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Facilitation Team Information for SpiralHeart WitchCamp 2008

Raven:
 

This crone is proud and happy to be Raven of SpiralHeart and a Reclaiming initiate. Recently retired, she is enjoying the freedom to become more active as a priestess and witch. A driving force in her life from childhood has been mysticism and her personal practice is built around meditation. After exploring many other spiritual traditions, she finally came home in 1994 when she attended the first MidAtlantic Witchcamp. Since then, she has been passionately devoted to SpiralHeart, the crones’ affinity group and the power of witchcamp to change peoples’ lives for the better. More than anything else, she loves to help people in the process of discovering and nurturing their healthy authentic selves. For her, living authentically is a lifelong spiritual discipline.


Evelyn:
 

Evelyn has been a camper and organizer in the SpiralHeart community since 2002. Her passion is healthy, effective group process to create sustainable cultures and communities. She believes that the skills of working together as healthy, healing communities are the key technologies that will determine what path our culture takes next. She has poured this passion into studying, practicing, and teaching group facilitation and consensus process within the pagan and progressive communities for many years, and has learned much about the magic of community by serving as one of SpiralHeart's meeting facilitators. She is an enthusiastic supporter of the 2008 camp model as a way of further deepening our community skills and connections.

Since Arachne camp in 2003, Evelyn has been honored to participate in the Crone's affinity group, where she has witnessed deeply skilled and instinctively wise consensus process and group problem solving. She is eager to share what she has learned of the Crone's ways with the larger community.


Copper Asetemhat Stewart:
 

 

Copper is an Appalachian Queer Spirit Androgyne who cultivates devotion to Isis, Isis-Fortuna, Liberty, Malek Taus, his Ancestors and Allies, and the sacred mountains of his much-beloved West Virginia. Spiral Heart is forever dear to him, having been the central catalyzing factor in his spiritual growth these last nine years. He is also ordained in the Fellowship of Isis and is presentlly exploring a new relationship with the mysterious Peacock God. He practices and facilitates magic with Monongahela Reclaiming (Morgantown, WV). He is also a scholar of early American cultural studies with a deep love of spiritual autobiography and the prolific intersection of religion and literature-- that point where interior life and sacred imagination begin to become outward, historical reality. He is dedicated to revolution through cultural change. He believes that Shamanic Witchcraft is the religion of the past and future and that we are all now midwifing its rebirth.


Kelpie:
 

Kelpie was born with a sunny and empathic nature in Kansas, and has spent the most recent 16 years of her life raising children on an eco-village in Virginia. She truly believes that what we do to the world, we do to ourselves, and therefore have made a life's commitment to love the world well. After a dark night of the soul, seven years ago, the goddess in the form of Isis and Hecate came to her and directed her to share her treasures, which she does now with great joy and trembling. She connects best with divinity through dreaming, writing, song, and movement.


Moonsister:
 

Moonsister is a mother and grandmother and has been a practicing witch for over 10 years. Her practice centers around community building and supporting her friends. She is happy to do the background work that keeps community moving forward and does not hesitate to speak her mind.


Pam Eagle:
 

Pam Eagle is a practicing witch with no particular practice, and no particular belief that any aspect of Life is just Mundane! A SpiralHeart community member since 2004, she is also proud wife to Wolf, mother to Lucien and Sofia, graphic designer by profession and rebellious by nature.


 

Shana:
 

Shana first put her toes in pagan waters 24 years ago and has been growing in joy ever since. Her spirituality is a braid made up of her Eclectic Pagan anarchist beginnings, her Druid teacher's influence, and playing with her Reclaiming Tradition friends. She is an ecstatic mystic with a gift for creating healing, transformative ritual, who has led sweats in the Eclectic tradition for more than 20 years.

Deeply committed to the web of connection we exist in, she managed sustainable farms for 30 years, lived in intentional community, and created a polyamorous family that still thrives. To her delight, an alternative high school has hired her to teach ecosystems and revolution. Her growing edges are integrating shadow and light, being life is abundant and free, and learning to sing solo in public. She loves yoga, walking in the mountains, singing, getting dirt under her fingernails, and dancing 'til she drops.

 


 

Yarrow:
 

Yarrow has a few poems under his belt, a few theorems, a few arrests, a few prayers. He's mowed grass in a cemetery, cut sugar cane in Cuba, written computer programs below a morgue. He mourns the recent death of Marsha, his partner of twenty-three years, to whom he's been a lover, a primary caregiver and a Responsible Party.

He has helped organize the SpiralHeart Witchcamp for ten years and is an initiate of the Reclaiming and Feri traditions. He loves the Iron Pentacle, the dance of light and shadow, the strength that comes from facing our weaknesses, the wisdom that comes from making mistakes. He meddles.