This blog is a contact point for Witches in North West Georgia and the Metro Atlanta Area . To learn more about the tradition and what it means to be a Reclaiming Tradition community member see the following links:
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Those pages hold the history of the tradition and more information about the group, witch camps, and other world wide happenings of the Reclaiming community.
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" The values of the Reclaiming tradition stem from our understanding
that the earth is alive and all of life is sacred and interconnected. We
see the Goddess as immanent in the earth’s cycles of birth, growth,
death, decay and regeneration. Our practice arises from a deep,
spiritual commitment to the earth, to healing and to the linking of
magic with political action.
Each of us embodies the divine. 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.
We are an evolving, dynamic tradition and proudly call ourselves
Witches. Our diverse practices and experiences of the divine weave a
tapestry of many different threads. We include those who honor
Mysterious Ones, Goddesses, and Gods of myriad expressions, genders, and
states of being, remembering that mystery goes beyond form. Our
community rituals are participatory and ecstatic, celebrating the cycles
of the seasons and our lives, and raising energy for personal,
collective and earth healing.
We know that everyone can do the life-changing, world-renewing work of
magic, the art of changing consciousness at will. We strive to teach and
practice in ways that foster personal and collective empowerment, to
model shared power and to open leadership roles to all. We make
decisions by consensus, and balance individual autonomy with social
responsibility.
Our tradition honors the wild, and calls for service to the earth and
the community. We value peace and practice non-violence, in keeping with
the Rede, “Harm none, and do what you will.” We work for all forms of
justice: environmental, social, political, racial, gender and economic.
Our feminism includes a radical analysis of power, seeing all systems of
oppression as interrelated, rooted in structures of domination and
control.
We welcome all genders, all gender histories, all races, all ages and
sexual orientations and all those differences of life situation,
background, and ability that increase our diversity. We strive to make
our public rituals and events accessible and safe. We try to balance the
need to be justly compensated for our labor with our commitment to make
our work available to people of all economic levels.
All living beings are worthy of respect. All are supported by the sacred
elements of air, fire, water and earth. We work to create and sustain
communities and cultures that embody our values, that can help to heal
the wounds of the earth and her peoples, and that can sustain us and
nurture future generations.
Reclaiming Principles of Unity – consensed by the Reclaiming
Collective in 1997. Updated at the BIRCH council meeting of Dandelion
Gathering 5 in 2012. "
[Direct link to the Principles of Unity on the Reclaiming website.]
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