Upcoming Classes, Camps & Presentations
December 9: Courting the Goddess: Hecate - with Urania -- Santa Rosa, CA
January 18 - 20 2019 -- Community Class Weekend Intensive - w Copper Persephone -- Santa Rosa, CA
March 2019 -- Pentacle Class w Ewa -- San Francisco, CA
July 13/14 2019 - July 11 2019 -- Year and a Day Reclaiming Priestess Training, Europe -- Glastonbury, UK + Online
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December 9: Courting the Goddess: Hecate - with Urania -- Santa Rosa, CA
Hecate: Goddess of Earth, Sea and Sky. Queen of the Witches, Goddess of the Crossroads, Lady of Torches who lights our way as we travel the roads between the light and the dark – sometimes She has one face, sometimes three. She is called both a sorceress and the Holder of the Keys – but to what? And how do Her rites and rituals catalyze our own unlocking of the magics within us?
To the ancients, the fall was a time sacred to the goddess Hecate, also known as Dadouchos (She of the Three Ways) and Phosphorous (Light bearer, torch bearer).
She is awakening magic and the dreams that whisper our secret desires in the night. Hers were the in-between places, the places of choice, Crossroads. Hers were long nights and the sky dark with starlight, or sometimes, glowing silver with the heavy moon.
The Greeks revered her and the Renaissance feared her. She came out of modern day Turkey but possibly dates back to pre dynastic Egypt. Her name has never been lost.
ABOUT COURTING THE GODDESS:
In this series of classes we work to develop intimate, experiential relationships with the Goddess. Using magical and artistic practices such as trance, myth working, altars, aspecting, song and poetry, we will deepen our understanding of each Goddess and how She may touch our lives, and develop creative ways in which to worship, pray, and engage with the divine.
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PREREQUISITE: Elements of Magic or equivalent.
TEACHERS: Urania & Irisanya
DATES: Sunday December 9, 2018 11am - 8pm
LOCATION: Private residence in Santa Rosa
COST: $90-$300 sliding scale.
TO REGISTER: Drop a PM on facebook or email irisanya.moon@gmail.com. The PayPal address for deposits is the same. Looking forward to making magic with you!
FACEBOOK EVENT LINK: https://www.facebook.com/events/1711743188875165/
Hecate: Goddess of Earth, Sea and Sky. Queen of the Witches, Goddess of the Crossroads, Lady of Torches who lights our way as we travel the roads between the light and the dark – sometimes She has one face, sometimes three. She is called both a sorceress and the Holder of the Keys – but to what? And how do Her rites and rituals catalyze our own unlocking of the magics within us?
To the ancients, the fall was a time sacred to the goddess Hecate, also known as Dadouchos (She of the Three Ways) and Phosphorous (Light bearer, torch bearer).
She is awakening magic and the dreams that whisper our secret desires in the night. Hers were the in-between places, the places of choice, Crossroads. Hers were long nights and the sky dark with starlight, or sometimes, glowing silver with the heavy moon.
The Greeks revered her and the Renaissance feared her. She came out of modern day Turkey but possibly dates back to pre dynastic Egypt. Her name has never been lost.
ABOUT COURTING THE GODDESS:
In this series of classes we work to develop intimate, experiential relationships with the Goddess. Using magical and artistic practices such as trance, myth working, altars, aspecting, song and poetry, we will deepen our understanding of each Goddess and how She may touch our lives, and develop creative ways in which to worship, pray, and engage with the divine.
* * *
PREREQUISITE: Elements of Magic or equivalent.
TEACHERS: Urania & Irisanya
DATES: Sunday December 9, 2018 11am - 8pm
LOCATION: Private residence in Santa Rosa
COST: $90-$300 sliding scale.
TO REGISTER: Drop a PM on facebook or email irisanya.moon@gmail.com. The PayPal address for deposits is the same. Looking forward to making magic with you!
FACEBOOK EVENT LINK: https://www.facebook.com/events/1711743188875165/
January 18 - 20 2019 -- Community Class Weekend Intensive - w Copper Persephone -- Santa Rosa, CA
Reclaiming Community: Tending the Hive
A Weekend Intensive 2019
The Bees Dance in Community,
Calling the Melissae….
Calling the Hive ….
Calling us Home….
Teachers: Copper and Irisanya
Dates: January 18 - 20, 2019
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Some room available for overnight stays, first come, first
served. Floor space and backyard tenting space and
some other creative options for the daring. :)
Times: Fri. 7 - 10p, Sat. 10a - 10pm, Sun. 10a - 3p
Cost: $90 - $240, sliding scale and scholarships available
Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/cliWmR7P9bfz7qqj1
Neighborhoods, workplaces, planning groups, covens, witchcamps, families, affinity groups, households, study groups, and more. Every day, we move in and out of varied and diverse communities which form the weft and weave of our lives. At its best, being in community is like dancing with trusted partners. We connect, feel supported, we engage and celebrate. We also, at times, walk in community feeling disempowered, frustrated, isolated, and burnt out. In these experiences, we may find ourselves leaving circles of connection, stepping out of service from a place of scarcity and unsustainable efforts.
Is another way possible? Can we learn to stay together through times of difficulty and build more resilient structures for leadership, for shared restorative practices, for reenergizing our activism and our magic and community-work?
Calling on the magic of the hive, we step into a weekend of sacred trust and community building. Working with the points of the Pentacle of Community, and with our allies, the bees, we will engage each other in honest communication, play, ritual, trance and spellwork as we explore what it takes to build and sustain healthy, vibrant communities.
This class is the 5th Core Reclaiming class and is focused on creating community in the Reclaiming Tradition and its ally communities.
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Copper Persephone: (she/her) Feeling two homes in my bones, California and Minnesota, I currently live in Vacaville, California on land that settlers forcibly removed from deep and sustainable connection with the Patwin Band of the Wintun peoples. I have been a practicing witch: doing ritual, performance and community organizing/activist/social work with people who live in poverty for over 25 years. I walk a spiritual path devoted to erotic and ecstatic communion with spirit in all of its faces and forms and am called to helping others to experience immanence through many roads including western queer tantric practice and journey work. I have facilitated workshops in leadership, personal growth, communication, conflict resolution, sacred sexuality and mask making for many years. First teaching Reclaiming classes in 2001, and then at Witchcamps starting in 2003, I am devoted to service and organizing work. Dedicated to Freya and initiated into Reclaiming, the Honey Bees Clan and the Bear clan as well as Queer Spirit - those roots and conversations inform my daily life.
Irisanya (she/her) is a Witch, priestess, writer, teacher, drummer, moon lover, Sagittarius, and Reclaiming initiate. A fateful connection with a camp organizer led her to her first California Witchcamp in 2008. Since then, Irisanya has been blessed and humbled by opportunities to teach at Witchcamps in North America, Europe, and Australia. Now 20+ years (really?) into being a Witch, she is committed to facilitating community growth and connection through ritual, storytelling, drumming, and conflict resolution, embracing the beauty and complexity of being on this earth right now. She's devoted to Aphrodite and dedicated to showing up authentically and open-heartedly -- and, hopefully, with grace. You’ll often find her writing poetry, ignoring grammar rules, and making coffee. You can find her other goings-on and blurry moon pictures at www.irisanya.com.
Reclaiming Community: Tending the Hive
A Weekend Intensive 2019
The Bees Dance in Community,
Calling the Melissae….
Calling the Hive ….
Calling us Home….
Teachers: Copper and Irisanya
Dates: January 18 - 20, 2019
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Some room available for overnight stays, first come, first
served. Floor space and backyard tenting space and
some other creative options for the daring. :)
Times: Fri. 7 - 10p, Sat. 10a - 10pm, Sun. 10a - 3p
Cost: $90 - $240, sliding scale and scholarships available
Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/cliWmR7P9bfz7qqj1
Neighborhoods, workplaces, planning groups, covens, witchcamps, families, affinity groups, households, study groups, and more. Every day, we move in and out of varied and diverse communities which form the weft and weave of our lives. At its best, being in community is like dancing with trusted partners. We connect, feel supported, we engage and celebrate. We also, at times, walk in community feeling disempowered, frustrated, isolated, and burnt out. In these experiences, we may find ourselves leaving circles of connection, stepping out of service from a place of scarcity and unsustainable efforts.
Is another way possible? Can we learn to stay together through times of difficulty and build more resilient structures for leadership, for shared restorative practices, for reenergizing our activism and our magic and community-work?
Calling on the magic of the hive, we step into a weekend of sacred trust and community building. Working with the points of the Pentacle of Community, and with our allies, the bees, we will engage each other in honest communication, play, ritual, trance and spellwork as we explore what it takes to build and sustain healthy, vibrant communities.
This class is the 5th Core Reclaiming class and is focused on creating community in the Reclaiming Tradition and its ally communities.
_______________________________________________________________
Copper Persephone: (she/her) Feeling two homes in my bones, California and Minnesota, I currently live in Vacaville, California on land that settlers forcibly removed from deep and sustainable connection with the Patwin Band of the Wintun peoples. I have been a practicing witch: doing ritual, performance and community organizing/activist/social work with people who live in poverty for over 25 years. I walk a spiritual path devoted to erotic and ecstatic communion with spirit in all of its faces and forms and am called to helping others to experience immanence through many roads including western queer tantric practice and journey work. I have facilitated workshops in leadership, personal growth, communication, conflict resolution, sacred sexuality and mask making for many years. First teaching Reclaiming classes in 2001, and then at Witchcamps starting in 2003, I am devoted to service and organizing work. Dedicated to Freya and initiated into Reclaiming, the Honey Bees Clan and the Bear clan as well as Queer Spirit - those roots and conversations inform my daily life.
Irisanya (she/her) is a Witch, priestess, writer, teacher, drummer, moon lover, Sagittarius, and Reclaiming initiate. A fateful connection with a camp organizer led her to her first California Witchcamp in 2008. Since then, Irisanya has been blessed and humbled by opportunities to teach at Witchcamps in North America, Europe, and Australia. Now 20+ years (really?) into being a Witch, she is committed to facilitating community growth and connection through ritual, storytelling, drumming, and conflict resolution, embracing the beauty and complexity of being on this earth right now. She's devoted to Aphrodite and dedicated to showing up authentically and open-heartedly -- and, hopefully, with grace. You’ll often find her writing poetry, ignoring grammar rules, and making coffee. You can find her other goings-on and blurry moon pictures at www.irisanya.com.