People’s Park: Still Blooming – free download!

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This classic photo-history, edited by Terri Compost and published by in 2009 Slingshot Collective, is now available from Reclaiming Quarterly as a free downloadable PDF!

Visit our People’s Park webpage for PDF or links to print edition.

People’s Park: Still Blooming shows how a good cause can lead to good rallies, riots, concerts, and lasting friendships. This book reminds us not only to recount our stories and struggles, but to celebrate them too!

People’s Park: Still Blooming is our family heirloom, memories, scrapbook, the story of the courage and hope that freed and tended this sacred piece of earth. It is for us to remember, but mostly it is for the next to come. This book is an attempt to capture the spirit and story of the Park.

​​It was published with the hope that, like seeds, copies will find fertile ground in the hearts of young people and encourage them to try again. We are connected. The land wants to live. Let a thousand Parks bloom.

Numerous Reclaiming folks including editor Terri Compost were deeply involved in People’s Park over the years – we’re very glad to add this book to our website!

Starhawk’s Pagan Chants!

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Reclaiming’s latest album – ten chants written by Starhawk, plus five alternate versions – the definitive collection! Here are links, plus a webpage with lots more info!

Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/album/6rYAyTKb3JT4xLls8Pdwso

Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nXllezxvmZd5V3JwiLPzRR4ERr0-KTozA

Apple Music – https://music.apple.com/us/album/starhawks-pagan-chants-reclaiming-sings-ritual-music/1812050224

Webpage for Starhawk Album – https://www.weaveandspin.org/starhawk-chants

Reclaiming Playlists – http://weaveandspinorg/playlists/

Questions Etc: ReclaimingQuarterly@gmail.com

Reclaiming’s Oral History – youtube interviews!

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We Are Your People! Reclaiming’s Oral History shines a spotlight on the voices of the innovative witches, artists, activists, writers and community weavers world-wide who have co-created the ecstatic transformational cauldron and earth-honoring, sex and LGBTQ+ positive eco-feminist social justice movement known as the Reclaiming Tradition.

Interview #1 – Lauren Liebling and Lou Hart interviewed by Beverly M Frederick

These YouTubes are the beginning of a larger Oral History Project documenting Reclaiming’s first fifty years. It is our intent to use this spotlight to get better acquainted with one another and the elders who walked this path before us and to record these conversations for those yet to come.

To hear about new posts plus classes, witchcamps, and more Reclaiming news, subscribe to Reclaiming’s international googlegroup – email ReclaimingQuarterly@gmail.com to subscribe.

Starhawk – Summer 2024 Podcasts!

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This summer I decided to try an experiment—writing a new book on building regenerative movements, and posting it chapter by chapter online on my Substack:  https://starhawk.substack.com/  

Along with the chapters, I’ll be posting a podcast episode each week, mostly related to the writing, but occasionally digressing into other political/spiritual/permacultural topics.  

Like the first one—responding to the great energy shift in the current elections this past week with Biden dropping out and Harris stepping up.  I talk about our short-term strategy:  Elect Harris and Democrats up and down the ticket!  (Yes, I’’m coconut-pilled!).

Long-term strategy, (and this is where the writing comes in and where most of the podcasts will focus) build an even stronger, far more broad-based progressive movement than we’ve ever had, that can be regenerative to our environment and spirit!

I invite you all to join me.  At the moment, there’s no paywalls—it’s all free!

The Movement We Need – Podcasts on Apple and Spotify:

Spotify – click here

Apple – click here

And you can also join my Magical Activism Live Instagram most Fridays at 9 AM Pacific Time at starhawk_spiral!

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The Working – a novel from BrightFlame

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The Working by BrightFlame – visit the webpage to buy a copy (also available at online shops)

A modern coven must thwart a looming eco-cataclysm and find the key to the bright future we need.

Betsy’s a modern-day Witch with an ageless problem: she’s worried about screwing up her coven’s ritual. Again. But the coven has a bigger issue to face — the destruction of their home thanks to a fracked gas pipeline. And then an even bigger problem — a greed-fueled entity will soon obliterate Earth’s ability to support life.

Tarot cards indicate the coven must sort among allies and threats, human and ethereal.

Follow Betsy, Sail, Fire, Mari, and Tal as they disentangle the truth and seek the magic to avert the cataclysm.

Fans of The Once and Future Witches and The City We Became will love The Working for its feminist, justice-seeking, ensemble cast. Readers hail The Working for its diverse characters, real magical practice, and tilt towards hope.

Visit the webpage to buy copies or for more information! Also available at online shops.

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The Old Witches Home

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a novel by Avian Swansong

Avian took part in Reclaiming’s Magical Writer classes – she work-shopped early versions of this book in the classes – click here for the completed version!

Not all old witches live in the woods – some of them live in a retirement community.  Some of them live at The Old Witches Home.

Now, on the very eve of the Summer Solstice Festival, an unscrupulous developer stakes a claim on the land and a computer-generated virus imprisons residents in their own minds. 

To save the Old Witches Home, Birdie must open her heart.  Maple needs to find his strength, and Maya must confront childhood demons.  Can old witches still make magic?

Maya, Maple and Birdie, founders of The Old Witches Home, ReDreaming witches who know another world is possible, must stand firm, fight back and heal their friends. 

In this astonishing retirement community for those who were wild and strange in their youth – where magic is real and social justice is more than a dream – the witches deal with aging, falling in love, and being together. 

About the Book + Sample Chapter – click here

Here are comments from early reviewers:

“I loved this book for so many reasons. The characters are so much fun and Avian Swansong has imagined into reality the kind of community that only ever gets talked about in hushed tones; one that I want to be a part of. People can still be heroic at any age, and that’s not a message that you hear often. This story shows the power of what a Witchy Community can do when they band together. Surprising, relatable, funny, unexpectedly moving.. I was riveted. 

Renee Scattolini, Sound Witch

“Are there spells against greed and corruption?  In this heartwarming tale of earth magic and healing energy, a diverse community of elder witches combine their special arts to save a unique and beloved place of last resort: their retirement home!”

Marjorie B. Kellogg, author of Glimmer and The Dragon Quartet

About the Book + Sample Chapter – click here

Get A Life: A Memoir by Dress Wedding

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Get a Life

Get A Life: Chronicles of a Conscious Scofflaw

Get A Life shares Reclaiming activist dress wedding’s journey of engaging in subversive actions and taking chances to build a life of freedom and meaning. The colorful narrative traces his evolution from drug-dealing Grateful Deadhead with self-esteem issues to becoming a nonviolent activist confronting injustice and police over decades in many different facets of the peace movement.

In early activist life, dress became a self-proclaimed witch, embracing the Reclaiming Tradition. And eventually moved to a very different form of action, becoming co-founder of Oakland’s Harborside Health Center in 2006, one of the largest and most respected cannabis retailers in the world.

In 1983 dress was arrested while wearing a wedding dress at an anti-nuclear action at Lawrence Livermore Labs in Berkeley, California. He has been wearing dresses ever since as a personal action against patriarchy, challenging people to think about what it means to “be a man” in our world. Dress writes in depth about how this personal action has impacted others in his life, especially his children and their mother. Also its impact on the Harborside marijuana business as he helped transform the new world of medical cannabis. The book offers a brief critique of the state of cannabis regulation, before outlining hopes for a new venture providing legitimate payments to the industry.

Throughout the manuscript dress notes how imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy has benefitted him and those around him. He explores how depression has affected him as a male in a society that suppresses this possibility. His motivation has always been to improve the human condition and relieve suffering, and his hope for the book is to inspire others to join in this effort.

Website & more information.

Available at Amazon etc.

Artemis: a new book from Irisanya Moon

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Artemis: Goddess of the Wild Hunt & Sovereign Heart by Irisanya Moon

Often pictured running in the woods, Artemis is a goddess unto Herself. She is wild, and She is the Wild. Through Her, we can learn about tapping back into our wildness, learning to care for our hearts, and returning to the places that we have been told to fear. Artemis’ aim is always true, some say, and building a relationship with Her can help set the best direction for our own arrows.

Click here for more information or to order a copy!