The Dragon's Cauldron
Presents
Rites of Passage
A Reclaiming Tradition Core Course
June 17 - July 22, 2008
Cultures across the world have celebrated rites to mark significant life passages. Rites of Passage, a core class in the Reclaiming Tradition, teaches us to step into mystery and explore personal change, healing, and transformation by using pairs and group trance, dreams, myth, storytelling and ritual.
Supported by guides and allies, tracing the otherworld route to our own places of power, we will move in and out of trance and dream states to explore and deepen our understanding of the process of how we change, as we become the main character in our own myth.
We will learn and use a powerful technique of focusing and directing attention to further deepen our initiatory experience together. The workshop will end with a ritual of transformation and celebration.
Participants should have taken an Elements of Magic course, or equivalent.
When: Six Tuesday evenings June 17 through July 22, 2008, 6:00-9:30
including break for supper provided by rotating teams.
Where: Lovely rural setting 20 miles north of Durham at Rougemont. Overnight accommodations are available if needed.
Cost: $120 - $60 sliding scale, you decide where you slide. By using a sliding scale, it is hoped that those who can afford to do so will pay on the higher end so that this class will be available to those of different incomes. Those who have previously taken Rites of Passage may enroll in this one for free.
Contact:Email Birch - or phone 919-220-3087 or
Wren – marjboyer@earthlink.net, or phone 336-364-1167
Preparation: Please record your dreams beginning at least 2 weeks before class starts.
About Witchcraft
Witchcraft is a spiritual tradition based on remembering and recreating an earth-based way of life. Witches honor the cycles of nature, the earth and the Goddesses and Gods that live within each of us. You can learn more about Witches by visiting here.
About Reclaiming
Reclaiming is an ever-evolving tradition of Witchcraft that is rooted in Eco-feminism and the Feri Tradition. It is dedicated to personal empowerment, teaching and unifying spirit with political and social action. You can learn more about Reclaiming's values and world view by visiting here.
About the Teachers:
Birch
Birch is a queer Witch who has been teaching/priesting in the Reclaiming tradition for over nine years and recently completed his Reclaiming Initiation. He has taught at Reclaiming Witchcamps up and down the east coast, and other Reclaiming classes throughout the southeast and at his home in North Carolina.
His current work focuses on using magical principles as a way of developing community and community leaders, the healing power available to humans in the natural realms, and opening to the divine.
Birch relishes his hermit side and practices shamatha-vipashyana meditation regularly. He is a devotee of the tarot, and has been working with White Tara, the Green Dragon of peace and healing, and Brigid. In the past couple of years, he has been spinning and knitting magic.
Wren
Wren is a supposedly rational scientist who rediscovered and reclaimed her magical side nine years ago, happily found a spiritual home in the Reclaiming tradition, and there grew into the roles of priestess and teacher.
She has attended numerous Reclaiming-related Witchcamps, courses and workshops, is active in the local Reclaiming group Dragon’s Cauldron, and continues study and daily practice based on Reclaiming and Feri traditions.
A botanist, logophile, grandmother, and member of an intentional community, Wren likes to chant, walk her labyrinth, commune with the green realm and the beings of the forest, and do magic with fellow Witches.