The Elements of Magic
Strengthening Your Hearth & Home

with Ember, Gina, and Pansie

October 3-5, 2025, Baltimore, MD

Sponsored by Baltimore Reclaiming

Location in Charles Village + a private residence (TBA to registrants)

Class Description

Elements of Magic is a class that has been taught within the Reclaiming tradition of Witchcraft since 1980, when it was first offered by the iconic Starhawk and Diane Baker. Since then, it has been taught all over the world. Elements is a "core class" in Reclaiming style magic and offers insight into "why we do what we do" as well as an introduction (or refresher!) to magical practices. In this particular class, we will be framing the Elements of Magic - Air, Fire, Water, Earth, and Spirit - in the context of strengthening our magical practice within the places and spaces where we live. 

This weekend intensive is an introduction to magic in the Reclaiming Tradition, an anarchist, ecofeminist, non-hierarchical strand of Witchcraft that was born in the California Bay Area in the early 1980s. With the five sacred elements as our guides, we will create and inhabit sacred space, build altars, learn how to sense and raise energy, explore techniques of trance journeying, join our voices together in chanting and toning, and try our hand at spellcrafting and ritual design. 

We welcome both beginning students, and advanced students who want to deepen their experience of the sacred elements as worked in the Reclaiming tradition. We welcome all genders, all gender histories, all races, all ages and sexual orientations and all those differences of life situation, background, and ability that increase our diversity. (Principles of Unity) If you have questions about this, please contact Pansie at matthew.smith.pa@gmail.com

This class is a prerequisite to the other core Reclaiming classes such as Rites of Passage, Iron Pentacle, and Pearl Pentacle.

Registration

You can register here: https://forms.gle/77gtR4Efoy6szzcT7

Space is limited. Register now!

Hours

Friday: 6pm to 9pm

Saturday: 10am to 8pm

Sunday: 10am to 2pm

Location

Friday and Saturday sessions will be held at a venue in Charles Village, Baltimore, MD. Sunday will be held at a private residence in northeastern Baltimore City. Locations will be shared upon registration.

Cost

Sliding scale: $85-250

Deposits are due upon registration and are not refundable. Balances are due on Sept. 19th. After that date, no tuition is refundable.

We practice a NOTAFLOF (no one turned away for lack of funds) approach. All scholarship requests will be filled unless the class is full. We want you more than your money!

COVID Policy

Students will be required to submit a negative rapid COVID test on Friday evening to attend the class. We ask that all students additionally practice social distancing for the 5 days prior to class and wear masks when around others.

Weekend Facilitators

Ember (they/she)

I've been a practicing Pagan Witch for 20 years, and a Reclaiming Witch for almost half that time! I've been creating online content about modern Paganism and Witchcraft for 15 years now. My path is both spiritual and religious. My theatre arts background blends with my magic in a love of story-telling, symbolism, and creating ritual. I educate people about modern Paganism & Witchcraft both online (YouTube, Instagram, and Patreon @cutewitch772, or Ko-Fi @CaraMiaWitch) and in person. My personal spiritual work currently focuses on developing personal practice, and rebuilding my spiritual business work to a place that can sustain me in continuing to do my work in the world.

Gina (she/her)

Some people joke that they feel like they were born in the wrong decade, but for the longest time, Gina felt like she was born in the wrong Earthly form. She longed for the day where she would be led to the court of the Faerie Queen and granted wings. She could often be found looking for the babbling brook, or the break in the trees where the Fae would be. She checked her body for mermaid scales after summer days spent in the water and saw colors around her teachers and friends. Beng able to nurture and empathize from an early age, and feeling the vibrations around tree roots, reminded Gina that this knowledge of something more was still real, even when she didn’t sprout wings on her 13th birthday. It wasn’t until Gina began to recognize herself in books found in that oh, so wonderful corner of Barnes and Noble that she realized she had always been in the form of a witch.

Magic has since led Gina through practices that demand artistic expression, acts of rebellion, intense self-discovery, and the study of healing arts. Gina now knows her magic is sourced through pleasure of all kinds and, most importantly, through sharing it. Her favorite ways to gather her energies are through potent conversations, orgasm, play, hearth tending, and boot stompin’ good times. 

In ritual, Gina leans into guiding people through mystery and encouraging expressions of self-love. With the help of her drum and the Baltimore community she calls home, Gina knows that each hum of energy made together is building toward collective liberation.

Pansie (they/him)

Pansie is a witch drawn to playing with the Fae and the magic of the hearth. Their magic is wrapped in a song that wells up from the core and feels connection to energy as an electric current of music, running against their skin. Called to the magic through a radical faerie retreat, they were a solitary practitioner until being lovingly embraced by the Baltimore Reclaiming community. Reclaiming brought structure and a strong community of support to their practice. You’ll often find Pansie with their spinning wheel, meditative but open to both jovial and heartfelt conversation.