Taught with Lilo Assenci of Reclaiming Brasil, joining us for Iron Pentacle: the Queer, the Folk & the Fallen Ones! This is a 6-session virtual Reclaiming core class that will teach you about and create space to immerse yourself in the Iron Pentacle, and especially exploring the Queer in each one of us, the Folk and the Fallen Ones. The Iron Pentacle is made of 5 points, each named with a word that troubles, hunts, and dares the human in us: Sex, Pride, Self, Power, and Passion. Those are the sacred names spoken by the harlots, sacred sex workers, priestesses of ancient temples, and witches throughout history. We hold these words as a compass, as a sword, as an incantation - our spell of self-becoming, of bringing ourselves back to us through the gates of Mystery and Ecstasy.
Iron Pentacle has always been a Queer tool, embracing these words that provoke, that are called “sin” by over-culture. In this class, we will explore the queer majesty of reclaiming these words and the power that comes from Otherness.
The Queer has always been a core part of the Folk. We were always there. In the shadows, as pillars of nations, governments, and royalty. In the forests, on the other side of the fence, all genders and no gender, the Witch, the danger, the forbidden ones, the monsters in the shadows. In the cities, our strength, our colors, our beauty, and our ideas change and move the world. Without us, there would be no Folk - we have always been here, and we are not going anywhere. We hold the Folklore in our hands.
We honor the Fallen Ones, those great seraphic winged serpents, mighty currents of power creating and recreating the universe over and over again as we descend from them. When they fell in love with humankind, with our magic and mystery, they loved the red women, the beautiful boys, and the androgynous gender-bender beings. We offered them our sensuous secrets, and they offered us their magic. They offered, amongst many things, the mystery that is the Iron Pentacle.
This class will be focused on queerness, developing and deepening our relationship with the Iron Pentacle itself as a lover, a teacher, a guide, a current of power, and a powerful being. By doing that, we bring ourselves back to us, honoring the ever-living Queer. That said, this class is not exclusive to the LGBTQ+ community and we welcome anyone who wants to explore these themes with us.
In this class, we will work with trance, ecstatic practices, and embodied techniques to dive deep into the Queer with the Iron Pentacle as our beloved and as our compass. Honoring our core existence amongst the Folk and inviting the Fallen Ones to, once more, show us how loved we are in many ways and forms. Learning different ways to engage the work with the Iron Pentacle, we will follow Sex, Pride, Self, Power, and Passion as lands for becoming ourselves, as portals of life force and queerness, as deep wells of magic and incantation. Art, poetry, music, movement, writing, and talking will support us. In the words of Reclaiming Elder Pandora O’Mallory, “Iron Pentacle is the work of a lifetime.”
This class is taught as a core class in the Reclaiming Witchcraft Tradition. Elements of Magic is a prerequisite for taking this class.