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WITCH SCHOOL : FOUNDATIONS OF TRADITIONAL MAGIC
The Traditional Witch as Healer and Initiator is an archetype that is returning to power. Witch to me is one who seeks to dismantle systems of oppression, break the spells of assimilation & kyriarchy, account for the theft of spirit and culture, and restore humanity through honest relationship, ritual, and service.
Magic is a faithless devotion and belongs to no one religion, practice, belief, school of thought, or person. It is the vital essence of life that moves through all of nature. Human beings are part of nature, though we have been led to believe we are separate from nature. The Witch is born remembering this connection. Our work is to steward and foster this remembrance through our thoughts, actions, and deeds.
ABOUT ME & MY APPROACH TO THIS WORK
I am a gender non-binary, trans femme, chronically ill witch living in colonized Duwamish & Coast Salish territory. I identify as a mixed white Romani person of Sinti, Bashaldé, Polish, & Croatian ancestry. I was born on occupied Tequesta, Ais, and Jeaga land in what is now called Florida. As someone who was raised within an assimilated American Romani and Polish immigrant household, and as someone who benefits from whiteness and gadjeness, my work focuses on magic as service, reparation, and radical resistance.
What this means is actively evolving with each circle I teach. In essence it's important to note that I teach from a perspective that seeks to actively examine and account for my whiteness, gadjeness, and my experience as a descendent of diaspora, genocide, and enslaved Romani. My ancestral commitment as a Romani and Polish person is to decolonize my mind and magic while accounting for my role in the perpetuation of settlerism on stolen land.
It's also important to acknowledge that we will effort to dismantle gender essentialism and biological reductionism from our altars through this work as well. As such you will not discover, reclaim, or balance your divine feminine or masculine in this circle. Rather, this circle will empower you to discover, nurture, and harmonize your relationship with your Divinity OUTSIDE of the limitations and dualistic fallacy of the binary. This is deeply enriching and powerful work... it is also necessary and challenging work
ABOUT WITCH SCHOOL
Witch School is a TWO, sometimes THREE, year program of core teachings that support you in identifying and deepening your core beliefs. I will not teach you how to be a witch nor will I teach you how to practice your craft. Instead I will provide you with exercises, anecdotes, and a variety of options to help you approach your craft and magic from a deeply personal and culturally relevant perspective.
We will learn the foundations of Traditional Magic (an earth based spiritual practice that is without dogma, rooted in your ancestral cultures.) Many people don’t know the cultural or traditional practices of their ancestry. I encourage you to begin first by exploring the traditional music, art, literature, and clothing (especially the common motifs of embellishments) of your ancestors. In addition to building a simple ancestral altar (which we will learn to tend to in Witch School) you will establish a solid foundation upon which you will build your own personal relationship with magic.
Our 1st year is designed to offer sacred space for you to discover and deepen a personal relationship with your Magic, the spirit of Witch, and the Elements of Nature. You will be presented with foundational concepts within Traditional Magic that you will be encouraged to unravel, question, pull apart and weave into a cosmology of your own. More Info Here.
Our 2nd year is designed to offer sacred space for you to apply the foundational cosmologies from 1st year in the further development of your Witches Craft. We will explore, step-by-step, the creation and facilitation of ritual, spells, and healing ceremonies for self, others, and community. More Info Here.
For those groups who request a 3rd year (and for whom a 3rd year would benefit) - the nature of this option will shift to meet the needs of each specific circle. More Info Here.
Magic is a faithless devotion and belongs to no one religion, practice, belief, school of thought, or person. It is the vital essence of life that moves through all of nature. Human beings are part of nature, though we have been led to believe we are separate from nature. The Witch is born remembering this connection. Our work is to steward and foster this remembrance through our thoughts, actions, and deeds.
ABOUT ME & MY APPROACH TO THIS WORK
I am a gender non-binary, trans femme, chronically ill witch living in colonized Duwamish & Coast Salish territory. I identify as a mixed white Romani person of Sinti, Bashaldé, Polish, & Croatian ancestry. I was born on occupied Tequesta, Ais, and Jeaga land in what is now called Florida. As someone who was raised within an assimilated American Romani and Polish immigrant household, and as someone who benefits from whiteness and gadjeness, my work focuses on magic as service, reparation, and radical resistance.
What this means is actively evolving with each circle I teach. In essence it's important to note that I teach from a perspective that seeks to actively examine and account for my whiteness, gadjeness, and my experience as a descendent of diaspora, genocide, and enslaved Romani. My ancestral commitment as a Romani and Polish person is to decolonize my mind and magic while accounting for my role in the perpetuation of settlerism on stolen land.
It's also important to acknowledge that we will effort to dismantle gender essentialism and biological reductionism from our altars through this work as well. As such you will not discover, reclaim, or balance your divine feminine or masculine in this circle. Rather, this circle will empower you to discover, nurture, and harmonize your relationship with your Divinity OUTSIDE of the limitations and dualistic fallacy of the binary. This is deeply enriching and powerful work... it is also necessary and challenging work
ABOUT WITCH SCHOOL
Witch School is a TWO, sometimes THREE, year program of core teachings that support you in identifying and deepening your core beliefs. I will not teach you how to be a witch nor will I teach you how to practice your craft. Instead I will provide you with exercises, anecdotes, and a variety of options to help you approach your craft and magic from a deeply personal and culturally relevant perspective.
We will learn the foundations of Traditional Magic (an earth based spiritual practice that is without dogma, rooted in your ancestral cultures.) Many people don’t know the cultural or traditional practices of their ancestry. I encourage you to begin first by exploring the traditional music, art, literature, and clothing (especially the common motifs of embellishments) of your ancestors. In addition to building a simple ancestral altar (which we will learn to tend to in Witch School) you will establish a solid foundation upon which you will build your own personal relationship with magic.
Our 1st year is designed to offer sacred space for you to discover and deepen a personal relationship with your Magic, the spirit of Witch, and the Elements of Nature. You will be presented with foundational concepts within Traditional Magic that you will be encouraged to unravel, question, pull apart and weave into a cosmology of your own. More Info Here.
Our 2nd year is designed to offer sacred space for you to apply the foundational cosmologies from 1st year in the further development of your Witches Craft. We will explore, step-by-step, the creation and facilitation of ritual, spells, and healing ceremonies for self, others, and community. More Info Here.
For those groups who request a 3rd year (and for whom a 3rd year would benefit) - the nature of this option will shift to meet the needs of each specific circle. More Info Here.