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2007 OfferingsRitual
Co-Creation for Camp and Beyond ... or ... ItTakes a Village to
Raise a Cone of Power Several scholars have noted that creative ritual planning is one of the defining religious practices of contemporary Wicca. Other not so scholarly pagans have described ritual planning as ‘herding cats.’ In this path, we will consider what works and what doesn’t work in ritual planning and in rituals themselves, and how best to craft rituals that most fully realize the magical intention.Together we will consider the foundations and structures (the ‘why’s and ‘how’s’) ofWiccan ritual, both intellectually and experientially.We will review and widen our ritual skills such as introducing rituals, casting, invoking, grounding, and aspecting with an eye to crafting artful effective rituals. Using the camp themes and myths as our material, we will workshop ritual ideas in small and large groups, get feedback from the group and then bring our ideas to the larger community of those co-creating rituals.We will also consider the power dynamics of gender, age, experience, and skill in community ritual planning and explore ‘best practices’ for creating rituals that are participatory, inclusive AND effective. And if ritual is an art form, what are the limits of consensus, collaboration and inclusion on the creation of powerful devotional art? Participants in this path are charged with drawing on the strengths and talents of the camp community to help co-create evening rituals.Those joining this path should have experience in ritual planning and leadership, or have participated significantly in Reclaiming rituals and be ready to step into ritual facilitation.
Rooted in the deep personal courage and ferocious compassion of author and activist Joanna Macy's source book, Coming Back to Life, we step off the cliff from fear to creative energy, apathy to compassion, alienation to a felt sense of our radical interconnection. We will touch
the deep chords of grief for our world, and laugh at our impossible
predicaments.We will sing, dance and tell our stories, challenging
each other and ourselves with the tough questions, questions that
will open the floodgates to new songs and stories, new personal
mantras.With the help of our tarot allies we will gain Bring masks and costumes, musical instruments and tarot decks for aspecting Tarot Archetypes. And plan to go home with a new medicine bundle of personal tools and healing rituals for Awakening.
In this path, we will invoke a relentless courtship of the Divine within a swelling house of song. Join us as we listen & feel with our whole beings, lingering at the holy shrine of stillness within. Out this silent rhapsody will erupt a geyser of words & spells to infuse our music-making & quench our poets' hearts.Here, we will immerse ourselves in the mystery & luxury of sound, passionate, poignant, & provocative.We will emerge knowing ourselves as the inspired & radiant ones we have always been. We will then offer this inspiration and radiance to the entire camp by weaving the musical fabric of the whole week ... invigorating the afternoon lulls, underpinning the evening rituals, punctuating unexpected moments, & inspiration the very air we all breath with our joyful noise! Please bring voices, instruments, bodies, souls, journals, & a willingness to go there.
Youth
Tribe Once upon a time there was a tribe of witches, gathering yearly in the woods to do their rituals and work their magic.While the adult witches wove magic and had an unfortunate number of meetings the youth would slip away.This tribe of youth would venture off to work some magic themselves. For youth have a magic that is entirely their own! Their magic is so mysterious and secret it has not ever been written down, though there are rumors. Some say they head to the woods finding faerie portals to climb into or crawl into caves to talk with the earth. Others say they can light fires from nothing and float themselves on water (you do know witches float!).There are reports of them sitting in the branches of trees like a flock of strange birds and sneaking like a pack of wolves through the tall grass.
Calling all members of the youth tribe. Come and join the adventure of youth magic!
Pixie
Path Pixie Path will take palce at the Barn Day Camp, where I have done programs for 3&4-year-olds for 10 summers. We will set up a magical space where young children (and their adult allies) can explore symbols of our magical tradition in a hands-on, interactive way. We will add to this experience with a thematic program integrating story, song, movement, art, the garden, all of our senses, the elements, and more.
Elements
of Healing This
Healing Arts path is organized as Air, Fire,Water, Earth, and Spirit.We
examine health and healing as we work with boundaries, rapport and
rhythm.We develop energy-sensing, reading, and sharing skills, release
and
Trance
Dance Each day sacred space will be created, followed by a body movement warm up. After the day's intention is set by a short spoken trance induction, musical support for movement and continued trance will be created by the facilitators. Participants will be encouraged to dance/move, add vocal accompaniment or simply partake of the energy offered. Opening to deep trance to further spiritual connection will be our goal. Content will be determined primarily by the participants, and direction will be at a minimum after the structure is set up and explained at the beginning of path.
Walking
into the Pentacle Join SophiaHeath and Selchie in this opportunity to
explore the tools we each carry within us. Starting with the Feri
inspired pentacles of Iron and Pearl our week will culminate in
developing our own pentacles as tools for magic and personal practice.
Each day, within the container of sacred space, we walk the pentacle,
opening to its
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Self-Guided Path For
the past few years, there has been a group of people who opt to
co-create their own path work each morning, without specific teachers
leading. Some paint, some work with aspecting and deep witness,
some with the tarot. There may be people choosing this option again.
Not a traditional "path", this is place for people who
want to co-create their camp experience. This is a gathering of
like-minded people supporting one another in personal and collective
magic. What form it takes will depend upon who hears the call.
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Last update: August 12, 2007
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