Homewood Friends Meeting House, Basement (Please use side door on porch)
3107 North Charles Street
This event will be a potluck. Bring a dish with a recipe card, or something else of your choosing that could add to the vibes.
At our most recent community meeting, we realized that momentum is shifting in our community towards creating more sustainable models of crafting magic together. You’ll notice some changes with that, including that rituals this year will not necessarily be tied together with an arc. The vision this year is to foster a bit more intimacy and build stronger bonds that can help us survive in the times ahead.
To that end, we are hosting a Lammas celebration that will be a potluck and a visioning for the year ahead: bring ideas for classes, rituals, political actions, and community events that you’d like to see and/or organize, and your favorite divination tools to help us guide the creation of future events.
This is going to be a low-key event: expect good camaraderie and delicious food within a loosely structured ritual container.
About Baltimore Reclaiming: Baltimore Reclaiming is a radically inclusive community of witches who use our magic to bring transformation, justice and healing to ourselves, Baltimore and the world. 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.
Location: Homewood Friends Meeting House is a wheelchair-accessible space with a wheelchair-accessible bathroom.
We will be in the basement, which is a space that has fans but no air conditioning. It may be a little warm in there, depending on Saturday’s weather. We may or may not have the fans on due to hearing accessibility concerns.
Please keep these things in mind, and gauge your comfort before coming to this one.
Cost: Baltimore Reclaiming does not charge for our events, but we do have considerable expenses which include renting the space and buying supplies for the ritual! We recommend a $10-$20 donation per person. You can bring cash or send money ahead of time via PayPal to ritual@baltimorereclaiming.org or via Venmo to 443-235-2007. 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.
Scent Policy: We strive to accommodate people who have chemical and scent sensitivities. Please keep these people in mind as you make choices about wearing scented personal hygiene products.
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.
Mask Policy: At in-person Baltimore Reclaiming events, masking is encouraged, but not required. If you have COVID-like symptoms, you should test; if you test positive, you should not come to the event. Individual cells are empowered to adjust this policy as public health warrants.