Vermont Reclaiming Witchcamp 201818. - 25. August 2018, Timberlake, Vermont, USA
"We are in a magical forest ..."
© Jeffrey Alphonsus MooneyImpressions ...
"We are in a magical forest
We are singing in a chorus
Waking, shaking, taking time to see
How beautiful this world can be"
© Jeffrey Alphonsus MooneyThank you lovely witches for creating, singing & sharing of songs!
Be welcome and enjoy to listen or download songs and lyrics :)About Vermont Witchcamp
Welcome Home
"We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been -- a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power… Someplace where we can be free."
~as written by Starhawk
"Once a year, in the fullness of summer, 130 women, men and children gather in the Green Mountains of Vermont to create a magical pagan community called Vermont Witch Camp. Our vision, rooted in the magic of the Goddess as the Immanent Life Force, is based on the Reclaiming tradition of the Craft. The work we do together during the week gives us energy to grow and nurture ourselves, our wider world and to birth a vision of a new culture.
Reclaiming is a community of women and men working to unify spirit and politics. We agree as a community to abide by the Reclaiming Principles of Unity and the Wiccan Rede."Theme & Story
Elemental Tree of Life, reclaiming magical roots, arts and practices
"The Charge of the Witch Tree
Written for Vermont Witch Camp, 2018
by Victoria Pearson
Please use freely, with attribution
Listen to the words of the Witch Tree, who of old was called world holder, white birch, quercus albas, white oak, life maker, sambuca negra, elder, sugar maple, rooted ones, spruce, hawthorn, cretagis, cherry, striped maple, ancestors, and many other names lost and unknown to us.
Whenever you have need of anything, you witches born in this time, bring your woes and harms to this place, assemble in my presence away from the concrete world, and adore the spirit of life that holds sovereign and sacred all beings. Open to the wisdom of the Witch Tree.
You will learn to be free in this working, and break the bonds of enslavement that shackle all beings -- bonds of domination, smallness, fear. You will be naked in this freedom, and know this as power, and purpose, the rites of the Witch Tree.
Sing, feast, dance, make music and love, at the feet of the trees, let their twining roots be roadmaps to your joining. The ecstacy you seek is among my branches, the joy of life is in the journey.
For this law is love into all beings -- that through this love, the passing of life is lost in an unbroken chain of beings who dedicate themselves at the foot of the tree.
There is no blood sacrifice here, for look -- the Witch Tree pours out love, breath, food, fuel, shade, light, heat, home for all beings.
The trees are calling, do you hear? They call upon your soul to arise! Arise and come!
Bring all of yourself, and nothing else. The Witch Tree teaches with blood and bone, sap and heartwood, mycelium and stoma. The mystery unfolding is the seed within, and the seed without. What will grow is what must be. Come to the portal, welcome to the magic of the Witch Tree."
Source:
website Vermont Witchcamp
18. - 25. August 2018, Timberlake, Vermont, USA
© Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney
Impressions ...
We are singing in a chorus
Waking, shaking, taking time to see
How beautiful this world can be"
© Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney
Thank you lovely witches for creating, singing & sharing of songs!
Be welcome and enjoy to listen or download songs and lyrics :)
About Vermont Witchcamp
Welcome Home
"We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been -- a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power… Someplace where we can be free."
~as written by Starhawk
"Once a year, in the fullness of summer, 130 women, men and children gather in the Green Mountains of Vermont to create a magical pagan community called Vermont Witch Camp. Our vision, rooted in the magic of the Goddess as the Immanent Life Force, is based on the Reclaiming tradition of the Craft. The work we do together during the week gives us energy to grow and nurture ourselves, our wider world and to birth a vision of a new culture.
Reclaiming is a community of women and men working to unify spirit and politics. We agree as a community to abide by the Reclaiming Principles of Unity and the Wiccan Rede."
"We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been -- a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power… Someplace where we can be free."
~as written by Starhawk
"Once a year, in the fullness of summer, 130 women, men and children gather in the Green Mountains of Vermont to create a magical pagan community called Vermont Witch Camp. Our vision, rooted in the magic of the Goddess as the Immanent Life Force, is based on the Reclaiming tradition of the Craft. The work we do together during the week gives us energy to grow and nurture ourselves, our wider world and to birth a vision of a new culture.
Reclaiming is a community of women and men working to unify spirit and politics. We agree as a community to abide by the Reclaiming Principles of Unity and the Wiccan Rede."
Theme & Story
"The Charge of the Witch Tree
Written for Vermont Witch Camp, 2018
by Victoria Pearson
Please use freely, with attribution
Listen to the words of the Witch Tree, who of old was called world holder, white birch, quercus albas, white oak, life maker, sambuca negra, elder, sugar maple, rooted ones, spruce, hawthorn, cretagis, cherry, striped maple, ancestors, and many other names lost and unknown to us.
Whenever you have need of anything, you witches born in this time, bring your woes and harms to this place, assemble in my presence away from the concrete world, and adore the spirit of life that holds sovereign and sacred all beings. Open to the wisdom of the Witch Tree.
You will learn to be free in this working, and break the bonds of enslavement that shackle all beings -- bonds of domination, smallness, fear. You will be naked in this freedom, and know this as power, and purpose, the rites of the Witch Tree.
Sing, feast, dance, make music and love, at the feet of the trees, let their twining roots be roadmaps to your joining. The ecstacy you seek is among my branches, the joy of life is in the journey.
For this law is love into all beings -- that through this love, the passing of life is lost in an unbroken chain of beings who dedicate themselves at the foot of the tree.
There is no blood sacrifice here, for look -- the Witch Tree pours out love, breath, food, fuel, shade, light, heat, home for all beings.
The trees are calling, do you hear? They call upon your soul to arise! Arise and come!
Bring all of yourself, and nothing else. The Witch Tree teaches with blood and bone, sap and heartwood, mycelium and stoma. The mystery unfolding is the seed within, and the seed without. What will grow is what must be. Come to the portal, welcome to the magic of the Witch Tree."
Source:
website Vermont Witchcamp
