. And I have helped teach kids' and teens' paths at several Witchcamps: Witchlets (CA), Free Activist Witchcamp (OR), and Loreley Camp (Northern Europe).
In the past, I have taught and written about direct action organizing (using the pseudonym Luke Hauser). More recently, I have been a member of the Reclaiming Quarterly magazine cell, where I have worked my way up to Assistant Deputy Proofreader of the Revolutionary Pagan Workers Vanguard. I love Reclaiming rituals, and almost never miss a San Francisco ritual.
To me, teaching is a way of bring people together. One of my main teaching goals is learning (and re-learning) that "we're not in it alone," and that together we can do things we would never imagine alone.
Singing and tarot - for all levels of experience - are a big part of my classes, as are co-counseling and other tools for radical self-acceptance and empowerment. I believe that Reclaiming magic can help change the world.
I love being a Reclaiming Witch. Dancing along this path for 13 years has been fun, enlightening, difficult, and rewarding. The Goddess has smiled upon me. Among my many talents are: mothering, partnering, healing, listening, acting, improvising, teaching, storytelling, writing, editing and planning rituals.
I teach to pass on the magic I've experienced. In Reclaiming, magic is the "art of changing consciousness at will." I've learned and made magic with such amazing people. I count Beverly Frederick, Doug Orton, Copper Persephone, Hilary Valentine, Rose May Dance, Seed, Starhawk, Cybele, Urania, Willow, Luanne, Mer, Suzanne Sterling, Sharon Jackson, Kevin, and others that my faulty memory can't seem to locate at the moment, as my talented teachers.
I've been to six Witch camps and I've experienced both Beverly F.'s and Starhawk's apprenticeships. I've been a member of the Marin Ritual Planning Cell since its inception and planned many public rituals. My life is better than I ever imagined it could be. I thank the Goddess for that.
Gwydion is a queer witch and a science geek. He is a Reclaiming priest and has taught Reclaiming classes, workshops, and witchcamps locally and abroad for nine years. Gwydion has been a member of the SF Bay Area Reclaiming community for over 11 years.
Hi all, my name is Madrone. I like to think of myself as a wild woman, witch, musician, performer, producer and organizer, wounded soul, lover of nature and wild things. I was born in England in 1960 in the Month of May, I'm a Taurus with rising Leo and Aquarius moon, little tidbit for all you astrologers. My family emigrated to Australia in 1967, and I spent most of my years growing up in a small, working class, hot steel town.
I moved to San Francisco 14 years ago and began to deepen my study of magic and ritual, and began the long path of healing. I have been sober for 14 years this September, and with struggle and my connection to the goddess, changed my life. I revisited alcohol in late 2000 that proved to me all the more the importance of living sober, I was just curious and am grateful for the experience.
I have a rich and varied life, and these past six years I have been working on healing sexual wounds and developing sex magic workshops, groups and classes. I have been teaching Reclaiming Core classes for 8 years, including Elements of Magic, Iron Pentacle, Pearl Pentacle and Rites of Passage. I also helped to develop the core material for the Pentacle of Pearl class. I have also been teaching at Reclaimings Witchcamps for 5 years, and produce the California Witchcamp in Mendocino each summer. I also love to use performing arts for healing, and have produced a number of all women performance events titled "Women on Sex" and "Women on War".
I have been a personal assistant to Starhawk for 5 years and help keep her life running smoothly, I produce community based alternative events and help others to produce their work. I also have a thriving active engaged councelling/life coaching practice. I am committed to building alternative, diverse community, walking and talking on the edge. blessings Madrone for more info on my classes call 415-789-7674 or visit my website at www.madroneproductions.co m
Minerva Earthschild is a Reclaiming Witch, Priestess, teacher, writer and yogini. She has taught magic since 1984. She also teaches yoga, facilitates workshops and rituals for women healing from abortion, and is a contributor to the Pagan Book of Living and Dying. She lives and works in San Francisco with her partner, has two daughters and a son with special needs, and works as a mediator, attorney and children's advocate.
Deborah Oak Cooper has been active in the Reclaiming community since the early 1980's. She was a member of three covens which were instrumental in building the tradition; Matrix, the Wind Hags, and the Triskits, as well as being one of the original Reclaiming Collective alumni. She teaches internationally as well as locally in San Francisco. She has a psychotherapy practice in San Francisco and is also a visual artist. Being both an initiate of the Reclaiming and Feri traditions, she considers herself part of the newly developing Reclaiming Feri tradition and teaches from this perspective.
Panthera is a Reclaiming Tradition Initiated Priestess & Witch, an
NCLC
Covenant of the Goddess member, a Berkeley Psychic Institute trained
clairvoyant
and spiritual healer.
She is also very interested in death/dying and works in the death
industry.
Magic and mystery are daily parts of her life and she invites you to make
it
part of your own too!
For a more complete bio, please go here: http://www.pantheraorbweaver.com
Rose May Dance, b. 1948, Toledo, Ohio. My eclectic spiritual practice is life-long, and I have worshiped the Goddess since 1979, in Reclaiming since 1981. I have been gifted with two initiations by Reclaiming, the second one a Feri initiation.
I am a devotee of the Laughing Goddess who lovingly spins the universe. I also lay flowers at the altars of the Fierce Goddesses. I partake in the rich spiritual life of the SF Bay Area, enjoying the fruits of many traditions including witchcraft. I am a mother of a school-aged child, and I am also a grandmother.
I live collectively in San Francisco. My issues include direct action politics, open adoption, anarcho-feminist earth healing. I have taught meditation, witchcraft, and related subjects since the 1980's. I participate in a local coven. My interests/skills include nature worship, devotional practice, healing, ritual craft, and spiritual counseling. Iāve taught in community and internationally since 1981, and at witchcamps since the beginning. Retired from a career in social research with injection drugs users, I practice Hypnotherapy in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Starhawk is the author of The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of The Ancient Religion Of The Great Goddess (Harper & Row, 1979, 1989) and Dreaming The Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics (Beacon, 1982). Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority and Mystery, (Harper & Row, 1987), The Fifth Sacred Thing, (Bantam 1992) and Walking to Mercury (Bantam, 1997). Her works have been translated in German, Danish, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese.
A feminist and peace activist, she is one of the foremost voices of ecofeminism, and travels widely in North America and Europe giving lectures and workshops, drawing on her twenty-five years of research and experience in the Goddess movement. She consulted on the films Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times, and Full Circle, directed by Donna Read and produced by the National Film Board of Canada, and is presently at work with Read on a biographical film about archaeologist Marija Gimbutas. Together with Anne Hill and Diane Baker, she is co writing Circle Round: Raising Children in the Goddess Tradition, also forthcoming from Bantam. In addition, she is a major voice in Reclaiming's anthology The Pagan Book of Living and Dying edited by M Macha NightMare, published by Harper San Francisco in October '97.
She is one of the founding members of the Reclaiming Collective and has worked with the group since 1981, teaching, helping to lead and plan rituals, teaching Witchcamps across the US, Canada and Europe, and contributing in many other ways. Reclaiming's El Salvador Friendship Fund is one of her special projects. She holds Permaculture Design Certificate, and enjoys finding ways of integrating hands-on earth knowledge with earth-based spirituality.
She lives part time in San Francisco and mostly in the hills of Cazadero among the wild boar people, and works and teaches with the Reclaiming collective which offers classes, workshops and public rituals in the Goddess tradition.
I have been a Reclaiming teacher and priestess since 1985. I have taught at midwest witchcamp in 1991, 1992, and 1999 and at Vermont in 1998. From 1995 - 1999, I assisted in the formation of Reweaving (a Reclaiming style group in Southern California), by teaching, priestessing and creating teacher's training and apprenticeship programs and curriculums. I now live in Northern California but continue to serve in teacher's cells of both communities.
As a performer, I have extensive training and experience in theatre arts and have dedicated my life to riding the edge where art and ritual meet. I spent years as a professional actress and dancer and have created many workshops and performances combining sacred dance, theatre and singing. In 1983, I co founded Imagic Dance Theatre with Beverly Frederick, performing shows such as a dance/theatre adaptation of The Mists of Avalon, Facing Aids, and choreographing Reclaiming Spiral Dances of 1988 and 1989. In 1998, I collaborated with Yemaya Duby in creating Song of the Soul, a ritual theatre opera with original music and over 30 performers.
As a musician, I was co-founder of the pagan band Skyclad (CD available on Serpentine Records) and contributed songs and performances to Reclaiming recordings Let It Begin Now, Second Chants, and Through the Darkness (also available on Serpentine). I am currently completing my first solo CD entitled Bhakti ( www.suzannesterling.com ), and producing evenings of devotional music and poetry - also called Bhakti- the latest of which was chosen to be part of the World Festival of Sacred Music hosted by the Dalai Llama.
My desire to understand and heal the wounds of an abusive childhood has led me through 15 years of therapy, co-counseling and shamanic exploration (in addition to the deep healing of magical work), and my daily yoga practice has become a foundation and grounding point for all my work.
I live with my partner and his 8 year old daughter in a house filled with many imaginary friends and lots of trolls and faeries. I am passionate about: empowering others to be their authentic, expressive selves, creating sacred community, awakening fierce compassion, singing, laughing and breathing! Blessed Be.
has been teaching Reclaiming classes in the Bay Area since 1995. Her work is characterized by warmth, mischief, playfulness, sensuality and emotional depth. She especially enjoys welcoming newcomers to the tradition. Her practice is ecstatic and deeply grounded, embracing both vulnerability and strength.
Since 1994, she has been involved in community building in many forms, including providing open circles, conflict resolution, mentoring, and working to promote inclusiveness throughout the community. She is an initiate of the Reclaiming Tradition, a longtime member of the Wheel, the SF/East Bay Teachers Cell (now called CRAFT), and was a founding member of the Women's East Bay Ritual Group. Since 2003, she has co-designed and co-taught the teen path at Witchlets in the Woods. She is a founding member of the Well-being Cell (Well), and has helped to design the Listening Circle ritual.
She has also worked for many years alongside her dear friend, Ruth
King, assisting
in rage release workshops for diverse groups of women (healingrage.com),
a work
informed by both Buddhist and West African influences.
Seed is a magnet for children and animals. She is sustained by daily
Buddhist
stillness practice, accompanied by her plant allies. She lives in Oakland
with
her lifelong partner/husband, a stone’s throw from her grown son
and his
wife.
A priestess and teacher in the Reclaiming and Feri Traditions, T. Thorn Coyle has been a student of the Craft for 19 years. Thorn is also a student of Philosophy and Religion, newly returned to the University after years of doing odd jobs to support her endeavors, the most recent of which was helping to run a soup kitchen in San Francisco, a magical place where she still volunteers.
She leads workshops in Devotional Dance and Witchcraft throughout the United States and Canada. Her writings have appeared in various journals and magazines and in the "Pagan Book of Living and Dying" (Harper/Collins '97) and "Circle Round: Raising Children in Goddess Traditions (Bantam, '98). She is still seeking to place her book "Cauldron and Crucifix: a Witch in the Catholic Church" in case any agents or publishers are reading this bio...
Thorn's CD "Face of a New Day," a recording of her activist/Pagan folk-rock songs is available from Serpentine Music. She has a new instructional video as well, "Devotional Dance with T. Thorn Coyle." It has yet to be picked up by network television.
She is also a co-founder of WAND - Witches Active for Nuclear Disarmament - and its evil twin sister, WAND - Witches Against Nuclear Disarmament - whose slogan is "More Bombs for Mother Earth!"
Reclaiming Teachers' Cell of which I am a member and/or to which I
am accountable:
SF/East Bay Teachers Cell
Teaching experience in Reclaiming Tradition:
June 2001 - Elements of Magic with co-teacher Brighde and student
teacher Panthera.
1988 - present - Co-taught several classes, including Elements of Magic
and
Iron Pentacle with, at different times, co-teachers Cybele, Margaret,
Minerva
Earthschild, Raven, Rick Dragonstongue, Starhawk, Susan Falkenrath, and
Toni
Savage
1996 - 1997 - led "Wiccan Study Group" at Northern
California Women's
Facility in Stockton, CA.
1987-present - Abortion healing work -- co-leader of workshops with
Minerva
Earthschild; individual healing work.
Other teaching experience:
1995 - California Institute of Integral Studies (Master's Degree program)
in
Women's Spirituality with Cam Shanty.
Student teaching and training:
Summer 1983 - Student in Ritual and Personal Power Workshop with
Starhawk
Fall 1983 - Student in Women's Mysteries with Rose May Dance and
Pandora
1986 - Student in Rites of Passage with Rose May DanceSpring 1987? -
Student
Teacher, Elements of Magic, taught by Cybele and Raven
1986? - Developed Healing from Abortion Workshop with co-leader
Minerva Earthschild
Work experience in Reclaiming cells:
2000 - present, Member of Rite Here (East Bay ritual planning cell)
2000 - present, Member of Inside Protocell (work with prisoners)
1998 - present, ECell
1998 - present, Member of Advisory Council
1993-1995 - Events Line Fairy
1988/89? - present, Member of SF/EB Teachers' Cell
1984 -1997 - Member of Reclaiming Collective
1984 -1989 - Member of Newsletter Cell
Other information concerning involvement in the Reclaiming Tradition,
Collective,
community, etc.:
My work with the Reclaiming Collective included a few years on the
newsletter
production staff; coordinating the production of the first Chants Tape
&
singing on it; obtaining the first re-sale permit; obtaining the first special
event insurance policy; co-writing the original By-Laws with Macha;
helping
to organize many public rituals (including everything from leaflet
distribution
to doing child care to finding a lighting technician to sweeping up); and
operating
the Events Line for a couple years. From 1987-1997 Minerva and I co-
organized
the Winter Solstice Cookie Party for all the children in the
community.
In 1993 Cam Shanty and I co-led a group of women who designed and constructed the labyrinth at Salamander Camp, and developed a workshop called Women's Mysteries: Through the Labyrinth. This was also the title of a class that Cam and I taught in 1995 at the California Institute of Integral Studies in the Master's Degree program in Women's Spirituality.
From 2000 -- present I have taught Reclaiming classes to women and men in the East Bay, and from 1990 - 1999 I taught women-only classes and led women-only rituals in the East Bay. In 1994 the Women's East Bay Ritual Group was formed by women involved in the women's Beltane celebration and/or in the Elements of Magic for Women class that year.
I have also led and co-led many private rituals, including Coming of Age (First-Blood) Rituals; baby welcomings; handfastings; divorce; healing; and death (deathbedside and funeral). Occasionally I have served as an informant/subject for students or filmmakers doing research on modern Paganism, feminist spirituality, etc.
I have been a member of 3-D Circle since 1984.
My primary teachers in the Reclaiming Tradition, i.e those who have
influenced
me the most:
Arachne, Cybele, Raven Moonshadow, Rose May Dance, Starhawk (in
alphabetical
order)
Articles, books, or other published work I have authored or co-authored
related
to the Reclaiming Tradition:
"Who Are We? Where Did We Come From? A brief account of the
Reclaiming
community's evolution," published in Reclaiming Quarterly Autumn
1999;
(now known as the Quarterly); Labyrinth meditations, an article on
abortion
healing, and the glossary for The Pagan Book of Living and Dying
(HarperCollins
1997); and an article on divorce rituals for Circle Round: Raising Children
in Goddess Traditions (Bantam, 1998); various articles for the Reclaiming
Newsletter
in the 1980s
Credentials to teach, train, or pass on the Tradition:
Minister credentials (Elder) from CoG, 1995(?) to present.
Personal information:
Sex: Female
Age (year of birth): 1946
Sexual orientation: Bisexual (in past I identified as heterosexual for many
years, and as Lesbian for several years)
Ethnicity: Western European descent (English, Dutch)
Experience with other religions/family religious background:
My mother, a pantheist, was my primary spiritual teacher growing up. I
sang
in Methodist Church choirs from age 7 to 17 but my family was also
involved
with Unitarians and Quakers. In adulthood I have been involved with The
Peace
Church (Washington Square Methodist) and Park Slope Methodist Church
in New
York, with the Society of Friends (Quakers) in England, and with the
First Unitarian
Church in San Francisco.
Particular areas of Magical/religious interest:
I am more of a nature-worshiper than a psychic. I am particularly
interested
in: creating ritual; rites of passage for our lives today; using magic for
healing;
interfaith work, prison ministry.
Political/social activism or interests:
Rights of the disabled, especially the deaf; rights of Lesbians and Gays;
allocation
of resources to breast cancer research; anti-death penalty work; rights of
children;
international women's peace work. I am the co-editor, with Susan
Schechter,
of The Park Slope Safe Homes Manual, A Community-Based Program for
Battered
Women and Their Families, published in 1979
Formal academic education:
B.A. in social sciences (UC Berkeley, 1968); J.D. (Hastings College of
Law 1984).
Mundane occupation:
Attorney (appellate defense in capital cases)
Other work experience that might be of interest:
In the 1970s I worked in child care and family services in Illinois and
New
York. From 1973-77 I worked as a Social Worker with the Deaf in
London, England,
using British Sign Language, and I have also studied American Sign
Language
at Vista Community College in Berkeley. I have experience as a Union
organizer,
peace activist, non-violence trainer, encounter group leader, stage
manager,
costume maker, and theatre production coordinator.
Other comments: I was born and raised in California, but I have also lived a few years in New York City and in London, England. As an adult I lived many years in a nuclear family and several years in an all-women household. Now (January 2000) I live in the San Francisco Bay Area (East Bay) with a male partner and two cats. I have practiced polyfidelity for many years. My new, blended family includes eight adult children and three grandchildren, and my aging parents live nearby.
Wilow Fire integrates her decades of experience as a healer and Reiki Master with seasoned counseling, hypnotherapy, bodywork, and breath release skills. She is an ordained minister of the Reformed Congregation of the Goddess, International and an initiate of the Reclaiming tradition. Wilow is a compassionate, grounded teacher, priestess, and activist who teaches Reiki, energetic and magical skills, and herbal healing throughout North America. Her long involvement with Reclaiming includes over 13 years teaching at Reclaiming Summer Intensives. She is available by appointment for readings, consultation, rituals, and healing sessions and may be contacted at mawilow@aol.com.
Luanne Blaich is a 25 year practicing pagan, teaching the Reclaiming Tradition for 7 years. she is committed to radical sanity, estatic devotion to the Goddess and living in the Good Reality; her magick is informed by a lifetime's study of movement and dance technology as well as drawing on many different shamanistic and magickal traditions. She is a devotee of Aphrodite.
I've been a practicing witch for twenty years, and have been involved with Reclaiming for most of that time. I also work in other magical traditions, such as Gardnerian, Feri, and Nine Sisters. I consider myself eclectic and am committed to interfaith as well as inter-tradition work. I am a Reclaiming teacher in the SF/Bay Area, teaching core classes as well as special classes in Aspecting, Anchoring, Spellcrafting, Tarot, and using Music as a Magical Tool, and have student taught at two witchcamps. I have BA's in Theater and in Music, and am co-Artistic Director of Magical Acts Ritual Theater in Oakland. I am a member of the pagan folk trio Moonrise, which recorded the cd "Songs of Love, Magic and Other Mysteries", and I have sung on several Reclaiming cd's. I directed the Spiral Dance chorus for five years. Busy woman, as you can see. I am committed to community work, and served on Reclaiming's Spokescouncil for two years, and volunteered for several years in support of the local bisexual community. All this tells you about my activities and experience, but what's more valuable to me is real interaction with people. Hard to convey here, and a
lot of why I do this work.
I make my home north of San Francisco in the rolling hills of San Rafael
with
my beloved family. I came to Reclaiming in 1991 and began to teach
Reclaiming
core classes and priestess in 1993. In 1998 I was ordained as an interfaith
minister. My practice of Witchcraft is informed by Taoist principles and
the
estatic practices of all faiths. My daily practices vary but I am particularly
fond of gardening, cooking, Tarot and divination, sex magic, making
offerings
to the fey that live in my neighborhood and moon bathing. I consider
myself
to be one of Hecate's Daughters and as such love crossroads, thresholds
and
moon rivers. I believe in the power of timing, destiny and free will --
paradox
is what I use most often to explore the Mystery. I love Reclaiming --
paradox
that it is.
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