Tomorrow We Gather Around the Virtual Cauldron

There are two kinds of activism I have been engaged in over the course of my life; political activism and magickal ritual or ceremony. Both are critical at this moment of such unraveling.

Political activism is human-systems centric. It requires us to weave our individual voice with the voice of a collective of humans, all of us seeking a change.  And that change we seek to create from our political activism is at the policy level – critical change that affects the immediate experience of others, whether those others are single BIPOC mothers, school-age children, the elderly, or a rainforest ecology.

The second form of activism, magickal ritual or ceremony, is an activism I have come to call ecological activism, because it requires that we acknowledge, court, nourish and weave multiple layers of intelligence for deep-structure healing and change. It is Earth-and Spirit-centric activism. Activism that acknowledges that true, systemic and lasting wellness, wellness that attends to the thriving of all life, does not come from bills and policy (alone). It comes from human cultures that are deeply well. 

All deeply well human cultures are woven inextricably with all other cultures, from the celestial to the mycelial. There is nothing strange or esoteric about what I’m saying, as I imagine many of you know. This form of activism is the oldest known to our human species. As Alyssa reminded us last week, ecological activism in the form of magickal ritual and ceremony is in our blood and bones.

This weekend a group of women* will gather around the virtual cauldron – the large pot at the center of the village that sustained the community as it worked its magick at the hands of the women who tended it – to bring our intimate visions and intentions into form. In this space, unlike the political branch of our activism, we do not plead with the mostly male, mostly white powers that be, to create change that allows all life to live well. Instead, in our magickal ritual, we bring our visions to the ecological force of change that is the Web of Life, requesting to join forces with the intelligence that guides the endless cyclical renewal, adaptation and evolution that this Earth has been engaging in for more than 4.5 billion years.

We quiet ourselves, as we articulate our individual dreams and visions, weaving them with the larger dreams and visions of The World, knowing that the visions we each carry have been offered to us from this great ecological intelligence, continuing to dream itself into being. We humble ourselves as we imagine weaving the filament thread that is our ‘little vision’ with the magnificent wise and unrelenting vision of The World’s. And we also take full big breaths to find our right-size as we remember that The World is nothing more or less than the dreams and visions of the multitudes of beings who are part of this grand ecological endeavor. We remember that one of our central tasks is to honor these visions and dreams that are ours.

Beginning this Friday at 5pm mst, we will gather and weave our circle of wandering ceremonialists, magickal practitioners all. Throughout the weekend we will come together and move apart as we enact our own ceremonies, where we live. We will use our circle to support, inspire, and weave our visions together, deepening and elevating the specific and particular aspects of The World’s dreaming that are ours to attend to.

Whether you’re a veteran magickal practitioner or stepping into this terrain for the first time, Welcome! Please join us. This endeavor, that is in your blood and bones, needs only a little nudge to unfurl itself and blossom.