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CALLING ALL MAGIC WORKERS- A GLOBAL WORKING AGAINST BOKO HARAM

Magic Workers unite against Boko Haram!

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This Saturday, February 13th, we are planning a SJWW (Social Justice Witches Working) against Boko Haram. If you are on Facebook the event page is here. Consider yourself invited, whether on Facebook or not, as this is a public event and as many folks as possible are asked to join for the oomph a collective can bring.

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CALLING ALL MAGIC WORKERS- A GLOBAL WORKING AGAINST BOKO HARAM

Invite your friends who would like to support this effort! This event is public. Details are below on the timing and bones of the working. I’ve added a poem I’m going to use (use as desired). I’ll be dressing candles with an herb and oil blend particular to the cause. I personally will be invoking Medusa’s unflinching gaze into the mix as i am working with Her this year. Add your comments, post your outlines, run with it!

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Hail Brigid! Join us for Imbolc – a Reclaiming Pittsburgh event!

Sponsored by Reclaiming Pittsburgh

Ritual Intention: I allow time to temper me in Brigid’s Forge; reborn in the light of the World.

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Join us in Brigid’s forge – Imbolc 2016

▶Ritual Intenion:
I allow time to temper me in Brighid’s Forge; reborn in the light of the World.

▶Suggested items for ritual:

✓ We will have many candles which will generate heat, please dress with that in mind.

✓ Bring a camp chair or cushion as on site seating is limited.

✓ We will have some food to facilitate grounding post-ritual. If you have specific dietary requirements, please bring foods appropriate for your consumption.

✓ A Brigid altar will available. You are welcome to bring a small item for this altar if you wish.

✓ Bring a water bottle for drinking.

✓ ALSO bring a container of water for sharing a small amount of water that has special meaning to you. It can be from a local water source or from your travels. Even from your tap. THIS WATER WILL NOT BE CONSUMED. We will be combining these waters in ritual, and then sharing the whole as we each take some away with us.

✓ This list may be updated as we move closer to the ritual date. Please check back.

▶Reclaiming Pittsburgh offers open rituals to the greater community. All are welcome to come and co-create ritual with us as all levels of experience, from novice to long-timer, can participate. We are an inclusive community and do not discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, race, or religion. The rental space for this ritual is not wheelchair accessible. Though attendance is free, we will be collecting donations to help defray the costs of this public space and to move to an accessible venue in the future. **No donation is too small.**

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Public Samhain Ritual – Reclaiming Pittsburgh – Sat October 24th, 5-9 p.m.

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Come join us for a potluck dinner and ritual in this time of the thinning veil. Our Beloved Dead are close and come in love with messages for the living. Honour who you are and who you came from in ritual based on the Reclaiming tradition.

All levels of experience are welcome. We are inclusive of all genders, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Please bring a pot luck item to share.

You are welcome to bring a photo or item for your Ancestors to place on the shared altar.

After the potluck we will have a brief overview of Reclaiming and its particular style of ritual. We will discuss Samhain and its place on our ritual calendar. We’ll outline the logisitics of our ritual in “ritual conspiracy”, and then ritual will commence. We will have some time afterward for discussion if desired.

Come! Invite your friends!

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THE PEACOCK GOD: JOY AND RIGHTFUL PRIDE. AN IN-PERSON WEEKEND WORKSHOP; OCT 10-11, 2015

Another Bone & Briar weekend intensive October 10-11, 2015 in a private residence minutes south of Pittsburgh, PA!!

The Peacock God and His “terrible pride”! Joy and rightful pride together.

What if you and everyone else could be as big as they wished? What if we all took up as much as we wanted physically, aurically, and psychically yet all of us still fit in the room together? Knowing that the space others take up has nothing to do with us, is not a reflection on us. How might these things feel?

What does it mean “to love ourselves in all our parts” in everyday life?

Come explore the Feri God myth with Bone & Briar. A deity of wonder, delight, and unabashed pride.

Teachers:

Amoret BriarRose: Feri/Reclaiming initiate working in the traditions since 2000, Amoret partners with Boneweaver in Bone and Briar in Pittsburgh, PA. Amoret’s passions include community building, co-creation and manifestation, ecstatic ritual, divination and the poetry of life. She is experienced in leadership training, small group facilitation, tarot, trance techniques, and ritual arts. Amoret believes that transformation can be blissful if we surrender to the process. It is her privilege and calling to tempt seekers to their transformations.

Boneweaver: Boneweaver is a Reclaiming initiate and a Feri initiate of the Victor Anderson path through the Starhawk line. She partners with Amoret in Bone and Briar in Pittsburgh, PA. Boneweaver has been in a variety of leading and teaching roles within the Pittsburgh Pagan community for about a decade. She is an edgewalker and works the spaces of grace between life and death. Ritual arts, trance work, mentoring, and the arts as spiritual practice are of particular interest to her. She values a sense of humour and a sense of purpose in the pursuit of living authentically.

Blessings,

Boneweaver and Amoret BriarRose

Registration is open now. Fee is due by October 3rd, 2015.

PREREQUISITE: None
WHERE: Pittsburgh area
WHEN: Saturday October 10 and Sunday October 11
COST: $150-$90, sliding scale.

Send REGISTRATION information (preferred name, preferred email address) to thewitches@boneandbriar.com
Send PAYMENT through the Donate button here.
Event sponsored by Reclaiming Pittsburgh. 

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The Peacock God: in-person weekend workshop; Oct 10-11, 2015

Another Bone & Briar weekend intensive October 10-11, 2015 in a private residence minutes south of Pittsburgh, PA!!

The Peacock God and His “terrible pride”!

What does this mean? What could this mean for you? A Feri God. A deity of wonder and delight. Unabashed pride. What does this conjure in you?

Join us and explore this fascinating deity of the Feri tradition!

Blessings,

Boneweaver and Amoret BriarRose

PREREQUISITE: None
WHERE: Pittsburgh area
WHEN: Saturday October 10 and Sunday October 11
COST: $150-$90, sliding scale.

Send REGISTRATION information (preferred name, preferred email address) to thewitches@boneandbriar.com
Send PAYMENT through the Donate button here.
Event sponsored by Reclaiming Pittsburgh. 

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The Gratitude Project – feel free to join it!

Ground rules: The gratitude project is one post per day about something for which you are truly grateful and it runs from Lammas to Mabon. It can be a big or little gratitude, but no repeats – you can be grateful for your spouse/kids/job/friends, but the reason for the gratitude needs to be different for each entry. This project was started by [personal profile] estaratshirai .  I have been doing it since 2004.

Today I am grateful for sunny skies and low humidity.

~Boneweaver

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Here is where Bone & Briar will be next week – WITCHCAMP!!

We’re doing Freyja and Brisingamen, delving deeply into sex magic, empowerment, and how to shed the shame the world likes to cloak us with.

There shall be feasting! And ritual! And spiritual paths (4 to choose from) everyday! And optional offerings! And vendors and auction to support our Send A Witch to Camp Fund! And locally source delicious food made with loving hands! And laughter and dance and singing and bonfires and music and swimming and (some) sleep and a talent show and ….

And if you wish you had signed up – well, next year our story is Medusa!!

CAMP!!

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Invisible Illness and the Apple Cider Vinegar Brigade

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I was going to transcribe the audio file even knowing how horrid my typing skills are. But I’m not. I recorded this in the car on my way to Tai Chi and I am posting it here, unedited, with stumbling over words and verbal corrections intact. Road, car, and traffic noises are my background music! You may need to increase the volume. It is a YouTube link, but no pretty pictures, just audio. The blog post I reference is the post previous to this one.

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I kept a stone on my tongue most of the weekend so my ears had little competition and now it’s acting like a toddler

The Pagan Blog project, March, Wk 2- Mar. 9- As Above, So Below What do you seek from the Divine? How is that reflected in the mundane? Where do you find your place of synthesis?


I kept a stone on my tongue most of the weekend so my ears had little competition and now it’s acting like a toddler.

I wrote this in a reply to one of my Facebook posts and as I wrote it I realized how very true it was. I was at a spiritual intensive and my part was to support, observe, and not lead or do the talky bits or in any way step into center. I relaxed into my role. I really leaned into that role because frankly, if you’ve stood in leadership in community, stepping back and not leading can be the equivalent of a week long rest for the soul.

Part of this stepping back for me involves pulling my aura in just a bit because my presence can be a distraction. I am a transition priestess; a border-walking, dead-talking priestess. When one walks with the Dust of the Dead in a cloud around one’s feet (picture Pigpen from the Peanuts™ comic strip), well it can be a distraction.

Another part is I am a very verbal person. It is a gift to be so and not so much the curse I, until recently, believed it to be. (Some other blog post I’ll talk about why I thought it a curse.) Being so verbal is not always appropriate so I’ve learned to curb it for periods of time. Here’s the thing, though. It is a key piece of Who I Am. When I curb it I have to later let it loose. If I don’t pay attention to the loosening it is indeed unruly and loud like a toddler. And thus the sentence came out: I kept a stone on my tongue most of the weekend so my ears had little competition and now it’s acting like a toddler.

It reminded me that “As above, so below”. It reminded me that we are exactly who we are and if we push too hard to be other, it squishes out the other direction. It reminded me that we are reflections of the curved black mirror of space, sometimes squished and pulled, but always always reflections of the divine, and always always ourselves.

After all: it’s just a fun house mirror.

As above, so below.

Also posted at Lean in to Joy.