Intention: To care, and be cared for; to receive, and to give. To care, and be cared for is how we live.
Lammas w/ Baltimore Reclaiming
Sunday, August 29, 2021
4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Location: The Clifton Pleasure Club (2803 Grindon Ave, Baltimore, MD 21214, accessible by the 28 and 54 bus lines). Our event will be in the yard outside the club.
Restrooms are available inside the Clifton Pleasure Club. The yard is accessible; the building is not. If you have questions about the physical space, please contact Pansie at matthew.smith.pa@gmail.com.
Face Masks: At the Summer 2021 Baltimore Reclaiming Community Meeting, we agreed that we would move forward with in-person rituals, and follow CDC guidelines regarding face masks and social distancing; with the first two rituals of the year, at least, being held outdoors. We are asking everyone who is able to wear a face mask. (Some disposable masks will be available for those who forget, or do not have their own.)
Suggested Items to Bring: face mask, items for a community care altar, journal/pen, blankets or towels, camp chair, water bottle, sunscreen. Note: there is no outdoor seating provided, so please bring a chair, or blanket for the ground, for your own comfort.
Ritual Description:
Welcome to Lammas with Baltimore Reclaiming, the beginning of our magical work as a community with the Pentacle of Care.
As we gather in-person for the first time in over a year, deep into the harvest of Lammas season, please bring items for our community care altar as well as your thoughts and feelings on the Care Pentacle’s points: Interdependence, Boundaries, Vulnerability, Integrity, and Creativity.
Together we will learn and run the pentacle, accessing these points to visualize our work over the upcoming year, dreaming, weaving, and casting a web of care and protection over ourselves and our communities.
Because of the nature of this work and the state of the Covid pandemic, our rituals will be privately held for the first half of the year, at least. If you have already been to a Baltimore Reclaiming ritual or class in the past two years, you are invited back to celebrate with us. If you are new to us, please keep in touch for changes and other offerings that may allow us to connect in new ways.
Song Lyrics:
To care, and be cared for; to receive, and to give. To care, and be cared for is how we live.
It takes interdependence with boundaries and vulnerability. Integrity and creativity (Repeat x3)
To care, and be cared for; to receive, and to give. To care, and be cared for is how we live.
Who is Baltimore Reclaiming?
We are a group of witches, artists, pagans, healers, activists, queers, priestesses, anarchists, theater geeks, feminists, and other good humans. We see our work as teaching and making magic: the art of empowering ourselves and each other. In our classes, workshops, and public rituals, we train our voices, bodies, energy, intuition, and minds. We use the skills we learn to deepen our strength, both as individuals and as community, to voice our concerns about the world in which we live, and bring to birth a vision of a new culture. We gather, mostly on the Sabbats, to work magic, often for personal healing and also for the healing of our society and planet. We believe that the work we do together in our sacred circles really can change the world.
About Lammas:
On Lammas we celebrate by turning our attention to what is around and within us. Summer is still glowing warm around us, leaving us languid with stoop stories and the music of cicadas. But we also feel it fading as the days shorten and the sun’s daily path moves further south. Traditionally, this time marks the beginning of the harvest festivals--the gathering of wheat for flour, and the seeds for the next growing season.
Cost:
Baltimore Reclaiming does not charge for our events, and as our rituals are currently taking place online, we have no need to cover hall rental fees. However, we have recently formed a Reparations Cell, and would be grateful for your donations to this new effort. This cell will coordinate financial assistance to local groups working in movement spaces in ways that align with our Principles of Unity and will pay BIPOC consultants for future rituals. We recommend a $10-$20 donation per person. You may contribute via PayPal to ritual@baltimorereclaiming.org or via Venmo to 910-988-5760. No one is turned away for lack of funds. You are fully welcome regardless of your ability to financially donate.
Drugs & Alcohol:
All Baltimore Reclaiming events are drug and alcohol free. We respectfully request that you do not use drugs or alcohol before or while attending our events.
What to Expect:
New to Baltimore Reclaiming? Visit our Rituals page to learn more about what to expect at an event.
Dress Code:
Wear whatever you like! You are welcome to wear everything from jeans and a t-shirt to a tuxedo. Often, people like to wear something special for ritual which might mean a favorite dress, a special shawl, a flower crown, or something else. We encourage you to wear whatever you feel most comfortable in.