Classes & Events
Honoring Our Wisdom and What's Next with Suzanne Pullen
With Suzanne, we reflect and connect post-election to share what we know or have learned about ourselves, the communities we serve, and our electorate in order to ask: What’s next?
Awaken Awaken Awaken and Vote! with Urania Griffith
We Take Aligned Action. We point our power where it will do the most good for our human and beyond human communities. With Urania, we let strength flow through our bodies and our voices as we call upon all witches in all places and all times to amplify our cry: Awaken, awaken, awaken and vote!
Opening the Witch’s Eye with Phoenix Le Fae
In the final week before the election, we scan the landscape. What is happening on the surface, and what is stirring below the surface where a shifting of the energy could have the most impact? This is a transformative skill that helps you do the work you were born to do in all areas of life and the tarot is our delightful ally! Come, aim your intention where it will do the most good.
Calling the Ancestors with Yule Danu Emerson
In this workshop, Yule teaches us to cast a special kind of circle, made up of our whole, heal and elevated ancestors, standing shoulder to shoulder. They hold us as we journey down the ladder of our DNA to the places that need healing, to the places where healing reverberates across the whole of our lives, expanding all that is possible.
Yule Danu Emerson is a Mexican American Indian (Aztec, Apache, Cherokee) and Irish woman. Her ancestors lived in California and New Mexico before it was part of the United States. She gives honor and thanks to the Band of Patwin tribes of the Wintun peoples who have remained committed to the stewardship of the land she resides on. She is blessed to share in their sacred circles.
She is an animist witch who is guided by allies, ancestors, intuition, and communion with the Divine. Yule finds no conflicts in being a scientist and a witch. Instead, she uses her understanding of energy and matter to affect change/magick.
Freeing Your Truth with Suzanne Sterling and Ember Andrews
In this workshop, we raise our voices for liberation and acknowledge the importance of scrutinizing power. Where do you have knowledge? Expertise? How do you speak with power and move through conflict? Through song and movement and practice, Suzanne will help us free our truth, prepare to raise our voices in the final weeks of the election and amplify them with our collective magic.
The Way is Open! Voting Access with Coyote Preston Vargas and Ember Andrews
As early voting begins across the country, we focus our collective magic on dismantling the systems that block marginalized communities from their voting rights. Calling upon the power of our ancestors—those who fought for suffrage and the rights of the most impacted—we engage in rituals that not only protect the right to vote but ensure it becomes a lived reality for all. With the cunning guidance of Coyote, we embrace cross-cultural traditions that highlight the deep connection between spiritual sovereignty and collective liberation.
Wards of Protection: Class 3 of Spellcrafting for Kamala with Gwydion and Ember
Register for this class or the whole series here! Sliding scale for each class is $27-45.
Creating Wards of Protection is a secret art, an ancient art, an art that you can use while you are scrolling the New York Times, talking to that toxic uncle or attending a political action. In this session we learn to protect ourselves and that which we love as we prepare to fight for our future. We are guided by card 3 in the Tarot: The Empress. With Venusian delight, The Empress helps us fill our hearts and revel in the pleasures of the senses. She tells us that we can be grateful for all that we have… and also prepare to take risks and protect what is sacred.
Enter Gwydion Logan! Gwydion is not just an elder of the Reclaiming tradition, he is a scholar of alchemy, a potion maker and an incredible spell weaver. He brings his vast magical knowledge – as both a witch and a scientist – to this session as he teaches us the practical art of creating wards. Did you know that seaweed has long been used as a ward against fire? A rowan branch placed over a door keeps out unfriendly spirits? We learn about sigils that shimmer with power as well as the physical objects that are most helpful for a particular intention as Gwydion teaches you to make your own protective ward. But we don’t do this work alone! We remember that we are more powerful together. We combine our powers to create a collective ward for our spell intention. If you’ve attended the first two sessions, you are adding rocket fuel to your vision and your healing. If this session is your first: Welcome! You belong!
View the whole series and register for this class or all 9! Sliding scale is $27-45 per class.
Gwydion (he/him) is a queer man, born and raised on a farm in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been priestessing and teaching in the Reclaiming San Francisco Bay Area and international communities for 35 years. He is a devoted science geek, who is fascinated by protein structures and cell surface receptors but equally interested in botany, herbal medicine, and ecological interdependency. He thrives when standing at the intersection of science, magic, and mystery-- weaving spells into the cauldron of molecular sequences and genomic memory or the one bubbling on his stove. As his beard turns increasingly gray, he can be found brewing potions and crafting magical tools. Gwydion lives on the lands of the Ramaytush speaking Ohlone people.
Liberatory Healing: Class 2 of Spellcrafting for Kamala with horizon and Ember
Click here to register and view the whole series! Sliding scale is $27-$45 per class.
In this second class of the series, we call in deep healing as a pathway to collective change. Our Tarot guide for this class is Card 2: The High Priestess. The High Priestess tells us that we can be deeply present with What IS – the beauty and the hard things– AND also the expansive potential of What May Be. Our ability to hold both is the power of the High Priestess to open the door to deep and lasting change. And it is HEALING! So we are blessed to have with us the amazing healer and priestess, horizon greene.
With horizon, we call in ancestral magics, the power of compassion and the vehicle of belonging, casting a spell where everything becomes possible and we can't help but heal. In this working, we gather to collectively hold not just our hopes and dreams, but also our fears, our griefs, our heartaches and the weight of compromise. We feel for the above as we feel for the below. We listen to the intimacy of the body and the land so that we may speak our truth and feel, together, for pathways of collective change.
This offering follows the old ways of remembering, together, what our wise ecosystem bodies know about healing in relationship. Together, we co-create the conditions for safety, inviting the body knowingness of all-life-is-sacred-and-interconnected so that we may set a spell where healing simply happens. We close this session by casting a spell for collective healing, magic that reminds us that community trauma requires community healing.
Register for this session or the whole series here. (Sliding scale for each class is $27-$45.)
horizon greene (she/they).
I am a queer fat nonbinary femme who practices at the intersections of oppression, grief, trauma and liberation. I believe that love is our most powerful magic and that healing happens in relationship. I believe healing and liberation are our birthright. I have spent more than 22 years in a deep study of how healing happens, learning to undo oppression while learning to co-create cultures of justice and belonging. My training has included intensive learnings in somatics, trauma healing, anti-oppressive practices, anti-racism, liberatory culture building, ritual and witchcraft. My therapy practice is a blending of liberatory healing practices rooted in the relational neurosciences, somatic wisdom, parts work, ancestral healing, magic and love. I accompany people in the deep work of making real what our souls know is possible.
My ancestors of bone and blood are those of Jewish-Polish, Jewish-Russian and Jewish-German descent. I identify as a white person with settler colonial privileges, and also come from Jewish people, folx whose body memories tell the story of grief and loss and whose prayers feed a commitment of Never Again for all of us. I am dedicated to the lifetime work of unlearning whiteness while feeling for healing in my own body and cultivating relationships with my ancestors. As a priestx of the great turning and a witch dedicated to our collective liberation, I work to know and heal ancestral legacy burdens inherited through blood, bone, spirit, queerness, time and culture. https://villagewitchtherapy.com/
Casting the Circle: Class 1 of Spellcrafting for Kamala with Fio and Ember
In this workshop, you’ll learn to cast energetic circles that protect, shield and potentize your work. Fio’s method of circle casting is based on her years of deep study of the craft. It is unique and powerful and we are very lucky to have her as our guide! Whether you are an experienced spellcaster or an activist looking for new ways to stay connected to your own sources of power, this workshop is for you.
The Night Tarot: Prophesying with Hags, Soothsayers and Edgewalkers with Suzanne Sterling
As part of an incredibly deep and witchy weeklong retreat in the Redwoods of Northern California, we work with the Night Cards of the Tarot: those guides to our hidden powers as prophets and edge walkers. Elements of Magic is a requirement for this course - see my Elements offering in April with horizon greene!
Welcome to the path of prophecy! In this working, we dive deep into our powers as soothsayers and our hag courage to say the thing that must be said. Your journey into the night begins by connecting to your soul card: Are you The High Priestess, The Magician, The Hermit? In this path, you will find out which of the nine soul cards is yours and how to embody its strength, your strength; its magic, your own.
But this is just the first step on the hag’s path. Take another as you learn the deeper, ancient magic of your ancestor card. Is it The Wheel of Fortune, The Devil, Death, The Tower, The Moon? Are you afraid of these cards? Where there is fear, there is power. These are the places where edgewalkers dwell, where hags and soothsayers gather and prophetic priestesses give voice to the forbidden truths. These are the tarot’s night cards and one of them belongs to you. What strange magic longs to sing through you? What kind of liberation is yours to hold and move and embody and crack open and set free? In this path, we go into the unknown. We embody the ugly, the rejected, the unsayable. We dance joy, cackle liberation and access our inner truths without being silenced by the story of normal. Our daily practice will cultivate chaos and other ways of knowing. We go beyond logic and awaken the irrefutable powers of our bodies and our voices. We return with the gift of earned wisdom.
Come, be held. Move with us, wail with us as we queer the hag, set the soothsayer free with visioning, Aspecting, trance and living tarot. Open the portal of prophecy for collective spells of liberation as The Morrigan calls us to be bolder than we have ever been. Gaze into the depths of the night and realize you are the hag we have been waiting for.
Prerequisites: Elements of Magic. This is not Tarot 101 and also no previous tarot experience is required. All bodies are welcome. (But leave your minds behind.)
To attend this class, you must register for California Withcamp! Yes, Witchcamp is as fun as it sounds. And is also a life-changing, deeply mysterious and gorgeous experience.
Suzanne Sterling
Awaken Your Intuition Tarot Class
Enliven your intuition Phoenix and Ember help you open your witch’s eye, listen to your gut and hearken the messages of your heart. You’ll also learn how to design your own tarot card spread and read the cards for yourself and others with confidence and pleasure.
Elements of Magic: Casting Spells of Belonging with Abel G.
Enter into the witch’s circle and enter into a web of relations. Elements of Magic is the introductory course to the lineage, lore, and practices of our Reclaiming Tradition. This tradition is one kind of home, one way of belonging...
How do we cast spells of belonging now?
We are devotional: we make offerings to this land: this air, this fire, this water, this earth, this mystery.
We are in relationship: we explore connection with our ancestors, our bodies and each other.
We learn and deepen the core practices of this tradition: We call upon the powers of circle casting, invocation, raising energy, and spell work.
We welcome all: As a collaborative tradition, the core of our path is working in community, with both our human and more-than-human kin and especially with all newcomers to Reclaiming Tradition.
We open the way to Brigid: Goddess of poetry and smithcraft, be with us as we name our relationship to this place and spark new magicks for now. Goddess of the well and the forge, be with us as we deepen our witchcraft and cast spells of belonging for all descendants in this time of the Great Turning.
Sand in the Hourglass: Channeling the Stories of Our Ancestors with Seraphina Capranos
What are the stories that our ancestors couldn’t tell? What stories do they want us to tell now? What is the mystery that wants to enter the world now, and what can our dead teach us about how to live the change that we and the world need? In this path, we will work with the wisdom of our beloved dead, from human to greenblood to galactic, and the transformative power of storytelling. We will cross the threshold into the realm of the dead, wander in the discomfort of uncertainty, see each other as allies in this ordeal, and return to tell the story of the wisdom and purpose that we have received. If you are called to this path, we ask that you prepare by researching your own ancestors: the individuals and or cultures of your people. All participants must have already taken Elements of Magic.