Welcome to Jane Meredith’s February Cross-Quarter E-Zine 2012
I am deep in preparations for CloudCatcher WitchCamp – magically, logistically and personally. I’m especially passionate about the magic that goes into developing a WitchCamp; creating its intention, letting the story choose itself and then weaving the threads together… Reclaiming WitchCamps all share the same basic structure but each one is unique and CloudCatcher, set in the caldera of Mt Warning, is about marrying our magic with this land. Our community there includes the fire of this ancient volcano, the air and water in the form of mists and clouds and waterfalls that cling to its rocky peak and fill its valleys, the red, fertile earth and the Rainbow Serpent twisting through the land. My own Path, co-taught with Karin Wolfsister, is dedicated to the serpent energy and embodied magic; shape-shifting into the real and undoing the dualism of body and spirit.
If you live in SE Queensland or Northern NSW, CloudCatcher WitchCamp is especially for you, bringing the most exciting magic I have found anywhere in the world to this sacred and beautiful land. Reclaiming magic combines social activism with mythic and magical realms and self-growth and WitchCamps are an extraordinary, dynamic, life-changing and ecstatic experience.
I’ve been working with the four Egyptian deities – along with the rest of the CloudCatcher teaching team – and January has been devoted to Set. Set, or Suti, was a desert God originally; in the later mythology that we are working with he became the villain of the piece, murdering his brother Osiris out of jealousy. Even before we began actively working with him this story seemed skewed, and as soon as we began to look at the myth he was shouting at us, for the role he’d been cast in, the motives he’d been assigned and hundreds of years of neglect and defamation. He’s a god of purging, of stripping away and although we might associate that with darkness, in Egypt it was the blazing sun and the desert that held those powers. With him I’ve had a month of risk, deep release, fierce change and brilliant insight.
If you would like to join with us in some of this working, prior to Camp, I’ve posted some suggestions on my blog.
For this e-zine, I’ve chosen to give you the simplest Circle ritual I know. It can be done anywhere outside, at any time and for any length. It’s about recognising the sacred, wherever you are. Four Directions Ritual….
Where I’ll be over the next 6 weeks:
• Sydney – Saturday February 4, The Last Taboo: Writing in the Sacred Realms Writing workshop, 10am-4pm at NSW Writers’ Centre
• Sydney - Sunday February 5, 4pm, Lammas Ritual at Coogee
• Mullumbimby – Wednesday February 15, 7pm in the HeartSpace at Santos – an Information and Introduction Evening for CloudCatcher WitchCamp, with myself, Gede Parma + the organisers. Find out more, ask questions and experience a taste of WitchCamp magic.
• Brisbane, Feb 18-19: Path of the Elements co-taught with Gede Parma. This is a Reclaiming Core Class delving deeply into elemental magic as a foundation, empowerment and magical practise.
• Sydney – Sunday February 26th, all day – Magical Spells
• Sydney – Sunday March 18, all day – Magical Rituals
May the tides of Lammas balance with those of Imbolc in your life ~
JANE MEREDITH
www.janemeredith.com
