Reclaiming

This source names Reclaiming directly: "provides: it traces the Dianic, Feri, Reclaiming, Seax-Wica and eclectic solitary lines that developed distinctly in the United States, which Ronald Hutton's history of British paganism does not..."

This source names Reclaiming directly: "Reclaiming African Religions in Trinidad: The Socio Political Legitimation of the Orisha and Spiritual Baptist Faiths, Frances Henry's 2003 academic study from the University of the West Indies..."

Reclaiming History (WeaveAndSpin.org) names Reclaiming by its exact full name: The Reclaiming tradition's own history page, consulted 2026-08-11.

This source names Reclaiming directly: "maintained article on Starhawk, the Reclaiming tradition co-founder and author of The Spiral Dance, carries no named author or peer review process behind any given version of the page, and is..."

This source names Reclaiming directly: "The Principles of Unity is the Reclaiming tradition's own collectively adopted statement of its principles, cited as a custodian source: the tradition speaking for itself, the only kind of authority..."

This source names Reclaiming directly: "founding published statement of the Reclaiming tradition of witchcraft, articulating a specifically feminist and activist understanding of Goddess spirituality that shaped much of the wider modern..."

Reclaiming rejects the three-degree priesthood hierarchy in favor of a collective, consensus-run structure with no High Priestess or High Priest over the group.

Co-founded the Reclaiming tradition in San Francisco in 1980, fusing Goddess-centered ritual directly with nonviolent political activism.

Reclaiming works witchcraft as a public and political practice with no oath-bound line, taught in open classes and joined to direct action rather than conferred in a coven.

Reclaiming keeps Beltane as a large open gathering, often outdoors with maypole and fire, planned by consensus and welcoming anyone who comes rather than reserved to initiates.

Reclaiming casts collectively rather than through a single priestess, often outdoors and at very large public gatherings, with the wording improvised and the whole company invited to speak the quarters.

Reclaiming teaches divination in its public classes and camps rather than reserving it to initiates, and uses it collectively, with a group reading a shared question, including questions about political action.

Reclaiming calls this aspecting, teaches it openly rather than reserving it to initiates, allows any trained participant to carry a deity for the group, and treats grounding afterwards as part of the work.

Reclaiming's Samhain is its best known observance, the public Spiral Dance held in San Francisco since 1979 and now elsewhere, a mass ritual for the dead drawing hundreds and open to all comers.

Reclaiming teaches magic as a tool of personal and social change and applies it collectively at protests and public actions, so the working is often explicitly political, and its ethics are worked out by consensus rather than fixed by a Rede.

Reclaiming's ritual practice draws on the Triple Goddess as one image among many for the divine feminine, consistent with the tradition's pluralist theology.

Reclaiming holds its sabbats as large public rituals open to anyone who comes, planned by consensus and often carrying explicit ecological or political intent, its Samhain Spiral Dance drawing many hundreds.

Starhawk's own founding text of the Reclaiming tradition; already an existing citation source in this atlas, cited here as the encyclopedia entry for the work itself.

Reclaiming teaches the Threefold Law as one ethical principle among several, consistent with the tradition's broader, non-dogmatic approach to doctrine.

Reclaiming holds the Wiccan Rede as an ethical touchstone, consistent with the tradition's Principles of Unity and its emphasis on individual responsibility.