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Group Stats
Formed?: 03-20-06
New Members OK?: Yes
Incorporated?: No
501* Cert.?: No
Wvox Stats
Group Id: 27631
Poster Id: 263672
Posted: Mar.23.2006
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Reclaiming Colorado Springs
A WitchVox Sponsor
Age Range/Type: Adult
Located in: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Key Contact: Branwyn WhyteRaven
Spiritual Path: Reclaiming Witchcraft
Status: Established Group
Community Support: Open Circles... Teaching Available
Group Overview: "My law is love unto all beings..."
The Charge of the Goddess
Reclaiming is a modern tradition of witchcraft that had its birth in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. It has been expounded on by Starhawk in her many books, the most well-known of which is The Spiral Dance.
What are some of the distinguishing features of Reclaiming?
1. We have non-hierarchical covens and group priest/esshoods. (We believe our ultimate spiritual authority is within, and we need no other person to interpret the sacred to us. We foster the questioning attitude, and honor intellectual, spiritual and creative freedom.)
2. We have no specific pantheon. We honor and work with female and male images of divinity, always remembering that their essence is a mystery which goes beyond form.
3. We have no set liturgy. Rather, we learn principles of magic and the structure of ritual, and how to "speak as the spirit moves us" within that structure. In The Pagan Book of Living and Dying, Starhawk describes Reclaiming�s style of ritual as EIEIO � Ecstatic, Improvisational, Ensemble, Inspired, and Organic. Our practices are constantly growing, being "extended, refined, renewed and changed as the spirit moves us and need arises, rather than . . . learned and repeated in a formulaic manner."
4. We practice the cultivation of ecstatic states (without the use of entheogens or psychotropics) and divine colloquy � more shamanic than ceremonial.
5. We cultivate self-empowerment, self-discovery, and creativity.
6. We have no requirement of initiation, and when initiations are undertaken, they are customized ones developed on a person-by-person basis by that person's community.
7. We place a strong emphasis on social and ecological responsibility/consciousness.
8. We know that everyone can do the life-changing, world-renewing work of magic, the art of changing consciousness at will.
9. We make decisions by consensus, and balance individual autonomy with social responsibility.
10. We value peace and practice non-violence, in keeping with the Rede, "Harm none, and do what you will."
We welcome all genders, all races, all ages and sexual orientations and all those differences of life situation, background, and ability that increase our diversity.
If you'd like to join us for classes, ritual, or unstructured hanging-out, please visit our website at http://www.meetup.com/Reclaiming-Colorado-Springs-Witches-Meetup/ for more info.
Website: http://www.meetup.com/Reclaiming-Colorado-Springs-Witches-Meetup/
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